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I have a real hankering to try a William's after watching that now Ed. You should be putting a health warning up on these posts 😉😂

Its like they made a RWD Clio before they came up with the V6, unbeknownst to themselves :) Unreal skills there.

I cant disagree with you there 😂 The thing is, the majority goes into the more general tax pot to help pay for everything else. On the plus side, the crap roads would just show you how good a car like the Trophy still is ;)

Bang on Ed,its on the old pre 2008 registered CC (Engine Size) payment. So €710/year. Also a peculiarity of the whole system,is if you only tax a car for 3 or 6 months at a time for example,you will pay more if you do it that way for 12 months. I used to barely believe it when relations...

Not at all Ed...he'll just have to order a second road sweeper as backup 😂

Damn Nick, you must have a road sweeper going down the road in front of you ;)😂 With the state of the roads around me lately, with all the slurry being put out, it wouldn't last two minutes before it would get destroyed!!

I believe it is based on the oils that they can extract from sheep's wool. I got it on my Cooper, so hopefully it does the job and for once, defies the inevitable chances of it falling to bits with rust.

Not meaning to sidetrack the thread, but just be very grateful that you don't live over here in Ireland. https://www.completecar.ie/motor_road_tax_prices_ireland_explained You would definitely have something to complain about then. We look at what you have to pay in the UK with a lot of...

I'm probably getting this all mixed up,but is Classic Car Auctions the one the likes of Harry does a preview of? It can be hard keeping track if all the different auction platforms these days (or maybe that's just me 🙈).

That looks to be wearing its near six figure mileage very well. From the pictures, you certainly couldn't tell it has 96k miles done anyway. Some nice spares with it as well.

As per usual, a really good review by Harry. Cars like this, are really becoming an endangered species. Your not going to be able to buy a new car with specs and performance like that, with such little weight....unfortunatley cars like that are fast coming to an end. If you are in the...

One nice bonus of owning a car like that would be that most people wouldn't want to take it out for a spin,so it would be all yours Nick 😉 You'd have nothing but the Raybans 😎 and a smile on you sitting in that 😁 I dont think I've seen too many Atoms that cheap before,aren't they notorious...

Reading through their history their founder also founded Aragosta (you tend to see those used in a lot of high end Skylines and the like in Japan) and seem to have a pretty serious and impressive history in a lot of different motorsport formulae.

I'm far from an expert, but I would guess the biggest influence on prices is the size of the market and economy of scale. Plus, are car related taxes,VAT etc. a lot lower Stateside? And to slightly flip your post on its head, speaking as someone living in Ireland, we get very envious of the...

If I'm reading those sold prices and the guide prices now right,the sellers will maybe make a loss/break even/slight profit? Amazing how quickly the market seems to have turned over the last 6/9 months. It sort of looks like people believed some of the extraordinary hype that you could buy a...

Looks like a fair bit of time and a lot of money has gone into that car.

The January Blues are likely to be unhelpful Nick. Be interesting to see if the seller will try the CC route for a third time? I've just seen that really nice Cup 200 has been put back up as a classified sale for £13,500. Apparently the person who won it about a week ago became a no show and...

I'm not sure if there is a correct answer to this, as there are no doubt so many different variables that would have an effect. But how long, generally speaking, would the dampers stay in a very good, useable condition, while sitting off a car, not being used?

Top class article there Craig. Loved the line "justification limbo that is quantum car mechanics" 😂 I think as car enthusiasts,we've all gone over that particular threshold more than once...unfortunately!! 🙈🙈😁

Good information there Nick,and apologies for side tracking this thread re: different Cats etc. I would guess whoever buys that particular Trophy,will find out about its backstory (whatever may have happened to it) and that research will hopefully give them piece of mind. The amount of cars...

I am not overly familiar with the ins and outs of what qualifies as a Cat D car,but I would guess there is a few different levels behind the D grade. So the damage might not be at the worst end of the scale,so to speak. Granted,as you say Ed,that would put people off it though.

That doesn't look to be a bad example at all does it? Had some money spent on it as well which is always good to see on cars like that.

Finished up at £6,600, not sure what that makes it with the fees included?

I hope its alright to put this one here... As they usually say, there's no replacement for displacement, as so very well shown here by this SL73 AMG R129 SL. What a thing it is. https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1996-mercedes-benz-r129-sl73-amg

I never knew VW stuck the VR6 engine into these. Looking back now to the early/mid 2000's, its mad to see what the likes of VW was willing to finance and build, compared to now. -Humble VW Golf V5 with the possibility of 2.3 Litre 5 cylinder or VR6 2.8 6 cylinder -VW Phaeton, spent serious...

They are bloody nice,have that proper old school no BS, motorsport vibes about them.

That is a little beauty,obviously very well cared for as well. I obviously am not as well versed in R5's but I love the Turbo sticker in the back window as well. How cool it must be looking in the rear view mirror and seeing that. Quick little thing I'd imagine. Love to see some more pictures...

I might be completely wrong on this, but the first thing I usually look at is the tyres on a car, even if its at a car show or a C&C. If they are from the cheaper/unknown end of the tyre manufacturer spectrum, it usually starts ringing alarm bells. The old adage, if they have skimped on...

That has to be a great example for someone. That sale price beats anything you'll get on the high street in the January sales.

The winning bid was placed at least a day ago,so there didn't seem to be a big mad rush to bid,for some reason. It seemed like a cracking car for the money,cant be too many Cups about with that sort of mileage on them. By all accounts,they are one of the best and last of that sort of breed of...