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Old 16th August 2021, 02:30 AM
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Default Spoiler Alert - Project Binky

YES!!!!!!




BINKY STARTED!!!!!

8 years in the making!
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2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
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2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design
- has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!

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Old 16th August 2021, 07:32 AM
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Has it really been 8 years? What are we going to watch when its finished though?
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Old 16th August 2021, 08:17 AM
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:The 10 year MG ZT project!

If you put together a montage, you can watch Richard's hair turning grey
"Get the funk out"
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2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest!
2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
Family:
2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design
- has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!

Sold:
1997 Audi A4
- Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl)

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Old 16th August 2021, 06:03 PM
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But then if they didn’t insist on replating every nut and bolt it might have been started a weeny bit sooner they do fastidious work but it takes…foooorrrreeevvvveeerrrr. How long till the next episode…it can’t take much longer? Surely?
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Fiat Tipo diseasel econobox with all the buttons and none of the soul that now does all the heavy lifting.

Ford Capri Laser: noisy, slow, thirsty, bouncy, no buttons but it always sounds like it’s REALLY trying and I can’t help but chuckle when it parps and boings along. And people of a certain age stare at it with a wistful look in their eyes that clearly says…I had one of them. And I sold it because of the kids
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Old 16th August 2021, 06:16 PM
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It’s such an epic project. I’ll cry if/when it ever finishes.
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Old 17th August 2021, 03:24 AM
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How long till the next episode…it can’t take much longer? Surely?
The last two were only a week apart, that's a Binky record 🤣
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Current:
2001 Audi S8 - Brilliant Black with Black interior, C5 RS6 rims (whenever I actually put them on...), Solar Sunroof, Tinted side and rear glass, RNS-D, Grom, Bose, clunky old phone in arm rest!
2002 Audi S8 - Project
Replacement head coming arrived thanks to MJ
Silver with Black interior. All features as the '01, with the 'S' mode auto shifter. Dodgey rear tint (need to find a way to get rid of that).
Family:
2009 Volvo XC90 V8 R Design
- has a louder more obnoxious exhaust than the S8, sounds great! Love this thing - Q7 was double the price, and certainly not double the car!

Sold:
1997 Audi A4
- Hamilton's Club Sport, Achat Grey (will miss the old girl)
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Old 17th August 2021, 09:30 PM
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Binkey..... Neigh
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