DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Don’t judge me, but turns out all you need to do to make me a rubber bumper convert is add chunky graphics and black wheels:

https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/ ... 914-41rEM8

I’ve decided not to worry about climate change as we’re about to go through such a dramatic realignment of capitalism that we’ll be too busy dealing with the fallout of that to begin to consider what may happen 20-30-50 years down the line. Everything has got too expensive. Big business has got too ...

jury wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 5:15 am Squeaky...

Race car soundtrack.

And what a great advert it is.

Full of useful detail, devoid of wanky dealer waffle. Comes across as honest and knowledgeable.

Would that all dealers were like that guy.

Get this:

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/196 ... 09-tractor

You could pull the front out of a couple of Co Ops and get the purchase price back in no time.

I liked the little keypad on 90s Peugeots.

Felt like you were stopping a missile launch in an 80s film.

Marketing that as a replica of the Wallis in the Bond film is like painting a Beetle with yellow Dulux gloss and saying it’s a replica of the Ruf CTR.

Not that I’d be brave enough to go in the real thing either.

It wasn’t actually a Carrera. They initially said it was, despite quoting a standard 911 chassis number and having what’s clearly not a Carrera engine. The only Carrera-ish thing was flared arches.

They corrected it part way through the auction.

Yes! Look at that! It’s pretty brilliant to buy a new car. Brillianter still to commission one to be built for you. But nothing is more brilliant than doing so much of it yourself. Doesn’t matter in the slightest if you’ve accidentally passivated a washer that would have been bright zinc from the fa...

Ah. Huge pumps for your famously huge turds.

Bootsy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:34 pm Multi purpose garage!

What is man running from those massive electrical cabinets? Some sort of crypto mine? WOPR?

Was it a magpie swooping in for those wheels?

You’d fit half a dozen systems in the engine bay. Loads of room.

23e Heure wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:08 pm Saggy side window?

That’s how they left the factory…

Looks just right on those steelies. There was a similar one at Barrington on New Years Day.

Lubbock’s Used Cars Ltd

Free bumper to bumper warranty.

Starts when the front bumper leaves the gatepost… etc