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Ricardo being in England has nothing to do with the prevailing governemnt attitude but with the fact that it's founder was ...Sir harry Ricardo,the inventor of the combustion chamber and designer of the quench area in combustion chambers, So as can be imagined, his work began almost 100 years ago and was adopted by henry Ford,the dodges,and Walter Chrysler etc etc etc to make their side valve engines run better on the curse word they called petrol in those days. So when ever you here preigniton knock in your engine,it's the ghost of Sir Harry making it'self heard....I think. ;D ;D ;D ;D But,I am very envious of the UK scene ,when i lived in NZ anything went as far as Mods to cars went.,That includedc V8's into anything including my mate Noel who had a Chev in a Mini. Oz is like ![:-[](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/embarrassed.png) living in Stalinist Russia..... ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png)
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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retro mods outside of the UKDarrenW
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Mr_B is right as he so often is... Where else in the world do you get so many small supercar startups? Or kit car companies? Or engineering/motorsport firms?
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With regards to 'building your own' car and/or running an 'old timer'...
...in the former USSR (Russia) this sort of thing was actively encoraged by the athorities (despite all the other dreconian rules regarding society). e.g. In the Moscow national achivements park each year it was the official city party who would organise the show for people to show off there home made cars from scrap remains of Moskvichs and ZAZ's etc. Top party officials would come round and view (with interest) each car, then they would present the prize for best vehicle of the day.
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..and theres a big Retro scene in Russia...forgot all about that too . ;D What i meant is the government here activly discourages the old car scene because in their veiw it doesn't sell new cars,which their mates want them to do. ![](http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Bush-Quotes-ngin.jpg)
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Many years ago I changed my driving style to cope with rising fuel prices; I have now reached the stage where I am contemplating keeping my eyes shut in order to lower wind resistance.
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True, there was loads of motorsport in the USSR not just Russia but Czechoslovakia and others too, although you'd think theyd've disapproved of it, but luckily not! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/MOSK404SPORT-1.JPG) ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/mosk-rac.jpg) Some Moskvitches, the bottom one was designed for high speed records, which in Russia seem to have been a popular sport for the factories to compete in at the time, seeing as loads of factories made cars specifically for reaching high speeds on airstrips or deserts. ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/MOSKVICHG5.JPG) The Moskvitch Formula 1 car, unfortunately they never got as far as the F1 championship, but that's what they were designed for! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) Some Soviet race and rally cars ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/B20015.jpg) A Mosky 412 ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/tatra607.jpg) The Tatra Forumula 1 car! ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png) ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/Pioneer2-1961.jpg) The KADI-4, another of those high speed motors that met a messy end during one of its high speed runs with a tyre blowout at high speed, although amazingly nobody was seriously hurt! ![](http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/hadi4_ost.jpg) So the USSR was a lot more motor-friendly than some really, of course the average guy on the street was unlikely to own a competitive racer, but nobody stopped him modding his car, it was good for morale after all, plus if he worked in a factory capable of building a racer then he had the chance of being a part of the team, as I said a surprising number of motor industry-involved Soviet factories, including GAZ, Tatra, KADI, Moskvitch, Sachsenring (Trabant) had racers or rally cars of some kind made at the factory by a team made up of employees. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Dead pics, my little red friend ![:(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/sad.png) *n
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Really? They're working on my computer, I'm hopeless with this sort of thing so I've no idea what I've done wrong! ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) ;D In any case, the pictures were all off of www.autosoviet.altervista.org, which is a great site for pictures of Soviet motors, they haven't updated literally in years, but the stuff that's there already's very useful, you'll find loads of Soviet racing stuff on there if you're interested, including the motors I was talking about! ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png)
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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A very nice site ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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