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Royal Tunbridge Wells, England
Joined June 2014
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@el_drapo
El Drapo
2 years
It’s grim up north!
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El Drapo
11 months
£155k for a lesson in depreciation and truly challenging design! 😳
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El Drapo
4 years
Obligatory frosty-shot 😁🥶🥶
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El Drapo
2 years
It’s home! Feels much more mechanical than my old GT4, more noise from both transmission (PDK) and engine. Really happy with how this has turned out 😁
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El Drapo
2 years
Somewhere in the dim dark north of England 😳
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El Drapo
2 years
New car day. M340d Touring. Family bus duties sorted. Jeez it’s fast!
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El Drapo
1 year
Feeling like I brought a knife to a gunfight 😭
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7 months
The twats defending a cyclist with a deathwish, riding in the dark with no lights and dark clothing. It’s a religion. You just can’t reason with these tools.
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7 months
Out and about on a late shift and the scariest part of the shift was just driving home!! #cyclist #needsomelights
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El Drapo
3 years
Dragged this out the garage earlier and gave it a quick wash. Scrubs up well! #993C2S
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El Drapo
3 years
#993 porn. Just because I was out and about today blowing off the cobwebs
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El Drapo
1 year
Scrubs up well! Ready for France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy 😁🚙💨💨💨
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El Drapo
2 years
Went shopping for a Mini and ended up with a Fiat 🤷🏻‍♂️
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El Drapo
1 year
Gratuitous
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El Drapo
5 months
Car insurance renewal time 🫣 Despite zero claims and the value of the cars dropping a little, my premium has come in at 17% more than last year. Broker reckons average is a 48% increase!!! Why!!??? Why has insurance gone up 48%!!!??????
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El Drapo
2 years
With all the M3 Touring hoo-ha, seems appropriate that I’ve just bought this. Macan GTS gone - great family car but it liked a drink! This will do the family wagon duties just as well, and ITS A DIESEL!!! 😳 M340d
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El Drapo
3 years
@HIOWAA This legend is alive, fit and well (and playing rugby) because of your @airambulancekss colleagues. Keep doing what you do. We’re forever grateful!!
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El Drapo
2 years
Right, time to sell this beauty to make way for the GT4. 2018 991.2 GTS rare manual, full PPF, 12 months Porsche warranty Anyone want it before it goes to the dealer to sell on for a £15k markup..??
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El Drapo
5 years
Picked this up today. It ain’t shabby! Bloody love it! 😁 @Porsche911UK was there to help too👍
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El Drapo
3 years
Out with the old, in with the new 😁 M3 Comp is epic, loved it, but a 991.2 GTS manual without sunroof was too good to pass on. Hopefully will get a chance to drive it before Easter 😭
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El Drapo
5 years
@stolen_london Totally agree with this action. The cops were really sensible, 23mph at pint of impact. Thieves made their choices when they decided to start robbing innocent people
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El Drapo
10 months
How cool is this! Google searched my old nr plate for my Mk1 Golf GTi that was written off when stolen in 1992, and it turns out a bloke 20 miles away is building a track car from it!
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El Drapo
9 months
Never driven in the rain ☔️ 🤣
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El Drapo
3 years
Scrubs up well 😁 Apols for the building site 😩
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El Drapo
3 years
And the GTS cleaned up really well too. Black looks so great in the flesh #stillabuildingsite
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El Drapo
2 years
That was pronto!
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El Drapo
1 year
Gotta say, the proportions on this thing are bang-on. Must be similar to a 964/993. Just LOVE driving this 😍
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El Drapo
2 years
Just took this out for its first real run (having driven many very dull running in miles) what a car! Awesome, PDK gearbox really transforms the car 😁 #GT4
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El Drapo
4 months
My first ever road trip. Lake District. Peugeot 1.9GTi Sorrento Green 😍
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El Drapo
2 years
Saw this 992 GTS yesterday. Was nice!
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El Drapo
2 years
Just heard an AM Vantage V8 start up at the station car park, and now I want one!
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@el_drapo
El Drapo
30 days
My wife’s Fiat Abarth every time I drive it 🤣🤣
@pmcafrica
Peché Africa 🇿🇦
1 month
He continued the rest of his journey normal speed 😩
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El Drapo
2 years
These brakes are HUGE!
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El Drapo
3 years
This was a nice spot today #mcoupe
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El Drapo
2 years
Actually quite excited to be picking this pocket rocket up on Wednesday 🚗💨💨💨⁦ @TeamAbarth
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El Drapo
2 years
Well that was scary! Guess who’s 17 today..??
