MAX POWER !
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bluebear

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604 posts

175 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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Well i was of work today. clearing out lots of old boxes. lone and behold i come across my OLD max power mags. project 2000,project thunder,project mad max. yes they are all there. Well needless to say i spent 3 hours looking though the old mags. Loads of crud. but some real gems a orange RS Mexico with a cosworth engine. ha ha love to look back and see what was cool or the done thing back then. 3 spoke alloys anyone ! To think 18" alloys were thought to be pushing the boundaries. standard fitment to lots of cars these days. just got me thinking does anyone still have that max power itch, they still want to scratch. i still want a MK2 RS turbo with tiger stripes smile

nicky.mattsson

2,639 posts

221 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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So many itches so little money.

Nova with a red top

Tiger striped Sierra or Mk2 Escort

A Mk2 Astra GTE with those mad wide arch kits (Reiger?)

Many many more great (crap) cars on the list....

falkster

4,258 posts

224 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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nicky.mattsson said:
A Mk2 Astra GTE with those mad wide arch kits (Reiger?)
Mattig

johninspain

201 posts

193 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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I had the lot , s2 rs turbo 90 spec, fiat UNO turbo and a fiesta rs 1800

Im now about to mod a Range Rover but if I ever come across a mint S1 RST and I'm in the mood Id like to own one

Fleckers

2,878 posts

222 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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and all the birds with their fun bags out at cruzzzzes answering pink or brown wink

Mr Dave

3,233 posts

216 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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Fleckers said:
and all the birds with their fun bags out at cruzzzzes answering pink or brown wink
You just know they got a load of pictures at cruises of tarts with their airbags out and sat in the office playing "which girl looks like she likes it up the wrong un"

That would have been a great job.

S1_RS

782 posts

220 months

Tuesday 18th October 2011
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Mr Dave said:
Fleckers said:
and all the birds with their fun bags out at cruzzzzes answering pink or brown wink
You just know they got a load of pictures at cruises of tarts with their airbags out and sat in the office playing "which girl looks like she likes it up the wrong un"

That would have been a great job.
I was chatting to one of the guys who worked on the mag, he said they once had a very upset parent phone them up about their daughter pictured with her tits out saying she liked it up the wrong'un. She was only fifteen!

FA51CAM

147 posts

193 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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When you say the max power itch, is that the same itch teenage lads have when flicking through the 'fit birds init'!! ;-)

Don't mean to change the subject is max power still around, haven't seen it in shops for ages, not bad for a flick through now and again.

mattmoxon

5,026 posts

239 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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FA51CAM said:
When you say the max power itch, is that the same itch teenage lads have when flicking through the 'fit birds init'!! ;-)

Don't mean to change the subject is max power still around, haven't seen it in shops for ages, not bad for a flick through now and again.
Nope it closed at the end of last year iirc.

juan king

1,093 posts

210 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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I dont suppose you have a copy from about march 2003, with the Ferrari red Kingdom Developments crx del sol on the front do you?

K50 DEL

9,619 posts

249 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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juan king said:
I dont suppose you have a copy from about march 2003, with the Ferrari red Kingdom Developments crx del sol on the front do you?
If he hasn't, I will have, I think I've got every Max, Fast Car and Revs from their inceptions up until about 2005 or so..... what do you need?

PumpkinSteve

4,231 posts

177 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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biggrin I used to be into Max Power back in the day, went to the shows at the NEC too. I cringe when I look back now and see what kind of cars I used to think were cool...I used to dream about having lambo doors fitted rofl thankfully my dreams never became reality.


I remember "pink or brown?" too, and 20 pages of sex lines in the back of the mag.

missing the VR6

2,478 posts

210 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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Another guilty former fan of the mag, owned everyone up until about 2007/2008, even the first issue with the Dimma 205 in purple.
I actually miss it a little!

falkster

4,258 posts

224 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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When Max Power first came out I thought it was pretty good but then it became chavvy and full of skanky girls in skimpy clothes.
Originally I think it was aimed at CCC but then it ended up with Fast Car and becoming a loaded with cars.

bluebear

Original Poster:

604 posts

175 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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It was good up until 2003 ish. Too many skanky birds and sex line adverts, but the years before that were good. Cosworth powered R5 gt turbos,Polo's with VR6 lumps. Novas with turbo red tops. The list goes on. All with body kits 6ft wide. Granted looking though them now 70% are utter st, but there is a few i still would love to own. All be it without the candy apple paint and boot full of amps and subs. I have one issue with a old Granada in brown st colour, full of about 30 amps and 30 subs. Why the fk would you do that to a brown Granada ! ha ha ha.

im sure this was in issue 8 ha ha

J4CKO

45,497 posts

221 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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It kind of reformed towards the end, I think Fast Car went into the same market but that used to be ok, I stopped buying it when some chimp was braying about all the death and destruction he had caused, like killing some old ladies cat. It got so I bought them and then couldnt leave them around, may has well have been Razzle and generally they were all skankers off the higher numbered Sky channels, you know the late night ones.

BoRED S2upid

20,906 posts

261 months

Wednesday 19th October 2011
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johninspain said:
I had the lot , fiat UNO turbo
smokin Mad little cars. Understeer into many curbs when the boost came on?