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@tony-wawryk, Santa’s little helper have been busy busy busy, ehhh ?

I’m modest, so I only wish for a maroon Alfa Romeo Spider 1600 with hard-top,
something in Tweed, more tools, and a sprint header, and I […]

There’s a story too, @tony-wawryk : For that same reason (and a certain V8…) I always preferred the Diplomat. Or rather the “Bitter Opel Diplomat CD” with the wonderful pun in the CD abbreviation.

@tony-wawryk I couldn’t agree with you more !

The snobbery, and elitist Tweedland attitude (nothing wrong with tweed) please be gone.

@tony-wawryk Ooh, I don’t accuse you for calling a MGB a inferior classic car, I’m truly sorry if you got that impression. I accept that the MGB does not rock you boat…- it doesn’t rock my boat as well, but the […]

@tony-wawryk, there’s certainly no need for you to defend yourself. We’re probably all guilty to some extent of writing off the MGB merely because they’re so common. I know I certainly have in the past, and […]

Well, the Eighties were almost a lost decade in general, @tony-wawryk, not only for Maserati.

From a design point of view I find the very comparable BMW E30 even less inspiring than the Biturbo and derivates […]

@tony-wawryk, shall we just call it MUSTARD…?

@claus-ebberfeld, great picture!

@tony-wawryk Yes I spotted the GT immediately, and it looks very original.

Since my GT is pretty must rust free and the paintwork OK, the argument for throwing £2500 – £3000 for a re-paint is really not t […]

@tony-wawryk that’s only because your 02 is a “zitrone”, and bugs don’t like sauer zitronen ;-))

Should I ever come in a situation where my (dark blue metallic) GT was up for a re-spray, I would probably go for […]

@tony-wawryk Thanks for bringing color on a grey and cold December day.

The “bug-attraction” is my main reason for not going yellow, but I really really like pale yellow for classic cars, as it has a sort of […]

@tony-wawryk to mention a few:
Lotus Europa
VW 1302
VW Split Window Bus
Ford Fairlane
Ford Falcon
Triumph Herald x 2
Jaguar 420G
Alfa 75 Evoluzione
GTV6
Giulia x3
MB230E & TE & 280SE
Fiat 1200 […]

@tony-wawryk another treat from your side, keep’m coming.
Not that it would ever be option for me, but should I choose between the Maserati Ghibli and the Espada, the Ghibli would be the one for me.

Do you […]

@tony-wawryk I’ll let you know if suddenly should find myself in the Oxford area.
Oxford has always been high on my “go-to-wish-list, but Goodwood Rivival 2019 or Hursley (work related) will be more likely, […]

@tony-wawryk Luckily it’s ok to disagree ;-). Regarding the brakes, I recall that the
problem was solved by removing the brake servo, and adding large brakes, which indeed did take care of the brake lock up […]

@tony-wawryk, engineer or not, I give you that styling and performance counts for a lot, but the ability to brake is a performance I value quite high, and here the Beta (also) fails by a mile…- so to speak […]

@tony-wawryk & Mr. Bildt, like many I hold classic Lancias in high regard, but with all due respect, when it comes to the Lanacia Beta I would rather set fire to myself than praise it, even in the slightest […]

@tony-wawryk, my apologies – I really should have known better. Of course you don’t have a heart. It must have simply been a fragile moment for you… ;-)
There was indeed plenty of drool-worthy eye candy […]

Some excellent pictures there, with some very obvious rockstar / cool car combinations, but also some fairly obscure combinations.
@tony-wawryk, you’re right – we shouldn’t forget Jay Kay’s excellent taste for […]

To be honest I was rather shocked by the price too, but his “dealer logic” (good expression, @tony-wawryk ) convinced me. And the fact that he apparantly had sold another Ogle recently for not much less even tho […]

@tony-wawryk, No we where not exactly arriving in style, and suddenly not the way we had planned. Parking between a SS Jaguar100 (from Germany) and a newer
Aston Martin was a painful affair, but at least we […]