Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Very Nice Cosworth ! !

[weeian]

http://www.passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=116676

Whadya think of this

/ian

[MARTIN H]

Superb! A credit to the bloke who must have spent a lot of time and money to get to that standard. However you really would not want to take it out for a good blast as it would be a nightmare to get back mint again. I have been restoring a 1963 MK2 Jag for many years and would never get anywhere near that standard but to be honest I wouldnt want to as I know I would never go anywhere in it (if I ever finish it that is!) One year I watched some people get their cars ready for a national concours final and I decided life was too short for that kind of behaviour. One guy spent over an hour cleaning his tyre treads with little toothbrushes, removing every speck of dust. They were brand new tyres and the car (F355) was obviously never driven. Cant see the point in that really as impressive as the car was.

[Rob B]

I wonder if he's married................still

[Jools]

I have really bad news for him. If you look at the picture of the car in profile (the pic that shows the front wheel) I think you'll find that the 405 BHP logo is not exactly parallel to the body trim or the indicator repeater. That'll need stripping to the bare metal for a respray then.

Truly pathetic. The guy needs a life.

[Herb]

All that money and he still has a car with a ropey 80's interior.

I think they look really dated too!

[Jools]

And 405 of the most redundant bhp the world has ever known. How much power does a car that goes everywhere by trailer need?

[chicken]

I take my hat off to anyone with that much enthusiasm.

If one of us spent that much time, money and effort on a ducati (and I think there are a couple here that do), the rest of the board would be drooling over it.

Whether it's driven for 100 miles or 100,000 miles a year is not the point. The owner has achieved what he set out to do - build the nicest modified Cosworth that he could.

[Mr C]

How sad

[swannymere]

The award for biggest Chav goes to.................

[Jools]

Originally posted by chicken
I take my hat off to anyone with that much enthusiasm.

If one of us spent that much time, money and effort on a ducati (and I think there are a couple here that do), the rest of the board would be drooling over it.

Whether it's driven for 100 miles or 100,000 miles a year is not the point. The owner has achieved what he set out to do - build the nicest modified Cosworth that he could.

I agree that it's different strokes for different folks, but I wouldn't be drooling over a concourse condition Ducati that spent it's whole life in a glass case or somebodies living room either.

In my view, bikes are meant to be ridden and cars are meant to be driven and more than that, they're meant to be ridden or driven in the manner that they're designed for.

I can see the pride of ownership thing is very appealing, and I know that some people take great delight in owning a beautiful, desirable bike that they can polish to perfection, but that doesn't float my boat at all. The folks that do this remind me, with all due respect, of the kids that used to buy Dinky toys and never take them out of the box. Of course, the toys remain in perfect, pristine condition and are worth a lot of money to collectors but (apart from being able to look at them) they never gave their owners any fun. Whereas, when I was a kid, me and my mates used to 'drive' Dinky cars round the school playground until they were scratched to bits and the wheels came off.

Ya see in my book, life is about experiences and not about the possession of 'perfect things'. The bikes I most admire are those my mates seem to own (Sparkin, Rooney and KeefyB spring to mind) where they are very, very nicely maintained and polished and also given a good ragging most weekends.

My uncle is into vintage cars and I've been with him a couple of times to vintage races at Silverstone and watched pricelss, irreplacable cars like Birdcage Maseratis and old Astons being thrashed around the race track with tyres smoking on full opposite lock. That's what it's about to me, not keeping things in glass cases - they have museums for that sort of thing.

The guy with the Cosworth. What's he got but the equivalent of a full scale very expensive Airfix kit?