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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.

I see plenty of Disco 5s but they have been sold for 9 years and I live in the shires, prime territory for them.

I always think new Defenders’ owners are either builders or Gypsies (or both), and have seen several wide-body Eletres gumming up B roads recently #firesale.

I actually entered a mod-sales auction for a Wolf 110 with canvas roof that I thought I’d make a fun family/camping vehicle, but my daughter is making me think of a Series IIA for my desired residence and her first car is a more sensible purchase.. better (cheaper) than the Boxster she wants anyway! It’s basically fixable with a mallet, right?

M3 Touring boot as seat whilst having an evening negroni is most agreeable.. met (and shook hands) with a hero of mine earlier, Mr Ross Edgley, so no excuse for procrastination or negativity.. #bigballs

So many Defenders round here and disappointingly they all seem to be black on black on black.

jamcg wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:12 am

integrale_evo wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 6:00 am I think the e30 will have been 20 years in September. E36 16 years, golf somewhere between the two I think.

Mito 7 years, I have a habit of buying cars in the autumn so the ‘sud almost 6 years, compact will be 5, x5 4.

No I won’t have it. I remember you buying the sud, and it was only 2 years ago tops. It has to be because it can’t have been that long ago and I’m not that old. Oh wait………. Bollocks. Anyone got some aspirin please

It’s the one that’s probably easiest for me to remember, buying a 40 year old car as a 40th birthday present to myself, it was in the September when Covid restrictions had started to ease a bit but a lot of people were still cautious.

It’s probably the car I’ve kept standard for longest, but that now seems to have gone out of the window now

integrale_evo wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 10:17 pm

jamcg wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:12 am

integrale_evo wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 6:00 am I think the e30 will have been 20 years in September. E36 16 years, golf somewhere between the two I think.

Mito 7 years, I have a habit of buying cars in the autumn so the ‘sud almost 6 years, compact will be 5, x5 4.

No I won’t have it. I remember you buying the sud, and it was only 2 years ago tops. It has to be because it can’t have been that long ago and I’m not that old. Oh wait………. Bollocks. Anyone got some aspirin please

It’s the one that’s probably easiest for me to remember, buying a 40 year old car as a 40th birthday present to myself, it was in the September when Covid restrictions had started to ease a bit but a lot of people were still cautious.

It’s probably the car I’ve kept standard for longest, but that now seems to have gone out of the window now

I’d say it’s more oem+ than “modified”. Throw some wanky shite led headlights that look completely out of place in it and you could call it a restomod

Ascender wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 8:59 pm So many Defenders round here and disappointingly they all seem to be black on black on black.

Are they filming Traitors a bit further north this year?