On a whim, with the fun controllers blessing!!!!

If it’s not a W123 spec Mercedes, you’ve done it wrong! 😉

’69 Camero?

If only!!!!!

Well, what is it then?

rb320 chav machine!!

I want!!

I luv that old xr2 I had two b and f reg ones got rid of last one about five years ago wish I still had it

nice one…
I got a Mondeo the other week, the ST220 estate, and its ACE!

Oh and F reg XR2, my first car (white) I loved that car..! If I could find one in mint condition I’d have it!

Xr in white! Pure chav class!! Love it!!

Actually talking of xr’s I see one most mornings near ambergate and the lad driving it drives like he’s stole it every **** day!!

I just got rid of my Megane 225 Trophy for an automatic Mondeo estate.

I’m off to have a little cry now 🙁

😯 😐

Mint white XR2 here!!!

There’s an absolutely pristine Ford Sierra Cosworth in a garage in Wimborne at the moment. I’d love that car, though I imagine the insurance would be ruinous.

lOving that xr, god I love old school fords!!

That’s not chav, I saw a chrome R8 today! ALL CHROME, even the wheels!!!!!!!!!

you in bradford?

And I shall soon be taking mr r8 on the tight bends!! Chrome boy 😆

Withington.

While you’re busy “taking him tight” he’ll blind you with his bling

it really was very shiny

TFM,

I saw that R8 on Oxford Road in Manchester on Tuesday night.. It is VERY shiny. I did just want to put a load of greasy fingerprints on it.

That XR2 is fantastic bur 4.400!
perhaps not..

Infact thinking about it I left an xr2 outside a police station in Brussels about 8 years ago and never went back for it , my mate said it was there about two years before it vanished , how naughty 😉

there’s something ultim,ately Pleasing about Old school fords!
used to be an Escort cossie that lived a couple of roads behind me, In mallard green i think it was called, I Love those cars!
my best mate when we were just passed tests and properly learning to drive had an old X plate Xr2, had a janspeed system on it he got cheap, wem thought it was bodged as had a weld at the back around the pipe, but found out it wasnt when a mag did a retro feature and had the same system! was Loud, but so much fun!!
another good mate has a S2 rst, very nice but no S1!!!!

mind you for something completely mad,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1972-CITROEN-DYANE-6-YELLOW-HOTROD-CUSTOM-TRACK-DAY-/270716426052?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f07f4d744

Really need one of these in my life!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm scooby

I think I persuaded the fun controller last night that we should get an estate instead of her fiesta, which means I can keep the midget without having to get a 2nd car*! Result!

*doesn’t save any money, the midgets earmarked to have a complete rebuild with big brakes, big anti-roll bars, short springs and telescopic dampers this winter, folowed by a new engine next winter, 220bhp (either tuned 1.8 vvc k-series (getting suprisingly expensive) or 2.0 zetec/duratech which can be had crated for £800) in a car that’ll barely weigh half a ton 🙂

in a car that’ll barely weigh half a ton

Not with all that stuff attached to it it won’t. 🙂

Yes it will, to qualify for club raceing they have to have ballast added upto 625kg IIRC.

Lighter engine (heavier gearbox though), alloy radiator, ditch the spare wheel, ditch the seat adjustment, fiberglass pannels, alloy boot, alloy fuel tank, gaffa tape interior, might fit a roll cage or just keep the roll bar. It’s going to rock my socks 🙂

I’d definately go for a Zetec over a K-series.
K-series are very fragile at anything over 180bhp.
My mate used to race an ex Tomcat challenge 220 turbo, engine used to expire every other meeting on average(was nearly 400bhp though)

WILL BE BACK ON THE ROAD FOR SUMMER!!!

W123 MERC 😉

Why are old cars so much nicer than modern ones 🙁 shame they cost so much. I’d love a mini instead of my Mondeo but mine just hardly goes wrong and when it does its cheap and easy to fix

My first car was a 1275GT Clubman like the one in Seftons post but in metallic purple with a cherry bomb exhaust, happy days 😀

Sefton that mini is lovely 😉

Frontline were doing 1.8 VVC with 220bhp, but the emerald ECU let you switch to ‘only’ 150bhp/5000rpm for ‘normal’ use and a 50bhp lean setting for just driving arround at 40+mpg.

In terms of getting lots of power cheeply the ford engines seems the way to go, plenty of 200+hp examples without much more than a free flowing exhaust and injectors the size of hosepipes.

But like I said, thats for next winter, need to get the chassis ready for it first (or sell it and buy a shell).

Like the pics almost makes that Clubman look as good as a Mini!
thisisnotaspoon – been there and done that, spent way way too much and result not as much fun as my mildly tuned, but lowered and stiffened Orange one 😉

I love these old cars

sold more than the cooper s 😉

& way rarer 😛

🙂

I have owned a 1275GT like that one (in bright yellow) and an XR2 like the one in flip’s post (but in gunmetal grey and I swapped the red trim for blue).

Them were the days.

I occasionally look at older cars but the money they go for is mad. I think I would have a ‘The Professionals’ 3.0S Capri if I got anythign though.

Really need one of these in my life!

the only cool car my dad has owned since I was born, probably why I drive a 106 gti now it’s the only car that I’ve been in since that feels the same amount of fun

My Volvo;

Mmm