Show me your……………….Fast Cars!!!!!

Spoony – it's a little more involved to convert the rubber bumper cars to chrome, there's a fair few body mods required to house the front lights and take bumpers and grille. The four wings are different to the earlier cars.

I've seen a few done on the cheep using 1/4 bumpers and a little imagination. The front wings have the mountings for the indicators in them, and you'd have to be a real stickler for the look to replace an entire good rear wing just to get RWA's!

Does anyone know the legalities for cars with no bumpers, I guess they'r not required to pass an MOT seeing the number of chavs with plastic body kits and midgets/Bs with none.

And stick on numberplates, yay or nay, or were they outlawed with b&w ones?

Bazza – Where are you based and how much(ish)

Unless your car was manufactured before a certain time, AFAIK, the plates must be standard, not stick on or B&W.

No idea on the legalities of bumpers, but I suspect there are none.

No it's not that simple. Have a good look at those front wings again, there is a huge cut-out when the bumpers are removed. You have the lower part only of the light mount, and a gaping hole above it. The rear wings are different too under the rear light plyinth, on the chrome it is rounded and finished off, your wings will have a huge step, which means a huge gaps when a chrome bumper is introduced. The biggeset problem is the chassis rails at the front, which come into the grille area, these would need to be cut away and reboxed in(welded) to accept a grille. Nothing to do with the arches. Then you have front bumper mounts to fit. It's far from straight forward. I've done a few MGB conversions, there is a kit for them, but nothing for the Midget.

Hi WCA

I am down south I live in a village called Clanfield. Its between Portsmouth and Guidford.

Its not going to be the cheapest westfield as it has a huge spec.

Do you have an email address on the bike bash web site ? I can email you a number and we can talk about it.

Bazzer

ahh, maybe not then.

Quite like the look of the racier midgets (no bumpers and a plain mesh grill). If I've nothing better to do over the winter and it doesnt swallow any more money before then it might make a cool project 🙂

"with the mustang first (in the wet, driving sidesways most of the way!)"

Mine have all done that in the dry as well tbf 🙂

there were two of them … the (first) reason they turned into a passat est is bouncing on the driving seat of the caterham

Old toy sold 5 years ago:

And recently got rid of this and regret it every day…. utterly amazing car:

Gee-Jay – what engines in those?

VR6; Love it…

Where are all the fast cars then? 😆

sofa – a couple of these cars would happily keep up with anything the general public would consider fast. Some are just nippy.

The scooby was just a stock early model turbo one. The caterham was a VX 2.ltr …. pushing about 225 bhp which felt pretty quick in a 600kg car & when you could put your hand flat on the road while sitting in the drivers seta if you had wanted …. in theory just under 4.0 secs for 0-60 put I never abused it that much.

Oddly all the local saxo's never bothered to try to overtake from the traffic lights when I was in the suburu but they all thought they would be faster away than the caterham …. they never were 🙂

Mine – Audi TTC 225 after the weekend at Glentress and Innerleithen.

Went from this:

to this

to this (my favourite by some margin)

and now drive this (arguably the 'best' ownership proposition)

Both of the M3s and my current steed have all ended up with uprated suspension and big brakes, although with 2 small kids now I don't have the time or money for any trackdays other than my annual Nurburgring pilgrimage but my bikes take up what spare time and cash I end up with!

all ended up with uprated suspension and big brakes

At last, someone who knows how to make a car faster without dumping a huge turbo on the side!

You've go to love the E36 with 321bhp of NA power. What are the chavtastic alloys all about though? 🙄

Unsure which ones are chavtastic?! ❓

The green M3 was a 3.0 and 295bhp – the wheels are the standard forged Gt wheels with black centres, and the violet M3 was a 3.2 but with a carbon airbox, remap and racing cats so up from 321bhp to about 350. The wheels on that again were the standard 3 piece Schnitzer racing wheels with 285/30/18 rear tyres (don't miss buying those!)

my toy. had it for years but sadly doesn't get enough use these days…

Awesome car! Always loved the Integrale..

thanks. They are special, it gets attention wherever it is.

I was at the Goodwood Revival this weekend just gone, man, there was some amazing hardware there!

This –

Me too on the Integrale, the amount of time I have spent dreaming of having one of those .. oh well, sometime maybe.

I missed the revival this year, last year was great though

Love Alfa'a and Lancia's

here's my GTV, had it for over 5 yrs and a definate keeper, quite a few 'upgrades'from standard and plenty fast enough.

My BMW 330Ci M Sport. Standard trim it's 270bhp but is going get chipped soon. Limited to 155mph at the moment and 0-60 in 6.5 secs so reasonably quick in standard trim. Love the E46 shape – think it's the best they've done

That Integrale is the mutts nuts. Anyone remember Mike Spence Motorsport, Integrale mecca?!

Now this is proper scary fast…..

My old Elise Sport 190, great on track now replaced with a double pushchair

"My old Elise Sport 190, great on track now replaced with a double pushchair"

*wipes tear from eye*

I know how you feel man…

Room in the garage now for more bikes though 😉

V8 shin print, lovely 'grale

tell me about intergrale ownership, do you think it could be used as an everyday car? I have always wanted on since I saw one aged 11 at rally GB. I recently missed out on a evo 1 that seemed a sound buy.You dont want to part with yours do you?

the elise and exige just look so good. its cool that they come from just down the road.have the americans ever come out with anything that handles well and looks that good for that kind of money? i cant think of anything.

seeing as how my rusty disposable car isnt the slowest up to this point in the thread.. heres a pic of it.uprated suspension with eibach springs and big brake conversion before any turbo`s here too!

http://martin-james.fotopic.net/p38152992.html

A few years ago I owned this:

1330cc with 105bhp, and adjustable shocks all round, then went to this:

Broke down lots, so got this:

Had the Westie for 7 years now!

+1 for the Integrale. Absoloute legend car. IME they always feel very heavy/cumbersome,like you're towing a trailer, UNTIL you start actually driving it, then it all comes alive in an unbeleivable way. A real 10/10ths car.

ChopperT and Swisstony, Alfa, proper cars!!!!

Mrs Surfer has a 147 2.0 Sillyspeed! Good fun!

I know you're all going to say boy-racer shopping car, but a fully built from the sump up 1800cc DOHC VTEC engine, short ratio box with LSD, properly uprated suspension (billet arms, PU bushes, coilovers, whiteline rollbars, cusco braces all over the shop) Big ass brakes (for a little car), cast magnesium alloys, all sound proofing out, light weight carpet and a smattering of rare JDM bits later….

t'was fast to say the least, 234bhp @ just under 8000rpm, 13 second 1/4 miles and low 6's to 60 😀

Integrales look awesome especially that one, I hope I never loose my head and buy one as ownership is meant to be crippling?

I'm building a mk1 golf that will be fastist one day but at the moment I seem to spend my time working on it involves lots of artificial suntan.

Zeds easily wins the drag race here! How much cash has gone into that?

Just getting into the fast car thing myself, when the lease car arrives my ageing Civic VTi is going to be rebuilt, already got a turbo and some rather large brakes. I thought bikes were expensive, cars are a different league!