pics of my car!!!
Discussion
tuffer said: Oh I had it down as Blamange!! Or maybe some Angel Delight colour!
no your getting confused... it handles like a blaumange not the same colour as one!!!
actually with its 14" manta alloys on it handles VERY well, no understeer and a useable amount of oversteer
if you want to know how well it can handle just ask the driver of the red elise... and the hole he made in the undergrowth!!!
'fraid i haven't polished it, not even washed it, just dodgy picture quality i suppose...
ohh, can you ask him, the no. plate is there for you to see so check to see if he did own it...
though i'm not sure i'm happy about him going from 4th to 2nd in it!!!
though to be fair i do get up to some antics myself... i have accidently locked the rear wheels on a downshift, and it will step the backend out on demand...
also i hit an indicated 110mph in it last night, which is not bad because before i had my new exhaust fitted it would only do an indicated 107mph...
sparks said: I think a friend of mine might have owned that very car. I hope it's been fixed since........
He did seem to like going straight from 4th to 2nd without slowing, locking up the rear wheels, and scaring the holy sh1t out of me.
Better than my first car....
Sparks
ohh, can you ask him, the no. plate is there for you to see so check to see if he did own it...
though i'm not sure i'm happy about him going from 4th to 2nd in it!!!
though to be fair i do get up to some antics myself... i have accidently locked the rear wheels on a downshift, and it will step the backend out on demand...
also i hit an indicated 110mph in it last night, which is not bad because before i had my new exhaust fitted it would only do an indicated 107mph...
badapple said:
tuffer said: Probably better than a new Vectra!!
How about definately better
I drove the new Vectra around Millbrook Proving Ground just after its launch. And... I would have to agree with you. In my opinion it is one of the worst cars I think I have ever driven...
Lake
robp said: Is the mk 1 cav rear wheel drive then?
but of course!!!
you can hang the backend out if you want, but it is a bit lethal in the wet!!! i think i've spun it 2 or 3 time now...
it is in quite good condition, though rust is starting to appear in a few small areas... it also goes like a train!
it cost me a bit more than £25, but at £500 it was pretty cheap, its also been really reliable other than wear-and-tear items thats needed replacing...
also, its only done a genuine 63,000 miles... the last 10k i've put on in the 11 months i've owned it...
Ah now this takes me back.........
My first steed, white Mk1 Cavalier 2.0 GL 3-speed Auto, V-reg I think (black vinyl roof and a red crushed velour interior too!)
Quite torquey those old L-block motors, showed a few Cortinas a clean set of heels. Went well from about 20mph up to 90 with those long gears, ran out of puff after that! Got 107 out of it one day too! (on an autobahn you understand)
Was a very clean motor, still on the road when I last saw it a couple of years back. Right about the soft cams too, only did 45k and came out looking smooth as a pipe!
My first steed, white Mk1 Cavalier 2.0 GL 3-speed Auto, V-reg I think (black vinyl roof and a red crushed velour interior too!)
Quite torquey those old L-block motors, showed a few Cortinas a clean set of heels. Went well from about 20mph up to 90 with those long gears, ran out of puff after that! Got 107 out of it one day too! (on an autobahn you understand)
Was a very clean motor, still on the road when I last saw it a couple of years back. Right about the soft cams too, only did 45k and came out looking smooth as a pipe!
littlegearl said:
robp said: Is the mk 1 cav rear wheel drive then?
but of course!!!
you can hang the backend out if you want, but it is a bit lethal in the wet!!! i think i've spun it 2 or 3 time now...
it is in quite good condition, though rust is starting to appear in a few small areas... it also goes like a train!
it cost me a bit more than £25, but at £500 it was pretty cheap, its also been really reliable other than wear-and-tear items thats needed replacing...
also, its only done a genuine 63,000 miles... the last 10k i've put on in the 11 months i've owned it...
they dont make cars like they used to.......
I had an Opel Ascona that colour! The Ascona was the same car but with a slabby front grille instead of the wedgy thing, for those who were too young to be there.
I wrapped it around an Escort on a roundabout... her fault, she shouldn't have been doing 70 when she had right of way! My daughter fell off the back seat (seatbelt? Booster cushion?) and I chipped a fingernail winding on loads of opposite lock, until I relaised the steering rack had snapped in the collision and the car was actually pirouetting around the engine crossmember, which had parted company from the sheet of rust that served as an inner wing. The brake master cylinder was a Squezy bottle gaffer-taped to the exhaust manifold, and it had three alternators running off the same belt in order to adequately power the octuple halogen spotlights and red lamps illumnating the jacked-up rear end (back axle painted with silver Hammerite). Somewhere, I have piccies showing how bent the front end was... if I can be bothered, I'll climb up into the loft and dig them out, then scan them at 1440 dpi, convert them to jpegs, crop and rotate them, then send them to Fotango (where they'll be resized and compressed again) and post them under some tedious and misleading thread title like 'Huge jugs' or 'Check out my dangler, missus' for your collective edification and delight.
The stereo chewed tapes, too.
Ian
NB: All of the above is completely true up to the word 'cushion'. But I've had a few Guinness and I can see things you can't
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I wrapped it around an Escort on a roundabout... her fault, she shouldn't have been doing 70 when she had right of way! My daughter fell off the back seat (seatbelt? Booster cushion?) and I chipped a fingernail winding on loads of opposite lock, until I relaised the steering rack had snapped in the collision and the car was actually pirouetting around the engine crossmember, which had parted company from the sheet of rust that served as an inner wing. The brake master cylinder was a Squezy bottle gaffer-taped to the exhaust manifold, and it had three alternators running off the same belt in order to adequately power the octuple halogen spotlights and red lamps illumnating the jacked-up rear end (back axle painted with silver Hammerite). Somewhere, I have piccies showing how bent the front end was... if I can be bothered, I'll climb up into the loft and dig them out, then scan them at 1440 dpi, convert them to jpegs, crop and rotate them, then send them to Fotango (where they'll be resized and compressed again) and post them under some tedious and misleading thread title like 'Huge jugs' or 'Check out my dangler, missus' for your collective edification and delight.
The stereo chewed tapes, too.
Ian
NB: All of the above is completely true up to the word 'cushion'. But I've had a few Guinness and I can see things you can't
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