Two car garage

[SpikyMikey]

I'd have that mythical ML AMG that is rumoured to be for sale occasionally somewhere in the Midlands...

Good luck with that one Gollom...

 

[Sam87]

For those who know - and I know at least @MikeInWimbledon knows - that’s definitely a Chris Cooper answer!

I'm one of those that don't know who Chris Cooper is

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Rules are for the obedience of fools but the guidance of MB Club members....

I'd have that mythical ML AMG that is rumoured to be for sale occasionally somewhere in the Midlands... Plus a properly sorted CLK convertible

A CLK 55 AMG convertible almost made it into position number two for me too. Great cars and such good value.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I'm one of those that don't know who Chris Cooper is

Chris Harris (perhaps best known from Top Gear in recent years) hosts a podcast with three of his friends, one of whom is Chris Cooper. They play twice car garage with a different scenario, requirement or rules at the end of each podcast.

It’s actually very good and worth a listen - it’s also on YouTube.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

NEXT GAME

It’s 1984 and you’ve just won £100,000 on the Littlewoods Pools Spot the Ball. You’ve decided not to move house and only have space to park two cars.

You’ve decided to spend the lot on cars so that you don’t have to deal with the inevitable begging letters from friends, colleagues and family. What are you having?

 

[DerekP]

Here's my garage.
First is my 2018 C220d C-Class convertible which I also use to tow my caravan. I did have an Jaguar F-Type prior to the Merc. However, it was not rated to tow so it went and the Merc came along. I have to say I prefer the Merc at my stage of life, more refined and better suited to the roads in the UK.

Second is an all electric Lexus UX300e.

Both will carry four people and are very comfortable.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Here's my garage.
First is my 2018 C220d C-Class convertible which I also use to tow my caravan. I did have an Jaguar F-Type prior to the Merc. However, it was not rated to tow so it went and the Merc came along. I have to say I prefer the Merc at my stage of life, more refined and better suited to the roads in the UK.

Second is an all electric Lexus UX300e.

Both will carry four people and are very comfortable.


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Nice car and insulated to see towing a caravan. I do live a coloured roof.

How about with a budget of £20k?

 

[pioneercollector]

I am sorted already as i have my two cars!
Honda CR-V for most 'stuff'
MB SL500 for fun

And of course the motorbikes for everything else in between

 

[Abzynthe]

NEXT GAME

It’s 1984 and you’ve just won £100,000 on the Littlewoods Pools Spot the Ball. You’ve decided not to move house and only have space to park two cars.

You’ve decided to spend the lot on cars so that you don’t have to deal with the inevitable begging letters from friends, colleagues and family. What are you having?

£100k on two cars in 1984 is quite hard to achieve lol. (This was also 4 years before I was born.)


So looking online. Id Have a 1984 Porsche 911 Turbo - (according to Haggerty £26000) Would loved to have held out another two years to get a 959 though haha, but it was also out of budget even then.
Apparently according to MS Copilot a right hand drive Ferrari 500 Superfast was about £32,000 in 1984.


I dont think I could get up to the £100k mark with two cars lol

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

NEXT GAME

It’s 1984 and you’ve just won £100,000 on the Littlewoods Pools Spot the Ball. You’ve decided not to move house and only have space to park two cars.

You’ve decided to spend the lot on cars so that you don’t have to deal with the inevitable begging letters from friends, colleagues and family. What are you having?

I'm picking up a 1959 Ferrari 250 California Spyder for $100,000

Pound sterling is at $1.30 and about to crash to $1.10, so the car's only costing me £76k, so that gives me £26k left over

to pick up a £20k Porsche 928 for running around in when it's raining.

The 928 isn't the smartest financial choice, but it's "practical" and I love that the interior smells like you're actually in a leather wallet.

That gives me £4,000 left over, to cover anything that needs doing on the two decade old Ferrari. (T Cut, filler: that kind of thing)

The Ferrari's basically worth about £10 million in 2025, but hey, so what if prices have come down a bit ?

