Don’t tease!
Bentley, or 'Murrican old iron block…
In reality the problem was of your own making. You had already decided what you wanted of a car and a quick look at the ND’s spec. would have shown you that it wasn’t the car for you. To “rubbish” a perfectly good product just because it doesn’t meet your requirements is just the same as trying to do a job that needed a spanner with a pair of pliers. and then saying that pliers are rubbish. A bad workman/chooser always blames the tool/product.
I didn’t choose the wrong one,i chose the right one for ME after I’d driven all three.Unfortunately the right one is no longer coming to the UK.Still its not all bad as i wouldn’t of come across the SLK AMG.It isn’t a petrol heads car however as its packed with every gadget you can think of.
Saz - don’t know whose stats you looked at, but most of these are not mine. Tempting to refer you to a well known source, but there’s nothing wrong with your eyesight! I do however read other threads, - out of boredom mainly. Yesterday I posted advice on two NBFL threads- the only two in a couple of weeks.
JMK - Like Robin, I would like to know what that 4.5L car really is - it does sound like a Bentley (one of my all time favorite cars) You seem to be one of a rare breed quite frankly.
SLK AMG, great car! But then it always was about performance, that’s why you could have eliminated the ND’s, especially the 1.5l, by looking at their published performance figures and without taking unnecessary test drives resulting in crass condemnation. Anyway, the Merc is a great car, not to my taste, but I hope you have great fun with it!
Hey! Does this mean you will be leaving the MX5 “Owners” Club as you will no longer have an MX5 and will be joining the Merc SLK “Owners” Club?
Had a very late night last night, went to bed at 3 am, woke up somewhat later - - - - -
Roadie - Not a Grumpy post, or I would have said so. More of a reflection of what I see every day on this forum, endless queries regarding Media applications. While some of us (thank God)n are still more in tune with the car.- The MX5 of course, what you do in any other vehicle, apart from Paul W, is your own business!
Why do I keep logging on every day? - Boredom? - No, mainly in the hope that someone sensible will buy my car, other than the local gent who expressed interest with the intention of ripping the car apart as a pure track car, which as stated in the advert, is not my intention. While I freely admit I have tracked the car in the past, I’ve enjoyed touring in it, partly as a former Events Co-ord, but mainly in France, where I still hope the car at least will spend it’s days there, though I won’t be with it, I need the NHS too much to make the one-way journey. Does that make me less English - not really, but I’m tempered by other residences in the distant past, and I have a different outlook to many true red white and blues.
I would love the opportunity to kick some life into Club MX5 France - with around 400 members, it needs some kicking believe me. Their first ever rally was held last year, and a very poor effort made to achieve it. Our first was held in a car park, but we have progressed well beyond that. So could they, but they do need ambition and know how. Alas - not to be.
I’m not a member of MX5 club.No i will not join a Merc Club & the 5 is being kept .Its going to get a full restoration and then its going to be my sons 1st car.
Really?
Your details show :-
Groups. OC Member
Registered
Joined 30/01/2018
Or are you not rejoining?
These were the “stats” (sic) visible to anyone at that time, from the forum landing page.
Perhaps if you want to read only NBFL threads, miataforum is more your scene. Sorry that the forum doesn’t have as many members as the American site. I believe the yahoo list that you prefer is still in operation.
And there was I thinking that a petrol head was one that had managed to shower themselves in 4 star while tinkering under the bonnet.
Ps The Mk1 fuel pump is great for doing this with unleaded while playing with fuel rail connections.
A sports car is any car which is driven in a Sporting way.
My other car has a top speed of 65 MPH on the flat, cable brakes, friction disc shock absorbers, an I have even overtaken modern cars on a B road with it. It was made in 1934 and has no radio ! you could not hear one in it anyway.
Its more fun at 55 mph than the Rs Ltd which is why I still drive it after 28 years of ownership.
So what car is it?
So, anyway, back to OP query.
I brought my Euphonic because of the OEM fit ICE. Love driving my MX5 on track (definitely no radio / cd - as crash helmet dulls the treble )
On “those” days during an early run out, roof down, heater on most definitely no music - just enjoy the drive.
Trolling up the A34, M40, M42, M6 Toll, M6 to Oulton Park - damn right I listen to the quality Sony Stereo !!
That’s the joy of MX5 ownership - it can be many things to many people but they will all be smiling
Hi,
The Real Hairdressers sports car is a 1934 Austin 7 Type 65EB
I have competed at Prescott Hill Climb in it as well as Wiscombe Park and a couple of other events.
I have lead OC club runs with in the past as well, with my wife driving the Rs Ltd.
Austin 7 ! That was the first car Dad had when I was a boy in the early 1950’s, a 1927 soft top! Wish I still had, checked the DVLA website and it’s still registered but SORNED, somewhere.
PS: I believe the model was a “Chummy Tourer”.
With really old cars like that which are pretty rare these days a Google search of the registration can often bring up links to details on classic car websites,
A good read is here - //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_7
H’m - 84 years old! - Like the common expression, “They don’t make 'em like they used to!”
Mine (now gone) has a few years left, but doubt it’ll last another five years. Any car made after the war will last x years, but will bite the dust eventually IMHO.
Well done, keep it alive.
Have a day out at a Vintage Sports Car Club event and you will be amazed how many pre war cars are still around. VSCC Cadwell Park and Harewood Hillclimb are annual ‘must do’ events for me, and the bonus is that VSCC members are usually as endearingly bonkers as their cars…
Its a good job they don’t “make 'em like they used to”, otherwise cars will be very unreliable, and won’t last so well.
To be fair, the vast majority of Austin 7s were made into baked bean tins decades ago. The survivors are the exception, not the rule. Cars these days last much longer than they used to. How many millions of Model Ts were made, and how many are left? I am struck by the numbers of rotted old Fords and Chevys found in the deserts of the US; a late 20s Ford for instance. And it was dumped 80 years ago, and is now a stripped shell. The reason it would be dumped? Seized engine, broken gearbox. When my dad started driving, he recalled how the engine on his Prefect was stuffed by the time 20k miles was reached. Not so long ago, the yard stick for an engine would be 100k miles, and that is still the case for many people. But modern engines are capable of extraordinary mileages with minimal maintenance. A 1990 Miata reached 400k miles, without the head ever being removed. Maybe that’s the exception, but it points to the great longevity of the Mazda B6 unit. As a kid, I remember neighbours with crusty looking, battered series 1 Jag XJs. Looking back, these must have only been 8-10 years old (XJ came out in 1968, and I’m recalling an interest in cars from when I was 10, in 1978 or so). I currently own a 15 year old XJ, and its literally as new, and it still feels like a £55k car.
One of the reasons these old cars have survived for so long is a lack of oversight. People were allowed for years to get away with “fixing” a car with bits of wire or string, and cars were frankly unsafe. Increasing safety regulations means you can’t do that anymore. The survivors are finally fixed properly, and the government decided that because the present owner has invested so much into the restoration, they can forgo the compulsory annual inspection (though that does not remove the absolute responsibility of the owner to maintain the car in a MOTable condition). That shifting regulatory standards removes so many serviceable cars from the road gives rise to the global trade in used car exports. The biggest exporter of used cars in not Japan, its the US, with huge numbers of trucks and cars leading second lives in the Middle East and Latin America.