What satisfies you most about your Retro and why?

PLEASE put a 2.3 HPT in the 245 Wagon. (from a 940) they're begging for it.

For me, what satifies me most is the feeling of utter superiority I feel whel looking around at the other anonoboxes on the road. And the heart flutter I get when I see another rolling retro pressing on through the blandness.

PS, you could also live in the volvo if times get rough.

Corners, smooth roads and the way people react to him.


(current favourite pic)

Had some wonderful remarks, the ones that stick in my brain are:
small child with parent: Wow, that's like a Hot Wheels car!
chavs in a tatty hatchback: Take it to the scrapyard.
random pedestrians on our street: That's proper old school that is.
in a B&Q car park: Look, an old B reg Polo, I've not seen one of those for ages.

At the moment, what satisfies me most about the Equipe is that it works! ;D Because I've spent a long time fighting the thing. But in general I like the way it sounds, and the way it confuses people.

With the Mercedes, it's in a transitional state at present so nothing much satisfies me about it. Yet!

the looks you get, the comments you get, the nice poeple coming up to you and telling you how they had one and just wished it was as nice

also annoying people in modern cars who don't expect it to be quick (that was with the 2.1)

things that annoy me are the comments like "you got a couple of paving slabs in the boot" etc etc which I normally reply with "no, I can drive"

main annoyance at the mo is engine troubles with the SX engine!! but I know as soon as it all comes good and I find myself back on the road wooping people in their modern sports cars it will all be worth it!

and I think this sums up retro ownership for a lot of us

"those rare moments where the car is running perfectly, you're on a nice quiet and twisty road, windows down, shades on and the sun shining down"

Every time I drive the 911.. its a visceral experience that can't be had from my other rides with their albeit nice creature comforts.., the noise / the view down the nose / the speed / the fact that young kids point and know its a Porker.. all makes me smile ;D

Mine is purely comments like 'how do you get that wedge of cheese to be so fast' that keep me getting rid of the poor girl and that she asks for nothing - yet every month I find 'something' to spend on for her haha

i could have had a 2 year old vectra for what i have spent lol

For the most part its the looks it gets, I'm not sure what to next on it though...