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Just realised I had 245 followers, so here is a fine example of a 1976 Volvo 245 currently for sale in Portugal

Despite all these years I have been working for the company, some of my colleagues are still baffled by my car parts deliveries in the office. Here we have a brand new set of rear bumpers for the E12. Non genuine part, but at £100 it's about a 1/10 of the cost of fixing the old ones

This is one of the top 5 favourite coupés

Dear #weirdcarbs followers, Will any of you have a stand at the upcoming NEC classic show? I might need a little favour

The Brasilia Shopping centre (the first big one in Porto, Portugal) is commemorating 50 years and Toyota is using the occasion to advertising their cars and also displaying a 1975 Corolla KE20 which was assembled at Toyota's plant in Ovar, the first one outside Japan.

Always look at Lidl carpark. We seldom see these in the UK and it's a joy when I spot one

Always look at the carpark when going for pumpkin hunt. Lovely 1966 Beetle in a deep shine maroon colour #vw #vwbeetle #beetle #volkswagen #beetlelove

Have you ever bought seemingly pointless things, but you like them anyway? Just bought a peridod BMW E12 jigsaw puzzle...

Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like. What are these? They are called "Barco Rabelo" and used to transport the wine downstream from the Douro valley to the cellars to be aged and create Port wine

Whoever was in charge of Citroën's Insta today deserves a prize:

How long it will take for the new Tesla "roadster" to take a wrong turn?

My personal experience with the E12 can be shown in the picture bellow. However, it improves with the fitting of a rear anti roll bar (not available on 4 cyl cars like mine and teh car below). But, seat lateral support awful and thsi was mentioned in the period tests.

Leaving hospital this afternoon and I could smell something familiar. A few steps away, saw this lovely 1972 Alfa Romeo Giulia 1300 Super

On this day, 2019, sold my beloved and well looked after E46 320ci and bought off a friend, a pristine c200 cdi S203. Both very well built, but very different to drive. The Mercedes didn't hang for long and after covid kick in and redundancies occurred, I sold it in sep 2020 and bought a mk2.5 Focus

Make a war film rubbish A roadwork diversion too far

Following this T16 concept, Is a Peugeot 205 reincarnation on the cards from Peugeot?

Reposts appreciated! Looking for one last nice, friendly car show before the end of the year? All are welcome at The Heron in Stowbridge (near Kings Lynn) on Sunday 11th October from 4pm, come for a lovely roast dinner and evening by the river! Any additional details please reach out!

Portugal's greatest footballer, Eusébio, had a Saab Sonnett.

For me, this is another case of "shut up and take my money". I love this Espace concept with that deep 1st gen inspiration

An interesting article about something reported by a couple of colleagues but never understood why. This gives a bit of perspective on how a vehicle is driven and how the passengers feel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mortgage renewal due in just a few months and the broker has two fix rate deals for us; a two year for 5.34% and 5 year for 5.16%, meaning the monthly repayments will go up by £375 at least from next year unless rates go down. How's everyone else?

Now here is a rarity on sale in Portugal, a 1972 Series I Jaguar XJ 2.8 Manual! It's €6000, but according to the seller it needs piston rings, but it runs.

... and imagine paying far-right parties like Reform UK £millions to ensure they keep spewing out hate against migrants, claimants, women etc etc and ensure no government dares to #TaxTheRich #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence

What car would you use to take you, your wife and two small kids on a road trip to Disneyland Paris in comfort? Under 10k purchase price, petrol, not too boring to drive, decent boot space and does at least 35mpg? Not for me, but for a friend who doesn't fly. I suggested Mondeo or Superb estates.

Gearbox problem (apparently) sorted for now. Filled up the gearbox with the correct oil and needed just under 500ml. Gear change improved and the whining noise has gone apart from when 1st and 2nd are engaged, but much quieter than before and heard only with the windows down. Let's see how it goes

No Rustival for me tomorrow. Gearbox making a whining noise this morning and gears occasionally became a bit hard to shift, so I need time to diagnose what is wrong. Maybe low oil level judging by the leak at the bottom, but I need time to find out what is causing it 🙁

Financial Times front page today. No more oil changes every "3k miles" or Jiffy Lubes for the Americans?

This long wheel base CX 25 Prestige served Portugal's President from 1986 to the Early 90's and shared the duty with fellow W126 and W141 for a few years. Now at the Transport museum in Portugal.

In the "old days" all government and officials cars in Portugal were mandatory to be black. Citroen supplied a lot of DS, CX and XM for decades and politicians loved them. Here's a clip from 1974, not longer after the revolution that ended 48 years of dictatorship.

New UMM electric prototype at the Caramulo motor festival. The company might restart making these 4x4's after it stopped its car production in 1993 and re-focused on its metalworking business. In co-operation with Lisbon's ISEL engineering institute, a new electric 4x4 in under development.

Last night I watched Layer Cake for the 1st time in many years and Morty's RS6 looked just right, like Gene's E32. Funnily enough, Jonny Smith talked about RS6's on the @smithandsniff.bsky.social this morning and how they've gone mad nowadays. For me, the best looking is the "Layer Cake spec" one

Saw earlier a VW Arteon "shooting brake" (that's what they call it) in this exact colour and i loved it. It is a handsome car and sadly I don't see many around. Now, would you have this, a BMW, Mercedes or Skoda equivalent?

Same for me, but 10 years later:

For me it's 1990 🫣, so I think it'll have to be top Munich 🔥

Interesting car for sale in Aldershot, a 1990 Ford Thunderbird. Never seen one of these before, but i'm sure @autoatlantica.bsky.social would be able to tell us more

I am now, very, very worried.

After i posted this on Insta, I got very good comments and discussions, but this person's comment totally missed the point:

I jumped of the bandwagon of using @lewishamilton fabulous photoshoot with his even more fabulous @ferrari F40, and decided to make my own. Because i refuse to use AI, I just did a cut and paste of my Focus MK2 and plaster it on top of the F40. No water was wasted in making this pic.

Doing some magazine "loft" reading and came across this '90 Autocar magazine. Some interesting cars, shitloads of mobile phone ads and what cars you could buy back then. A low spec BMW E34 would cost you just over £16k, while a R21 GTS with a similar capacity engine would be just under £10k.

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