uncle silvia
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Jul 11, 2012 16:52:24 GMT
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Well just a fun one really! Basically as the title says........ Your boss being the big man (or woman), should be earning the most in their company so can often afford a nice car........ or 2....... or 3 etc etc Some have a nice daily or something sporty, but some have a classic or something interesting. Even if its not a retro car, but something we deem interesting, give it a mention Heres what my boss has (If i remember correctly) ;D F355 AC Cobra (may be sold now tho?) Abarth 695 Tributo Ferrari Abarth Corse (Actual Car \/ ) Renault Twizy (So I'm told he has just bought one recently!) Oh and this little thing............. Oh and a boat somewhere lol NOW ITS YOUR TURN
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1981 KE70 Corolla - 1978 B310 Sunny Coupe - 1977 Pink Clubman Mini Shorty
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uncle silvia
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Jul 11, 2012 17:00:31 GMT
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Oh and my old boss at another Job i had, had this........
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1981 KE70 Corolla - 1978 B310 Sunny Coupe - 1977 Pink Clubman Mini Shorty
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86mike
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Jul 11, 2012 17:18:58 GMT
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None of mine have ever had anything fun, the nearest thing is my current one does/did this until he mashed his hand falling off.
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MiataMark
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Jul 11, 2012 17:30:23 GMT
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Not exactly my boss, but we had a drive your classic to work Friday. I drove a Triumph Spitfire and a colleague had his Frogeye, marketing manager turned up in an Aston AMV8 (or may have been a DBS).... MD at my first company also had an Aston.
Oh and the European VC of an American company I worked for went to Germany bought a 911 (with cash according to rumour) drove it back to the UK and then had it shipped to California.
Visited a local wiring company on business the two owners had DB7 Vantages with personal plates. This was in '03, gave the MD a discount on condition he took me for a drive :-)
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1990 Mazda MX-52012 BMW 118i (170bhp) - white appliance 2011 Land Rover Freelander 2 TD4 2003 Land Rover Discovery II TD52007 Alfa Romeo 159 Sportwagon JTDm
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EmDee
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Committer of Autrocities.
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Jul 11, 2012 17:40:49 GMT
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2000 Camaro SS bought brand new in Massachusetts and personally imported - still has all the dealer badging and original stereo code stickers etc. Jealous? Me? Yeah quite a bit actually. Might be good to get it a little closer to the ground though ;D You could house several immigrant families in those arches. edit: Anyone recognise the car park?
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Last Edit: Jul 11, 2012 17:42:18 GMT by EmDee
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Jul 11, 2012 17:51:27 GMT
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Nice idea for a thread. But massive fail for me : just cos the boss is on big dough doesn't mean he has any clue about cars.
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Jul 11, 2012 17:55:50 GMT
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A W123 wagon with 1.3 milion km on the clock (745.000 miles) It's got a new engine at 400.000km, though...
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Jul 11, 2012 19:13:59 GMT
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My boss is MASSIVELY into his toys. I've got pics of some of these, but not all; Totally standard low mileage 3dr Cosworth (not RS500 :-( ) Mint unmolested mk1 XR2. Subaru XT. Peugeot 304 convertible. New M5+ Plymouth Velore cop car with a 440 V8 (used in Batman!) Our 750bhp Time Attack car (technically the company's, but he owns that so...) Our new Pro Time Attack car (circa 900+ bhp when finished) A huge motorhome. Boats, jetskis (he's an ex European champion jetskier apparently) RS4 New Mini Mk2 Escort X-Pack (supposedly the first one) running an S2000 engine and a ridiculous amount of custom fabrication (build ran into 6 figures!) I forget what else, but there is more...
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Jul 11, 2012 19:19:39 GMT
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A £200 Honda Civic. That I've repeatedly had to coax back in to life. Tight doesnt even cover it.
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Jul 11, 2012 19:19:57 GMT
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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tome30
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Jul 11, 2012 20:51:12 GMT
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I work at a school, our last head teacher had....
At the same time.....
Mint MK2 Golf GTi Old bettle in white with patina skoda octivia (some souped up one) VW T25 van New Mini Volvo 540 Fiat 500 MG Midget
He was a top bloke, and from what he said he bought, mostly from Pistonheads, did them up body wise and sold on for a profit.
Yes I was envious, but then I don't work as hard as him. lol
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awoo
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Jul 11, 2012 20:55:58 GMT
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not my boss but at an interview, would be boss, had a garage with an office in, which he conducted his interviews at.
garage had a porsche track car, a couple nice motorbikes and a road going lotus elise. the office had lots of guitars on the wall. cool interview.
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RetroMat
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Jul 11, 2012 21:23:31 GMT
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Rolls Royce 20/25 Scimitar Convertible Rolls Silver Dawn Hearse Bentley Mk6 Bentley mk6 continental 1920s morris truck Commer Karrier Austin! Marina van meastro van Talbot alpine 1950something Sunbeam 1950something Rolls Silver Cloud Rolls Corniche Landrover disco 3 door skoda pickup rolls silver shadow triumph 2000 triumph trx, prototype facelift TR7 thing probably loads i've missed
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Last Edit: Jul 11, 2012 21:24:11 GMT by RetroMat
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f3ared
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Jul 11, 2012 21:53:01 GMT
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Every time i go through the mental list of what my boss has i die a little inside... Mandarin-red HX GTS Monaro like the one below - its been freshly painted, engines been rebuilt, interiors been retrimmed, genuine GTS 4spd manual with factory sunroof... ...and its just sitting there disassembled. Also has parked next to it a mid 90's F250 Dual cab 4x4, F430 Ferarri, an F430 Scuderia, a Lambo Gallardo superleggera and two Polaris offroad buggies. Apparently the regular F430 and Gallardo are being sold. Hes already paid the deposits on both a 458 Italia and Lambo Aventador. Both BRAND NEW.
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Jul 11, 2012 22:28:05 GMT
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Hmm... I don't know what my boss drives but he does own most of China as well as the 3 mobile network and most of the biggest ports in the world. Now the real boss, the one I'm really scared off, drives this... New alloys on my Golf by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr
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Jul 11, 2012 22:29:32 GMT
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I'm in the wrong line of work. My boss just sold her blurple mk3 Astra for less than scrap value and bought a y reg Corolla in silver. Her boss has a new 3 series company car and his has a mid nineties civic. I get lost amongst the company heirarchy after that!
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...proper medallion man chest wig motoring.
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Jul 11, 2012 23:03:33 GMT
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Utter boss automotive fail. One has an '02 Ford Focus and the other has a '07 Toyota Yaris Unfortunatly the view of most of the people I work with/previously worked with (must be something to do with the building industry) view having a classic car as you being poor and can't afford anything better. My former boss actually asked if I had my Dolomite because I couldn't afford a proper car
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Jul 11, 2012 23:34:34 GMT
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previous boss had a porsche 996 turbo and used it hard killed a gearbox and that kind of stuff ;D
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if sparks don't fly you're ridin too high !
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My boss owns this.. The worst thing is that he is a proud owner!
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I've seen a bunch of people overhauling a complete wreck in 60 minutes on TV, so why can't I do it in 3 weeks?
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My brothers old boss had a mk1 escort twin cam, Lotus sunbeam and a savage cortina. I brought his rs1600i off him. They were all very nice.
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1999 micra. Puch bike and nirve chopper.
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