Just as the old motoring thread, i present to you The Petrolheads' Station!

For all your motoring chat, needs, even what car threads, post them here!!!!!!

Regards,
Nicia

Come on gotta be a few more petrolheads on here!!!!

First of all i start with a what car post, should i go for a Porsche 968 or TVR Chimaera? Other suggestions welcome though must be around £10K, RWD, fast etc. Pref. be a future classic!

Well personally I'd go for a Porsche 993 coupe, around 20 K though, and at the moment as hard to find as rocking horse s***.
I've never driven a 968, quite pretty though and less likely to have bits dropping off than a TVR !

I do love the 993, quite a few for sale on pistonheads.com but as you say around £20K, turbos' more. IMHO the 993 was the best Porsche they've ever made. A really nice drive too!

Your probably right about the TVR and things dropping off it though my mum runs a TVR Independent garage so it's not as if i'd have to pay for the repairs!!!! I drove a 968 the other weekend, very nicely balanced and a lovely engine, though not as nice sounding as a the TVR's V8, drove many a TVR so i know their quirks, less so with a Porsche but it'd be nice to be a bit different!!!

Anyone see Top Gear this week?

How amazing was that. I think that's the best bit of television I've ever seen...

Tell me about it! I havent laughed that much in ages, I might have to watch the repeat.

me too

Top Gear rules!!!! I'm never in on a Sunday evening so i tape it, this weeks was exeptionally good! Now if only Fifth Gear would take notice.......

I've give up on fifth gear- Vicki BH and that guy in the cafe were getting just too irritating.

I do like Top Gear, though I wish they might occasionally mention cars. I find that Ski Sunday is going the same way with skiing virtually never mentioned.

I think everyone i know gave up on Fifth Gear ages ago!!!

The Mercedes was a bit mental this week

I've been meaning to start this up again!!!

What with spring coming soon

Next Sunday i've got a run out round the Cat and Fiddle, about 40 of us turning up! Can't wait, week after i've got a Denby Pottery meet YAY the motoring season is starting again! Roll on Summer, every Sunday out!

So anyone got any meets / run outs planned for March?

Anyone doing Le Mans this year?

I'm going on the Porsche Club Cotwalds rally in April

That sounds a good one! Is that your first Porsche meet? They are meant to be a really good club but i don't know alot about them TVRCC are exellent so if there on par with them, it will be great! The alfa club is a bit well, um, unreliable!!! Though Alfaholics (classic Alfa club) is great! Does the Porsche club have a Challenge Cup?

I go on something nearly every week! We have a meet every other Tuesday night, Denby is once a month in the summer, other runs organised, track days etc. Then theres one off stuff like le mans etc.

If you get into you'll be addicted! It's a wonder i've got time for music, with all that!

Nicki Flute: have you passed your driving test yet?

"The Alfa Club is bit unreliable"


The Cotswalds rally is the first meeting we'll have been to- we only joined the club this month (though I was a member when I was 13- a very very long time ago) we have the running number 77 which should be good luck.

I've updated my photo by the way

You were a member when you were 13? How, did your parents drive a Porsche? Very keen, i hope you don't beat my record of passing my test (both parts!) 3 weeks after my 17th!

I've always (since we moved to England) been "sort of" a TVRCC member but only because mums' always had a TVR so i've just always gone along to meets!

Nice photo, i've got one a bit like that of my Alfa, i'll try to update mine to that one but i never seem to be able to do it!

Edited to add: I've changed the photo to the Alfa one!

Nice picture of the Alfa !



No my parents didn't have a Porsche- I was just a junior member- I did get my Dad to phone up about a Porsche 914 (for sale for £400) but it had sold (These are routinely for sale for >£10,000 these days).

And no I didn't pass my test when I was 17. I failed a test when I was 17 and didn't start having lessons again until I was 31.

Thanks!

You've always been a Porsche fan then? You don't see many 914s' about!!! I test drove a 968 edited to add it was a 944 convertible, not a 968 (not sure why i wrote 968!) the other day, a very well balanced car, it did sound too bad either - for a Porsche..... not sure if i'm getting rid of the GT-4 though yet!

I not that loyal to one marque, though i'd only buy classic or performance cars, i don't do repmobiles - lifes too short!!!

31 !! Well you took your time from failing one to passing!!! If i'd have failed my first test, i'd already got the time i wanted to book for the next one written down!

Things like A levels, University, getting married, post-doc work got in the way.

When I started learning again I had 3 tests in the space of about 5 weeks until I finally passed.

I hope you didn't think i was being nosey!

Whats post-doc work when it's at home? I've never had the inclination to be very clever so i couldn't wait to get out of school! Most of my friends are still at college / university, i do admire the people who can do it (and have the brains to!) it seems very busy and challenging!

