Recent content by GRavel Trap

Possibly the only one in the forum, but I'm a fan of a Skagen.... low profile/thickness, good value, smart, and gets the job done... kinda the same as the 86 🙂

Think you are currently the lowest price 86 on AT, so I doubt it'll hang about! Good Luck and enjoy the Emira 👍

Typing 100s of lines of code for "Man-eating Budgies" on the ZX81 was one of my earliest childhood memories 😬

Maybe they're using a random number generator to decide? If so, I'm waiting for £18, 612... 🤓

Joker. Now £34,750.

If ever there was an occasion for the "sweating profusely Airplane meme" it was after seeing this!

I found that my Electric Blue (💙) seemed to fly under the radar - I didn't see many people craning their necks rounds with their months gaping open... maybe I should have arrived more often around the bends sideways, and in a cloud of tyre smoke? 🤔

Odd - I see 66 HXE as £33,500 on Autotrader. And the cheapest as V4 NCE at £32,000 (sold by the 14th or it stays!)

About £15k all-in for the Fiesta ST-3... 5yrs old and reasonably high mileage but I figure I barely do 4k a year so it should supply good smiles per mile. I'll try and post up my non-scientific, gut feel comparison once I'm settled in with it 😌

In case it's useful: I received ~£31.5k for it as part exchange. I'm aware that I could have achieved more, but I wanted a simple transaction, and this meant that I sold it for pretty much what it cost me (including the private plate.) Looking at the 19/20 on Autotrader now there is a glut of...

I'm in a relationship that includes 2x bonus kids, so a 68 plate Ford Fiesta ST-3 (Mk8) fit the bill for me ... same 0-60, fun and good handling, space for the grotters in the back, and the monthly repayments halved, making it more manageable for me 🙂 I am going to miss the Smurfette badly though 😪

Today I took the difficult decision to part-ex my electric blue GR86. After 6months and 1600miles I felt I'd given it time enough, and although I wanted desperately to love it, I just don't think it suited my driving style... or probably more accurately my lack of it! Therefore I traded it...

As chance would have it, I saw @grisszoo86 at the Golden Retriever junction again just now, but this time in the Smurfette, only a few cars back! This time I was able to change course and follow, and then to pull up alongside at the next lights and say a quick hello 👋 Made my day, Griss...

Gettin' dem gains! I walked a 10 mile round trip to Bracknell to avoid leaving the GR in the Peel Centre Car Park 😆

Possibly @grisszoo86 ?