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I promised I would come back once (most) of the work was done. So here we are…engine pretty much rebuilt. Suspension bushes all done. Ecu and Maf recalibrated. Wheels refurbed. Spoiler replaced. Bodywork done(ish). It runs beautifully and is IMMENSE to drive. A real event. Will be at RetroRides at Goodwood a week tomorrow if anyone’s planning on going. We’ll be in the ‘White Room’.

Looks great. I think it makes most positive impact on the front wheels, which despite their width, do look a bit rc200 at standard fitment.

Drone sounds really cool. You might want to push the ISO a bit, if it’s a modern digital camera there’s not much (basically no) noise at 400 which will give you a couple of more stops. You can also afford to shoot the shots a bit dark on digital and brighten up later in Lightroom. Digital sensors catch definition in shadows but nothing in highlights, so always err on darker side of bright (if you’re using lightroom). Polarising filter will make all the reflections look much sharper and cool (if the car is clean 😂).

Borrow a polarising filter. Fast shutter. Wide open (not too open) aperture. Should sharpen the shots up. What’s the drone like?

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Anyone else noticed that the black and the grey Track Editions that were on AutoTrader have been withdrawn from sale? Does anyone know why this is or where they’ve gone. They almost certainly haven’t sold. So I wonder if they are going to auction? Or something else. I was waiting for them to be steadily lowered in price before trying to do a deal. But no such luck. I’m not a big fan of the dark blue one (that’s incorrectly described as a ‘Special Edition’) that’s now on there…but if it’s the only game in town, and the price was right, I could be convinced.

This was my experience. SuperSports are great PS4S even better. I’m not sure SuperSports are made anymore. So if you buy them they’ll be ONS. And you don’t really want 5+yr old rubber.

Well the first two are definitely made of unobtainium now!…not so much the 916, it really is the ugly duckling of their history. Funny how people have become fond of it again. Like the 924, for whatever reason it’s found it’s audience finally… As for the why, why do any of us put value against any of this stuff? It’s definitely not rational. If it were we would be having this conversation over at the RC200h forum. For me the 928 was always a hero car. I was in my teens in the early nineties when this car was king of the hill. I used to read my dads hand-me-down Car and Performance Car and I just loved the look of it. It also won Top Trumps as it was, for a long time, the most powerful normally aspirated v8 of any production car. Which was quite a bragging right. Then there was Risky Business and Weird Science. Finally my dads best mate had one. My dad had a mondeo at the time. This was like a spaceship!

As requested, here are a few pics of the slightly different 5.0 V8 2+2 that has finally filled the hole that my RCF Carbon left. I completely understand if a moderator wants to remove this thread as it is off topic. But in the meantime, here are some early pics taken when buying the car. More to follow once work is done. Happily take questions and also appreciate all thoughts. T

It is a good one, I think. Only 83,000 miles. Mechanically sympathetic/knowledgeable owner since the mid nineties. There’s a couple of taste malfunctions - hangovers from the nineties - that need to be put right. But the important stuff is sound. Going to have belts changed, wheels reconditioned and the car retouched in a couple of places, but mostly just paint corrected as it’s original paint. Interior is near mint. Has the toolkit. Books. Space saver. Pump. I’m in love.

It’s a good and rare one too. 928 S4 Sport manual. The closest we got to a ClubSport in this country and only about 30brought to the UK. One of about 20 left. It’s quite shockingly quick. Feels much quicker than the RCF, even though it isn’t, but I guess less driver aids, less sound deadening, less refined makes for a much more visceral experience. And those lights! ❤️

It took a very long while to find a fitting replacement for the RCF. Criteria was at least 8 cylinders. Drivers car. Rare. Easy(ish) to live with. Not an obvious choice. I think I nailed it.

Lexus (UK) is effectively a franchise. They have to take a certain amount of each model. For a v8 coupe they took the models they were allocated at launch and no more. They then sold this stock as much as they could. And then registered the rest as press / management / demonstrators. So the cars sold in 16/17 were only those they had to take via allocation and customer orders (none)…Remember they had all the 15 cars to sell as ex-demonstrators so hence less 16/17 cars registered.

Was this the one that was starved of oil and all the cylinders had seized and were scored? Hence no exterior damage but is ‘structural’ write off?