I'll stick to running my own little business and cars i think!!!!!!!!!

Not at all.


Post Doc work is working in University on research projects for very poor pay.

Doesn't sound too good!!!

Anyway we had a Ferrari 355 Spider in the garage today, i got a drive in it - all the way round the carpark!!! Should be seeing a Zonda on Tuesday, can't wait it's not everyday you see something like that and have a passenger ride in it!

Did it manage to make it all the way round the car park without breaking down ?

Typical Porsche driver! They just don't get cars with character!

My car has character too !

Have you noticed no-one else posts on this forum ?
Maybe everyone else here is too young ?


Here's a Porsche with character for you- and my my dream car

http://www.specialistcarsltd.co.uk/porsche...yellowRS486.htm

I'm not saying your car doesn't have character! What i mean my character is um, unreliable breaking down but when it drives it GOES!!!

Yeah i've noticed no one else posts on here, not impressed, come on don't be shy, we're not that bad on here!! Maybe there not many petrolheads on here? I wonder if theres any PHer's on here (apart from me!)?

Now that IS a Porcshe, you won't get to it before i do! *evil laugh*

I am the meak driver of a girly micra, get me

A micra would have been my LAST choice but for a first car its got everything I need.

A bit off topic there as I cant really comment on porshes..

Welcome to the Petrolheads Station! Has Ian has said theres not many on here, so new member are always welcome!

As long as you enjoy the thrill of driving (sorry to Evo mag!) you can be a petrolhead no matter what car you drive!

Enjoy it! If you want a sports car you'll have one at some point!

oh my god I just checked your profile, are you really 18 and driving that beautifull car? HOW!

Yep, i'm 18, i drive a 1967 Alfa and a 1994 Celica GT-4.

How? I run my own business as well as working for my mum who owns an independent garage. I spend nearly all i earn on cars, track days etc. because i love the whole scene. Insurance on a classic and a modern classic is cheap, as there is little risk factors due to most people my age driving a small hatch.

I knew i'd never be clever enough to stay at school or go to uni, after i left i worked as an Estate Agent but i got fed up of the office life (very quickly) so i took a risk in starting my own business and living out my motoring dreams! Going well so far and hoping to race something, anything next season!

What i don't spend on cars goes on music!

Your SO making me want to buy a classic car, but my head is just telling bringing me back to all the impraticalities. Maybe one day, although I hardly use my car as it is!

Don't worry about the impracticalities, do it! If thats what you want to do of course.

If you don't already know much about the mechanics, get yourself on a course and learn how to do most of the work yourself.

If you just want to enjoy driving more, get yourself on a couple of trackdays, track experience days or do your ARDS. PM me if you want anymore info regarding track days etc.

The good thing about classic cars is of course they don't depreciate.
Also they may break down, but they do tend to be fairly mechanically straightforward unlike new cars.



I also have a Fiat Panda- this means I have the same car collection as James May!

Very true about classic cars, they only go up in value and are (usually) quite simple to repair!

Had a great run out today, was driving the Celica round the Cat and Fiddle, up to Leek, up to Buxton and back to Cat anf Fiddle, great run apart from the weather! About 20 of us turned up so i was pleased about that, should have been 40 but the TVR's didn't bother!!!!!

I'm afraid I like my Land Rovers - over the years I've had 3 classic Range Rovers, a Discovery and am on my second Freelander - and hubby loves Audis.........he's just bought an allroad.......

You live in the country? I like the Audi Ur Quattro but thats about it on the Audi front! Don't know much about Land Rovers!

Sorry I'm not posting much this week- I am on holiday from work this week.

We had a run through Salisbury plain to Stonehenge yesterday, managed to outrun the rain for most of the day.

Excellent, get that Porsche out on a hoon everyday!

Good day at Donnington today, cained the cars down there FANTASTIC! didn't take mine on track though today, just watching with a few friends.

Couple of Radicals, a nice Noble, a 996 GT3RS amoung them a nice day out!

Anyone else had any meets?

Arggghhhhhh!!!!!!!


Rumours of a top rate of Road (Trident Nuclear missile) fund license rising to £400 for 'inefficient cars'

My Fiat Panda is a 1.4 L, 60 HP car that does 40 MPG

That is 43 HP/Litre and 1.5 HP/MPG

My Porsche is a 2.7 L, 240 HP car that does ~26 MPG

That is 89 HP/Litre and 9.2 HP/MPG


So surely my Posrche is more efficient ? At least in terms of turning petrol into energy.

Yay my car is only Group F !

Nicia - where are you ???

Hello!!

I don't need to worry about the tax YAY! One is the pricely sum of £0 being made in 1967, the other is £175 as it's made before 2001 and is above 1600CC, incentive to buy an older car!

