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Love it.
For me, I'd have to finish it off by painting it mid grey, whitewalls with orange painted steels but that's my dream, not necessarily his.

I happened upon an old style cruise meet with Corsas and stuff in Amesbury a few weeks ago. I was in my Clio and they kind of eyed it up to see if I was one of them I think. NOt as common but still there and has been since the 50's I reckon

I've got Lexan Margard windows all around on my Toledo.
I personally wouldn't go down to 3mm, I'd imagine too much flex. With the 4mm that I have, I was able to use the standard rubbers.
Also, polycarbonate will scratch a lot, every time you wash them, even when you are very careful, so I would highly recommend the lexan margard if you can stretch to it.

;D

Why are wheels widths still measured in inches, while offset is measured in mm's?

Like others have said, all depends what age of car you are after.
Personally, if I was going to get into it I would go for a Clio 172/182.
Cheap these days and they really do handle beautifully. There is good reason why the motoring press raved about them so much. Not much in the way of cheap tuning potential, but plenty quick anyway and you can strip weight for free. Future retro too I reckon! and they can still make a very comfortable daily.

This is a novice, driving a standard road car -

I would just go mate. You will be able to get back home somehow. Lots of guys already there now so you may not get much luck on here now.
Worst case scenario is you get a lift to a train station with links back into London. Depending on where you live, even getting to Reading or Oxford is you need.
Just wear a 'I need a life home' sign when you're there.

Cool
I must say, that is a nice variety of cars there, quite a lot of custom, Street Machine type stuff.

Decided to go to the Supercar Day at Wilton House down in Wiltshire on Sunday. I had mixed expectations, based on it being a Pistonhead organised show, with a focus on new exotica.
I knew, as soon as I was awoken by the sounds of a Supercar convoy going past our house that I had to go, however.
I stood on the pavement as an unparalleled convoy of cars drove through, with the sound of V8s, V10s and V12s bouncing off the walls of the houses. Wow, I felt like a kid again!
AC Cobra, several Lamborghini Gallardos, Murcielago, Muira, Ferrari 308, 288 GTO, 458, F50, Jag XJ220, new Mclaren....it just kept going
They were off to Gurston Down hillclimb before the main show - if only I had known, I would have been there to view.

Anyway, the show was a nice surprise.
The supercars were rather annoyingly sat behind ropes, so you couldn't get too close. There was also a little bit of the 'City boys showing off the size of their bonuses' but it was for Charity and people got a kick out of the cars on show, so I should be less cynical.

The show extended to some nice retro flavoured stuff too which I hadn't expected.
A beautiful setting, some good weather and local ale tents and it was a great event. I can see this really expanding, it is only its 3rd year I think so I recommend it to anyone on here.

Anyway, enough waffle and on with some pics of the retro side of the show -

A modern interpration of a very special car -



Now that's an -


Just a very special car -



Rear end grip in the dry must be strong, fun in the wet too -



A very long and wide home for a Metro engine -



A relatively modest Ferrari within this company -



A GTO, that for me, is far cooler than the F40 that followed -





Still pretty special though -





I fell in love with this Dino though, they're just so compact and well proportioned -





Maybe my favourite photo of the day -



Not sure what model this is?







The other Italians -



and the car widely thought of as the 1st Supercar -









Ironically, this was sat outside of the roped area -







Still has the power to wow innocent eyes -



Someone has some fun competing in this -





Looks like it lives a good life too -



Nice period looking DB2 -



This looked great as a contrast to the exotics -



E Type towing an Airstream, brilliant -



This Mustang had a great stance -



the only car that looks good with chrome arch trims -













This Stag looked pretty serious -



Now that's patina -













The 'new Morgan V Twin 3 wheeler, looked brilliant -



Any company that builds these 2 cars in the same shed is alright by me -



A factory fresh 240Z -



A serious rally version -



through to a hard as nails local hillclimber -







Lovely little racer, new to me -



Another for the J-tin lovers -



4AGE powered Midget -



I had 2 other favourites from the show.
This was sat in the car park -







and this just looked so right, beautiful -







Posh driver not bad either! -



Hope you enjoy!