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Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 5:26 pm
by Sundayjumper
DeskJockey wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 4:05 pm
I've never understood the excitement about these cars. Dimensions are wrong, they're too short in my view giving them an oddly truncated look. Also, they look like a trainer.
It’s not often you’re wrong, DJ, but today you are. Sorry.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 5:34 pm
by integrale_evo
I think they’re one of the best looking cars ever. Would definitely have one in my dream garage
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:21 pm
by mik
I do love a stratos
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Shame that one is just a 2.5 - I’d want the 3.2 in there. Also a shame that they apparently handle like a hedgehog
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2024 8:10 pm
by Sundayjumper
mik wrote: Sun Oct 20, 2024 7:21 pm
Also a shame that they apparently handle like a hedgehog
Unlike BMWs,
where the pricks are on the inside.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 12:19 pm
by Beany
A bit different
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267036448292
Can't say I'm a fan of the bodywork but it's at least appears to be a custom chassis with a proper Jag six pot in it.
http://www.ronart.co.uk/index.html
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:10 pm
by V8Granite
You’re not allowed on the internet anymore.
Dave!
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 2:15 pm
by Beany
V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:10 pm
You’re not allowed on the internet anymore.
Dave!
Jokes on you, I haven't been allowed on the internet for years!
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:02 pm
by DeskJockey
V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:10 pm
You’re not allowed on the internet anymore.
Dave!
And not just because of the car, he linked to an http URL
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:11 pm
by Beany
DeskJockey wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 3:02 pm
V8Granite wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 1:10 pm
You’re not allowed on the internet anymore.
Dave!
And not just because of the car, he linked to an http URL
It's like going back in time!
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:00 pm
by nuttinnew
How have they kept the reg?
Inspired use of Ka bits to try and get a Plymouth Prowler top on an early XK bottom but it isn't quite there. It's probably what Mitsuoka would come up with if they started with a StreetKa.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:01 pm
by nuttinnew
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2024 10:05 pm
by Beany
Oof, make that closer to standard visually and that would be one hell of a comedy sleeper.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 6:19 pm
by speedingfine
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 6:38 pm
by mik
If it made 725.8bhp then I’d have been interested.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 7:13 pm
by DeskJockey
I'd want a palindromic power output to put down that kind of cash.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 8:16 pm
by Sundayjumper
I'd want to know the calibration traceability & measurement uncertainty
I have
never seen measurement uncertainty quoted against a dyno plot. Makes me think it's something extremely embarrassing.
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:09 pm
by jamcg
Friend of mines half looking for a new car, wants an old defender if he can get one cheap enough and still afford to insure it (he’s only 19 and a ncg)
He’s sent me so many links of marketplace of good looking ones for 2-3k, and when you look at the sellers profile they’re selling loads of cars around the 2-3k mark- but they’re all stolen adverts of much more expensive vehicles. The amount of scammers on there is unreal
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:16 pm
by Sundayjumper
Yeah, marketplace is ridiculous for that. You'd think it would be almost trivially easy for Facebook to apply some kind of filter like "if someone with no history of selling cars suddenly lists >10 cars all at once, block them until they contact support and ask to be unblocked".
Also, Defenders are ridiculously expensive for what they are. And shit. He'll be disappointed.
Dave! enters the room in 3......2..........1............
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:18 pm
by jamcg
Sundayjumper wrote: Sat Oct 26, 2024 1:16 pm
Yeah, marketplace is ridiculous for that. You'd think it would be almost trivially easy for Facebook to apply some kind of filter like "if someone with no history of selling cars suddenly lists >10 cars all at once, block them until they contact support and ask to be unblocked".
Also, Defenders are ridiculously expensive for what they are. And shit. He'll be disappointed.
Dave! enters the room in 3......2..........1............
He’s a farmer and genuinely enjoys driving tractors so I’m not sure he would be disappointed
Re: The ebay thread
Posted: Sat Oct 26, 2024 7:23 pm
by nuttinnew
"Rovers are for old men". Old men were young once, some in the '60s;
What are KV6s like, like a K but twice so? Performance/thirst like a W8?
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