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My Rangerover came with Goodyears. Both rears failed at around 25,000 miles when the radial plies broke and the tyres went out of round by roughly two inches! It made for, err, some vibrations. Changed them all for Pirellis. The only Goodyears I’ve ever bought were those cool retro billboards on...

There’s no doubt that super low mileage cars command a premium, but these cars are so rock solid that IMO, high mileage is not a big deal. One of our forum members sold his 80k-ish car in late-2019 for sub-$200k which was an absolute steal. Like Ron, my 06 with 52,000 miles is insured for $275k...

Parts supplies seem difficult for these cars. I waited ages for a windshield and even a simple thing like a reversing light took over two weeks to arrive. Is this a consequence of Ford sub-contracting the vehicle to Multimatic?

Time to move on, Ron

Just the three! My blue 06 that currently has 52,000 miles on it, and in which I’ll be buried; my blue 19 that I drove for 6,400 miles before passing on to the next caretaker, and; this one.

So, I have a 2006 Black and silver GT with 1093 miles for sale. The car is essentially new, still has plastic on the inside, Goodyear tyres, no hot buttons etc. It is bone stock and came out of a private collection. As some of you know, I got this car as part trade when I sold my new GT. I don't...

There’s a car in Houston where the windshield cracked during clearplex installation. My windshield cracked during the passenger airbag cover recall work. This gorilla glass isn’t!

Don’t forget leading edges of the side scoops

Yup, I always ran my oldMcLaren in auto mode at the track, but when Itried it on the NGT it sucked, was shifting in all the wrong places. So, I use manual now, which is fun except that the engine revs so freely that you hit the limiter quite often if you are not totally focused on the shift...

Been driving. mine for about three weeks now. I love it - the trans is amazingly good, better IMO than the new GT. Brakes are fabulous even though they’re only steel. And best of all, you can drive it without the constant fear that some moron will run into or you stuff it into a wall and total a...

If you don’t already have it, you need a transaxle cooler or, as others have already noted, you’ll lose the clutch pedal after a couple of sessions. The cooler solves this problem. And take lessons on spin control, these cars turn you from hero to zero in a heartbeat!

Many of you know Steve - he was the photographer who documented the GT privateer racing programmes back in 2010-11, covering all the way up to the Matech Le Mans run led by the now sadly demised Martin Bartek. Well, Back in the day he put together an incredible set of volumes that covered every...

This behaviour is normal

Go retro! Talk to Rich at GT Guy

Doesn’t help the reality is very different from the manual - there’s way more fasteners holding in the liner than the book specifies

So, finally got round to fixing the bum passenger side turn signal and while I was in there I wanted to replace the broken front side marker lamp assembly. Who knew, this item is from a 2003 Land Rover Freelander! BTW, pulling the fender liner out was just as horrible the second time around as...

Didn’t realize it got that cold in Arizona

I’ll shoot a video when it’s on the dyno

Just tooled around the neighborhood so far. The carbs have a massive flat spot ( hence putting it on a dyno to try and fix that), but when the carbs clear themselves, engine rpms skyrocket with no change in acceleration or speed - the tyres just spin, 1650ft lbs of torque will do that!

Well, one benefit of the pandemic is that we haven't been anywhere, so I finished my Merlin project way sooner than planned! All that's left now is to figure out how we can strap it on a chassis dyno so we can tune the horrible Webers. Oh, and figure out how to title and register it. Per my...