This is rather lovely also,..

That thing's perfect as it is, looks like it's already been slammed

My best mate actually had one of those (a 220SEB)...looking very much like Scrapingscrap's photoshop version...although obviously without the wheels and at standard ride height.
An absolutely beautiful car...I used to do my daily commute in it (from Dartford to Fulham...full on central London traffic all the way), there is almost definitely no classier car in the world.
Very good memories on that one!

If Mercs weren't so 'bling' to most people I'd have it. You don't even need to do much to one, they already look like a custom car, don't they. But I still want it in the KGB look (shiny, black, loads of chrome, cruising around looking sinister)

I love dictator cars too! Why do you think I like Russian cars, all I'd need to do would be to dress up in khaki and grow a huge beard and everyone would think I was Fidel Castro!


For sale. One careful socialist owner. Low mileage (well Cuba's a small island!) No rust or dents (some bullet holes from last assasination attempt) Please no tyrekickers or Capitalist pigs! ;D ;D ;D

I know that's the situation in London etc but round my way the only motors the bloody middle-class wasters are after are after are brand new hot-hatches on big wheels with bodykits (young guys who have rich daddies) horrible little front wheel drive roadsters (girls with rich daddies) new BMWs or Audis (rich daddies) or big V8 4x4s with wood and leather that never even see off-road (wives of rich daddies) Then the Gone in 60 seconds crowd, who are also obsessed with big bodykits and 20 inch wheels with tyres thinner than those page 3 annorexic supermodel tarts that everyone else my age seems to drool over and about as much use as one! The upside of which is that a few people like myself have no competition when a nice old motor goes up for sale in the Autotrader or you get the usual call from someone in the owners club, for who, eg, heard you like Imps and wondered if you wanted the spares he just found in his garage after 35 years, so we can get right in there and get anything we want/need for our collection. ;D The downside is that the bloody w*nkers don't give you a minute's peace about the "pure banger, man" they saw you running about in.

Still, their ignorance is great fun to listen to. I once helped a mate of my Dad's to fix an overheating 1947 Rover P2 he uses for his wedding car business, and we promptly took it for a run around the area for the afternoon (why fix a nice old car and not go for a cruise?) The next day half the town was talking about how I had apparently been driving around in "Hitler's car"!?! Just because its black and has separate mudwings!?!? ;D Great fun this old car malarky innit? Anyway I'm signing off, night all.

C. 'Gunther' McArthur,
Der Impenfurher.

Absolutely true-a lot of people seem to think you can't afford a new car if you run an old one (lets see where their silver focus is in 30 years...probably on the scrap heap).
You've got to laugh though when you think that we can have a car, insurance and a years petrol for the depreciation in one day on thier new cars!

Modern cars are just plain boring, characterless euroboxes that have all the style of a lemon

ROTFL ;D ;D ;D


I agree that most people are completely ignorant of the real value of old cars...

If you think about it, they're better than modern cars in almost every aspect : they're cheaper to buy and run, look far better, are more pleasant to drive, the big ones are more exclusive, comfortable and luxurious than their modern counterparts, the smaller ones are easier to drive, park and maintain...

So why should someone buy a new car after all ?

Just found this whilst cleaning up my hard drive:

Sorted now!