Your favourite affordable sports car
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GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
if i wanted a 68 mustang ...ICB said:And just cos the AM V8 is the Brit interpretation of a muscle car doesn't mean it's not the best looking one ever built
then i'd get a 68 mustang...
Re 944 - I hadnt even considered that - good choice, but will depreciate
You can get good 911s - early dog leg carerras and 3.0 SC for sub £10K if you look around - the 2.7s are the worst of the bunch, but should all be sorted and decent by now if they have survived.Say No to targas.
LHD is the way forward for value as I mentioned earlier -
http://www.911uk.com/car.asp?stockid=40430
You can get good 911s - early dog leg carerras and 3.0 SC for sub £10K if you look around - the 2.7s are the worst of the bunch, but should all be sorted and decent by now if they have survived.Say No to targas.
LHD is the way forward for value as I mentioned earlier -
http://www.911uk.com/car.asp?stockid=40430
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
true the only car from that era worth it's salt was the charger... ugly no brakes steering like wrestling an aligator in treacle but an infinately better car....ICB said:
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is there a car you haven't driven, garf..?
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
mmmm
my only compalint is the mark 1 capri body line )tho i accept that this was prolly taken from the challenger and added to the capri...)
this of course is the chrysler reinvention of it ... they are doing to the challenger what ford have done to the gt 40 (although it's just a gt now as is other wise would bea gt 52... )
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
though having got to play with a v16 brm on monday i have to say v6 and v8's seem a tad tame at the moment 
, pic's to follow on a different thread shortly (ie when i can be arsed to sort through them...) the car will be at goodwood at the weekend, for those of you who haven't heard it and are into cars even slightly i suggest you get down there and hear this thing howl...
http://www.forix.com/8w/brmp15.html
for a car from the 1950's it's not half bad as designs go... twinstage super charged based on the spitfires superchargers but scaled down... wheel spins at 180mph described by sterling moss who drove it once as the most scary thing he'd ever driven... was one of the first cars to have disk brakes, a real developement in terms of engineering....
, pic's to follow on a different thread shortly (ie when i can be arsed to sort through them...) the car will be at goodwood at the weekend, for those of you who haven't heard it and are into cars even slightly i suggest you get down there and hear this thing howl... http://www.forix.com/8w/brmp15.html
for a car from the 1950's it's not half bad as designs go... twinstage super charged based on the spitfires superchargers but scaled down... wheel spins at 180mph described by sterling moss who drove it once as the most scary thing he'd ever driven... was one of the first cars to have disk brakes, a real developement in terms of engineering....
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
i have to say it's abotu time that the americans learned to produce the cars they were any good at, interms of design, now if they could learn about handling ride comfort, cornering ablitly, fuel ecomonmy two they'd have an unbeatable car industry... tbh i'm suprised that not one japanse manifaturer has attempted to create their verison of a muscel car. If you look at the mx5 it's clearly a lotus, as the nsx is a ferriari or the toyota psider that's clearly a porsche boxster ... the closest they come is that edgey styling on the evo 7/8 ....
hmm, interesting point, not sure if PoiE could enlighten us further as the doyenne of all things Jap, there's all sorts of exotica produced over there that we never get to see
as far as I'm aware the only car the yanks have produced in recent years that didn't suffer from most of those faults is the 'vette Z06, mostly because the european press slagged it really badly and they went away and tried again, to their credit
massive derail though
as far as I'm aware the only car the yanks have produced in recent years that didn't suffer from most of those faults is the 'vette Z06, mostly because the european press slagged it really badly and they went away and tried again, to their credit
massive derail though
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
ICB said:hmm, interesting point, not sure if PoiE could enlighten us further as the doyenne of all things Jap, there's all sorts of exotica produced over there that we never get to see
as far as I'm aware the only car the yanks have produced in recent years that didn't suffer from most of those faults is the 'vette Z06, mostly because the european press slagged it really badly and they went away and tried again, to their credit
massive derail though
and cos the vette was entered in the american lemans series and got slain as soon as the second race at the real lemans (not petit (us pron per teet
) lemans in the usa) and it got shafted so badly that they had to stick it into the garage about 8 hours in and work on it only getting it out again for the final 4 laps... hee hee
