Chris Skelton

Great article/posting. Off to see if they do RX 350s......add lpg and.....fancy revisiting Merida in Spain, driving.

Bit late in day, but this car is tempting. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-rx300-lpg/183400391262?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649 I keep thinking about lpg cars. But -heresy! - reading on other makes always leads me back to Lexus. (Stories galore of poor quality elsewhere, etc..) Anyone recognise the car? Too far to pop over ( I'm in Bristol)

My 'dream garage' (maybe). An RX 300 AND a Smart Forfour! Keep thinking about a 1.5 Auto Forfour......and (ideally RX 350) an lpg RX.

Was that at Chris Mullins? Worth going to!

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-japanesecars/lexus-lc-f-on-the-way/38421

PS. I have a fond memory of spending 9 weeks touring Northern Iberia in my cream 1955 Citroen Traction Avant 'Commerciale'. Wild camping 'in spades'; people sitting outside bars in villages standing and cheering as we drove in, etc.! Even broke a driveshaft in Segovia, but they found a replacement in 10 days. Didn't mind hanging about......

I had the bumpers, spoiler and rear 'grille' painted to match the car. Wish I'd kept it now. Bought by a guy who -medically - needed an auto car. Exported it to Aussie, where this picture is.

Most fun? Nissan S-Cargo. Best-well LS400 Ser 4? Though you'd think me mad if I didn't mention several Citroen DS23s, or my unique CX 25 Turbo auto (they never made an auto turbo!) My Dyanes were fun too. Just been in an electric Zoe. Impressive-but....fun? No. A Mehari is FUN! ds garden.bmp

Anyway 'Bargain of century" might have been the slighted girlfriend of a guy, who sold his Bentley for £100? Though that might have been LAST century.....time flies.

MY last two cars were so perfect that I was paranoid about parking them anywhere, etc.! In contrast, we inherited an 18K mile Micra from our 85+ yr old neighbour who had dented/scraped most of the car in his short ownership, so that it was uneconomic to fix, (but pefectly OK to drive.) 12 years later, now on 50K miles, it has been reliable and ....who cares about dents? So I'm not looking for pristine cars now, except mechanically! Such a relief. (The XM 3 litre I had is now in a special collection!)

So....you guys are paranoid about getting car jacked? Auto locking-I pondered what it was for a moment! I'm not sure I'd be bothered with auto stuff (more to go wrong?) as I can do stuff. And pressure sensors seem an expensive gadget? Still; it's an expensive luxury so you probably 'need' all this stuff.

Citroen C6 best suspension (though Citroen's new C3(?) suspension supposed to be good) I recall the RX300 being good.Depends how old a car you want (there's a nice Cit GSA Estate.....on Classic Cars...)as modern cars nearly all firm?

Apologies if this has been mentioned. https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-spottedykywt/lexus-is200-v8-spotted/38253 Be better if it was a Lexus LS engine?

"t'bay' Say it. Like Ilkley Moor b'tat, etc.. It's old cliche stuff. Never mind......

I came close to buying this £1600 IS300. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lexus-IS300-in-silver/263701504401?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908105057%26meid%3Dc141af22d86c4a1c9ded4226acdafc89%26pid%3D100675%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D332457261141%26itm%3D263701504401&_trksid=p2481888.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci%3A778b23b8-6eea-11e8-ba45-74dbd18027b7|parentrq%3Af86eb1b81630a884b56def73fffa4181|iid%3A1 It's in the middle of Northumberland, which seems the only drawback, but it comes from a one owner elderly guy who only did a few miles a year (check MOT history) and apart from usual wheel decay, plus a little surface sill, seems in great shape. Apologies if this should be in 'sale' section. I had to pull out of this sale for life reasons, not condition reasons!

....I hope so (Worth fixing) as I'm -hopefully! - about to buy an IS with signs of this...MOT until next Feb, so plan to fix over winter, when I usually 'mothball' the car. 80K miles so worth putting a few 000s into it.

I used to drive my Citroen DS using barefeet, with just my big toe on the brake button.......it works on opening a valve so no force involved.

Would have to pretty old one.....my USA version (1990) had them, but the UK ones are 'plastic' bumpers. (Unless you mean those 'bull-bars'?!!) My old Citroen Traction had sprung steel bumpers that-as the name implies, -were flexible and bounced cars off! I've parked in the middle of a field before ('miles' from other cars ) and STILL came back to find a cluster of cars next to me! Luckily, our Micra is so dented and scrathed (previous 90 yr old owner!) that we don't worry-thus NEVER get hit, of course! In my perfect XM last year-and same El Grand van, BOTH were like magnets to close parkers!

Anything other than your opinion is ' is totalitarian mind state'? Luckily I don't live near London so don't think that London life reflects how the rest of the world is. Logic possibly shows that each of us having our own cars might be regarded as ....crazy, in absolute terms? It's not efficient (jams/cost/parking/ misuse of material.....)and non too ecological.. And many places DO run on communal.....washing machines, for example. -in the USA even! A lot of the world outside of the M25 runs on slightly less consumptive concepts? But we have really hi-jacked this string far too much already? (Fresh from borrowing my neighbours.......because I'm lucky to live in a friendly cul-de-sac!)

How weird. Pay taxes but 'won't use anything public'? How? streets, lighting, Schools....etc., all are 'public', as in we 'own' them/pay for them Methinks (like the amurricuns) have got 'communism' in your head as all evil. The fact that russia decayed into lunacy was just human failings -ain't nowt wrong with caring for your fellow man, which is the basis of communism as a philosophy. Freedom of choice? Another delusion. But this is about Teslas..... The whole idea of each of us having individual vehicles, that spend a huge % of the time sitting parked up, is of course, crazy in itself, never mind WHAT propells them (when they ARE propelled!)

Multiplex means you don't need a separate wire for each thing! Just as a phone wire can handle multiple inputs.

no one going for the Allard, then?

Hope it stops as well as it accelerates. A big % of drivers just aren't that capable-so 0-60 in 3 secs is death. Wiggled past a stupid woman today in congested street, who was talking away on her phone while onehandedly badly driving towards me -don't even let her near a car, would be my thought, let alone something fast. I wonder how few people can REALLY handle such Tesla speed? Not many that I know, and there are a few memorials below my house (near A4) that show the dramatic results when speed gets the better of you. I hope, when I'm trundling carefully down bendy B roads, i don't meet a Tesla doing it's thing.

Hey, less of the 'cheap Citroen' digs! I've had about 20 Cits of various sizes and NEVER had a problem! Agree re Tesla interior. When you read the levels Toyota went to with the LS launch - cows from barbed wire free fields; man with 3 sets of nails to check the buttons; paint sprayers teseted every 3 months......Yamaha wood, etc..Tesla IS amurrican, they are used to cheap cars and basic fittings.

Now when parked up, the windows go down while you're away-nightmare? (-: Just watched progr and rebuilding a 1960 425cc 2CV. Fold back roof; pop up the windows...in any order. Just not as quick as an SC.....