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Interests => Around the House & In the Garage => Topic started by: txradioguy on May 03, 2013, 01:55:41 PM

Title: My New Baby
Post by: txradioguy on May 03, 2013, 01:55:41 PM
(http://imageshack.us/a/img834/743/img2375wm.jpg)

Pick it up in a week.  I'm like a kid on Christmas Day.  :hyper:
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Chris_ on May 03, 2013, 01:57:26 PM
Congratulations. :II:

Now you'll be checking the weather every three hours for rain.
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: CactusCarlos on May 03, 2013, 01:57:46 PM
(http://imageshack.us/a/img834/743/img2375wm.jpg)

Pick it up in a week.  I'm like a kid on Christmas Day.  :hyper:

I bet!

Enjoy (but be safe).
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Chris_ on May 03, 2013, 01:58:15 PM
Is that an automatic or manual top?
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Texacon on May 03, 2013, 02:06:05 PM
Sweet!  Enjoy!

KC
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: txradioguy on May 03, 2013, 02:17:40 PM
Is that an automatic or manual top?

Manual top. One person operation from the inside lowering it.

First thing I gotta do though is get a replacement rear window the one in it now has a vertical gash/crack in it.

Mechanically it's sound...it went through the TuV (German inspection process) and came out clean...passed the courtesy inspection by the mechanics on post in Ansbach today.
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Chris_ on May 03, 2013, 02:23:59 PM
If the German auto inspections are anything like the UK MOT, I'd say you did well.

My car has a one-person manual top too, but it takes like ten minutes lower it.  I usually have to walk around the car twice to finish everything. :-)
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Chris_ on May 03, 2013, 07:59:47 PM
What kind of tires are on it?  Are you planning on buying new ones?

The Yokohamas I got from Discount Tire are pretty good for the price.  I wish they had been available for my MGB.
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Dori on May 03, 2013, 08:08:21 PM
Wow....lucky dog.  I would be afraid to drive it and mess it up  :-)
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Eupher on May 03, 2013, 08:31:51 PM
Very nice, TRG!  :thumbs:

(Just don't text with that brand-new Crackberry and cruise 230 kph on the autobahn.)  :-)
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: A7X_foREVer on May 03, 2013, 10:28:01 PM
What a sweet ride
Title: Re: Re: Re: My New Baby
Post by: txradioguy on May 04, 2013, 02:52:15 AM
What kind of tires are on it?  Are you planning on buying new ones?

The Yokohamas I got from Discount Tire are pretty good for the price.  I wish they had been available for my MGB.

It's got 50 series Continental's on it right now. Thinking about getting some all season snow rated tires so I don't have to switch every 6 months.

I love using Discount when I'm in the states but they don't ship to Germany. So I have to go with Tire Rack.
Title: Re: Re: Re: My New Baby
Post by: txradioguy on May 04, 2013, 02:54:11 AM
Very nice, TRG!  :thumbs:

(Just don't text with that brand-new Crackberry and cruise 230 kph on the autobahn.)  :-)

Never gonna happen. I don't want to take the chance of ruining my new phone! :)
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: RobJohnson on May 04, 2013, 04:27:15 AM
Nice looking car!
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Dblhaul on May 06, 2013, 11:12:35 PM
Fun car!~ I drove one a few years back. Enjoy!
Title: Re: Re: My New Baby
Post by: txradioguy on May 24, 2013, 02:48:26 PM
Finally picked it up today!!!! Drives like a dream. Even got some top down time before the rain started again.

Chris you're right...I'm checking the forecast more now than I used to.  ;D
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Chris_ on May 24, 2013, 02:53:43 PM
Told you. :tongue:

Sitting in a wet car isn't any fun.
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: seahorse513 on May 24, 2013, 03:13:04 PM
She's beautiful!! enjoy!!
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on May 24, 2013, 03:29:35 PM
(http://imageshack.us/a/img834/743/img2375wm.jpg)

Pick it up in a week.  I'm like a kid on Christmas Day.  :hyper:

Congrats! My wife would love to have one of these.
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: Eupher on May 24, 2013, 05:00:49 PM
There is nothing finer than driving a Beemer Cabriolet at 160 kph down the Autobahn. (In the left lane, of course.)  :yahoo:
Title: Re: My New Baby
Post by: freedumb2003b on May 24, 2013, 08:09:16 PM
Sweet ride.

I hope you don't get too old.  I had a honey of a sportscar (MR2 -- a beauty).  But when the groan of me getting in and out was louder than the engine it was time to say sayonara.

I miss it, but not as much as my 1st sports car.

We should NOT form attachments to material things.  But I cried when my 1st real car was driven off by my brother and again when my "baby" (my first brand new car: a 1990 Talon) got totaled in a rear-ender.  I just sniffed for the MR2.  Other those times and watching Old Yeller I have never cried in my life.