Today’s want

[speedingfine]

1979 BMW 316 (E21) WITH E30 M3 TECHNIC https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1252788

I really like that despite the Alpina badges and mods being inconsistent with the M3 engine.

£33k though

Lovely

[nuttinnew]

I really like that despite the Alpina badges and mods being inconsistent with the M3 engine.

£33k though

That about sums it up for me too.

[JonMad]

"Aplina B6 2.8". Erm....

[mik]

Not sure where to post this, but has anyone on here been following the Lister Bell Stratos build thread* on SELOC? 120 pages and still going, but it is going to be bloody lovely when it's finished.

* - Apart from Dan who has done some work on it for the guy.

@duncs500 I have a SELOC account but I've never really used the site. Got a link? Is it Renmure? Also has an Ultima? He has a build thread for a Lister Bell Stratos on ScottishElises but it is a slow moving project.

He now has a separate build website. Hadn’t appreciated that he found a 3.2 to slot into it.

http://stratosstr.com/

[Delphi]

This is beautiful but the price!

http://www.percivalmotorco.co.uk/1967_ ... no_Coupe/

[Sundayjumper]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114484113912

Not silver sadly, but these "open air" Compacts with the full sunroof are getting very rare indeed.

[Sundayjumper]

Not my want. My Dad seems to want another Scimitar just a few months after he sold his last one and bought an Alvis and bought a Bristol and sold the Alvis and had problems with the Bristol and now has it running properly again and is missing his friends from the Scimitar club.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264934098457

It does look very smart though.

[Foz]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 1055808708

This is hugely appealing this evening

[Sundayjumper]

Not my want. My Dad seems to want another Scimitar just a few months after he sold his last one and bought an Alvis and bought a Bristol and sold the Alvis and had problems with the Bristol and now has it running properly again and is missing his friends from the Scimitar club.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264934098457

It does look very smart though.

Curiouser and curiouser. It was sold at auction in Sep for £3,500(+fees) having sat in a museum for quite a long time. So probably not rusty [1], but also doesn't appear to have been used at all in the last ~ten years. So the entire drivetrain may well s**t itself the first time it goes over 30mph.


[1] yes I know the body is fibreglass, but the chassis is steel and they're about as rust-proof as every other sixties British car.

[Sundayjumper]

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified ... 1055808708

This is hugely appealing this evening

LOL. You're not going to buy it

[DeskJockey]

Not my want. My Dad seems to want another Scimitar just a few months after he sold his last one and bought an Alvis and bought a Bristol and sold the Alvis and had problems with the Bristol and now has it running properly again and is missing his friends from the Scimitar club.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/264934098457

It does look very smart though.

Never seen one before, but that looks rather nice.

[integrale_evo]

I actually had no idea they even did a coupe version

[Sundayjumper]

Never seen one before, but that looks rather nice.

My Dad is a serial Scimitar owner, since about the late seventies. I have a lot of childhood memories of the blue one he had (MRX 112P, seems it's been off the road a long time now), including one time the brakes boiled on a long downhill and we went through a roundabout at high speed just about avoiding the other traffic and parked up in a lay-by, in silence, for a few minutes afterwards I guess Scimitars are to me what Alfasuds are to Harry. A bit old and shit but hugely nostalgic.

My Dad never had a Scimitar coupe, it was always the GTE for him, but getting taken to various Scimitar events all over the place as a child I always rather liked the coupe.

This'll end badly. Probably.

[DeskJockey]

But it'll be a good story to tell!

Dad has only had three cars that stand out (in 55 years of driving). A Volvo 544 (before my time), a Peugeot 404 (vague memories), and the E300D W124 (drove that loads).

He has no interest in cars, hence driving an auto Cashcow.

[Sundayjumper]

So how have you ended up here ? I can very easily blame my Dad. And very specifically, my brother, for getting me onto this here forum. You seem to have no such excuse for liking cars !

[Sundayjumper]

This'll end badly. Probably.

Step 1: win car on eBay, unseen, with nagging feeling there’s something wrong with it.

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D’oh.

[Jobbo]

This'll end badly. Probably.

Step 1: win car on eBay, unseen, with nagging feeling there’s something wrong with it.

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D’oh.

We need a bit more of the story here

[Sundayjumper]

We need a bit more of the story here

The Scimitar I posted a link to, I bid on it and won. All being well I should be driving to Lincolnshire this weekend to collect it.

[jamcg]

How you getting it back? Trailer or brave pills?

[Jobbo]

We need a bit more of the story here

The Scimitar I posted a link to, I bid on it and won. All being well I should be driving to Lincolnshire this weekend to collect it.

Ah, I thought you meant you'd found something wrong with it already. Good luck