Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Where would you flog a few strange projects? NOT EBAY as I can't be arsed to waste life dealing with no money idiots.

The cars are projects also weird and wonderful, a panda 4x4 floor pan with mechanicals. A couple of sprigets that are mostly complete (not really sure which bits belong to which car and a choice of engines) but stripped and a Ford Lotus Cortina but unsure of the engine matching the chasis numbers. Not to sure the body is original and not a standard body that has had the Lotus mods added later.

What do you think? Pistonheads, some of the Ford mags for the cortina but the spriget? What way is the minimal hassle and does not involve with lots of people wasting time as I'd have to go to Essex and don't want to annoy the people where the cars are stored as the deal was not to have people trapsing up there?

Ideas?

Retro Rides.

Shame Joe,

Saw this and thought of Saadat.

Awesome pic!

(others rather magnificent also)

"Yes, a car just like this one in the showroom won on Sunday, would you like to start on the paperwork?"

Ha. I quite like looking at the different layout of the steering rack, ARB and engine. You see all these spaceframed track/race cars but they all rely on the original layout mildly adjusted.

This.

Great page.

http://www.carsmoveus.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/hondaf1.jpg

DTM cars always seemed a bit too spaceframey for me. Much preferred BTCC before F1 became slightly less predictable again.

I think its much more relevant when you have to use the same suspension layout and so forth- a saloon car with push-rod suspension is not something I have personally ever seen for sale from Vauxhall, for example.

That is of course for cars that are wearing the same shell as a rep-mobile.

DTM cars are so exaggerated that they look like cartoon versions of the saloon car upon which they are based, so you could argue that no one would expect to find standard bits underneath I suppose.

Still- "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" works better when you can point out that the car you saw Jan Lammers killing it at Brands in is broadly the same as the one on the forecourt outside the dealership.

Of course, if you know about the "TWR Head" on the Volvo 5 cylinder engines then that becomes a bit of a piss-take, but there you go.

And I wish this was available as a print.

Great images FT. Who's done them?

DTM cars always seemed a bit too spaceframey for me. Much preferred BTCC before F1 became slightly less predictable again.

Couldn't disagree more.

DTM makes BTCC look like banger racing imo.

DTM is about "Brand", BTCC is about a specific model.

Great images FT. Who's done them?

No idea I'm afraid, I just nicked them from Tumblr.

Sleeper Anglia. Yum.

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=print&thread=131211

http://vimeo.com/45677704

Goes well with wine.

theres something about driving this as a daily around manchester that made me appreciate my saddle even more.

2ltr audi engine with a racey gearbox/diff and a b@st@ard of a clutch helped.

that mustang/lotus pic is great, tim!

i have just got back from a 700 mile trip to whitby and back in the brockley express. with a recurved dizzy and electronic ignition, the mpg has gone up from ~26 to 31.5. split between motorway and hammering the living suitcase out of it on the a169/171, the car was (almost) flawless.

i also set a new top speed record.

do any of you have a hub-puller i can borrow? changing from wires to bolt-ons and i need to get the rears off.

baby turbo on a methanol slurping 2jz squeezed into a mazda rx2

Clean. And could likely slurp in passing babies. Marvellous.

BRM, sweet work managing 700miles of classic motoring in one hit. Harder than most people appreciate!

Especially when you are at least two sizes too big for the car!

It wasn't one hit, though. 300 there/300 back with a day of caning it around the moors.

The one thing I have learnt this weekend: I need more power.

that mustang/lotus pic is great, tim!

i have just got back from a 700 mile trip to whitby and back in the brockley express. with a recurved dizzy and electronic ignition, the mpg has gone up from ~26 to 31.5. split between motorway and hammering the living suitcase out of it on the a169/171, the car was (almost) flawless.

i also set a new top speed record.

do any of you have a hub-puller i can borrow? changing from wires to bolt-ons and i need to get the rears off.

What size puller? Double or tripple?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l1NuNrWO4M

That sound!

I think its much more relevant when you have to use the same suspension layout and so forth- a saloon car with push-rod suspension is not something I have personally ever seen for sale from Vauxhall, for example.

Does a Rover P6 count?