• Cars v2
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You have an R31? Nice, right now I'd be happy with anything other than a Korean hatchback I intend to purchase a motorcycle untill I can afford a car, but that's another thread
When I was watching my cousin drift (he's got an S13, Formula D Pro license), there was a guy who had a really nice R32. So damn confusing pulling up next to him at the start because my cousin's talking to him, but he's on the "wrong" side of the car and I kept forgetting it was a RHD.
[QUOTE=TTS;16323815] And we found a S13 for sale for $1000 or near offer. We gave him $650 cash and we're going to fix the body, get new wheels (currently has FWD wheels with fucked up offset) and replace the battery and starter motor. [img]http://i26.tinypic.com/2vtqtlk.jpg[/img] Yes, original 194,000km's (120,000 miles) in 20 years.[/QUOTE] You have absolutely no freaking idea of how envious I am of You.
The car I'm after right now. [img]http://www.sunsetclassics.com/1974-mgb-gt/images/1974-mgb-gt.jpg[/img] Is the nice version. [img]http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs194.snc1/6533_104564914419_801054419_1964729_1353945_n.jpg[/img] [img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs194.snc1/6533_104565429419_801054419_1964736_8356845_n.jpg[/img] The version my mate found in a back alley car dealership 1.8 ltr rear wheel drive with 100hp is pretty much all I can say about it to my knowledge. Doesn't have a high top speed, about 110mph but can reach it damn fast. Several problems however, the insurance on it, since the factors like rear wheel, 1.8ltr and classic car, means the insurance would be fucking over rediculous for me, and secondly I don't have my license yet. But they're asking for £600 for a car that only needs abit of body work, so I'm really concidering it. Pissing rubber bumper aswell because americans..
[QUOTE=Isotope;16323543]I'm sorry but I have have to call BS on you. Firstly, 450HP from a 350 cubic inch engine? that's well over 1HP per cubic inch, how worked is that engine and what mods are done to it? If it's stock and original and worn over time I expect it would be making more like 260 ish, since they were rated at around 300 originally probably. If it's worked, I assume its got a steel crank and a bunch of other mods if it is really producing 450 HP, but from the looks of it, I doubt it. Second, a wheelie? on road tires on the street? you are lucky with over 800 HP on a drag strip doing under 10 second quarters to do a wheelie... Anyhow, it's a beautiful car, would love to own one! Are you planning on doing a full restoration on it? If so, is it going all original, or street car/modified?[/QUOTE] No, I'm not going to restore it. We're even putting a PLC computer control thingy in it. It has almost no collector value, it had originally came with some V6 engine. The previous owner had built it for racing, a new carburetor, intake, cam shaft, and probably even pistons. It has slapper bars on the back axel because all of the torque could bend the leaf springs and it might not have been a wheelie, i was inside the car i couldn't tell. but the front went higher while accelerating than in any other car I've been in, but yeah, you're right i'm probably wrong. [editline]06:18PM[/editline] We also have a CAL induction (sp?) or something that sucks air in from the back of the hood for the engine
Cowl. its just a hood. and the car is an old camaro, it has plenty of collector value. especially if its in good condition. Personally, when I'm looking for an old car, I couldn't give two shits about "OHH ITS ORIGINAL MATCHING NUMBERS AND EVERYTHING" Cause I basically go alright, that's fine, its going to have fuel injection in a week and a new engine anyways, I don't give a shit. But that's because I like resto mods. Some people jump all over original cars like flies on shit.
What would you guys suggest for a first car in the UK? Obviously, it has to be cheap to buy, run and insure, looks are really a side issue. I mentioned in the old thread an interest in getting a Toyota Aygo, but I'm sure there are others.
[QUOTE=Ferosso;16326703]You have absolutely no freaking idea of how envious I am of You.[/QUOTE] Suk... at bo i Danmark..