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El Drapo
2 years
Early start 😩
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El Drapo
1 year
The GOAT..?
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El Drapo
3 years
Today was my last day of employment in the company I established in October 2002. Resigned at Xmas, on gardening leave since Feb-only time off of my career, and it’s been during lockdown ☹️ Next chapter starts on Monday…. Feeling pensive. Cheers!
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El Drapo
5 years
Major service done @Precision911 , along with a clean MOT. New plugs seems to give it more zip, new gearbox oil has given the stick a lot more feel too. Awesome service incl underside waxoil and hubs painted, very happy! 😁 @Porsche911UK
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El Drapo
2 years
991.2 GTS cleaned for the last time. New owner picks it up tomorrow 😩 thanks @hillsidefarmers for the intro! I owe you a beer or 3 👍
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El Drapo
5 years
Impromptu road trip. Need to escape the office for a few days 😁 @Porsche911UK
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El Drapo
4 years
Seriously considering a change..... so beautifully specc’ed 911T with all the right bits and none of the wrong bits or beautifully noisy R8..???
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El Drapo
1 year
Coffee run
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El Drapo
3 years
Current thinking….. Python Green
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El Drapo
2 years
Todays station whip 💨
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El Drapo
1 year
Tanzanite Blue M wagons. Oil burning sleeper and it’s hooligan cousin 😈
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@el_drapo
El Drapo
3 years
So today is a big day. I resigned last month from the business I founded 18 yrs ago and sold in 2016. Last Board meeting today then hopefully some time out over the next few months before the next adventure! Onwards!!
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El Drapo
6 years
Blew the cobwebs off this today. Had totally forgotten how much fun the GT4 is! 😁 @Porsche911UK
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El Drapo
3 years
Bit chilly innit
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El Drapo
4 years
Life-changing decisions being made this morning. I have decided that Yorkshire tea tastes better than PGTips. And I’m from Kent 😳
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El Drapo
1 year
Goals. Move out here, buy a cafe just like this. Drive an old LHD 911 as my daily. Make a few quid selling 3euro pastries to the tourists.
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El Drapo
3 years
Car twitter. Talk to me about V12 Vantages….. I’m having my usual Xmas downtime musings about alternative to Porsche stuff…. Plus heard a lovely V8 Vantage in Bond St yesterday that got me thinking. Would I hate one?
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El Drapo
4 years
Selling this... @Porsche911UK
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El Drapo
1 year
Almost home. 10 hours, 700 miles, Innsbruck to Blighty. Many coffees were consumed 🤣 So good to get back to some proper hoonage with the old team!
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El Drapo
3 years
Love how the dog sits with her arm up on this chair. Never fails to make me smile 😀
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El Drapo
1 year
Morning all!
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El Drapo
6 years
Picked this up today, and it’s getting dirty already! Lively thing, actually sounds pretty good too. Looks really nice in the metal. Very pleased! Wished I’d ordered a new build whilst you still could
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El Drapo
1 year
Very tidy (if a tad dusty) GT3 Touring PDK. Comfort seats. Road trip spec innit
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El Drapo
2 years
Currently figuring out how I could base myself here 3-6 months a year….
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El Drapo
3 years
Dirty fat arse! 😍 #manual
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El Drapo
5 years
Came 2nd today in the hotel car park top trumps competition 😁
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El Drapo
4 years
Lots of hate for teachers on here today. Would like to say that my wife, who teaches 11-18yr olds in a local comp wants to return to school and wants to teach in a classroom. She’s refused to sign the union letter she’s been sent. Not all teachers are shirking 🤷🏻‍♂️
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El Drapo
7 months
SUV ⛷️⛷️
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El Drapo
2 years
Another shot of that special order checker-board paint 😆
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El Drapo
1 year
My first ever road trip. Lake District in my Pug 205GTi 1.9 in 1997 🥰
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El Drapo
3 years
Very difficult week this week, mainly to do with builders being absolute cvnts, but lockdown and boredom taking a real toll. Thanks to the kind sods who have sent messages and reached out to make sure I’m ok. It’s been tough, but I’ve learnt I have some real mates on Twitter 😁
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El Drapo
2 months
One is a hugely rewarding driving tool that loves its engine being rung out at every opportunity, and the other is a bombastic bastard that tries to kill me every time I drive it 🤣
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El Drapo
8 months
Love this feature when you wake up, it’s zero degrees and you’ve got to shoot in 20 mins. Remote heating 👍
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El Drapo
5 years
Changed my spec.... again. 2 days to lock it down. Back to Spyder alloys and red brakes. De-badged. It’s not easy speccing a car I haven’t seen in the flesh.... @Porsche911UK @PorscheGB
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El Drapo
1 year
Quite probably, the best driving tool I’ve ever owned. It was just epic today 🥰
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El Drapo
2 years
Cleaned the car. Took it for a hoon. Haven’t driven it for a few weeks, I forget how special these cars are! @PorscheGB
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El Drapo
3 years
😢 Cracking car. Most smiles per miles of anything I’ve ever owned. Happiest car on the planet #fiat500 off to Switzerland
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El Drapo
4 years
@1Fubar What Femi forgot is that the NE voted to leave. They knew at the time their jobs may be at risk as a result, but they still wanted out.
