Cars you wish you'd kept.

[Agent Orange]

speedtwelve said:

I ended-up with a mechanically pristine VR6 with Schrick VGI inlet-manifold, Schrick cams, AMD throttle-body, AMD Stage II chip, uprated brakes, and rebushed all-round with new Koni suspension was a bonus.

Exactly the same as mine. Although I changed the VGI for a VW Motorsport VSR. What cams? Had 268s on mine that really worked well though most went 260 from memory. Scott, Nathan and Geoff saw a fair old bit of my cash back then.

[speedtwelve]

Agent Orange said:

speedtwelve said:

I ended-up with a mechanically pristine VR6 with Schrick VGI inlet-manifold, Schrick cams, AMD throttle-body, AMD Stage II chip, uprated brakes, and rebushed all-round with new Koni suspension was a bonus.

Exactly the same as mine. Although I changed the VGI for a VW Motorsport VSR. What cams? Had 268s on mine that really worked well though most went 260 from memory. Scott, Nathan and Geoff saw a fair old bit of my cash back then.

Schrick 268s on mine. AMD fettled it originally, but it was worked on latterly by Vince at Stealth. Despite a complete engine rebuild top and bottom it never quite gave the results on the dyno; 220bhp at the fly was about as good as it got. Plenty of torque and in-gear performance, though. JonRB seemed to get better results from a similar setup on his Corrado.

[V8Wagon]

Oh yeah....my S6.

'twas a beautiful machine. Such a well built quality product...it made quite a nice noise too!

subsequently replaced with a diesel Vectra estate which I loathed and sold almost immediately, followed by a Honda Accord estate which is 'nice but dull'

[oldcynic]

Audi S2.

Although on balance it was cracking up at 100K miles when I sold it, and I've covered at least 250K miles since so I'm not sure it would have lasted unless I dry stored it for the last 10 years. I'm not sure I could have owned the car and not driven it.

[V8Wagon]

oldcynic said:

Audi S2.

Although on balance it was cracking up at 100K miles when I sold it, and I've covered at least 250K miles since so I'm not sure it would have lasted unless I dry stored it for the last 10 years. I'm not sure I could have owned the car and not driven it.

Lovely....my colleague has one and I'm just waiting in the wings to pounce when he decides he needs something more modern!

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

I bought a Jeep Wrangler in 2006, had some great fun in it, and sold it 2 years later to use the money to finance a deposit on a Porsche 911. As soon as I'd sold it, I was gutted, and I missed it very much. Looked like this:



Luckily I sold it to a mate, who in the meantime did a lot of work to it making it a bit of an off-road King.

Last year, he phoned me and told me it was up for sale again - did I want it back?

Damn straight I did! Was back on my driveway within a day. Now looking like this!



I think it will stay with me for life now

[Dusty964]

My beloved Westfield. 1600 x flow, drove it as a daily for over a year, went to le mans in it twice.
Sold it to a very good mate and ended up driving it to le mans again as he got run over the night before we left. Got back from the trip and it was put away 'for a while'. 9 years later, it's still in a container, on a farm, unused.
I have some great memories of the car, and the various things I got up to whilst I owned it.

[ninjacost]

964 turbo exclusive its worth a lot more than i sold it for now:-(

[boobles]

My first Elise.

[SLacKer]

My SLK32 AMG



Saw it on Wheeler Dealers intro last week which was a bit of a downer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4D3VQ-My1U&fea...

[RDMcG]

Lancia Fulvia HF

911S

E39 M5

[thescamper]

Moggy Minor Traveller fitted with a Guy Croft tuned 2L Fiat Twink.

[Agent Orange]

speedtwelve said:

Schrick 268s on mine. AMD fettled it originally, but it was worked on latterly by Vince at Stealth. Despite a complete engine rebuild top and bottom it never quite gave the results on the dyno; 220bhp at the fly was about as good as it got. Plenty of torque and in-gear performance, though. JonRB seemed to get better results from a similar setup on his Corrado.

Mine topped at 229bhp on the AMD dyno but like you say plenty of torque and in gear performance. Those mods transformed the VR6. Yep JonRB spoke/emailed me about the mods when he was doing his. Loved that car!

If you were in search of pure hp though you needed to go the route Guy H and Tony C-I went with a supercharger. World of pain that route though!

Kieron

[GregMac]

[gfunk]

Veilside c1 r32 gtr

Porsche 930

Pulsar gtir

UNO turbo first car good memories.

[BaronVonVaderham]

Not me but various family members:

- E28 M535i in Silver. C-reg.

- Lancia Delta HF Integrale, previous owner was a Mr R. Atkinson, was chipped/modded in some way by said previous owner and spent a lot of time in the garage being repaired as a result!

Edited by BaronVonVaderham on Wednesday 14th November 13:10

[Rawhide]

I had a completely mint standard (no modifications at all) Renault 5 GT Turbo. I don't think such a car exists anymore

Furthermore it was incredibly reliable in standard form even maintained by an 18 year old doing his own spannering.

[schmalex]

My last car. Mercedes CLK500. They look nothing special, but with the turbine smooth 5.0 V8, it went like an absolute rocketship. In 2 years and 60,000 miles absolutely nothing went wrong with it. I still kick myself everyday for trading it in.

[RossP]

This one:

[V8s ONLY]

Aston DB5 Convertible,now worth 50 times what I paid for it.
Overfinch Range Rover Classic,would out drag most things in the wet,even with a caravan on the back.