Been working on my SVX so much lately... Chasing down charging system issues. It all started about a week ago when I was driving home from king's island. About 80 miles from home I got a low voltage warning and limped into a gas station with 6volts left. There was pretty much nothing I could do so I thumb'd a ride home. I came back the next day with my truck and rented a car trailer. The trailer was for heavy machinery and was a total bitch to put the car on and get it chained down. So I was stuck driving 35-45 in 60mph zones to avoid having my car come flying off. So after about 80 miles of that I got it back. I was fairly certain the harmonic balancer/crankshaft pulley was spinning inside of its self causing my alternator not to charge. I replaced the crankshaft pulley with a 1 piece aluminum racing pulley today and drove about 25 miles before I noticed I was limping off the battery again. (Optimas are insanely good batteries, I wouldn't have made it 2 miles on a normal battery, highly recommended.) So I spent about an hour checking all the fuses before finally pulling the alternator to have it tested. The voltage regulator in the alternator was shot... So now I'm waiting on a new alternator. Having had subarus for so long I figured it was a typical subaru problem so I basically checked and replaced everything except what was actually wrong.
[QUOTE=Apocalypsox;16335539]Cowl. its just a hood. and the car is an old camaro, it has plenty of collector value. especially if its in good condition. Personally, when I'm looking for an old car, I couldn't give two shits about "OHH ITS ORIGINAL MATCHING NUMBERS AND EVERYTHING" Cause I basically go alright, that's fine, its going to have fuel injection in a week and a new engine anyways, I don't give a shit. But that's because I like resto mods. Some people jump all over original cars like flies on shit.[/QUOTE] Wow I'm horrible with cars xD
[QUOTE=Hell Strike;16338445]Wow I'm horrible with cars xD[/QUOTE] I agree with Apocalypsox, it's a Camaro, so what if it's not a survivor or numbers matching car, it's still a classic vehicle, one which will never be made again and that there are fewer and fewer of. I'm not one of those people who thinks you should restore it to how it once was, but I certainly don't think it should just be trashed. Hopefully you or someone can make it into a neat looking ride, and if you have some money it isn't that hard. Hell, mechanical work is easy and you can get it professionally resprayed for much less than you would pay for some rice bomb and have a nicer looking car at the end of it too.
[QUOTE=Isotope;16340168]I agree with Apocalypsox, it's a Camaro, so what if it's not a survivor or numbers matching car, it's still a classic vehicle, one which will never be made again and that there are fewer and fewer of. I'm not one of those people who thinks you should restore it to how it once was, but I certainly don't think it should just be trashed. Hopefully you or someone can make it into a neat looking ride, and if you have some money it isn't that hard. Hell, mechanical work is easy and you can get it professionally resprayed for much less than you would pay for some rice bomb and have a nicer looking car at the end of it too.[/QUOTE] Except people clone camaros constantly and they made a boat load of them. They'll always be around and they'll never be rare. My SVX on the other hand, you may see 2 or 3 of in your entire lifetime.
[IMG]http://i32.tinypic.com/34g2bfs.jpg[/IMG] hot
[QUOTE=DrMortician;16341105]Except people clone camaros constantly and they made a boat load of them. They'll always be around and they'll never be rare. My SVX on the other hand, you may see 2 or 3 of in your entire lifetime.[/QUOTE] Well I do not live in the U.S so obviously don't see many of them. Here in Australia just about every pre 70's era car is considered valuable. Also, I obviously like the look of 70's muscle cars and couldn't care less about mediocre styled vehicles from the 80's and 90's, but that's just personal opinion. To me the SVX looks pretty awful, typical messy convoluted lines of that era as far as I can see. Do the divides in the windows serve some purpose? All about personal taste anyhow! However I take it they are somehow making body shells from scratch like they seem to do with the mustangs? I can understand how camaro's might not seem very impressive if they are a dime a dozen like mustangs or skylines in the US heh!
