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Title: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 01 May 2014, 19:45:51
Fine looking soft top but is it a mans soft top or girlie hairdresser one  :-\

250bhp  :o

Soft top (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-Spider-JtdM-turbo-diesel-250-bhp-convertible-/181392298979?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a3bd2d3e3)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 01 May 2014, 19:48:34
I love Alfa's but that one is a 'hairdresser's car'.

Too pretty for a hetrosexual man, but just fine for girlies and poofters. :)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 01 May 2014, 19:50:16
Having said that I'd prefer it to your Pug, Mr Emd. ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Kate on 01 May 2014, 19:52:38
It's very nice. :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 01 May 2014, 19:54:38
Having said that I'd prefer it to your Pug, Mr Emd. ;D ;D ;D

 ;D :D

Quite surprised at the bhp of this alfa though , like it . Must get my nails done  :D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Andy B on 01 May 2014, 20:04:58
... . Must get my nails done  :D ;D

 ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: tigers_gonads on 01 May 2014, 21:11:17
Got to admit, I do like Alfa GTV's 
Especially the V6's  :-* :-*





now where is my nail file  :D :D :D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Vamps on 01 May 2014, 21:17:46
Fine looking soft top but is it a mans soft top or girlie hairdresser one  :-\

250bhp  :o

Soft top (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-Spider-JtdM-turbo-diesel-250-bhp-convertible-/181392298979?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a3bd2d3e3)

Your asking...... ::) ::)  Get in touch with your sexuality, be comfortable with who you are and then sod anyone else, if you want it go for it....... :y :y








Poofter........ ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: cem_devecioglu on 01 May 2014, 21:23:50
nope.. give me anyday :) :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 01 May 2014, 22:04:33
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Nick W on 01 May 2014, 22:12:34
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*

Me too. Probably more reliable than an Alfa, and certainly cheaper and easier to fix.
Better looking too.
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 01 May 2014, 22:28:42
Fine looking soft top but is it a mans soft top or girlie hairdresser one  :-\

250bhp  :o

Soft top (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-Spider-JtdM-turbo-diesel-250-bhp-convertible-/181392298979?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item2a3bd2d3e3)

Your asking...... ::) ::)  Get in touch with your sexuality, be comfortable with who you are and then sod anyone else, if you want it go for it....... :y :y








Poofter........ ;D ;D ;D ;D

 :D :D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: tidla on 01 May 2014, 22:29:51
The only alfa I have fancied. (probably the only one left too)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-Alfetta-GTV-Classic-Car-RHD-Right-Hand-Drive-/321084577595?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4ac221d73b

Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 01 May 2014, 22:33:52
At least it's not pink red ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 01 May 2014, 22:35:46
It seems that there's an outbreak of pinkness on this thread!  :o  The Pink One will be along soon to sort you all out!!  :D  ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 01 May 2014, 22:40:51
I think this is too powerful for the hairdressers  ::) Got to be a mans topless car  ::)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: aaronjb on 02 May 2014, 08:40:08
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*

I know of one for sale - low mileage, impeccably maintained, reasonably priced...
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 May 2014, 09:10:55
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*

I know of one for sale - low mileage, impeccably maintained, reasonably priced...
Does he have two identical ones for those times when one simply doesn't work ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 May 2014, 09:40:13
Mr EMD...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82O6VhIGihI

 :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2014, 10:07:40
The BHP figure is bull, you cant get the 2.4 jTD to that level of output with the particulate filter still fitted.
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 10:49:39
Thought it was too good to beleive for a soot checker  ::)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Kevin Wood on 02 May 2014, 11:26:25
Diesel and convertible. That's just wrong.  ::)

Does it come with a gas mask in case you have to reverse? ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 12:53:03
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*

I know of one for sale - low mileage, impeccably maintained, reasonably priced...

Hmmm.....Well I don't own a Mercedes anymore so.......perhaps...... ::) ::) ::) ;)

With a 'woofly' old Rover V8 up front it should be reasonably inexpensive to maintain. :y :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 12:54:47
The BHP figure is bull, you cant get the 2.4 jTD to that level of output with the particulate filter still fitted.

Agreed.

I thought they came in either 190BHP or 210 BHP flavours.
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: tunnie on 02 May 2014, 13:02:16
Next door to me has the same engine but in a 159, it's been into Alfa a lot!