 

[ALFAitalia]

I think most people who like a 928 have not driven one....I've driven a few (my old boss had owned more Porsches than just about anyone in the country!).....and they feel heavy, cumbersome and strangely slow to drive. His 944's were much better balanced and far nicer to drive with better steering even if not that quick. Never could get to like those odd pop forwards headlights either!!!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

NEXT GAME

It’s 1984 and you’ve just won £100,000 on the Littlewoods Pools Spot the Ball. You’ve decided not to move house and only have space to park two cars.

You’ve decided to spend the lot on cars so that you don’t have to deal with the inevitable begging letters from friends, colleagues and family. What are you having?

Values are tricky for this one so guesswork is fine. Photos are good but screenshot of adverts from the time will be a challenge!

First I would buy a 1977 Porsche 928, which by then it would have been around 7 years old and so not worth a lot relative to the budget, meaning I would have a generous amount left.



I would have approached the coach builders of the time - like Tickford and Zagato - and asked them to build me an Aston Martin shooting brake, just like this one (albeit this is a later car).

I’m not sure whether budget would allow starting with a brand new Lagonda, but starting out with a second hand example ought to make it possible.

What would you have been buying?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I think most people who like a 928 have not driven one....I've driven a few (my old boss had owned more Porsches than just about anyone in the country!).....and they feel heavy, cumbersome and strangely slow to drive. His 944's were much better balanced and far nicer to drive with better steering even if not that quick. Never could get to like those odd pop forwards headlights either!!!

Whilst I was looking at photos of Aston Martin Lagonda and Porsche 928 it seems you were both typing about them. I adore both, they were a very large part of what ignited my passion for EVs. I mean cars

 

[DerekP]

Nice car and insulated to see towing a caravan. I do live a coloured roof.

How about with a budget of £20k?

Merc cost me £19k and the Lexus is leased so that doesn't count. The blooming caravan cost more than the Merc

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Merc cost me £19k and the Lexus is leased so that doesn't count. The blooming caravan cost more than the Merc

Caravanning is indeed an expensive business. Keeping our 16 years probably helps reduce the total cost of ownership.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

I think most people who like a 928 have not driven one....I've driven a few (my old boss had owned more Porsches than just about anyone in the country!).....and they feel heavy, cumbersome and strangely slow to drive. His 944's were much better balanced and far nicer to drive with better steering even if not that quick. Never could get to like those odd pop forwards headlights either!!!

For sure 928's heavy. But in 1984, I thought they were the bees knees, I'd just switched from a company 924 to a 944, and the engine was still very definitely out of than Audi van. That changed as they improved with the S2 and 968, but in 1984, the 928 was very much their view of the future, like the Taycan is now.

The 928 had presence. The pre-facelift 944 was pretty but no cross-continent GT. I suppose their modern equivalents are the Panamera and Cayman.

Different times: we thought the early 1980's 911 was impressive but flawed. These days we just know that it's a valuable antique, flawed, dangerous and slow.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

NEXT GAME

It’s 1984 and you’ve just won £100,000 on the Littlewoods Pools Spot the Ball. You’ve decided not to move house and only have space to park two cars.

You’ve decided to spend the lot on cars so that you don’t have to deal with the inevitable begging letters from friends, colleagues and family. What are you having?

Ooh for me a Ford RS200 at £49k and for 4 seats the equivalent Audi Sport Quattro at £50k. That leaves £1000 for some Farah trousers, Lyle and Scott jumpers, a few Fila and Ellesse tracksuits, Nike Internationalists and 6 litres of Kouros! Why not a Delta S4? You have to keep some dreams alive!

 

[ToeKnee]

Kourus was good in the early '80s but I preferred Aramis myself.

 

[ChrisHGTV]

Kourus was good in the early '80s but I preferred Aramis myself.

You can still get it from here - I actually get quite a few clothes from here, I just love 80’s colours!

80s casual clasics

I like Eau Sauvage eau de parfum these days mind!

 

[SpikyMikey]

You can still get it from here - I actually get quite a few clothes from here, I just love 80’s colours!

80s casual clasics

I like Eau Sauvage eau de parfum these days mind!

Wow, Drakkar Noir. There's a blast from the past .