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Time to change your avatar !
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You'll be like a four year old on Christmas Eve tonight. I doubt an alarm call will be needed :)
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Coaster1 wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:21 pm 996 sold.

Picking up GT3 tomorrow. Sooooo happy :)

It’s this colour. Even Clarkson liked it..... :lol:
Wow! Great purchase. Probably a very rude question, but 70k-ish?
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Not yours YK, but as it will look like the one peeking out (which I think Mudge had a shot of), then it will be teh awesumes. Even in DCR. 8-)

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Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
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That's a fab purchase, Kin. I remember seeing 996.2 GT3s get down to £35-36k and thinking they were almost getting to the point where I'd buy one. Now I wish I had; a far more desirable car than the 996.1 GT3, IMO.
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Nice Kin.

Reminds me that one of the best things I've seen on the roads was when I was on a site visit a few years ago, stood on a splitter island on a d/c roundabout. I heard a racket of something tasty slowing from speed on the roundabout approach so turned around just as someone drifted a 996 GT3 around the roundabout right in front of me. I was laughing my stones off. 8-)
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Swervin_Mervin wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:37 pm Nice Kin.

Reminds me that one of the best things I've seen on the roads was when I was on a site visit a few years ago, stood on a splitter island on a d/c roundabout. I heard a racket of something tasty slowing from speed on the roundabout approach so turned around just as someone drifted a 996 GT3 around the roundabout right in front of me. I was laughing my stones off. 8-)
Had a very similar experience with a cossie when they were just released. Was probably only the second time I had seen one on the road. Small roundabout with the corner of a building on tbe exit he took - driver very confident, and clearly skilled. 8-)

I laughed all the way home - it was CAF. :roll:
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ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
You must be feeling pretty affluroent now? :?
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Cheers chaps. Appreciated.

It’s from a private sale so I didn’t have to pay dealer margin. One or two things to be checked out when serviced next spring, but hopefully nothing major.

@Mik, Scott can drive it so he can tell me if I’ve bought a good one or not. :P

@jobbo, yeah they were down to mid 30s then. Shame I didn’t have the money. For a long while I wanted a mk1 Zanzibar (cos it’s beautiful), but the more I looked into it, mk2 is just the better car (stronger engine, gearbox, bigger brakes etc). Harris and Meaden also prefer mk2. Set my heart on Gaurds red mk2 since then.

5:00am start tomorrow :D
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ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
I'm going to say he's got an Ultima Can-Am and can claim it's got a Vauxhall engine cos it's a GM LSx in it :mrgreen:
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Mito Man wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:18 am
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Nice, what model is it?
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mik wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:51 pm
ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
You must be feeling pretty affluroent now? :?
Today gloriously affected his bank balance.
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ste wrote: Thu Aug 02, 2018 2:40 am
And would still get dry bummed by a hot hatch. 8-)
Not likely, unless its the one of the gaylord V6 ones.
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_andy wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:09 pm

Nice, what model is it?
2SS 1LE. The 2 bit made it quite hard to find as each dealer only gets a limited allocation for each 1LE model and it was towards the end of its life cycle so it was ordered from a random place in Canada. I think this month the factory is being rejigged to produce the facelift version.
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speedingfine wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:05 pm
ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
I'm going to say he's got an Ultima Can-Am and can claim it's got a Vauxhall engine cos it's a GM LSx in it :mrgreen:
Ultima! Good shout. Duncs would be jealous 8-)
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Congrats Coaster, that’s an outstanding buy!
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Coaster1 wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 9:44 pm
speedingfine wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 6:05 pm
ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
I'm going to say he's got an Ultima Can-Am and can claim it's got a Vauxhall engine cos it's a GM LSx in it :mrgreen:
Ultima! Good shout. Duncs would be jealous 8-)
He wouldn't do that to me.
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ste wrote: Fri Aug 03, 2018 3:55 pm Caterham has just been collected. I shall update on the Vauxhall once I've collected it.
Oh!

Caterham JPE?
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