RE: Shed Of The Week

[astrsxi77]

joz8968 said:

astrsxi77 said:

Twincam16 said:

chocolatebruce said:

I may be being stupid, but where does it say 12 valve??

Yeah, I thought all the GSI 3000s were 24v

The first ones up until about 90 were the 12v straight six (I think as found in the Monza et al) but after that, they plonked the new 24v head on along with Dual Ram induction (two airflow metres!!!)

Argh. You just answered my question a tad before my post

Hehe. Sorry, I'm a real Vaux geek!

[JaymzDead]

disco1 said:

This just got me thinking:

Does anyone here remember Max Powers 'Project Carlton'?

3 spoke alloys, horrible cream/yellow paint job...etc..etc

Unfortunately yes, the Pink Mk 5 MRC style Escort they did was just as tragic!

[joz8968]

disco1 said:

This just got me thinking:

Does anyone here remember Max Powers 'Project Carlton'?

3 spoke alloys, horrible cream/yellow paint job...etc..etc

Totally. Also do you remember the Escort (was it a cherry/blackcurrent colour and was it based around Cosworth running gear?). I was tooling around in Braintree in my Integrale Evo one summer's night when the flaming thing flew past me as if it had a rocket on full-reheat strapped to it! The nut.

[joz8968]

JaymzDead said:

disco1 said:

This just got me thinking:

Does anyone here remember Max Powers 'Project Carlton'?

3 spoke alloys, horrible cream/yellow paint job...etc..etc

Unfortunately yes, the Pink Mk 5 MRC style Escort they did was just as tragic!

I don't believe it!!! Beaten to it again in the same thread!

[joz8968]

Sorry to go off topic, but the coup de gras re. Max Power's cars had to be the Renault 9 (or was it an 11?) with the mild re-boost and the R19 (or was it the Laguna?) touring cars' contemporary yellow/blue/'RENAULT' livery! (I'm ashamed to say that I quite liked it, as I had an R5 turbo at the time ...)

[Motown Junk]

Do these have IRS or live axle?

[Timberwolf]

disco1 said:

Does anyone here remember Max Powers 'Project Carlton'?

I quite liked Project Thunder . It would have been better in just solid yellow rather than that dodgy two-tone nonsense, and the three-spokes were vile then and are vile and horribly dated now.

IIRC someone won it, then stacked it within a couple of months.

[69elan+2]

Timberwolf said:

IIRC someone won it, then stacked it within a couple of months.

Yep - Shop window too, so I was told.

Back on thread tho - ummm thats a tempting oldschoolcruiser!

What colours did they come in? I always fancied a white Cav GSi - I was a bit too young for the 'proffesional holigan' image of a Calton at the time.

[h4muf]

I loved my 24v gsi to bits,it was the auto but it used to drift lovely.

Waft around in total comfort,lcd dash etc

Once on the m1,it changed into top at 142 leptons!

Would have still had it except for it was a right little gas guzzler!

Apparently the manuals were alot better.

[D_T_W]

I actually looked into buying one of these last year for the winter, purely becuase it would've been a hoot on wet/slippy roundabouts. I was on the look out for a 24v manual though, they are bloody hard to come by in decent nick. I did go and look at 1, it was mechanically sound but the rear arches were almost non existant with rust, didn't fancy what else might be rusted through so i passed on it. If i could find a tidy one with decent body work, 24v manual, then i'd be on it like a shot!

[Phil Dicky]

astrsxi77 said:

joz8968 said:

astrsxi77 said:

Twincam16 said:

chocolatebruce said:

I may be being stupid, but where does it say 12 valve??

Yeah, I thought all the GSI 3000s were 24v

The first ones up until about 90 were the 12v straight six (I think as found in the Monza et al) but after that, they plonked the new 24v head on along with Dual Ram induction (two airflow metres!!!)

Argh. You just answered my question a tad before my post

Hehe. Sorry, I'm a real Vaux geek!

12V had a single oval tail pipe, 24V had 2 squareish ones....saw 12V on the M1 a few weeks ago, brought back the memories..

[jackpearson]

Haha my dad used to have a gsi3000

Same colour as teh lotus carlton

does good dounts?

[Sam_68]

Motown Junk said:

Do these have IRS or live axle?

IRS. Semi-trailing arms with an extra control link over the non-GSi Carltons, IIRC.

[Sam_68]

h4muf said:

Would have still had it except for it was a right little gas guzzler!

Apparently the manuals were a lot better.

Were they?

I used to get about 22-23mpg out of mine, so I hate to think what you were getting from an Auto if they are much worse!?

[flattotheboards]

cqueen said:

You think thats a bargin? My car should be shed of the year!

I bought a Saab 1999 3.0 V6 turbo (at auction) with 120k and FSH, lovely condition throughout for.. £1000.

Let the good times roll...

now thats a bargain.

[traffman]

A friend of mine had a 24v manual in white many years ago , it came equipped with donut tastic slip diff on the rear aswell.
I smoked around in it a couple of times and loved it. He surprised a few cosworth owners aswell i believe.
Strangely though he mentioned the auto box one being quicker?

[britten_mark]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

???

It has mismatching wheels front to back (nice), 200 quid dearer and it's in Ireland...

[Li Moo Bai]

IMO these cars were very impressive in their day.

Dad had a 2.0i as a co. car that I got to learn in. Later on he got a 3.0L which was even better.

Just superbly comfortable and quiet yet deceptively quick

HOWEVER, I can't help thinking you will get an Omega for shed money (I did a couple of years ago) which is of course an improvement over the Carlton in most respects.

[Hooli]

Timberwolf said:

disco1 said:

Does anyone here remember Max Powers 'Project Carlton'?

I quite liked Project Thunder . It would have been better in just solid yellow rather than that dodgy two-tone nonsense, and the three-spokes were vile then and are vile and horribly dated now.

IIRC someone won it, then stacked it within a couple of months.

project thunder could have been so good, then they put those rims & way too much stereo in it. I'm sure it was stacked too, i seem to remember something about a record shop's front window being the target as well.

[SS HSV]

Pissed On Head said:

It's fast , it's rear drive , it's bright red and it's made by Vauxhall .

Piss off troll. You will make no friends with that comment. Not a good way to start your PH history.