The time will be right when there are a good selection of ex DV 981 GTS begging for a new home and also when Rob's Spyder can be purchased for forty thousand something £'sORIGINAL: flat6It shows that your reasons for wanting a 981 haven't changed. We should expect to see you in one when the time is right[
Agreed about the V8 M3. I stuck with mine for a while as they were daily drivers and good for a comfortable cruiser with a bit of power when you wanted it. I should have bought a CSL, even had someone looking out for one for me but never saw the right one. Next time I looked the prices had rocketed! A great car and very much a "less is more" car like the Spyder, probably more so than the Spyder.ORIGINAL: MrDemon I also had a late model m3 v8 competition and it was quite dull :-( only kept it 2 months. and while it looked the part in the pearl white, every carbon extra and the CSL wheels, it never excited. exciting cars are very hard to find. the CSL was a hoot though and I sold that to quick :-(
I know what you mean. There are some cars that when they are replaced, they are not quite superceded in terms of their strongest attributes, even if they are technically superceded. The dilemma with thinking about cars and their future classic status is that if you're in the car early, it may only be after hindsight of driving other cars that you fully appreciate what you had. I guess you sell a car when keeping it doesn't provide as much enjoyment as the enjoyment of trying something new, even if that 'something new' is unlikely to be superior in every way to the current car. In and ideal world i'd like to keep the Spyder and run my other wants and desires alongside it, swapping those cars in an out whilst keeping the Spyder. From an investment point of view, if it is worth £50K in 20 years time, I dread to think what it would have cost to keep it running for that long, thinking about Rob's looming costs above. I guess the trick to car investments is buying at the right time and it's probably not the first, second or third owner that typically makes a killing when the prices start to shoot up as they've moved onto enjoying all sorts of other things that have have taken their fancy. I think if I let my Spyder go to scratch some other itches, I may come back and i'd want to try a different flavour to what I had. I think it would be: Guards Red Bucket seats PDK with SC Black Spyder wheels Parking sensors (I really miss those) Full leather again.
Rob if you are frustrated by the Spyder being garage locked due to this unbelievable weather and are busting for a topless drive again imagine the same scenario when the jet stream finally b*ggers off elsewhere and you go to your garage for that topless blast only to recall you sold the keeper for a handful of gold dust [
] Keep the faith hang in there and if you are seriously bored go give the car an early Spring 2014 clean back to show standards 
White Buckets PSE Rest is a bonus! Phil
You mean like this one PhilORIGINAL: philnotts99 If you are getting bored with the Spyder, i'm happy to take them off your hands
Thats the one!ORIGINAL: DarrellWilsonYou mean like this one PhilORIGINAL: philnotts99 If you are getting bored with the Spyder, i'm happy to take them off your hands
I often wondered if the maintenance on PCCB was prohibitive. Certainly if discs and pads were renewed as often as standard ones the cost would be off putting, I imagine.
The thing is we are all tempted to sell, but there is nothing good to buy, hence we all look but would all regret it. Catch 22, I love buying good cars, but I don't really like any thing this side of 70k and for a toy that's out the question. I have taken to buying watches instead these winter months. My Spyders a garage queen which is a massive shame, but while it's going up why sell it ? Who knows this time next year sub 10k mile cars could be 50k , now Walter has been noted as buying one over any of the new tat, sales and prices have gone up and up. Even if was a miss quote, the Spyder has been a late success. The Alfa will all sell out no issue, but it's no match for a Spyder owner.ORIGINAL: philnotts99 If you are getting bored with the Spyder, i'm happy to take them off your hands
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