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As there seems to have been a bit of interest in these articles recently, and I found a few while sorting stuff out, thought I'd post a few. For anyone not familiar with these series, they ran for many years in Street Machine. Some ideas a little strange, and you have to hope that no good cars got butchered trying to build something similar. Hot Car and Custom car sometimes did something similar, so I've posted those too. Enjoy!  You could guarantee that IMSA look would often feature on anything in the early 80's. This A55 has very ambitiously widened arches following the swage line. Gulp.  Posted this one of Manta A (bad) and Scirocco (good) before, but worthy of repeat I thought. |
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Panda Matt
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Dec 10, 2005 17:22:19 GMT
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You could guarantee that IMSA look would often feature on anything in the early 80's. This A55 has very ambitiously widened arches following the swage line. Gulp. First - Thanks for the scans, I love seeing this kid of thing Second, it might be a stupid question, but what's 'IMSA look'? Never heard of it before... |
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Dec 10, 2005 20:14:28 GMT
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This sketches came from Hot Car. I like the slightly Gasser style one.    Woah thats given me an idea or too that looks ace i know a place in manchester where theres piles celicas!!!  not for sale though  |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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Dec 10, 2005 20:16:25 GMT
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why can i never see spottedlaurels pics, do i smell or summat?
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Dec 10, 2005 23:13:39 GMT
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Dec 10, 2005 23:31:01 GMT
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why can i never see spottedlaurels pics, do i smell or summat? Not as far as I know, it's nothing personal :-) I'm using Imageshack to upload images, can everyone else see them OK? And what does IMSA stand for? To be quite frank, haven't got a clue! International Motor Sports Association? It seemed to involve a fair bit of power in something with big fat arches, as Darren's pic's point out well. However, don't recall many road cars carrying the look off very well, perhaps difficult to get ride height and wheel/tyre sizes right for road use? |
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Dec 11, 2005 20:48:49 GMT
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I have the issue with the A55 in on my bedside table  It's the one with the radical MK1 Sceptre in Those Steve Kirk drawings are great, albeit with a large dose of artistic licence used... proportions 'stretched' ect... ...and you could always guarentee there would be a question in 'Custom Q&A' the next month asking 'where can I buy the spoiler/bodykit on the Cortina/Isetta in last month's Motorvation...'  |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault. |
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Dec 13, 2005 21:46:28 GMT
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A few more from which I've scanned extracts.....  ![]() Don't think I've ever seen a modified Landcrab 1800/2200 of any description, now I know why. BTW Apologies if the picture is doubled-up, it's an experiment to see if mrsigma can see my images. |
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Dec 13, 2005 21:53:00 GMT
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i err....like it...  |
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Dec 13, 2005 21:53:52 GMT
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Dec 13, 2005 21:59:52 GMT
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v8ade
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Dec 13, 2005 22:05:46 GMT
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hoping to create this red one this winter,or as close as possible.  |
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Last Edit: Dec 13, 2005 22:07:11 GMT by v8ade
V8 on open headers at full throttle "Heaven"
Jaguar xf SportBrake
rover 820 Turbo vitesse
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Dec 13, 2005 22:06:35 GMT
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Dec 13, 2005 22:11:14 GMT
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hoping to create this red one this winter,or as close as possible.quote] Nice one Ade! Glad you found that article in the end - I was going to copy the image across from your thread, but you've saved me the trouble  |
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Dec 13, 2005 23:10:52 GMT
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looking at the mk1 'rocco you can
see where the corrado came from.
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I love the red landcrab |
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Ken
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Dec 14, 2005 13:01:33 GMT
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Anyone got the Motorvation on Alfas, was excellent, the Sud looked fantastic. Sprint was pretty cool too
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Saab Freak (in order of favouite first) '88 900 Turbo8 '86 900i Old Stripy '72 99 CM4 '83 99 '06 9-5 Aero 260 '96 9000 Turbo CSE '93 900 LPT SE (absolute Shed of a car) www.uksaabs.co.uk |
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Dec 14, 2005 20:08:45 GMT
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Don't think I've ever seen a modified Landcrab 1800/2200 of any description. There's a chopped Landcrab hearse around, but I can't seem to find any pictures... I toyed with the idea of doing a 'tongue in cheek' kustom job on the Landcrab I had a few years ago... I would love to see if it's possible to sort out an 'adjustable' hydrolastic system... ;D |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down and that's not really the car's fault. |
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not for sale though 
