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Was looking for something specific this morning (unrelated) and found this picture of me from 11 years ago with my buddies Golf.
These were they days man....

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LOL at my stupid watermark and border.
 
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Picked up my new 2021 Volvo V90 T6 Recharge R-design last week. Fantastic car!
 
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Was looking for something specific this morning (unrelated) and found this picture of me from 11 years ago with my buddies Golf.
These were they days man....

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I was after one of those Thule wind deflectors for the bars on my Mk4 for ages, but in the UK rocking horse teeth are more common, and buying a yacht slightly cheaper.
 
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Picked up my new 2021 Volvo V90 T6 Recharge R-design last week. Fantastic car!
What speed is it limited to? 馃槈
 
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Came across this today - a YouTuber wrapped his new GR Yaris in the classic late '80s-90s Castrol livery.



Have to say, I absolutely love it
 
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Today at AFCW:



And these aren鈥檛 the only two exotics here today.
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Tesco supermarket car-park today



Slightly oddly its registration plate is a few years after the 308 went out of production. I know the ex-sales manager of the dealership whose name is on the number plates and they do not deal in replicas.
 
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Slightly oddly its registration plate is a few years after the 308 went out of production.

Are the plates assigned to the vehicle at production, or at the time of first sale / registration to its owner? Could have sat on the lot for a few years before being finally sold, in the latter case
 
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Are 308's even any good?
My father in law just bought one in another state but has yet to go look at it.
 
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Are 308's even any good?
My father in law just bought one in another state but has yet to go look at it.

They can be great cars, my brother in-law has had both a 308 and a 328. He regrets selling the 328 but has recently upped his game with an F430 spyder.

A PPI by someone familiar with any Ferrari purchase is highly recommended.
 
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Are the plates assigned to the vehicle at production, or at the time of first sale / registration to its owner? Could have sat on the lot for a few years before being finally sold, in the latter case

At time of first sale. It can be changed later but only for one older than the car. My car was first registered in 1983 but has carried a 1964 plate since 1984. Sales of old registrations is a big business in the UK. I know it hadn't been standing because I saw it on the production line with my name on a "PRIORITY" sticker on the windscreen. So I phoned the dealer daily until it arrived 馃榿
 
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Are 308's even any good?
My father in law just bought one in another state but has yet to go look at it.

If your FIL doesn't want it could he put it into crate and send it to me. I'll pay for the crate.
 
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They can be great cars, my brother in-law has had both a 308 and a 328. He regrets selling the 328 but has recently upped his game with an F430 spyder.

A PPI by someone familiar with any Ferrari purchase is highly recommended.

Yeah he drove down to Miami a couple of weeks ago with intentions to buy a specific car and it looked good (to the untrained eye) but failed the PPI pretty badly.

He is flying up to Missouri in a week or so to take a look at another one that already had a PPI done that he arranged and it seems like a done deal.
Definitely a driver quality car, which is what he was after. The car even has white letter tires on it currently lol.
 
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Hope you'll love it! Much as I adore 911s, the 914 made a huge impression on me from the very start, and I daily regret I've never got round to buying one of my own - first I got too picky over condition and colour - I'm insistent on one of the funky colours like Viper/Conda or Blood Orange, and then I started dissipating the specific purchasing funds I'd built up when interest rates collapsed, as I now figure that the money should really be going to my kids while they need it in relatively young adulthood. Just think, if I hadn't been so saintly and prudent I could be enjoying my own personal ongoing battle with the hell hole right now! Regards and Good Luck with yours, David.
 
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... hell hole....

I had no idea what that meant until about a week after this one came along.

Got a '73 (I think) 2.0 project without knowing too much about them and then realized it was way more of a project than I was looking for lol.
I can fix mechanical things, but I am NOT a bodywork kinda guy.
Bought it, stored it for a month and didn't touch it, sold it for a profit hah.



Ended up having too many rust issues, and some poorly done past rust remediation.
It was originally Zambezi Green, which killed me. Why anyone would have painted black over that is beyond me.
But I like funky colors.
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I had no idea what that meant until about a week after this one came along.

Got a '73 (I think) 2.0 project without knowing too much about them and then realized it was way more of a project than I was looking for lol.
I can fix mechanical things, but I am NOT a bodywork kinda guy.
Bought it, stored it for a month and didn't touch it, sold it for a profit hah.



Ended up having too many rust issues, and some poorly done past rust remediation.
It was originally Zambezi Green, which killed me. Why anyone would have painted black over that is beyond me.
But I like funky colors.

Zambezi is a little on the darkside for my taste, but it still looks awful purty on standard Fuchs I reckon:
Agree it's odd that someone would want to repaint in black - a colour I happen to like, but not well suited to the 914. I'm also of the view that the 914 - even more so than is the case with most cars - should not be modded or tarted up. One of the great joys of the model is its simplicity and straightforward seventiesness! I know you - like me - are very fond of 911s, and that maybe, again like me, (more recently), don't object to the quality upgrades like Singer, but the 914 was never intended to be a car carrying the kind of value and snob appeal that would eventually warrant such pricey skulduggery! Happy New Year Brad and Heil Zuffenhausen!
 
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I can agree with that! I appreciate Singer, but they are not for me.
Plus, they are stealing all the 964's lol.
I'm going to have to pull the trigger sooner than later, or I'm not going to be willing to spend the money on one.
I can't believe that they are going for $60k all day long when those same cars 10-12 years ago were going for half that on a good day.
I always think, this has got to be the top...then it isn't lol.
The thought of picking up a decent E36 M3, or an FD3S RX-7 to hold me over is sounding more appealing every day....
But those aren't getting any cheaper either.