Count Luca

Does Stuff. Sometimes does things.

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@hiltonholloway It's wonderful to have a statistically irrelvant sample that also happens to coincide with half-term week.

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@el_drapo It's wonderfully taxation illiterate, too, with statements like "entities you control, such as trusts..."

Surely the only person who controls a trust is the trustee; the whole point is that the settlor or beneficiary has no control!

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@SimonCarGuy Classicline are a delight to deal with, both from fair pricing and when things are less fun (like when someone drove into me, a few years ago)...

(In other news, I *loved* the 166 at Scramble!)

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@sniffpetrol Squirrels: rats with fur extensions and tail toupees.

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@KirstieMAllsopp Absolutely!

Some of those who chose to go to Paris or elsewhere to shop also added to the "London isn't safe," narrative by explaining their change in patronage thus.

London is far from ideal but nothing like the horror show many claim.

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@hjwakerley @ConcoursUK What a sensational selection!

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@hjwakerley @ATwinspark All that *and* wonky….?!? Oh dear.

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@hjwakerley @ATwinspark How did they manage 8 (if it's not too traumatic to recall; there are 4 factory points on back & 2 on front...)?

I always thought that mounting points would make installation easier (drill per template and fit) but the number of cars with wonky self-tappers is deeply upsetting.

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@agtlaw That sounds like an excellent outcome!

I have just done my first SAC after 85/70, annoyingly (properly) served on day 12. The only time in weeks that our postal service worked properly.

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@el_drapo @de_havas @thealexbear @AutoPap 982 GT4

Year 3: 102 days at Porsche, over 13 months

Year 4: Engine mounts (one went and the other went the first time I used the car after the first was replaced). My reversing camera also broke whilst the 2nd was fixed.

As for the alignment they did when replacing mounts...

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@HeadForPoints With BA, technology expecations were always low and, somehow, they have managed to wildly exceed them.

I have had a BA AmEx since launch and this, entirely avoidable, abject shitshow might be the final nail in the coffin.

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@agtlaw Poor Alan

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@sniffpetrol I have very fond memories of the adverts and still use your term, "weighs more than a supertanker full of moons," to describe things of enormous mass.

Sniggering to Sniff was much more fun than work was.

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@AutoPap Globally:
- New model desirability/depreciation (296, etc)
- Generational wealth transfer
US driving:
- Reframing as an investment & diversifier to equities
- Rolling 25 year DOT/EPA exemption

Positive feedback loop of all of the above. 997.2 RS was £210k in January; not now!

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@agtlaw Reliant Rialto...?

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@hjwakerley Has anyone written a paper on who Mansory's customers are and why they think owning a car with their...additions... is a good idea?

I think there's a real social science piece here as, to most civilised folk, the "revised," cars are, at best, extremely challenging to the eye.

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@AutoPap @thealexbear I bought a 1 owner 1980s 911 in 2006. It's worth ~5x what I paid for it and, in cash terms (value minus bills minus cost) it has has cost money. Adding inflation = costing more money.

It has, however, been great fun and much cheaper than buying a new/newish Golf every decade

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@AutoPap @thealexbear I agree! There are enough parts on these cars that are virtually guaranteed to fail (dynamic engine mounts) that are equal / greater than the warranty cost. Plus coverage for larger items (engines) failure of which, whilst rare, isn't unknown.

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@sniffpetrol Is the papal interest in the car as it makes neither black nor white smoke so is unlikely to cause cardinal offence or incense bystanders?

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@hjwakerley My 1988 911 3.2 Cabrio.

No, it's not very good but it's just as I would have specified, I bought it from the first owner and I have had it almost 20 years.

5 mins after I bought it I got the call to say my father was (unexpectedly) in hospital. That story didn't end as well.