[QUOTE=Isotope;16341544]Well I do not live in the U.S so obviously don't see many of them. Here in Australia just about every pre 70's era car is considered valuable. Also, I obviously like the look of 70's muscle cars and couldn't care less about mediocre styled vehicles from the 80's and 90's, but that's just personal opinion. To me the SVX looks pretty awful, typical messy convoluted lines of that era as far as I can see. Do the divides in the windows serve some purpose? All about personal taste anyhow! However I take it they are somehow making body shells from scratch like they seem to do with the mustangs? I can understand how camaro's might not seem very impressive if they are a dime a dozen like mustangs or skylines in the US heh![/QUOTE] The SVX was designed by the same person who designed the delorean and lamborghini countach. It looks a lot like them in person, just more reserved. The windows do serve a purpose. It gives you a massive glass bubble to sit in with hardly anything obstructing your view. It also keeps the wind out of your face when you have the windows down, and lets you have the windows down in the rain. Just about everything on the car was over-engineered and gone over with a fine tooth comb, which is why I fell in love with it the second I sat in it. I've sat in $80,000 mercedes that didn't have nearly the same attention to detail. Hardly anything in the interior is plastic for example, all the trim pieces are padded. The suspension, the engine, the transmission... All amazing and feel like no other car. Why would you give a shit about American cars if you live in Australia anyway? You guys still have decent cars in production, and almost always have. In the 70s cars in america went to shit, you guys kept up with making badass cars till the current day. This is 10000x sexier than [img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/hsv-maloo-r8-ute.jpg[/img] This: [img]http://www.firstgencamaro.com/1968camarofactspics/1968camarocoupe2.gif[/img] And they are a dime a dozen here... I can pick up a trader paper and find a handful of late 60s camaros for $3-10k provided they aren't restored matching numbers cars, they're either drivable or easily fixed up.
[QUOTE=DrMortician;16341811]The SVX was designed by the same person who designed the delorean and lamborghini countach. It looks a lot like them in person, just more reserved. The windows do serve a purpose. It gives you a massive glass bubble to sit in with hardly anything obstructing your view. It also keeps the wind out of your face when you have the windows down, and lets you have the windows down in the rain. Just about everything on the car was over-engineered and gone over with a fine tooth comb, which is why I fell in love with it the second I sat in it. I've sat in $80,000 mercedes that didn't have nearly the same attention to detail. Hardly anything in the interior is plastic for example, all the trim pieces are padded. The suspension, the engine, the transmission... All amazing and feel like no other car. Why would you give a shit about American cars if you live in Australia anyway? You guys still have decent cars in production, and almost always have. In the 70s cars in america went to shit, you guys kept up with making badass cars till the current day. This is 10000x sexier than [img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/hsv-maloo-r8-ute.jpg[/img] This: [img]http://www.firstgencamaro.com/1968camarofactspics/1968camarocoupe2.gif[/img] And they are a dime a dozen here... I can pick up a trader paper and find a handful of late 60s camaros for $3-10k provided they aren't restored matching numbers cars, they're either drivable or easily fixed up.[/QUOTE] I prefer the bottom one
[QUOTE=Hell Strike;16341964]I prefer the bottom one[/QUOTE] As do I, my good man.
[QUOTE=DrMortician;16341811]The SVX was designed by the same person who designed the delorean and lamborghini countach. It looks a lot like them in person, just more reserved. The windows do serve a purpose. It gives you a massive glass bubble to sit in with hardly anything obstructing your view. It also keeps the wind out of your face when you have the windows down, and lets you have the windows down in the rain. Just about everything on the car was over-engineered and gone over with a fine tooth comb, which is why I fell in love with it the second I sat in it. I've sat in $80,000 mercedes that didn't have nearly the same attention to detail. Hardly anything in the interior is plastic for example, all the trim pieces are padded. The suspension, the engine, the transmission... All amazing and feel like no other car. Why would you give a shit about American cars if you live in Australia anyway? You guys still have decent cars in production, and almost always have. In the 70s cars in america went to shit, you guys kept up with making badass cars till the current day. This is 10000x sexier than [url]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/hsv-maloo-r8-ute.jpg[/url] [highlight]<<<OP WARNING UGLY CAR[/highlight] This: [url]http://www.firstgencamaro.com/1968camarofactspics/1968camarocoupe2.gif[/url] [highlight]<<<OP WARNING BADASS SEXY CHARIOT[/highlight] And they are a dime a dozen here... I can pick up a trader paper and find a handful of late 60s camaros for $3-10k provided they aren't restored matching numbers cars, they're either drivable or easily fixed up.[/QUOTE] The top one is hideous, get it out of my thread. Delorean can go to hell too, outside of BTTF it is shittier than a VW Bug.
