Most suprising race car?

[L100NYY]

Following on from the brutal race car thread I thought I'd see what road turned race car the PH community found the most suprising?

My starter for 10 has to be -

from this



to this



>> Edited by L100NYY on Monday 7th November 13:30

[ADDYBOY1982]

Not really surprised that it spawned a race car, more how damn successful it was!

From this:



To this:

[carl_w]

How about from this:

to this:

[baskey]

i'd like to vote for the chevrolet nee daewoo wtcc racers but I make a hash of linking pictures to websites...

and also the volvo 850 estate btcc racers (with inflatable retriever!).

[L100NYY]

Good call that one Carl.

Or how about from this


to this

[ADDYBOY1982]

One of the best small cars of the 80's.....



into one of the best rally cars of the 80's

[Mr E]

baskey said:

volvo 850 estate btcc racers

Gets my vote.

As cool as the 6R4 and Renault 5 Maxi are, they really have bugger all to do with the original car.

[L100NYY]

Mr E said:

[ As cool as the 6R4 and Renault 5 Maxi are, they really have bugger all to do with the original car.

That was the idea of the thread! I suppose we could start another one entitled ' Natural Born Racers'?

[r988]

from this boring wouldn't give it a second glance, to this



and another

This

into this


Shopping trolley


into firebreather



and this

into this




finally

into this

[ADDYBOY1982]

baskey said:

i'd like to vote for the chevrolet nee daewoo wtcc racers but I make a hash of linking pictures to websites... and also the volvo 850 estate btcc racers (with inflatable retriever!).

[lazyitus]

This trabant is a pretty weird adaptation.


The most weird I've seen was at Donington, it was a Tatra like this one below...

[ADDYBOY1982]

Or this:

[carl_w]

Good call on the Renault 5 and the Subaru Impreza, in particular. How about from this:

(I've driven one -- it's pants, and they don't even do a V8 IIRC!)
to this:

Mind you, this is getting into the realms of silhouettes.

>> Edited by carl_w on Monday 7th November 15:16

[grahamdance]

I guess by "race" you mean "race and rally"?

The Impreza pictured is the nicest shape IMO. Or a close second to the WRC97 in tarmac spec, anyway.

[carl_w]

Some more:



Pretty sure they won the BTCC with that one year.

[r988]

grahamdance said:

I guess by "race" you mean "race and rally"? The Impreza pictured is the nicest shape IMO. Or a close second to the WRC97 in tarmac spec, anyway.

I agree the original (actually I think it's a '95 but close enough ) is the best.

>> Edited by r988 on Monday 7th November 15:34

[Mr E]

L100NYY said:

That was the idea of the thread! I suppose we could start another one entitled ' Natural Born Racers'?

But in that case, we could include stock/drag cars that really, really have *nothing* to do with the original save for the name and a plastic body shell.

The Fiat is great. It's still a 500, just a nutty one.

[tinman0]

i think you mean:




into this

[grahamdance]

r988 said:

I agree the original (actually I think it's a '95 but close enough ) is the best.

Decisions, decisions....

or


How about this one - you've got to admit, this looks a little dull....

....until you make it look (and go ) like this!

[anhamgrimmar]

i never belived it, when my dad told me ages ago

but the one of these we used to have




could look like this!