Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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1967 Honda S800 F20cBrian Damaged
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Dec 29, 2011 16:50:41 GMT
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If this car is finished in 2012 I'd bank on it being one of, if not THE cars of the year next year.
Awesome. REALLY looking forward to seeing how this progresses.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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1983 Sunbeam LotusBrian Damaged
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Dec 29, 2011 16:47:01 GMT
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That looks lovely without the stripes.
If I'm not mistaken it's one of the final batch of 'Leon Gibbs' cars sold from his garage in Nuneaton?
Anyway, that's a LOVELY piece of kit.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 29, 2011 11:31:32 GMT
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Get it back up, I've missed it. And anyway, all the usual bunfighters are busy slagging last night's Top Gear off at the minute, so I wouldn't worry. ;D
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 28, 2011 21:48:34 GMT
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Cold, hard economics:
90 minute programme about cars=mass viewer turnoff.
90 minute programme about three middle-aged bumbling idiots cocking about in a foreign country=syndicated in over 300 countries worldwide, and makes the BBC a LOT of money.
Even if it wasn't as funny as some of the other ones, and was definitely formulaic, it was an entertaining enough Christmas romp, no more, no less. Don't like it? Don't watch. ;D
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 28, 2011 19:57:43 GMT
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 28, 2011 18:52:12 GMT
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I've traditionally always said that it would be a Ferrari 246GT 'Dino', but I'll leave that for someone else this time, as I'd like one of these just as much. Porsche 906. Porsche's last street-legal racecar. 50 of them were built in 1966. 1991cc flat-6 developing 220bhp but in a car weighing just 580kg with that achingly beautiful aerodynamic shape meant that 170mph was a reality.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Club RR Member Number: 33
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Dec 28, 2011 17:49:03 GMT
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Brian That looks like a bit of a weapon, tell me some more about it. Gennie Ti shell that was on display at Safety Devices for years. Was built in the late 90's into a rally car with 1600 Talbot lump, but now powered by a Toovey-built dry-sumped 2.0 Vauxhall XE on throttle bodies, chucking 250-odd bhp 6-speed sequential flat-change Quaife gearbox and Atlas back axle. It's erm....bloody rapid. Check this video out from the 2010 Smeatharpe Stages down in Somerset (car was running a spare Tran-X Pro 5-speeder here after the Quaife box went bang, so was softened off a bit managment-wise to just under 200bhp) We've had a year out this year and the car's been rebuilt with triangulated cage/4-link back end/bigger brakes (much needed) and Corsa electric PAS. Plans are to do the Association of Southern Counties Motor Clubs Tarmac Stage Rally Championship again in 2012.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 28, 2011 12:54:11 GMT
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Got pics???
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 28, 2011 11:48:51 GMT
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I twirl spanners and make tea for the team that runs this: We're based in Droitwich, just the other side of Worcester. Welcome to RR!!
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 26, 2011 16:23:41 GMT
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Cheers Brian, Honey Starmist was a bit lighter in colour - this one is Olivine Starmist, which is just as funky! My dad had a Victor in Honey Starmist, that seemed to suffer the same problems as your Dads, maybe it was the colour! Which would explain why it had a Viscount bootlid (with 'Powerglide' badge on) on that didn't quite match!!! ;D
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Brian Damaged
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Dec 26, 2011 13:34:18 GMT
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I think that's the only other one I've ever seen that's the same colour as my Dad's was back when I was about 12 (Honey Starmist....dontcha just LOVE that name).
PUK822F was a '68 Cresta with a vinyl roof rather than a Viscount and had a 4-speed floor-change/bench front seat combo (which meant it had one of those awesome cranked American-style gearlevers from memory).
This was back in 1976-77 so money was in very short supply. The front seat broke so he just welded a scaffold pole across the car between the B-posts and rested the seat back against it. Then the exhaust fell to bits so he made up a pair of exit pipes in front of each back wheel and dispensed with the back boxes. The final straw was when it failed the MOT on knackered front suspension bushes, I have clear memories of him knocking up bushes made from various size rubber hoses. Somehow it got through another MOT.....
That's lovely, a right old trip down Memory Lane!!
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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2st K660 JamboreeBrian Damaged
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Dec 26, 2011 13:21:32 GMT
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This: ....just WORKS. All kinds of awesomeness.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 26, 2011 13:00:27 GMT
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KFW's swinging by mine at about 8am tomorrow morning, so we should be down there for about 10ish. Can't f**ing wait.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Dec 23, 2011 22:18:54 GMT
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Lovely set of pics there! Count yourself very lucky!! Some of those bring back a few memories for me having been up and down the road for 24 years now (and backwards and forwards to Scotland twice a week for the first 13...LOL). Stuff like that F7 Volvo rigid was still a common sight when I started driving wagons for a living, and it's great to see stuff from the 1980's now surviving into preservation and taking its rightful place on the show field with the old traditional British trucks.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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MERRY X_MASBrian Damaged
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Dec 23, 2011 19:31:04 GMT
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Made me leap round the room, at least.!!! Best Wishes to you guys across the North Sea from us outcasts here in the UK. 'Lycklig jul'
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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For me, these are second only to a 246GT 'Dino' in the 'Most Beautiful Car In The World' stakes.
I love those lines, the way the curvature of the bottom of the windscreen is carried via the side windows up into the roofline, those mirrors on pillare, those hefty but beautifully-sculpted rear flanks....and just about the most GORGEOUS set of wheels.
Utter car porn....just complete and utter car porn.
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Posts: 9,555
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Dec 22, 2011 22:42:57 GMT
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Thankyou for the nominations, as HW's said just being nominated is kind of a big deal and I'm seriously rather chuffed about that. Keep coming to the events I dream up and I'll keep dreaming 'em up, they are meaningless without the massive contribution you guys make in time and fuel to turn up. Thankyou. HW mentioned he'd like photo links from nominated members of the 'Retro-Rides Snapperazzi Division'. Here's mine: www.flickr.com/photos/damaged23/collections/72157628530023031/Thanks again, everyone. Happy Christmas and here's to an even better 2012. Brian ;D
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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Posts: 9,555
Club RR Member Number: 33
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Boy racer of the 70s?Brian Damaged
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Dec 20, 2011 22:54:13 GMT
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Couldn't agree more. I'd already been into motorsport from a VERY young age, but I bought my first copy of Custom Car aged 12 (January 1977, still got it somewhere) and it was somewhere around that point that the Damaged die was well and truly cast. Would love to see that tottering around the corners on bias-belted Pos-a-Traction Torque Twisters and a jack-up kit, being driven by a right dude in a black leather blouson jacket, beige patch-pocket flares and bum-fluff moustache, chewing a match and listening to the Doobie Brothers on his 8-track. Too cool for (reform) school.
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