I'm currently looking at buying a Chimaera of my own - should be in the next month or so ! I've also seen a very nice BMW 8 Series for sale which for some reason i'm loving at the moment soooo i'll have to wait and see, either get rid of mine and get an 8 series (850CSi with the manual box) and a Chimaera. Or get rid of the GT-4 and get a Chimaera, or the 8 series (as i drive TVRs' everyday anyway) and keep the Alfa decisions decisions.........think i'll be keeping the Alfa though!

Never buy a car newer than 2001 to keep the tax down, thats the secret - unless you like boring cars that is!

Any good hoons this year so far Ian? I was at Donnington for the 750MC Championship last Sunday was good also got a Cheshire hoon this Sunday!

Editted to add: How much is a Group F car? Out of interest?



You get 26mpg from the Porsche? Thats good! My GT-4 which is a 2.0Ltr, turbo pushes out 310BHP (not standard i've added a few more horses! - standard figures are 240BHP) and i get about 20MPG.

Never worked out what the Alfa does as i only do about 2000 miles in it a year!

Whats the 0-60 times like?

The group F is 195 py at the moment, going up to 210 I believe- the boxster only just scrapes into group F.

The 0-60 time is quoted as six seconds.


In the future I quite fancy a Porsche 993 myself- the last of the air cooled 911's.

Not too bad then, on the tax.

0-60 on the GT-4 is 5.2 secs.

I drove a 993 C2 not so long ago it really was a lovely drive, better than the 996 IMHO (drove both) though i'm not one for all these driver aids etc. They are very nice cars' and are more expensive than the newer 996, they will continue to rise as well and are already becoming a future classic.

At the moment i'm swaying towards the BMW as i can drive a TVR whenever i like but i would like one of my own, suppose i've got plenty of time to get one! In general i don't like BMW's the only ones i do like are the 8 series and the M3.

So.....



"V"

Hi there can i join in?? although i am a female trumpeter in gloucester.
I love cars!
though i dont have anything as exciting as you do!

My cars have been Puke green Renault 5 with rust patches,
Austin metro,
Austin Maestro (ugh! ),
Ford Escort 1.3 ###### car kept breaking down,
Vauxhall astra 1.7td not bad,
Fiat Punto 1.7tdi lowered and with alloys (nice car!),
Skoda Fabia 1.9tdi,
Skoda Octavia Elegance 1.9Tdi very nice car untill a motor bike decided to rearrange it, and try to kill me ,my mum and my son in the process,
Renualt Espace 2.2dci people carrier - not my ideal car but practical at the moment.

I have always love Escorts mainly the earlier ones - i craved Cosworths and xr3i before io could drive.
but now i'd quite like a fabia or an octavia vRS diesel

never done a track day - though would love a rally course.

Hi Trumpeter and welcome !
At last somebody else who loves cars !
I always had a soft spot for the MK1 escorts- lovely looking car and much better than the British Leyland offerings of the time.


Nicia- The TVR TVR TVR TVR TVR TVR !

Don't get a BMW - you'll forget how to indicate !!!


When I only had my Fiat I always found it was BMW drivers who were trying to bully me out of the way, now I have the Porsche it is Audi drivers that are the pain they always seem to want to race me (or block me)

Hello Trumpeter and welcome. Of course you are most welcome to join in!

If your interested in a track day or a rally course just PM me through my profile!

I know someone with a Fabia VRs who beat a Clio 182 in a race, his other cars' a Bentley Turbo R, yes you read that right a Bentley!

No doubt i'll probably end up with the TVR, i love everything about them! The BMW is a very nice motor though!

Haha! Maybe i'll become a "typical BMW driver" - tips to remember don't indicate and bully Fiats'- though i somehow doubt it.

BMW's seem to brought down by some of the drivers, usually the ones in 318 rep mobiles not those of a high spec. i just think they've got something to prove, quite sad really!

You get Audi's try to race you? Hope you show them how to drive, i bet you didn't expect my GT-4 to be a quicker car than your new Boxster?

I bet my boxster is quicker on the twisty stuff.
The 50-XXX is the more phenomanal acceleration.

Hmm quicker than a rally prepped GT-4 round the twisties? I often go driving with 2 996's, an EvoVIII and a Cerbera, my GT-4 has the edge round the twisty bits though the two 996's have all the advantage on the straights, the Evo's just an awesome machine with 500 BHP, the Cerbera is better than any from 100-150.

I'd definetely agree with you if you were talking about a TVR "V" Boxster round the twisties but a rally prepped GT-4 can be a great car, much underated and people don't always know exactely what it is not like a Scooby or an Evo!

The other factor of course is the driver though, i've not drove a Boxster yet i'm told the handling is fantastic as with any car the handling is only fantastic if you can drive well

How tail happy is the Boxster? I hope you have switched the Traction off to find out!!!!