Fixed

Headgasket replaced, changed the timing belt and water pump at the same time and also fitted a new thermostat and housing plus a dead radiator was replaced. Love driving it and far happier with the Honda tucked away agian now the temperatures have really started to drop. Winter tyres will be staying off the car this year

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup

 

No, really, I enjoy driving it - very different to the Honda but that's the fun. Its a commute, by very definition its less than interesting

I don't need to convince myself that I'd rather be in the Honda but commuting in it is killing it.

 

The fun thing about a little car is the freedom of placing it on the road. On a normal lane even though the S2000 is fairly small and visibility better than most sports cars you still don't have the space to take the kind of lines you can in a really small car.

On a lot of roads my Micra can corner as quickly as I dare in the Honda thanks to the extra tarmac available to take a quicker line. Add to that the sensation of being closer to the cars adhesion limits from skinny cheaper tyres, and the pure novelty of being in a total shed outpacing anything but the most determined drivers on the road and it's a hoot

It makes me think that maybe something like a Suzuki Cappuccino may actually be the ultimate drivers car.

 

Also you don't need to try and find the best parking space .... and nor do you need to really care about which car park you abandon it in.

 

As long as you remember which car park you abandoned it in....

 

I agree with this. I felt the same with my old A2 despite some of the stick I got on here. You wind the cars up and see how they roll through corners. Great fun.

Still think an A2 would benefit from a proper engine and balls out suspension. I should have modded that car to an inch of its life.

I think you should mod the fiat. Get some hard shocks on the badboy. Turn it into a road hugger.

 

LOL Chesh - if it makes it through the winter, what remains of the suspension bushes are going to crumble out onto the road due to age and condition so the plan is to run it until that happens. If it makes it as far as spring, i'll get the Honda out again and garage this whilst i fit new bushes, decent shocks and springs and make it handle properly. As it stands, it's a bit squidgy / rolypoly but still great fun

 

Looks like the granny who had that one pissed herself several times by the look of the seats.

 

That one on the right looks like a map of France. If it was a granny, then I am pretty sure that I have fished at a lake close to where here twinky would have been sat.