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El Drapo
2 years
Why GTSilver is the best colour
@AstonParrott
Aston Parrott
2 years
@PorscheGB Turbo S photographed for @evomagazine issue 295 😎
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El Drapo
5 years
A few more from today
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El Drapo
5 years
The car that Twitter specced! Ready to pick up on Monday once they finish the white wrap! 😁😁😁 @Porsche911UK @PorscheGB
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El Drapo
1 year
Fire extinguisher fitted. One clean #GT4 and full kit Clubsport w @nker 😂
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El Drapo
8 months
Noice 👍
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El Drapo
5 years
@yiannimize @M95DEC @harrismonkey ’s comment wasn’t smug.I think he voiced what everyone was thinking.Launch control on a street,with parked cars on one side,trees and kids on the other?The guy was a fucking tool! He’s probably left without an insurance payout and £200k car finance. No-one died tho
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El Drapo
3 years
Thank you @PorscheGB for your kind offer to sell me a baseball cap. I was, after purchasing and selling back to you a number of cars, hoping you’d like to sell me a GT3, but, hey ho, I know my place 😑
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El Drapo
2 years
@TinaBob17 Watch the movie Threads. 1984 TV Movie in the UK. This will give you a small idea.
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El Drapo
2 years
Macan booted up to get us to the hotel this morning. Fitting snow chains at 4am minus 2 ain’t fun. These worked a treat
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El Drapo
2 years
Actually really excited about this. Spec finally locked in 😁 It ain’t orange @SeasideChris
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El Drapo
1 year
Lovely, if a tad boring in spec
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El Drapo
3 years
Really really going to miss this little car
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El Drapo
3 years
Just awesome!
@ES_News_
Emergency-Services.News
3 years
#watch | @syptweet @SYPOperations police dog takes down fleeing driver after high-speed pursuit
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El Drapo
2 years
Car twitter - Winter tyres for the beemer wagon. What’s the current recommendations? I’m going non run-flat
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El Drapo
3 months
Looks like it’s fast, even when parked ⁦ @lotuscars
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El Drapo
3 years
Took this out today for a bit of a hoon. It’s very good, manual box transforms the car, feels much more responsive and alive versus the PDK. 450bhp feels more than enough (for now 😬) on damp roads. Cracking car!
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El Drapo
7 months
Some pics from today. Pretty much perfect conditions for a family ski trip 😁 Even got a pic of the missus skiing the glacier
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El Drapo
1 year
Met an old mate for beers tonight (many) Haven’t seen him in 18 years. Fecking joyous experience, like we’d never lost touch. Work on those friendships guys. Don’t be a dick like me and lose touch
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El Drapo
1 year
I don’t get tired of this view 😍
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El Drapo
6 years
Pulled this out of the garage for its MOT tomorrow. What an arse! @Porsche911UK @Precision911
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El Drapo
6 years
Time has come to sell my GT4. Full spec incl CLUBSPORT, 918 seats, PCCBs, carbon interior, extended leather, full PPF etc. March 16, Total invoice value £93k! 13500 very happy miles mainly on euro trips, FPSH incl running in service. PM me for info. kent/Sussex
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El Drapo
1 year
Been another epic day!
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El Drapo
1 year
A very mucky GT4 today, after a slow drive to Dunsfold over lanes full of potholes and ice 😬
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El Drapo
3 years
Can't argue with this
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6 months
Reasons not to buy an Audi S7 #1 - fake quad exhaust 😭
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El Drapo
2 years
It’s gone! 🙁 Off to a great home though, and GT4 confirmed built and on its way to the docks 😁 @hillsidefarmers you da man 👍
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El Drapo
8 months
Actually looks much better in the metal. Maybe I can be tempted by a M3 Touring after all….. 🤔
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