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Added 2023-07-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTCHello again.
So, what's going on here, and all that? Well, in pics this week we have Fiat CEO and Instagram enthusiast Olivier Francois after his paint dunking followed by an SLS and a W140 S-Class in German taxi Elfenbein. Next, 911 Carrera Ts in Viper Green and Macademia and a real-life Paint To Sample 911 GT3 Touring in Elfenbein. Then we have five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell doing some 1980s modelling, plus his brief appearance in Miami Vice, followed by a close up of Magnus Walker’s heat shielding hat (thanks to Jonathan Gitlin), that mysterious Mondeo rear window sticker (thanks to listener Chris W) and the unusual homemade XJS hatchback. Now, some links…
Fiat has stopped making grey cars
Over My Shoulder (tool belts, not pictured)
XJS hatch for sale (although the eBay ockshun will have ended by the time you read this) UPDATE: Jonny tried to buy this car but was outbid by £50.
Comments
In '04 I got myself a lovely Civic in a bright metallic yellow/gold. Corona gold apparently. The Honda dealership had struggled to sell it for over a year. Should have been 13k or so new, I got it for under 9k with 22 miles on the clock. Was a lovely bright colour in the days of silver everything - the Honda garage always called it baby poo yellow though when it went for a service. Tossers, mind you they'd lost a few quid on getting a bright colour in
Jon
2024-10-05 03:15:20 +0000 UTCHad the pleasure of seeing the Xantia-arsed XJS on the M5 yesterday, so it actually moves!
Stgls
2023-07-10 07:42:29 +0000 UTCOh man, that Magnus Norman hat is MUCH worse than what I had imagined as I listened to the show.
André Kellner
2023-07-10 00:40:53 +0000 UTCDitto
Nic Bellenberg
2023-07-05 15:16:14 +0000 UTCI normally shut the 'cast off once the boys sign off, but was washing dishes so couldn't. The Infiltrate 808 handclaps got me and when the bonging Hyundai sounds came in I dropped a plate on the floor.
Brendan McAleer
2023-07-04 17:59:21 +0000 UTCFIND ANOTHER.
Brendan McAleer
2023-07-04 17:56:42 +0000 UTCRichard you git! I was washing my face when the ending music started playing. The infiltrating 808 made me laugh so much that I ate some soap - gack!
Ben Backhouse
2023-07-04 16:49:24 +0000 UTCscarlett johansson can reveal the red version Bobby brown?
Swanger
2023-07-04 05:53:35 +0000 UTCThe other gentleman with Derek Bell is Danny "Spin to Win" Sullivan.
Darren B McLellan
2023-07-03 21:52:53 +0000 UTCOn the topic of vibrant coloured cars, I have to admit that I went the other way than the crowd and kept my Spec D classic mini in the luxurious shade of champagne beige as it seemed that every other mini you saw was red, white or blue and by my logic beige would be more unique
Robert Gamble
2023-07-03 21:18:48 +0000 UTCMany many giggles at today's cast on the way to and from work. Surely the ideal sponsor/partner/tool belt filler for the sensual gyrations of Magic Mike and the Mechanics: https://www.kingdicktools.co.uk/
Tom Martin
2023-07-03 20:55:12 +0000 UTCThe Manx Dakar Yellow E34 is still knocking around over here, still owned by a lady - will try and capture it next time I’m passing by
Manx Mountain Ninjas
2023-07-03 20:29:12 +0000 UTCThe Daihatsu (Don) Dheadle nearly took me down this morning. This stuff gets me through Mondays but gotta hold those open plan office giggles
Skelmansi
2023-07-03 20:21:41 +0000 UTCI think, as Bob Dylan said of money, It doesn’t talk, it swears. Quite colourfully and with much obscenity and blasphemy I expect.
Chris Rayner
2023-07-03 19:33:13 +0000 UTCCunning!
Chris Rayner
2023-07-03 19:31:57 +0000 UTCI was hoping that the Mondeo owner was trolling McLaren, passing his car off as an aero-optimised “longroof”
Jim Galbraith
2023-07-03 18:35:47 +0000 UTCI feel bad for owning a black car - I wanted red, but with £7k off list price if I took the black was hard to ignore
Nick Davies
2023-07-03 16:47:05 +0000 UTCI'm pushing 60 and if you think I want to listen to 2 overgrown school boys talking about ball bags, piss vistas and shit in carrier bags rather than serious car-related analysis, you are absolutely correct.
