Stoneleigh... anyone fancy anything other than an Ultima?
Discussion
Since my engineering ability begins and ends at making a tower out of Lego, there was nothing at Stoneleigh that was ever going to inspire me to buy and build a kit car. However, I did have lots of fun wandering around and looking at the various cars on show in the halls and in the club carparks.
My main thoughts were that I was really impressed with the Lancia Stratos (Hawk?) cars in the full rally replica livery (I love the OTT Rally spec look and until recently had an Evo VI Tommy Makinen Edition in full Marlboro works livery.. chav?? moi?)
I also was really taken with the Ferrari Dino cars in one of the main exhibition halls (www.dehavillandmotorcompany) which was a bit of a surprise because don't really "get" the idea of spending a lot of money to make an MR2 look like something that might vaguely resemble a modern Ferrari-ish and I have the same giggle as everyone else when an MR2 based F40 appears on ebay. I did find myself smirking inside when I was looking at the plastic engine bay inserts and pretendy big-disks brakes on the more modern replicas, not to mention the mildly embarrassing rattles when they started up the engines.... but the Dino.... hmmmmmm I liked that!! Funnily enough there was about 10 Porsche Speedster replicas in the club carpark and they also had that air of retro class as well so maybe it is a retro-thing that appeals to me.
Oh yeah... and the beach buggies!! I want a beach buggy!!
Anyone else see anything that they liked the look of?
Jim
My main thoughts were that I was really impressed with the Lancia Stratos (Hawk?) cars in the full rally replica livery (I love the OTT Rally spec look and until recently had an Evo VI Tommy Makinen Edition in full Marlboro works livery.. chav?? moi?)
I also was really taken with the Ferrari Dino cars in one of the main exhibition halls (www.dehavillandmotorcompany) which was a bit of a surprise because don't really "get" the idea of spending a lot of money to make an MR2 look like something that might vaguely resemble a modern Ferrari-ish and I have the same giggle as everyone else when an MR2 based F40 appears on ebay. I did find myself smirking inside when I was looking at the plastic engine bay inserts and pretendy big-disks brakes on the more modern replicas, not to mention the mildly embarrassing rattles when they started up the engines.... but the Dino.... hmmmmmm I liked that!! Funnily enough there was about 10 Porsche Speedster replicas in the club carpark and they also had that air of retro class as well so maybe it is a retro-thing that appeals to me.
Oh yeah... and the beach buggies!! I want a beach buggy!!
Anyone else see anything that they liked the look of?
Jim
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