you know you want it...
What would you buy & why?
Re: Yet another "what should I buy next?" type of thread..
I like Previas and their narrower JDM relatives with a confusing range of names and some rwd only, some 4x4, but one of the best things about these vans is that they came with a sliding passenger side rear side door which allowed access to their seven or eight seats, depending upon whether the middle row were captain's chairs or a bench, the latter folding flat against the rearmost row of furniture to make a surprisingly usable bed. But that's just bloody crackers! A decent import - with the vastly superior petrol engine that was designed specifically for the job - can be found through various specialists at under a grand for one that has no rusty bits and still works. So why pay upwards of 4k for that?
Don't get me wrong,I still like the idea, but I get enough pitying looks when I'm out in either of my daily JDM runabouts, although both seem to be capable of making me moderately desirable to women. Could the same be said for T2? Please don't make me bid and win the thing just to find out!
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: Yet another "what should I buy next?" type of thread..
just think, you will go from moderately desirable to women to Virgil Tracy attractive...buy it mate, you will be having lady Penelope at the door in seconds...
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Dunno about the "seconds" part
and having her at the door would probably have us both arrested for lewd behaviour in public. I'm thinking maybe the hearth rug?
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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i should proof read everything i type
but whatever you get up to at the door is up to you mate... Re: Yet another "what should I buy next?" type of thread..
who is that?
meanwhile, i know its not an mx5, but its shiny
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1496164115.htm/
meanwhile, i know its not an mx5, but its shiny
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1496164115.htm/
Re: Yet another "what should I buy next?" type of thread..
That's Jordan, before she had all of the bodywork restoration done! (Or maybe it's the famous Welsh pub turn Katherine Jenkins, but she used to have a real nose so I'm not sure).
Hang about, more about Jenkins' famously bodged botox job is here, full link shown as elegantism causes foreigners like our Rich to be unable to view links, not because I forgot how to do links, OK: http://famous-plasticsurgery.blogspot.c ... botox.html
That's almost relevant to our hobby, if you think about it, because her face is a perfect illustration of the old adage "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!"
Modern BMW? Hmm, I've yet to try and pull one of those backwards up a hill with the "little w4nk3r" (Pajero Mini, warranted to be 100% BMW free), but given that a Datsun X-trail is easy to embarrass that way, I'm guessing that the hairdresser's 4x4 in the listing wouldn't be too much of an issue for my tiny truck, even with the road tyres I currently have on the thing.
Hang about, more about Jenkins' famously bodged botox job is here, full link shown as elegantism causes foreigners like our Rich to be unable to view links, not because I forgot how to do links, OK: http://famous-plasticsurgery.blogspot.c ... botox.html
That's almost relevant to our hobby, if you think about it, because her face is a perfect illustration of the old adage "If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!"
Modern BMW? Hmm, I've yet to try and pull one of those backwards up a hill with the "little w4nk3r" (Pajero Mini, warranted to be 100% BMW free), but given that a Datsun X-trail is easy to embarrass that way, I'm guessing that the hairdresser's 4x4 in the listing wouldn't be too much of an issue for my tiny truck, even with the road tyres I currently have on the thing.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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This brought back some memories... You have a habit of doing such things too?? Way back, sometime in the 1990's, during the tedious gap between Christmas and New Year, I'd driven over to Stoke Mandeville to visit a friend who had been confined there over the holidays with multiple broken bones having lost a battle with a truck.. It was very cold that day, well below freezing and the roads were, shall I say "interesting".JPB wrote: Mon Sep 24, 2018 10:04 am
Modern BMW? Hmm, I've yet to try and pull one of those backwards up a hill with the "little w4nk3r" (Pajero Mini, warranted to be 100% BMW free), but given that a Datsun X-trail is easy to embarrass that way, I'm guessing that the hairdresser's 4x4 in the listing wouldn't be too much of an issue for my tiny truck, even with the road tyres I currently have on the thing.
On the way back I took my usual rat run to avoid Aylesbury completely (a good idea then as now), a nadgery lane from the A41 to the centre of Bierton on the A418. Burcott Lane I think it was called. Not usable nowadays as they've plonked a huge modern housing development halfway down it as I found out last time I tried it a few years ago... The lane is narrow, barely wide enough for cars to pass and it was very icy, hence I was travelling at sensible (read slow) speed. Very soon there was a huge BMW crawling all over the back of me, swerving and flashing its headlamps but there was nowhere to let him past. About halfway along the lane there's a small village (now part of the "development", which was followed by a short(ish) straight where he could pass me, which he duly did with a lot of revs and wheel spin. LHD and German number plates. I knew that no-way would he make it around the sharp right-hander at the end of the straight - even had it been hot, dry and sunny! He didn't, ploughing straight on into the ditch and blocking the lane too.
Amazingly it was virtually undamaged, bar the fact it was at an angle, o/s/r wheel a couple of feet off the ground ergo immobile! Driver turned out to be a sqaddie home on leave from the army in Germany. When I told him I'd tow him out he laughed... With that? he said (pointing to the Kitten). No chance in that Robin Reliant - I just smiled and replied, "count the wheels"!!! I turned the car round and roped my tow-bar to his. Then I told him to get in, start the engine and when he felt his back wheel touch down, accelerate in reverse very gently (it was automatic). This is what we did and out it popped, despite the black ice all round. He really couldn't believe it.... Not difficult if you take it gently. And yes he did ask how I'd fitted the extra wheel!!
So the "drive smug" attitude of German car drivers is nothing new (actually he turned out to be an OK guy, just a bit stupid, and we met up in Leighton Buzzard that night for a beer!!), plus I too have taken the shilling.
Nostalgia...……
John (P)
"I thought I was wrong once - But I was wrong"...
Re: Yet another "what should I buy next?" type of thread..
come to this area of france when its snowing.. we have about 5cm max.. roads are gridlocked & everyone panics.. large 4x4 and small cars are all in the ditch.. 
any of the very slight hills in the area are a nightmare, they trundle along at 5 kmh.. i have to overtake in my truck as its rwd and need a run up..
meanwhile john, you really need these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/352467982526
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/273477015787
any of the very slight hills in the area are a nightmare, they trundle along at 5 kmh.. i have to overtake in my truck as its rwd and need a run up..meanwhile john, you really need these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/352467982526
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/273477015787