What is special about your normal car

[davidcharles]

my old R33 GTR was a uk car and was originally plated as "R1 GTR" and was used a lot in press shots and magazine reviews...!!!!

its such a shame i blew it up 18months ago and had to sell it....

[scarble]

NateWM said:

My old Mondeo ST220 was used in an attempted bank robbery and was once caught full of drugs at the Dover port. Ironically, it was also once an unmarked fast response vehicle for West Mercia!

Sometimes they're used after they've been seized. Would be bizarre if it were police vehicle first, though I suppose buying ex-police is a cheap and easy way of finding discreet performance cars

[Flawless Victory]

matt21 said:

Flawless Victory said:

So your VIN is DC2-1100001? Or is your numbered plaque 0001?

My DC2 plaque was 2762, which didn't match the VIN number.

So if your plaque is 0001, it's just the numbered plaque the interior-assembly guy grabbed at random out of the plaque bin.

Granted. Plaque is 0001. Chassis number 30. Engine number 4.

Letter from Honda who confirm chassis and engine do not start at 1. It might not literally be the first in the true sense, but still pretty chuffed.

How can a UKDM car be chassis number 30 and engine number 4, when Honda built over 13,000 JDM models before the UKDM was launched here?

[RobCrezz]

Flawless Victory said:

matt21 said:

Flawless Victory said:

So your VIN is DC2-1100001? Or is your numbered plaque 0001?

My DC2 plaque was 2762, which didn't match the VIN number.

So if your plaque is 0001, it's just the numbered plaque the interior-assembly guy grabbed at random out of the plaque bin.

Granted. Plaque is 0001. Chassis number 30. Engine number 4.

Letter from Honda who confirm chassis and engine do not start at 1. It might not literally be the first in the true sense, but still pretty chuffed.

How can a UKDM car be chassis number 30 and engine number 4, when Honda built over 13,000 JDM models before the UKDM was launched here?

How do you know his is a UKDM DC2?

[Flawless Victory]

RobCrezz said:

How do you know his is a UKDM DC2?

I guess you didn't read the OP.

matt21 said:

Do you have something special or unique about your car.

Ill start, my ITR DC2 UKDM is chassis number 1. Always a good talking point!

[Noesph]

A fully standard (i.e not chaved up) peugeot 106

weird spec though, I think it might be one of the first mpi (silver top) tu engines, but its got 3 stud wheels, with a 21mm diameter anti roll bar on the front, and 19mm on the back. But it hasn't got powersteering, electric windows, sunroof, 4 stud wheels etc that they all got 6 months later.

[iggysport]

Rostfritt said:

My throttle linkage is held together with a paperclip, after falling apart on a busy roundabout. Probably held together better than it was originally.

Gotta love a nice cheap fix if the tie snaps i'll just add another

[iggysport]

BorkFactor said:

My car was made on the 5th of June 1998, and I was born on the 5th of June 1992

It is also one of the very first E46's, which I like

I was also born 05/06/1992

[RDMcG]

I have the most powerful Smart on the planet.

[scarble]

Noesph said:

A fully standard (i.e not chaved up) peugeot 106
weird spec though, I think it might be one of the first mpi (silver top) tu engines, but its got 3 stud wheels, with a 21mm diameter anti roll bar on the front, and 19mm on the back. But it hasn't got powersteering, electric windows, sunroof, 4 stud wheels etc that they all got 6 months later.

Interesting. There were a few funny version like the Roland Garros (although that was phase 2?)

iggysport said:

Gotta love a nice cheap fix if the tie snaps i'll just add another

When the clutch adjuster qaudrant went on my Escort the RAC chappy came out and on hearing I had to get to a meeting 50 miles away first thing in the morning fixed it with two jubilee clips and a random bracket off something. Got me home but wasn't completely secure so I spent hours filing a slot in a collar off a paint roller to back it up. The clutch was superbly firm and I was a little disappointed when I got it fixed a week later.

[iggysport]

scarble said:

When the clutch adjuster qaudrant went on my Escort the RAC chappy came out and on hearing I had to get to a meeting 50 miles away first thing in the morning fixed it with two jubilee clips and a random bracket off something. Got me home but wasn't completely secure so I spent hours filing a slot in a collar off a paint roller to back it up. The clutch was superbly firm and I was a little disappointed when I got it fixed a week later.

Quality bodge

[RobCrezz]

Flawless Victory said:

RobCrezz said:

How do you know his is a UKDM DC2?

I guess you didn't read the OP.

matt21 said:

Do you have something special or unique about your car.

Ill start, my ITR DC2 UKDM is chassis number 1. Always a good talking point!

Thats how!

[Twincam16]

Noesph said:

A fully standard (i.e not chaved up) peugeot 106

weird spec though, I think it might be one of the first mpi (silver top) tu engines, but its got 3 stud wheels, with a 21mm diameter anti roll bar on the front, and 19mm on the back. But it hasn't got powersteering, electric windows, sunroof, 4 stud wheels etc that they all got 6 months later.

What colour and spec is it? A mate of mine had a BRG 106 Independence in exactly the same spec. Created problems when he came to service it and found the engine under the bonnet didn't resemble the one in the owner's manual. He always felt it had an awful lot more power than it was supposed to as well.

[matt21]

GroundEffect said:

Oh so someone actually bought #1? It'd been for sale for a while

My Z4M doesn't have anything unique about it really...it doesn't need to. It's awesome anyway.

haha when was that!

its pretty mint these days. 111k.

[matt21]

Flawless Victory said:

How can a UKDM car be chassis number 30 and engine number 4, when Honda built over 13,000 JDM models before the UKDM was launched here?

suspect because UKDM (which it is) has a unique prefix. I'll look later.

[buzzer]

My 1998 corolla has cruise control fitted...

[mat777]

My Land Rover was the offical motoring press review vehicle for the launch of that model in 1982 - as I found out to my surprise when this cutting came up on ebay:



Check out the performance figures!



Incidentally, I know that excerpt is from an issue of Autocar between Feb and Aug 1982 - can anyone narrow it down to a particular issue?

The Landy at a show with said clipping:

[otolith]

jaik said:

I once got a blowie in my old 1.2 Clio

Heady gasketty?

[Noesph]

Twincam16 said:

Noesph said:

A fully standard (i.e not chaved up) peugeot 106

weird spec though, I think it might be one of the first mpi (silver top) tu engines, but its got 3 stud wheels, with a 21mm diameter anti roll bar on the front, and 19mm on the back. But it hasn't got powersteering, electric windows, sunroof, 4 stud wheels etc that they all got 6 months later.

What colour and spec is it? A mate of mine had a BRG 106 Independence in exactly the same spec. Created problems when he came to service it and found the engine under the bonnet didn't resemble the one in the owner's manual. He always felt it had an awful lot more power than it was supposed to as well.

Independence (with a silver plague on the doors, not stickered on like later models). Gris lceland.

Mine is the same, the engine in the manual and the engine in the car don't look like each other at all. It's the 1.1 (tu1jp) that started off in the 206. I worked out over the years that early Independences in the uk are Sinsiba's in Europe, while the later indys are euro "move" or "pop art" models.

[vetrof]

Kirk280 said:

That's quite unusual!

You don't let the grass grow under your feet.