'Max Power girls'

[slipstream 1985]

Defcon5 said:

Only car I remember is a blue Saxo VTS with some kind of 666 theme.

triple spot lights in the bumper designed by the owner.

[007 VXR]

Easternlight said:

Coker said:

Chunkychucky said:

Jackie Degg...

Bashed plenty out over her when I was a teen.


She signed a copy of this for me at some show or another. I think I loved her.


Probably NSFW

http://static.abposters.com/image/460/posters/jakk...

Typical dumb blond doesn't even know how to sit on a sofa

Looks to be in the right position if you ask me

[Mr Happy]

slipstream 1985 said:

Defcon5 said:

Only car I remember is a blue Saxo VTS with some kind of 666 theme.

triple spot lights in the bumper designed by the owner.

The whole kit was, if it's the one I'm thinking of...

The 'Diavolo' kit rings a distant bell?

[AlexRS2782]

Mr Happy said:

slipstream 1985 said:

Defcon5 said:

Only car I remember is a blue Saxo VTS with some kind of 666 theme.

triple spot lights in the bumper designed by the owner.

The whole kit was, if it's the one I'm thinking of...

The 'Diavolo' kit rings a distant bell?

That's the one - few pics on the link below for anyone who wants to remember the "glory days"

http://www.barryboys.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=...

Although that kit was quite sedate when you consider what other monstrosities were being created at the time by companies like Delta Styling with their weird fibreglass creations, and also various cars that were wearing weird headlight swaps such as a Renault 5 GT Turbo with Mk4 Golf headlights.

[lee_fr200]

When you look at how busy the scene was and how busy max power live was it does make you wonder where everything has gone because people are still modifying cars and still go to shows and max power was one of the biggest mags...

[gilbo]

I used to love those days! Had a few feature cars in Fast car, Revs, Redline. Even a cover car and calendar too! Would love to know if any of my old cars still survive. I know one does and has a thread on here, Pug 106 4x4 Cosworth Dimma. Had that featured in PPC too.
I remember fast car wanting to use a model for one of the shoots on a Nova I built with a Calibra turbo lump. My mrs went ballistic
They were halcyon days...but glad I grew out of it!

[Digitalize]

Social Media and tastes changing.

There are still big magazines out there, just nowhere near the scale that Max Power had (Over 200,000 magazines sold some months)

[Digitalize]

Social Media and tastes changing.

There are still big magazines out there, just nowhere near the scale that Max Power had (Over 200,000 magazines sold some months)

[Otispunkmeyer]

Negative Creep said:

C.A.R. said:

Insurance and cheap desirable crap cars killed the modifying scene. Kids who can afford insurance these days are probably poncing around in a limited edition Corsa. The same model their mates have.

Shame, I miss it (the modifying scene) even though you had to wade through lots of really sh*t cars to actually find something appealing.

I'm not condoning it, but certainly when I was younger few people bothered to declare their mods since the increases in premiums made the risk worthwhile and I'm sure it's still widespread today. Not to mention the increasing complexity of modern cars. Fitting a sub and amp used to be a job that could be done in a few hours, now you'd have to take half the dash apart. No more popping down the scrappy and pulling bits off a higher spec model (normally teetering on top of a stack of 3 other cars) either

Edited by Negative Creep on Sunday 1st March 23:01

Indeed, in my old shed I could easily go to Halfords, grab a sub, amp, wires and a DIN head unit and get to work.

In my Honda, a DIN head unit wouldn't even begin to fit! I'd need a facia adapter for the weird contours of the dash, adapter cables to make it connect. I'd have to then store the old headunit in the glove box so that I didn't lose functionality of the display that shows you the HVAC settings...

In other words major effort and expense (would need a double DIN unit as well) for something that looks cack.

[soad]

gazz81 said:

Citrine yellow? Don't think two rear spoilers were needed for that Carlton...

[Don1]

I brought my Escort Cosworth because of this magazine - GGR, big turbo, bling engine bay..... and a total disappointment.

Ho hum.

[robsco]

My strongest memory of Max Power was an article on whether a nice car could get you laid. So, they tracked down the ugliest man they could find (teeth rotting or missing and the works), lent him a Civic that was modified to the nines and then took him to a cruise. Once there, they approached women and asked them whether they'd shag him - after all, look at his motor? It was cringeworthy, but as a teenager, quite amusing at the time. The answers from the women were unequivocally no.

[s m]

soad said:

gazz81 said:

Citrine yellow? Don't think two rear spoilers were needed for that Carlton...

The local car stereo place fitted that out - I remember looking around it when I went to buy a new head unit

[SPD14]

gazz81 said:

Haha, I remember that! That's when Max Power was at its best, before it turned into a poor Razzle rip-off!

Having passed my test in '94, I was obsessed with Max Power, whilst driving around in my rust-bucket Mk2 Fiesta I was desperate for some TSW 3 spokes like on Project Thunder, they were sooooo cool!

I even did a mock Max Power spread as part of my design coursework at college in '96, my Fiesta had never looked so good!

[daddy cool]

Strawman said:

graeme4130 said:

it used to be their cruise patrol or something similarly badly named with the topless girls. They'd attend car meets at Mcdonalds and get barely legal girls to get their tits out. Can't imagine that working in todays sexual discrimination obsessed society

I don't think it is just anti- sexual discrimination but also post; Jimmy Saville, Rotherham and Oxford child sex abuse rings, anti grooming legislation etc. When you say 'barely legal' how did they determine how old the 'girls' were, just asked them with no need for ID?

I have a few copies of Max Power (c.1998). I was clearing cupboards out the other day and went to the backpage cruise babes bit, and next to one filly that had her top pulled up it said "Age: 17".

ooof.

Think you have to be 18 now to have nude pictures published.

[Rich_W]

There was a story from the editor way back whenever. A girls mum had seen her getting them out for the mag. Only she was 15.

The editor said he could hear the cell crashing shut in his mind. But to be fair to the mum, she was more angry at her daughter so she suggested they check a bit more thoroughly in future and her daughter would be getting a massive bking for her trouble!

[TheBigBadWolf]

Does anyone know what this girls name is, she was on the cover of the Max Power Tits'N'Turbos 2003 DVD box.

[Evolved]

aka_kerrly said:

Oh the good ol days!

I've still got a few old copies of Max Power floating around in the bathroom car magazine library (assume everyone has one?)

As a young teenager in pre internet days getting a copy of MP was about as close as you could get to easily accessible porn.

Were you not tall enough to reach the top shelf?

[Evolved]

aka_kerrly said:

Oh the good ol days!

I've still got a few old copies of Max Power floating around in the bathroom car magazine library (assume everyone has one?)

As a young teenager in pre internet days getting a copy of MP was about as close as you could get to easily accessible porn.

Were you not tall enough to reach the top shelf?

[Evolved]

md. said:

Got my first Max Power mag in May 96, it had a banana yellow Escort Cosworth owned by a french bird on the front!
Anyone remember some of Jamie Shaws creations? Gold Cerb and Blue 5 turbo stick in my mind!

I remember that Cossie as it had a pullout poster that had pride of place on my wall! Was that into the Escort Cosworth I wrote a piece on it for my art history project hahaha... What the hell was I thinking?!