86mike
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Sept 21, 2011 19:29:08 GMT
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but I can't help but love it anyway.  It apparently it lives somewhere near me but I've never seen it or heard about it until I read it in a magazine. www.csxinfo.net/daytonacoupe/a98/index.htmFrom wiki An AC Cobra Coupe was calculated to have done 186 mph (299 km/h) on the M1 motorway in 1964, driven by Jack Sears and Peter Bolton during shakedown tests prior to that year's Le Mans 24h race.[ |
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Last Edit: Sept 21, 2011 19:34:48 GMT by 86mike
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will930
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Decked K11 Micra - RetroRunner Mk2 Golf
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Sept 21, 2011 19:38:51 GMT
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I know they used to test f1 cars on the old a3 back in the day! Lol
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BenKH
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Praise the lowered
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Sept 21, 2011 19:40:07 GMT
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Ah, I never knew it was a Coupe. I was always under the assumption it was 'just' a 'normal' Cobra drop-top. Would have loved to have seen it being tested
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Sept 21, 2011 20:46:35 GMT
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In a book i have at home on NHRA drag racing a guy called Ed "ace" McCulloch thought it might be a good idea to test his newely built top fuel dragster on the street infront of his workshop in portland, the throtle stuck open and it shot up the street and tryed to join an 8 lane freeway !!! It failed big time, one car ran over the front of it and a pick up hit it from behind ! Try explaining that one to the insurance people !
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1980 mk2 escort 2 door
1979 mk2 escort 2 door
1990 mk2 orion 1.6, Now written off !!
1986 mk2 orion 1.6 i ghia
51 plate Rover 25
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Sept 21, 2011 22:34:31 GMT
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Beautiful!
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welder
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Sept 21, 2011 22:37:44 GMT
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I know of an F1 stock car driver who occasionally took his racer for a quick spin up the main road at night. Allegedly.
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I'm not completely useless, I can be used as a bad example.
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Seth
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MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Sept 21, 2011 22:42:59 GMT
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The full story on this car and it allegedly being the cause for the introduction of the speed limit was in a recent Classic and Sports Car. That it was driven that fast on the M1 on an early weekend morning is not in doubt. That it was specifically the reason for the 70 limit is not however the case.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Sept 22, 2011 5:52:28 GMT
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There are limits? Oh, shi.......
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Sept 22, 2011 6:09:11 GMT
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My father in law was the foreman of a Jaguar dealership and told me he used to test C & D Type's on the long straight road infront of the garage.
For anyone who know's Stoke-on-Trent the garage was Byatt's in Victoria Road, Fenton where Dunn Elm Mill now stands.
Paul H
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Sept 22, 2011 9:19:07 GMT
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Probably as good an excuse as any to (re)post this...
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