v8ian
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Jul 13, 2012 19:34:27 GMT
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Just been watching BBC3, US Top Gear, they just totalled a corvair!!!! might have been a custom one too, looks like it had a louvered engine cover, looked like a really clean car too,
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style.
Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Jul 13, 2012 22:00:48 GMT
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I've posted this before, but it's worth posting again as I personally can't envisage any Corvair beating this one:   |
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It is sad but the bulk of American car enthusiasts here are quite narrow minded. 75% of classic car shows around here will not allow foreign cars in. My fathers big block powered '48 anglia gasser was turned away several times because it wasn't a real american ford. I'm surprised, and then not, that those attitudes persist. But then its fairly recently over here you still had a lot of that sort of thing going on. I remember only a few years ago some guys went to the Classic Ford show (or Retro Ford Show, I forget) in a couple of American Fords and were made to feel quite unwelcome and had to park pretty much "out of sight". For some people running a car show is like their one time out in the spot light and their big shot at being a big shot. One of the local shows I went to a year or two back I had a bit of an argument with a guy because I parked in the regular parking. I know what the show is like and I could get my car in I guess but then have to put up with all the curse word putting it down? No thanks. You can't bring that in its modified/not tidy enough/not old enough (pre '65 at some shows until recently) and indeed, "yank curse word". And I don't get why people have to be such asses at shows, walking round trash-talking other people's cars. You'd think we were all like-minded individuals. Seems not. |
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Just been watching BBC3, US Top Gear, they just totalled a corvair!!!! might have been a custom one too, looks like it had a louvered engine cover, looked like a really clean car too, they trash British classics on the Top Gear show here, so kinda what you'd expect. I'm saddened to see Hot Rod trying to turn itself into a kinda TG clone as well now. Myth Busters and others seem to always pick nice old cars to destroy. Seems when ever a car is needed to get trashed for TV they use a nice rust free California classic. If someone poles up in say a 73 Caprice Convertible in any show you know it will end up burnt, crashed, in a river, etc. |
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1937 Austin Street Rod - 1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1976 Rover V8 - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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stefan
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If it isn't broken fix it till it is
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and breath!
although I have to agree with most of the above
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POWER IS EVERYTHING WITHOUT CONTROL
1985 Honda jazz
1997 Saab 93 convertible
2010 transit 280
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Jul 14, 2012 10:31:37 GMT
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Some of these really do it for me.
The Matt black/grey French one on page one does it for me 100% Love the look.
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Jul 14, 2012 11:09:26 GMT
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Practical Classics has a tech article about these in todays issue.
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