Pictures of decently Modified cars [Vol. 2]

[ben5575]

In a similar vein to that beautiful Dodge, I saw Mark Todd's Pontiac GTO hit 199mph at Santa Pod last summer. Sure the funny cars are louder and faster, but for some reason seeing this homebuilt car hit such a stupid speed left a lasting impression on me. And oh my word it looked good!



Sounded nice too...

[PanzerCommander]

ben5575 said:

In a similar vein to that beautiful Dodge, I saw Mark Todd's Pontiac GTO hit 199mph at Santa Pod last summer. Sure the funny cars are louder and faster, but for some reason seeing this homebuilt car hit such a stupid speed left a lasting impression on me. And oh my word it looked good!



Sounded nice too...

Aye its a great looking car that. Its street legal too.

[ben5575]

O/T, nice blog btw. Got my PPL back in '92. Nothing quite like landing away for the first time on your own

[PanzerCommander]

ben5575 said:

O/T, nice blog btw. Got my PPL back in '92. Nothing quite like landing away for the first time on your own

Thanks, its lots of hard work but so enjoyable

[robinessex]

irocfan said:

look at the picture/s




read the article.... 1650 horse power.... <wibble>

http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/12/muscle-car-mee...

I do like cars that seem to have very little done to them, yet look absolutely gorgeous. Makes all the over paid, over rated modern car designers look idiots, unless they’re being compelled to follow the company design philosophy. I often imagine UK cars from the past that would be perfect for this. Jag XJR? http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a... This is as near as I’ve seen on a UK car, anyone any others?




The styling of the Rover is +50yrs ! Looks more modern than anything you can buy now in my opinion !!!

Edited by robinessex on Sunday 24th January 11:24

Edited by robinessex on Sunday 24th January 11:28

[stephen300o]

That Rover looks great. Was thinking the other day how other cars deserve the 'Singer' treatment.

[robinessex]

We had this on our Engineering Design Office office wall.

KISS

Keep It Simple Stupid !!!

[Otter Smacker]

2JZ Powered Corolla:

[Otter Smacker]

Also, another corolla but this 'charged to the extreme

[weeboot]

PanzerCommander said:

ben5575 said:

In a similar vein to that beautiful Dodge, I saw Mark Todd's Pontiac GTO hit 199mph at Santa Pod last summer. Sure the funny cars are louder and faster, but for some reason seeing this homebuilt car hit such a stupid speed left a lasting impression on me. And oh my word it looked good!



Sounded nice too...

Aye its a great looking car that. Its street legal too.

Street legal, yes. Fully home built no.
Tuned by Mark. Yes.
Lovely car, lovely bloke.

[Otter Smacker]

[stephen300o]

Ooh that looks good, seems every rwd Japanese car is going up in value to be given the makeover treatment.

[PanzerCommander]

weeboot said:

PanzerCommander said:

ben5575 said:

In a similar vein to that beautiful Dodge, I saw Mark Todd's Pontiac GTO hit 199mph at Santa Pod last summer. Sure the funny cars are louder and faster, but for some reason seeing this homebuilt car hit such a stupid speed left a lasting impression on me. And oh my word it looked good!



Sounded nice too...

Aye its a great looking car that. Its street legal too.

Street legal, yes. Fully home built no.
Tuned by Mark. Yes.
Lovely car, lovely bloke.

When you get to that level of race car performance; fully home built isn't always possible unless your day job is building MSA/FIA taggable race car chassis

[ben5575]

Ok ok, so not home built as in home built but home built as in not a professional race car outfit a la the euro funny car teams.

Point is it's a picture and it's a decently modified car as per the thread title.

Ok ok so when I say modified car, I mean modified car in the sense that it was built from scratch....

[DannyScene]

Aren't all cars built from scratch?

[PanzerCommander]

ben5575 said:

Ok ok, so not home built as in home built but home built as in not a professional race car outfit a la the euro funny car teams.

Point is it's a picture and it's a decently modified car as per the thread title.

Ok ok so when I say modified car, I mean modified car in the sense that it was built from scratch....

No it is a modified car. It started life as a stock Pontiac GTO

[ben5575]

Oh you guys

[Otter Smacker]

Newer image of it.

LS1 Turbo powered Ford LTD has apparently achieved a 9 second standing 1/4 @ 144MPH.

Edited by Otter Smacker on Sunday 31st January 21:54

[Gilhooligan]

Otter Smacker said:

Newer image of it.

LS1 Turbo powered Ford LTD has apparently achieved a 9 second standing 1/4 @ 150MPH.

Edited by Otter Smacker on Sunday 31st January 18:46

Where's the turbo?

[Otter Smacker]

The only information I can see from the sources about the location, is that the Precision billet 7675 turbo is hidden .

Vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1fiKVFrYGM

About http://www.lsxtv.com/news/video-nine-second-lsx-sl...

Edited by Otter Smacker on Sunday 31st January 22:15