OV9

Quality!

Not that I'm looking, but decided to run a search for 2 seats, > 200bhp and a few other criteria. This looks nice. Suitably over-engined, very good MOT history.
https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 0117080680

petrol?

Excellent - some bedtime viewing! (Thanks though, sounds like good stuff to know about)

Currently nothing - the Swift is the 'fun' (but also wife friendly) car for now.
Though that MX-5 posted the other day was lovely.
Dream would be an R8. I'm resisting the temptation to look seriously, and I'd probably need to fund a new en-suite and kitchen before that would be allowed.

Climbing ...

Fabia collected. Gone to someone in the Oxford area to use initially for AutoSOLO. I know a few from that club so I expect they will recognise the car.

£429 / hour, blimey.
Sounds like they are looking to reunite cars on SOR with their rightful owners. But won'r help anyone who's bought one and had it taken away from them.

Ha! The more I look at it the more I like it. But, probably not gonna happen.

Some BMWs wot I photo'd yesterday

Went along with my neighbour in his M4 Cabriolet to a BMW meet that started at Chieveley services and headed to Reading BMW. Lots of M in various, mostly modified forms, not least

Ooh, like that. Just need to remind myself I don't really fit in an mx-5

Despite the incident at the start and fair enough moaning about it on the radio, but skipping the podium when your team just won the constructors' title and you're leading the title with them seems more than a bit off. I was beginning to like Oscar a bit for coming across as no nonsense and getting ...

JLR wrote:If the wheel hub assembly and the suspension collapse or detach from the vehicle, vehicle stability will be compromised and the degree of directional control will be minimised, significantly increasing the risk of an accident.

I love how they felt they had to put that bit in writing.

Don't have a toaster, so use a grill or the air fryer also does a decent job at it. The latter is particularly good for bagels as the bottom stays less done unless you turn it over, so it's softer to hold with a crisp, toasted inner.
Cheese on toast - yes, one side toasted only, cheese onto the ...

16vCento wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 10:37 pm Anyone got any decent gigs lined up to go see the end of this year?

Factory Floor next week
Klangphonics later this month
Tom McRae in Nov

Interesting to see The Long Walk has come out. I just reread the book having first read it 30+ years ago.

If anyone fancies a toy just like my Fabia, there’s this great one on eBay

https://ebay.us/m/aEYrxn

There was a balloon badge on the back advertising their business.

Also Y3LOH on a very yellow GT-86

Enjoying the Late Brake Show/Yorkshire Car Restoration Rancho (rust heap) vids. Transplanting the body onto an Impreza WRX, in theory.

plus an intro vid on the LBS channel and a follow up to this one has come out where they're taking more bits off it.

Fabia passed its MOT with just the one advisory for a corroded spring. Pleased as it hadn't moved off the drive since the OV9 meet in March!
Another year, another 400 miles (most of which, this time, were that one day).

Froome is a lucky chap, surviving a pericardial rupture in his recent crash (albeit, not so lucky to smack into a road sign in the first place). Hope it's not the end of his career but he's got nothing left to prove.