Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Jul 23, 2020 13:05:35 GMT
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Quick lunchtime sketch. Take one Rover P4, replace the 2.6 IOE engine with a later Weslake-head 3-litre unit from the P5 (it's British, it's GOT to be a straight-six...) with a barely silenced side exit exhaust...a healthy dose of lowering over Chevy 15" steels and Dunlop redband CR race tyres...strip the interior and add cage....strip bumpers....one colour stock paint with door roundels and Mk1 Mini numberplate lamps to illuminate them for that endurance racer look. Add a couple of foglamps mounted low down on the front and maybe a couple of period stickers and job's a good un.  It'd probably still handle like a cross-channel ferry, but it would look and sound the part. |
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norm75
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Jul 23, 2020 15:27:34 GMT
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andyborris
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
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v8ian
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Yep, like that, wheels would be different tho, got to be something like the deeper dish E type Lightweight Dunlop wheels, Knock-offs optional, it would take a lot of work to make one of these go around corners,
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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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ZXRob
Europe
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Jul 26, 2020 11:02:21 GMT
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Just saw this at a meet and thought it fits the bill quite nicely.  |
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Sept 16, 2020 18:46:36 GMT
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I've noticed around my area there seem to be an awful lot of MGF's driving about...  I wonder if they're ripe for the cafe racer treatment yet? |
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Sept 16, 2020 20:55:04 GMT
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Close...  Potential there with two tone and steels |
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Sept 17, 2020 1:17:13 GMT
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Last Edit: Sept 17, 2020 1:21:53 GMT by mr2fc
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Sept 19, 2020 12:56:43 GMT
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Absolutely love this thread. Hers my 2ps worth. For me cafe racer / gentleman racer is something of a retro age and is stripped down to its bare essentials and made to go as fast as the owner can afford. Doesn’t need any particular things done to it to tick any boxes just the fact the owner has done what he can to go as fast as they can. Just like the original cafe racers. Buy what you can afford and make it as fast as you can afford. This is where some brilliant back garden shed ideas where made. Drilling holes, polishing ports, fitting bigger carbs etc. I don’t think it lends itself to modern cars as these things rarely can be done. You don’t see young people (god I’ve turned in to my father) modifying cars like it was done years ago. Today’s modified car scene is more about aesthetics and who can blame them. A hotted up motor these days brings a insurance premium as much as a mortgage. It’s just the way things have moved on. So 99% of cafe racers in my opinion are pre 85 cars, made to go faster than When they left the factory by what ever means. Person #1 who puts a big carb and exhaust on their moggy thousand is every much a “cafe racer” as person #2 who has had a full race engine, period paint, bonnet straps race numbers on a etype.
Anyway I’m off to stare at what will hopefully be my cafe racer/ gentleman racer and day dream about blasting round the backroads with a quick blip of the throttle between downshifting back though the box.
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jimi
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Sept 19, 2020 22:04:44 GMT
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I reckon this fits the bill for a Britsh style café racer it modified using mostly second hand (scrapyard) parts, was a daily driver, modified as and when parts were acquired. Was also my first car, my mates all had Mini's or Imps with similar mods, but no two were the same.  1961 Mini. MG1100 engine/gearbox fitted with a Cooper S differential. Twin choke 28/36 Weber on waterheated manifold. 3 branch exhaust manifold Exhaust rerouted to the centre with a Peco big bore backbox Remote servo assisted drum brakes. Rear wiper (salvaged from a scrapyard) Obligatory spotlight on the bootlid for reversing. Steering column was dropped with a small alloy 10" wheel (IIRC) Seats were moved back and tilted with "rally" seat covers Pod rev counter mounted on the top of the dash Stick on heating element for demisting the rear window 4.5" (might have been 5") reversed rims, later had 5" Dunlop alloys. Bonnet scoop was home made (from a GTX tin) Probably quite a few more mods that I have forgotten. Basically young apprentice's café racer, it was used to go fast on Scottish roads and a fair bit of that may have gone on.   |
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Last Edit: Oct 17, 2020 21:49:45 GMT by jimi
Black is not a colour ! .... Its the absence of colour
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shin2chin
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Making curse word cars slightly better
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Sept 20, 2020 17:21:24 GMT
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Just saw this for sale on Marketplace  |
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1977 PORSCHE 2.0na 924
1974 VW Beetle 1600
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Sept 23, 2020 10:58:20 GMT
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munky
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Sept 23, 2020 14:44:22 GMT
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Not real (it’s an RC car) but still fits nicely in here:  |
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norm75
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Last Edit: Oct 1, 2020 17:38:21 GMT by norm75
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  The Tom vs Dale build off on Youtube features an interesting S-Type R. |
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Pid363!
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Madness is all in the mind!
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Oct 15, 2020 11:58:27 GMT
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Stupid is as stupid does!
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Not sure if this is Cafe style?  But it is all "British" |
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Oct 18, 2020 10:10:39 GMT
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Just saw this for sale on Marketplace I would class this as a Dry Lakes racer in the mould of the Healeys and MGs in the 50's going for land speed and endurance records. looks good though, does it still have the turbo peeking through the bonnet? |
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tom13
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Oct 19, 2020 13:32:11 GMT
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Just saw this for sale on Marketplace This thing is the best. Always looked to be having the best time at the gathering. The flames were phenomenal. How much did it sell for, do you know? |
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shin2chin
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Making curse word cars slightly better
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Oct 19, 2020 16:56:22 GMT
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It just popped up on Marketplace again today. Its on for either 4 or 6, can't remember
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1977 PORSCHE 2.0na 924
1974 VW Beetle 1600
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