"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/16/2018 at 13:53 • Filed to: Renault Vel Satis, Alfa 156
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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/16/2018 at 13:53 • Filed to: Renault Vel Satis, Alfa 156 | 1
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A brace of Alfa 156s and a Renault Vel Satis. How much more exciting can life become?
I haven’t seen a Vel Satis for ages, because rare new and because large cars take a trip to the crusher early in comparison to smaller ones.
OPPOsaurus WRX
> Cé hé sin
03/16/2018 at 14:01 |
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o but KFC mmmmmm!!!!!!!!
RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
> Cé hé sin
03/16/2018 at 14:05 |
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There still seem to be a lot of 156s around over there, eh? They can’t have been too unreliable?
BlurpleToyotaDishwasher
> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/16/2018 at 14:21 |
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Other than the paddleshift ones (“Let’s take something that’s unreliable on this Ferrari, do some cost-cutting, and fit it to an everyday car!”... uh. yup), they’re not unreliable as such.
It’s just wear and tear stuff doesn’t last that long (wishbone bushes every 60k-ish, 36k mile cambelt intervals, etc.), so there were loads of them around absolutely dirt cheap (As in, pretty much mint condition but due a cambelt change soon, £500, kind of thing ) a couple of years back. They were pretty successful, so there were a lot of them about but they’re starting to thin out a bit now, as people scrap them over small things because routine maintenance counts as “But it’s more than the car’s worth to get fixed!”.
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> RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
03/16/2018 at 15:50 |
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I don’t see very many any more. Never that common though. The 159 that followed wasn’t a great success and was canned earlier than expected.
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Cé hé sin
> BlurpleToyotaDishwasher
03/16/2018 at 15:51 |
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Same as the Vel Satis then.