Only does short runs, last time they brought it back from the dealer, within miles the cabin was stinking of diesel  ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2014, 13:22:25
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 May 2014, 14:20:02
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y
If the cap fits ::) :-X
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: aaronjb on 02 May 2014, 14:41:24
If I was after an open top car that wasn't overtly 'girlie' I'd go for a TVR Griffith 500. :y :-* :-* :-*

I know of one for sale - low mileage, impeccably maintained, reasonably priced...

Hmmm.....Well I don't own a Mercedes anymore so.......perhaps...... ::) ::) ::) ;)

With a 'woofly' old Rover V8 up front it should be reasonably inexpensive to maintain. :y :y

In all seriousness you probably wouldn't find a better example - it had a body-off chassis restoration in 2007: http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/tvr/griffith/tvr-griffith-1995-n-500hc/2244325

Though this has me tempted at the moment, on the proviso that I'd rip out the RV8 and replace it with a decent V8: http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/datsun/240z/datsun-240z-1973/2212721 
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2014, 14:51:45
I would love a TVR
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 14:54:17
Like that old Datsun  :-* Cant be many of those about with original bodies  :-\
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: aaronjb on 02 May 2014, 14:56:08
I would love a TVR

Ditto, although I'm probably too fat to fit in one..  :-[ A Tamora with an LS engine conversion would be my poison, though.

Like that old Datsun  :-* Cant be many of those about with original bodies  :-\

Ditto - I've always loved the Z cars (having owned a couple of Z32 300ZXs) and I'd love a 240Z .. sadly I don't have £8k lying around!
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 15:02:00
Ive always liked these Toyota (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Supra-Turbo-Auto-/251514073365?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3a8f683115) Nearly bought one a while back  ::)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: YZ250 on 02 May 2014, 15:10:47
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y
If the cap fits ::) :-X

 :-[ :-[

Does a daily one mile round trip in a 3.0d constitute a short trip?  ;D If so, my wife is guilty as charged.  :y ;D ;D

My mate had an Alfa GTV many years ago. Not saying it was rotten but it used to leave bits behind as he accelerated.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 15:17:39
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: tunnie on 02 May 2014, 15:18:45
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D

TB doing short runs now?  :-\  ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 15:23:06
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D

TB doing short runs now?  :-\  ;D
Has he got a soot chucker  :D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: 05omegav6 on 02 May 2014, 15:25:51
A Zafira soot chucker no less ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 15:27:19
I would love a TVR

Ditto, although I'm probably too fat to fit in one..  :-[ A Tamora with an LS engine conversion would be my poison, though.

Like that old Datsun  :-* Cant be many of those about with original bodies  :-\

Ditto - I've always loved the Z cars (having owned a couple of Z32 300ZXs) and I'd love a 240Z .. sadly I don't have £8k lying around!

The 240Z is iconic......... :y

The 260Z  less so. :-\
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: tunnie on 02 May 2014, 15:27:36
A Zafira soot chucker no less ;D

After all the years of stick of my desmond too, ohhh how it's payback time  :D  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 15:29:22
A Zafira soot chucker no less ;D

TB reckons that it's only got about 50 BHP........and with his weight problem ::) ::) that doesn't make a good equation.  ;D
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2014, 15:30:18
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D

All well and good but even 1 mile at full throttle wont stop the DPF clogging up........and then its off to the garage
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: omega3000 on 02 May 2014, 15:30:45
A Zafira soot chucker no less ;D

 :-X ::) :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: biggriffin on 02 May 2014, 15:46:55
I would love a TVR
best TVR is the seac either size. :)
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 15:56:53
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D

All well and good but even 1 mile at full throttle wont stop the DPF clogging up........and then its off to the garage



Did old diesel engines have this problem?
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 02 May 2014, 15:57:52
I would love a TVR
best TVR is the seac either size. :)


420 SEAC and the 450 SEAC ....if memory serves. :y
Title: Re: Is this too girlie ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 02 May 2014, 16:10:48
Anybody who buys a modern diesel and does short runs is a bloody idiot  ;D ;D :y

But it could be short runs at full throttle  :D ;D

All well and good but even 1 mile at full throttle wont stop the DPF clogging up........and then its off to the garage


Did old diesel engines have this problem?

Its more recent (many had them from 2008 ish, some earlier), a requirement to meet the delights of the Euro4 emission spec.