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No, at least not the factory one. Generally a more convenient solution is the half hood and you then remove the factory one which gives you much more boot space
https://www.sevensandclassics.com/online-shop/p/half-hood-1

My mate got a 70’s Beetle for his first car. Being a passenger in that at ...

They are currently discussing the fill time on a 1100 litre bath in the guest bedroom that will probably be used twice a year!


What's a normal bath? Somewhere around 100 litres I assume?

The bath is filled with something other than water, the client is Baron Harkonnen AICMFP


On the basis ...

Have you fully furnished your room? Got a rug?

The gear knob

How much downforce do we need? All of it. Wings on wings on wings

Is it time to buy the dip?

I may be completely missing some detail, but why retrim it when you can just pinch the badge off the white wheel and glue it (presumably) to the black one?

These M5s are like busses.

Just Ian letting the side down now or is three a crowd?

It’s the Eletre round here. I don’t know if Lotus caved and suddenly sold them all for a super deal but I went from seeing one a month to 10 a day.

You’d need a lobotomy at that price. Mind you I think the E46 M3 Touring is worse. At least with the MX5 you get an upgrade and not just a bigger boot that you can’t realistically utilise because of the cost of the thing

£29k includes suspension and so on I think. The basic stage 1 engine is under £7k+VAT, so there's labour obviously in it too. I'd like to know a bit more about what you get for £29k; if you go for the £75k+ restomod you get a bare metal respray, so buying a car which doesn't need a respray must ...

I like it but at £29k it’s not very appealing. I prefer the Rotrex route, only up to 300bhp but DIY friendly and looks OEM+

Mito - 17 years
Defender - don’t know, maybe 10.
645 - don’t know but it’s been in the family since 2005.

Don’t really keep track of dates, just know the ages from the plates.

The good cars turn into pets and stay until it’s better to put them down.

Have Autodoc stopped doing the thing where they send your part but it’s from a much cheaper/inferior brand to what you ordered, then it takes weeks for them to get in touch, they argue the toss that it’s the same part number as what you ordered so they expect you to pay the postage to Germany to ...

Next you’ll be asking for the best way to join together 2 ends of a power lead together

I feel like the little ramp bits would keep coming off if you turn on them. I’d be more confident if there were a system which you could secure with the odd concrete screw because I think the locking system depends on everything being tight and not having room to move.

Thought this was AI at first

I would need to cut them to fit around a central inspection pit which is what worries me as depending on the size of the tiles it could end up with a whole row not interlocking with each other and it would be right in the middle where you need to turn. Back to the drawing board..

Question for the garagistas who have those rubber floor tiles. Do you think they would survive a car turning lock to lock on them or just get torn up? Or can they be glued down?

Yes but Mercedes didn’t come through on the production car unfortunately, they said it would basically be the CLA EV but that’s just another mediocre EV blob.