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God, that TE2800 is just unimaginably cool…

Hi Phil, glad you liked the article and hope you enjoyed your trip. Did you drive there in anything worthy of mention on these pages?

That does look rather nice. And do I spy a steel sunroof?

Lotus Excel?

The later ones have a galvanised chassis and Toyota transmission.

What’s this, a public vote? Is it binding and can we rig it to stitch you into a Yugo 45?

Your three current favourites are all excellent cars but the 944 S2 stands out as the prime candidate for me. I looked a […]

Actually the only expensive bit of making an M3 Compact would be finding a good S50 and changing the bottom end bearing shells to be sure. An M54 is a fair substitute and more readily available, and it’s a lighter […]

I sold my Compact with an S50 M3 engine, I don’t think you ever saw that car. But it was wasted as a road car to be honest, way too quick with the standard final drive and five speed box, even quicker when it was […]

According to paragraph nine, I’m a complete fool. That feels like validation to me.

Ah, yes , I should learn to read properly. But actually the article title is bang on, just that there are so many variables to the market that it’s not possible to reliably gauge which of the three categories a […]

I guess this demonstrates (as Tony knows) that you can prove anything with statistics. Take the MGB GT V8 that sold for £33,600. An immaculate and expensively restored example in a much nicer colour recently sold […]

Thanks for sharing your story, and the great photographs of some familiar locations. It’s nice to see a evidence of real-life actual reader, and the Bitter clearly went to a very good home.

I didn’t expect Ro80s to be fetching anything like the asking price for the featured car, but if that’s an indication of supply and demand, so be it. I assume cars with a V4 transplant are worth considerably less […]

“I’ll eat the smoke of their cannon”… What type of cinema was that shown in?

I am the mood killer. Bubble-bursting a speciality.

Nice. As for the little old lady having owned it since new though, it appears to be on Used Car Dealer plates which a little bit of Googling leads me to think she may be a car dealer and her comment was actually a […]

The featured building is fractionally hipster in its dressing and presentation, but it’s great that it’s been preserved and given a new life, rather than being demolished in the cause of “progress”. I just love […]