Anthony Daniels
2023-07-03 16:24:01 +0000 UTCAnecdotal from the eastern US regarding leasing on an unpopular or risky color, I got an Audi eTron S Spowwwwatback in Catalunya Red (really more orange in most lights) and it’s the only real color they offered on the car. Based on quotes I got on other ones in less offensive colors, they do seem to take into account resale potential of the color but the discount that an individual dealer will give you for taking an unpopular color off the lot will more than offset it (even with interest rates, etc.). Interested to know though how it works out in other countries.
Mateo Galguera
2023-07-03 16:15:48 +0000 UTCYes or he’s nicked it off Wurzel Gummidge
Chris Wyman
2023-07-03 15:32:42 +0000 UTCTalking of Le Mans, I was at Le Mans Classic this week and spotted an in the wild Talbot Matra double header, one was mint being used as a camping rig the other was a Murena both in lovely 80s brown 🥺🤩
Six-Five Roses
2023-07-03 12:32:53 +0000 UTCI did some market research for a luxury car brand a few months ago. All the proposed colours were greys, white and black. I made this point forcefully and with swearing.
Ed Storer
2023-07-03 11:57:51 +0000 UTCLingual?
Simon Turner
2023-07-03 10:56:51 +0000 UTCIs the mondeo plate ‘Long Haul’??
Jamie W
2023-07-03 09:34:37 +0000 UTCI saw a very good XJ-S hatchback at a London Classic Car show 5 or 6 years back. Not the same metalwork as this one, but again credited to a 'retired engineer'... It was blue.
Nic Bellenberg
2023-07-03 09:17:46 +0000 UTCI'm sure I've seen Magnus Walker's hat deciding whether to put Harry Potter into Gryffindor or Slytherin
Harry Brown
2023-07-03 06:43:30 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this week's pod. Really fantastic idiocy all round. On the topic of unexpectedly factory yellow 5 series, the E39 M5 was available (via the Individual (not for Brians) programme) in three different yellows. Dakar Yellow II, or slightly pastel gloss yellow, everyone's favourite metallic sick, Phoenix Yellow, and a slightly paler version of metallic sick (more of a liquid-caused ralph), Light Yellow Metallic. For the avoidance of doubt, I'm all for banning monochrome on cars. Had a Norfolk Mustard Lotus S1 Elise, which I bought over frankly far better examples, just because it was yellow. It was also a money pit, but let that not deter. Indeed friend of the show, Harry Metcalfe (of Harry's All Night Garage et al) said in his 'after a while' video on the ownership of his Lotus Emira that it was a pity that it didn't have a 'more mature' colour palette to appeal to Porsche owners. There was a particular comment aimed at the 'garish' colours, and that they needed some more greys and silvers. I like Harry's stuff, but I had to go and shine bright lights into my eyes after that.
Simon Turner
2023-07-02 20:43:14 +0000 UTCI think Magnus' hat looks like it's made of lead flashing, maybe he's concerned about the government's brainwashing beams or radiation.
Matt Tester
2023-07-02 19:02:49 +0000 UTCFIND ANOTHER
Guy Thouret
2023-07-02 18:36:52 +0000 UTCI know this jaguar, it’s about 3 roads away from me known it many years and it is very tidy I just say. I’m sure I’ve sent in pictures of it before two one of you guys.
Joe Brudenell
2023-07-02 18:29:53 +0000 UTCMaybe Olivier Francois will be cold-calling Cloudbase in the forlorn hope that Colonel White is available for a colour launch.
Tom Lanigan
2023-07-02 18:11:27 +0000 UTCI thought it looked familiar.
Nathen Fredrick
2023-07-02 17:15:25 +0000 UTCAll brands should ditch grey tbh. I hate driving around to a sea of black, white, silver and grey cars.
Nathen Fredrick
2023-07-02 17:14:52 +0000 UTCBefore reading the add for the XJS, I spotted the boot hatch, was from a citroen xantia.
Alan
2023-07-02 17:10:17 +0000 UTC
