keithyboy

156. Sorry.

It's a late 2000 car on a '51 plate.

A nice man in Croatia wishes to buy my boot badge. How do I get the bugger off?

A very scary idea We all know Eurocarparts do it with some of their stuff. Oh how I laughed when the Intermotor thermostat I picked up at my local motor factor packed up after a year and the replacement from ECP was the same part from the same manufacturer in a completely different box.

Decision made, I'm breaking my 156. The work needed to get it ready for sale will mean I end up getting bugger all back so it's going for parts. Absolutely everything is available except: Driver's door (it has had some damage repaired in the past) Driver's wing (small dent) Rear window motors Doors Bonnet Boot Grille with new badge Lights Bumpers Engine (107k runs great but slightly noisy variator) MAF Coilpacks Box Lusso alloys x5 (need tyres) Switches buttons knobs screws nuts bolts Sensors Badges A/C pipes PAS pipes Starter Alternator Fuel pump PM me with anything you want, however small. Small items can be posted, larger items can be collected.

It's because it doesn't come with a stereo isn't it?

It's supercar week. Can you believe that the daddy of them all is 25 years old? Numbers first: 201MPH 478BHP 2.9 litre twin turbocharged V8 1100kg of carbon fibre wonderfulness (the 959 weighed a lardy 1450kg and the current 458 comes in at 1380kg) No carpets, sliding windows and pull cables to undo the doors like in a Mk1 Mini. Did you know? This was the last car commissioned by Enzo before he died. To keep the weight down they only used 2 litres of paint to paint each car (to put this in perspective, respraying a Ford Capri uses about 5 litres). This is why the weave of the carbon fibre can be seen through it. I give you the Ferrari F40

Go and get shagged.

Alfa 156 Diesel with higher milage... SW JTDs are out of my price range.

The 156 is going after christmas. The criteria for replacement are £500-£1000 turbo diesel estate or hatchback No smaller than a Golf Any thoughts?

TVRs are a product of their environment. A bloke I used to work with use to describe me as the resident coarse Lancastrian and TVRs have similar qualities.

I have whilst researching this. It's on my list.

I decided to go with my instincts and maintain the line that supercars are boring. Instead we have something that your Mum might have driven. It's an 80s legend - Nic Mann's home-built turbocharged Rover V8 powered Morris Minor hillclimb car. As well as being a very effectively hillclimb car, it also did OK on the dragstrip winning Street Machine magazine's Street Racer championship several times. 25 years ago this was faster than an F40.

Yep There was a big article on it in a recent edition of EVO mag. Apparently Vauxhaul have now cottoned onto it, and it's now a semi-official factory skunk-works project. Still not entirely sure I'd pop down to Tescos in it though, even if it is still street legal! The replacement for RV2 is Red Victor 3 which is actually a Pro Mod car heavily sponsored by Vauxhall.

I don't classify TVRs as supercars and there are one or two that will get a feature eventually but not this week.