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Do we ever hear about those?  No, all we hear about is your next rep-special
or how crap everyone elses car is.  Besides the Ducati and BMW dont count
anyway,

Barely spent anything on the Montego, its just a reliable old workhorse.
Reckon it's gotta be worth more than £250.  Yes I've spent a bit on the SD1,
but a TP with no mot can still fetch £1k.  If you're lucky you could get
£500 for the TP setup alone because they're so rare.  I paid £550 for mine,
and I've maybe spent £500 so far so I reckon I could get my money back quite
easily, and even make a bit out of the rarer parts.

You buy the same old shit, there's no variety, so actually you're probably
not more qualified than most, and I certainly can't see any evidence of
Capri ownership in there, which is what you are currently preaching about.

'The same old shit'....hmmmm.

I've had FWD, RWD, transaxle RWD, longitudunal FWD, inline 4, flat 4,
carburettor, EFI, 8v, 16v, SOHC, DOHC, QOHC, tin top and ragtop. Diesel,
petrol and hybrid. I've had 'British', Jap, German, and Italian.

Bikes may 'not count', but I've also had inline 4, V4, parallel twin, V
twin, carburettor and EFI, both 2 and 4 stroke.

I've spannered and bodged stuff, I've used 15 year old cars as daily
drivers. I've done 40k miles a year on 2 wheels.

That's more than enough, IMHO, to qualify me to comment in any NG with a
leaning towards powered transport.

And, as it happens, I'm quite enjoying my hybrid experience, too -
because I'm fairly open minded at times -  I'd even have a Crapi, but it
would have to be a 2.8i with LSD, not a wheezy pinto.
--
SteveH 'You're not a real petrolhead unless you've owned an Alfa Romeo'
Alfa 156 TSpark Sportwagon Veloce Selespeed - Alfa 75 TSpark Lusso -
Ducati 750SS - BMW R100RT - Toyota Prius T-Spirit

SteveH wrote:

Despite your list I can't think of any of the cars you've owned that
have been anything other than shit.

--
Douglas

Prius?
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Kemp says...


Kind of proves the point. The Capri is likely to still be going long
after the Pius's batteries have packed up.

--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

That won't stop it working though - it will just mean the fuel =
consumption slowly increases to a point when it's worse than a standard =
petrol engined car because of the extra weight

--=20
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger , then I hide until it goes away"

says...


How do you know? The ECU might put it in limp home.


when it's worse than a standard petrol engined car because of the extra
weight

A Pius already has fuel consumption no better than a whole raft of
cars.

--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

The early one I had on demo used more petrol than my 5 series BMW petrol
auto on the motorway when being driven to 'keep up' with the traffic.

Not something Pious owners like to admit.

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*Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check? *

    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
                  To e-mail, change noise into sound.

I'd hope so. That would be about 30 miles, if it didn't have a proper
(almost) engine.

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*Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let him sleep.

    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
                  To e-mail, change noise into sound.

That's cool. I've got an iron block RWD longitudinal automatic diesel. It's
probably as fast as your 75 and more economical than your 156, more comfy
than either bike and bigger than the Prius. That's why I don't feel the need
to mention it so often, it's a bit dull, but it doesn't need defending...


--
And remember kids, RAID is safe and the UPS never fails, and Cisco routers
never develop intermittent faults, and external hard drives never fail with
only  a month's use, and the DNS is reliable and resilient, and the
mailserver is protected from all forms of attack, and the replacement UPS
will be reliable as the first one was an unusual failure.

LOL, funniest thing you've said all year.

SteveH wrote:
Snipped drivel


So what 2 stroke did you have that was EFI?

Alan...

Alan Smith wrote:

I've seen (but not owned) some EFI 2 Stroke outboards.

--
Douglas

says...


The Alfa that breaks down and the BMW which is worse than a MK3 Mondeo?

--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

Interesting comparison, Steve's BMW to a MK3 Mondeo. Conor, do you have
_any_ idea what you're talking about?

George says...


Oh aye, its a bike...



--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:26:03 +0100, "Carl Gibbs"


Don't see many of them around here. 150mph+ and 5.5sec 0-60mph is
about the starting point for a proper car.
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Conor wrote:

It'd be cheap if it was a V6.

I'm on a mission to buy this, possibly.

http://tinyurl.com/lhwbb6

--
Pete M - OMF#9

Range Rover V8 Turbo (sold)
Volvo 850 T5 CD Estate
Mk1 Golf GTi 1.8 (For Sale)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."

It'd not be roadworthy at that price if it was a V6, even 6 or 7 years
ago.


Paris blue...nice. Not a special so no LSD but it also won't try and
shove you in a hedge on bends either.

I take it you know everything to look out for?


--
Conor

I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't
looking good either. - Scott Adams

Conor wrote:


I re-shelled a V6 Capri on the path, by myself, in under 3 days.

I'll post the pics one day.


--
Pete M - OMF#9

Range Rover V8 Turbo (sold)
Volvo 850 T5 CD Estate
Mk1 Golf GTi 1.8 (For Sale)

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."