Most terrifying car you ever rode in.....
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Mine was a nova than belonged to a friend of my dad's. But not the nova you're probably thinking of...
http://www.jmarchitect.ie/john/vwnova/terenure.jpg
Yep, just like that but in purple.
This was a vw beetle based kit-car from the 1970's, so as you'd expect you have beetle chassis, suspension, brakes, etc, only in this particular example the beetle engine had been swapped for an early 911 engine!!
Took me for a blast round his estate and back, a 911 engine powering half a ton of flimsy fibreglass was quick indeed!! I saw a ton on the speedo in what can't have been much more than half a mile of acceleration. No rollcage or anything like that, not even any seatbelts! Oh yeah, still on standard vw drum brakes too. Hooning it round corners like we're on a rally stage.
Also, we're talking about minor housing estate roads with parked cars everywhere, cats, children etc around, this guy was a proper lunatic!!
The whole car shook, wobbled and vibrated, the closed hydraulic 'roof' started to part company with the rest of the car past 50 or so. I'm sure I saw a couple of bits of daylight through the floor too. There was a very very strong whiff of petrol. It did sound good though through (what looked like) six dirty great carburretors...
As a young teenager at the time I thought it was awesome, only sometime later on I realized just how bloody dangerous the whole experience was!
So what about you lot then?? I bet there's some damn good stories on here.....
http://www.jmarchitect.ie/john/vwnova/terenure.jpg
Yep, just like that but in purple.
This was a vw beetle based kit-car from the 1970's, so as you'd expect you have beetle chassis, suspension, brakes, etc, only in this particular example the beetle engine had been swapped for an early 911 engine!!
Took me for a blast round his estate and back, a 911 engine powering half a ton of flimsy fibreglass was quick indeed!! I saw a ton on the speedo in what can't have been much more than half a mile of acceleration. No rollcage or anything like that, not even any seatbelts! Oh yeah, still on standard vw drum brakes too. Hooning it round corners like we're on a rally stage.
Also, we're talking about minor housing estate roads with parked cars everywhere, cats, children etc around, this guy was a proper lunatic!!
The whole car shook, wobbled and vibrated, the closed hydraulic 'roof' started to part company with the rest of the car past 50 or so. I'm sure I saw a couple of bits of daylight through the floor too. There was a very very strong whiff of petrol. It did sound good though through (what looked like) six dirty great carburretors...
As a young teenager at the time I thought it was awesome, only sometime later on I realized just how bloody dangerous the whole experience was!
So what about you lot then?? I bet there's some damn good stories on here.....
My mates Australian touring car, Ford Falcon.
I hadn't been scared in a car for about 6-7 years before my ride in that around Cadwell.
Also, same mates 60's muscle car. 10 sec quarters, wheelies off the line! Road legal too.
Also on a lesser scale, my little track car. I get the shakes at the start of every trackday. Twitchy little bugger.
I hadn't been scared in a car for about 6-7 years before my ride in that around Cadwell.
Also, same mates 60's muscle car. 10 sec quarters, wheelies off the line! Road legal too.
Also on a lesser scale, my little track car. I get the shakes at the start of every trackday. Twitchy little bugger.
A early 1981 mini that had been 'done up' by a mate. Usual stuff - peco exhaust and a 1.3 metro engine in it. Only problem was the fuel pump was in the glove box....and it was leaking. 
oh yes....and every time you turned left you could see the road below due to the lack of a floorpan in the passenger side
absolute death trap with ended up wrong side of a hedge eventually and was thankfully written off with no major injury
oh yes....and every time you turned left you could see the road below due to the lack of a floorpan in the passenger side
absolute death trap with ended up wrong side of a hedge eventually and was thankfully written off with no major injury
Either of the 2 following:
1) when 17, mate's 106 1100cc 5up down dual carriage-way when at around a lepton downhill he decided to tell us that it'd failed MOT the day before on 3bald tyres and the brakes being shafted. And had some "wheel-bearing issues". 2 of us swore that if we made it to the base of the 4mile long hill apropriately named "Mortal Ash" we would indeed slap him...... we did just make it, with the large roundabout at the base looming rapidly and him skating around on the damp tarmac whilst we emptied out bowels quietly.
