One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 2nd

Along a local road that has an above average smattering of older/classic vehicles, a new one has a appeared

A VW ‘type 3’ van, in a very fetching blue/green
I’ll try & photograph it one day this week

It joins the;
Range Rover; 2-door/VM turbo-diesel
Lotus Eclat(?)
VW ‘bay’ camper
(these 3 are at same house)

Escorts (mk1 & mk2, both ‘rally prepped’, at another house)

VW type 3 van, & an unblemished Suzuki SJ (same house)

4 x at same house (can only see a porch 924)

SAAB 900 saloon

Porch 911 with removable roof

I wonder what will join the line up next?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 3rd

Spotted this, as I nipped to a local garden centre, after work

This photograph was taken approximately where the 3-wheeler is; https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3784581

 

[Drago]

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That'll be Accy on his way out to buy a new hat.

 

[Ian H]

 

[mistyoptic]

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That car park space is too big 🤣

 

[srj10]

 

[Jameshow]

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I was driving home from Haworth and this cheeky original mini came flying past me! It obviously wasn't stock with a bigger exhaust under it. Wasn't really heavily modified - tasteful tbh.. very useable.

 

[Jenkins]

From Brands Hatch today - an AC 428 Coupe

 

[figbat]

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Same age as the one I had as my first car, except that one appears to be the ‘facelift’ from later in the year, with reversing lights (and a fog light).

 

[biggs682]

A brace of Lotus Elise

 

[Drago]

I was driving home from Haworth and this cheeky original mini came flying past me! It obviously wasn't stock with a bigger exhaust under it. Wasn't really heavily modified - tasteful tbh.. very useable.

I got into a pursuit with a Mini about 25ish years ago. I was in a new S60R and feeling pretty confident, when suddenly the Mini disappeared toward the horizon like the Enterprise engaging warp. Honestly, ive never seen anything accelerate so fast.

We caught up with it a few days later and discovered it had a highly tuned rear mounted Volvo R engine. The guy reckoned it was 600 BHP...and a thousand with the nitrous! All in a car weighing less than Accy's change purse.

 

[Pinno718]

So common became the practice of fitting Yamaha R1's to Minis', Mini Sport make a kit:

https://www.minisport.com/mini-sport-r1-engine-conversion-kit-classic-mini.html

 

[Drago]

So common became the practice of fitting Yamaha R1's to Minis', Mini Sport make a kit:

https://www.minisport.com/mini-sport-r1-engine-conversion-kit-classic-mini.html

Double the torque, but at five times the RPMs! A 10/10ths conversion, horribl, for anything remotely approaching normal driving.

 

[Pinno718]

Double the torque, but at five times the RPMs! A 10/10ths conversion, horribl, for anything remotely approaching normal driving.

Only for the nutters - pedal to the metal 5000rpm+ screaming, ear splitting banshees.

My friend restored a Lotus (Talbot) Sunbeam and uprated everything. £30k rebuild. Hated it. Sold it.
I elected to keep my 944 as original as possible which was actually more expensive than uprating. But then I am a puritan anyway - keep it original or track it fully, none of this hybrid crap you see.
If you looked at say an Austin Mini Morris Minor restored to original condition sat next to a boyed up thing, I bet you 90% of people would prefer the look and character of the original.