Show Us Your Old Pride And Joy Cars From Yesteryears
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I always thought that car was from over the pond!
it’s as pure jap as it gets.
A legendary Toyota Supra with a 3L straight six twin turbo 2JZ engine
Like the Skyline is tuneable to over 1000bhp
I know @The Flying Scotsman i still own one buddy I was just referring to the black supra being a left hooker and from the USAWere you a member of .netty back in the day?
A nice example of the facelift, is that Royal Sapphire Blue?
Ah never clocked the left hooker.
Have you done much to the supra?
Yeah your right Drew thats not a picture of my actual car but thats all i could find until i dig out the old albums .
Same colour, RHD , dark tints, 3 piece rims, no side markers on mine , black headlights, relocated indicators , race logic tc , tein coilovers ......
I'd love to still own it .
Storm blue ? Auto or manual? What spec?
I've still got some traction removal kits in stock ....and a front cat and probably more stuff .
I miss mine a lot!
Top man much appreciated yes it’s RSP Royal Sapphire Pearl Blue to give its full title!
No mate not at all it’s 98% nut and bolt original minus the wheels/exhaust/seats
Fair play sounds nice yeah mine is a 1999 TT6 and hasn’t been out in years as I prefer to be in the bus!
I realised I never actually posted a pic of our pride and joy...
Was great fun but I was too tall to fit the roof on so a relatively fair weather car though we did have a lower cover.
Had a Ford Pinto 1600 but we never got around to fitting an electric fan in the nose so the airflow around the radiator wasn't great with the basic shaft mounted fan. Meant you could have a bit of fun but then had to cruise at about 40mph for 10 minutes as that was optimal cooling down speed. We did have the heater fitted so passengers had to endure hot knees as it was quite an effective second radiator.
Only serious flaw with the EXMO was the front wheel arms made of folded stainless; eventually the metal hardened around the top shock/spring mount and it would crack. Luckily I joined the Robin Hood forum and found out before it was an issue and had a local garage fabricate and fit a spreader plate.
It weighed very little, was very low and had big boots; flicking it around country lanes and up hill climbs was a whole lot of fun.
A couple of mine.....the ones I miss
My trusty Corsa B Sport. Only a 1.6 16v, but at 21 that thing was like a rocket to me
Then, I went down the classic route, well...more head gasket failure route lol
Instant regret selling that, the guy who bought it wheelspun all the way up the street. My jaw hit the floor watching it leave
My trusty Corsa B Sport. Only a 1.6 16v, but at 21 that thing was like a rocket to me
Then, I went down the classic route, well...more head gasket failure route lol
Instant regret selling that, the guy who bought it wheelspun all the way up the street. My jaw hit the floor watching it leave
Moved from this thread that Bav and I mildly hijacked through misty eyed reminiscing...
Hey the current vans are not bad, I remember helping a family member out by doing a few runs for them in the works van that was a VW (whatever it was before the Crafter - I was a SAAB nerd at the time so didn't really notice exactly what it was) and using the throttle was like using the bridge telegraph on a steamship - you had to anticipate the power seemingly minutes in advance.
Spent a good number of hours annoying my passenger by whistling and announcing "full ahead engine room" every time we approached a roundabout.
I said I was a nerd...
Hey the current vans are not bad, I remember helping a family member out by doing a few runs for them in the works van that was a VW (whatever it was before the Crafter - I was a SAAB nerd at the time so didn't really notice exactly what it was) and using the throttle was like using the bridge telegraph on a steamship - you had to anticipate the power seemingly minutes in advance.
Spent a good number of hours annoying my passenger by whistling and announcing "full ahead engine room" every time we approached a roundabout.
I said I was a nerd...
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Are you referring to the van or to the Saab here? I remember borrowing my boss's Saab 900 Turbo back in the day - flooring the accelerator was akin to being on the Starship Enterprise on impulse power, a few seconds prior to entering warp-factor 9. Took some getting used to, but highly addictive!
Oh no definitely the van, the 9000s were a dream, only switched to Volvo XC70 when some on a phone in a Fiat Multipla wrote my last one off just after I'd had a ton of "keeping this for then next 100k" work done 3 weeks before by the ex SAAB master tech.
I did take a Viggen for a drive, though I had to be accompanied by a SAAB employee. That was a monster and I kind of wish I had bought one, very much a raw rally setup experience that very brutally made you understand the term "torque steer". Enormous fun though.
on a phone in a Fiat Multipla wrote my last one off just after I'd had a ton of "keeping this for then next 100k" work done 3 weeks before by the ex SAAB master tech.I did take a Viggen for a drive, though I had to be accompanied by a SAAB employee. That was a monster and I kind of wish I had bought one, very much a raw rally setup experience that very brutally made you understand the term "torque steer". Enormous fun though.
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I still have dreams, well nightmares really about my Morris Marina in mustard colour that looked like dog sick. The wheel literally fell of it one day. But, soon after a tractor took the whole side off it. Luckily, the passenger side when I was the only occupant. When scrapped the only thing of value was the battery! My excuse is it was all I could afford at the time.
especially that Defender.
Audi RS2 and Audi RS4. The RS2 was an amazing car for its day - 0-30 in under 2 secs. RS4 was a lot slower and didn’t handle very well.