2) my own 200SX, me driving, when all of a sudden I discovered black ice on the outside lane of the m180...... Car weighed nowt, low pro's on 18s about 9inches wide (or 9.5" cant remember) and suddenly I was sideways. Luckily I was solo, corrected the issue, and went home at 40mph quietly shaking.
1) when 17, mate's 106 1100cc 5up down dual carriage-way when at around a lepton downhill he decided to tell us that it'd failed MOT the day before on 3bald tyres and the brakes being shafted. And had some "wheel-bearing issues". 2 of us swore that if we made it to the base of the 4mile long hill apropriately named "Mortal Ash" we would indeed slap him...... we did just make it, with the large roundabout at the base looming rapidly and him skating around on the damp tarmac whilst we emptied out bowels quietly.
2) my own 200SX, me driving, when all of a sudden I discovered black ice on the outside lane of the m180...... Car weighed nowt, low pro's on 18s about 9inches wide (or 9.5" cant remember) and suddenly I was sideways. Luckily I was solo, corrected the issue, and went home at 40mph quietly shaking.
"friend" at college in his clapped out 1.3 BROWN mk3 Escort. Thrashing the s
t out of his car down a hill (with speedbumps) showing off. He had NO ability behind the wheel, and he didn't "allow" for any other road users/pedestrians appearing suddenly. When we got to the T junction at the bottom of this hill. He outbraked himself I was genuinely scared! Proper !
He's not a friend anymore. And I gather he now lives in Newcastle so he's your problem now!
t out of his car down a hill (with speedbumps) showing off. He had NO ability behind the wheel, and he didn't "allow" for any other road users/pedestrians appearing suddenly. When we got to the T junction at the bottom of this hill. He outbraked himself I was genuinely scared! Proper !He's not a friend anymore. And I gather he now lives in Newcastle so he's your problem now!
marky911 said:
My mates Australian touring car, Ford Falcon.
I hadn't been scared in a car for about 6-7 years before my ride in that around Cadwell.
Also, same mates 60's muscle car. 10 sec quarters, wheelies off the line! Road legal too.
Also on a lesser scale, my little track car. I get the shakes at the start of every trackday. Twitchy little bugger.
Wouldn't be a certain actor would it? Or is it just me grabbing wrong end of the stick?I hadn't been scared in a car for about 6-7 years before my ride in that around Cadwell.
Also, same mates 60's muscle car. 10 sec quarters, wheelies off the line! Road legal too.
Also on a lesser scale, my little track car. I get the shakes at the start of every trackday. Twitchy little bugger.
My friends 205 1.1, the body roll in that is equal to those fairground rides where the person on the inside ends up crushing you alive. The car was never losing it around corners, however ive probably bent the floor pan with the ammount of pressure I put through my feet in fear.
An ex-colleagues 1.3 Ford Capri.
He didn't know how to demist the windscreen, so wiped it with his snotty hand.
The passenger door would fly open on bends randomly.
The suspension was st, it managed to let every bump through, whilst also being 'floaty' for the authentic car sickness experience.
The fuel gauge didn't work, and he ran out of petrol with me in it in pissing rain on the way to work, in the middle of nowhere. Twice........
Mind you, he saw it as an upgrade from his Skoda.
He didn't know how to demist the windscreen, so wiped it with his snotty hand.
The passenger door would fly open on bends randomly.
The suspension was s
t, it managed to let every bump through, whilst also being 'floaty' for the authentic car sickness experience.The fuel gauge didn't work, and he ran out of petrol with me in it in pissing rain on the way to work, in the middle of nowhere. Twice........
Mind you, he saw it as an upgrade from his Skoda.
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