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Interesting fence to sit on…I’m ok with properly integrated arches and even pig-cheeks on in-period competition cars and/or where they are properly integrated in the original car eg the 944, or Ur-Quattro. I’m […]

Subtle these cars are not – I agree they make no sense, and caricature is a good word to describe them. Tasteless might be another. And yet…their brash glamour is kind of fun, no?

One of the prettiest cars ever made – hard to believe the design is over 60 years old!

@dave-leadbetter looks like an interesting museum, will make sure I get to visit if I’m ever in that part of Germany. The 5-cylinder engine you mention was also in the original Audi Coupe – I ran a metallic […]

@anders-bilidt yes, the little Fiat 127 Sport was very cool, and being one of just three in the country, very rare, but I still can’t get over the price for the Bitter…

@jakob356 I have to agree that the Renault 8 is a better looking car – I particularly like the crease down the centre of the 8’s bonnet which adds style and character to the basic 3-box design and the 10 looks […]

@tom-r you are correct, my mistake, apologies. The article has now been corrected. Aside from that, what did you think of the actual car?

@yrhmblhst re the Manta A, while it’s true that wheels, seats and bumpers are easily – if potentially expensively – changeable, the black chromework around the windows would be still more trouble, and personally […]

@claus-ebberfeld and @anders-bilidt the Bitter sold for just £11,322/EUR 13,200 – and having seen the car, seems more of a bargain than ever.

I remember the TV ads in the UK for the Strada very well – they are considered to be landmarks in the world of advertising and are much more interesting than the car itself, in my view. It was also around this […]

@anders-bilidt and @claus-ebberfeld I have to say that I was very surprised by the auction estimate, but I’ve just had a look in carandclassic.com and amazingly for such a rare car, found two more Bitter SC’s for […]

…and no sooner do I hit the “Submit” tab when I remember that Søren did exactly that just a few months ago…d’oh!

French pop music has never done anything for me (I’m more of a prog-rock/jazz fusion man), though I was saddened to read of the recent death of renowned French pianist Jacques Loussier, whose jazzed-up […]

@dries-leysen an excellent choice, only occured to me after I’d made my post!

Good to read that you are reunited with your 02, Dave (terrible song, by the way), hope to see it at an event sometime this summer if your ears can take the punishment.
Not so sure about the poetry though… ;-)

Got to get round to this show sooner rather than later! That orange CSL is absolutely superb…and is that two Porsche 914-6’s I see, or just look-alikes? Agree with you Claus regarding the “Neo-Classics” – seeing […]

Hmm…meant to post the Daimler’s lights….maybe this time…