I'll take......all of them.... [img]http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/assets/resources/2007/09/Muscle_Car_Wars_Detroit.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=madmax678;16342199]I'll take......all of them.... [img]http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/assets/resources/2007/09/Muscle_Car_Wars_Detroit.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] The Mustang takes the cake for me in that pic. That front was just designed perfectly. The Shelby GT500 front is hot as hell!
Bentley Brooklands :flashfap: [img]http://www.tuningnews.net/wallpaper/1024x768/bentley-brooklands-03.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=dcalde78;16346466]Bentley Brooklands :flashfap: [img]http://www.tuningnews.net/wallpaper/1024x768/bentley-brooklands-03.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] :flashfap::flashfap::flashfap::flashfap::flashfap: DAT COLOR
[img]http://www.cybersalt.org/cl_images/1zzzzxa/cars/carairbag.jpg[/img] No safer way.
[QUOTE=slamex;16334839]The car I'm after right now. [img]http://www.sunsetclassics.com/1974-mgb-gt/images/1974-mgb-gt.jpg[/img] Is the nice version. [img]http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs194.snc1/6533_104564914419_801054419_1964729_1353945_n.jpg[/img] [img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs194.snc1/6533_104565429419_801054419_1964736_8356845_n.jpg[/img] The version my mate found in a back alley car dealership 1.8 ltr rear wheel drive with 100hp is pretty much all I can say about it to my knowledge. Doesn't have a high top speed, about 110mph but can reach it damn fast. Several problems however, the insurance on it, since the factors like rear wheel, 1.8ltr and classic car, means the insurance would be fucking over rediculous for me, and secondly I don't have my license yet. But they're asking for £600 for a car that only needs abit of body work, so I'm really concidering it. Pissing rubber bumper aswell because americans..[/QUOTE] My dad's had a few MGs, including Bs. He had was even going to do a V8 swap on one.
[QUOTE=Doozle;16348056]My dad's had a few MGs, including Bs. He had was even going to do a V8 swap on one.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I could grab a v8 for this, but it would be costly swapping the engine over. And this one works perfectly fine as it is. Besides, insurance for this is stupidly expensive as it is, it would be impossible for me to get a v8 insured.
[QUOTE=SHoGuNN3R v2;16260087]Thank you sir. Anyways, can we talk about real cars now and not Anime/Pink shit? Also, incase you missed it. :v: [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.49__01_.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.52.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.51__02_.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.49__03_.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.51__03_.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.50__01_.jpg[/media] [media]http://users.d2k5.com/SHoGuNN3R/files/P140709_16.50.jpg[/media] Take a guess at who owns it. Love you Facepunch. :)[/QUOTE] "My daddy owns a fezza"... Right, bet you can't even drive it as it should be, 360's are tricky bastards. Anyway, Group B Lancia 037: [img]http://i365.photobucket.com/albums/oo91/modmo23/lancia037acropolis19835to4wf.jpg[/img]
This is my car [img]http://joshinthecity.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/ghostbusters-ecto1.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=DrMortician;16341811] This is 10000x sexier than [img]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2006/06/hsv-maloo-r8-ute.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE] UUUUUGH Why would you do that! The new El Camino concept is SO SHITTY compared to the old car. Fucking ask me, I've got an original 1972 SS sitting in my back yard. the new one looks so terrible, its lost what made the car attractive to me.
Why don't you guys like Jeep Wranglers...
I love them. I agreed with you. They will fucking go ANYWHERE.
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