Chav cars

[stuvy]

I like a big 4x4 with a proper v8 if I hadn’t brought my house my daily would have been a G55 amg supercharger but dressed down to a stock 4x4 so almost a sleeper I had one a long time back for a few months and it’s ten times the car a G63 could be

 

[sako243]

i'd rather be back in the quiet comfort of a 3.6 TDV8.....

Or a 4.4TDV8 , they still can go offroad.

Amazingly still came back with the five tyres I left with intact.

 

[bricol]

Old men, who had them when they were young men. You can grow old, but you don't have to grow up.

How many hot hatch drivers will still be driving a dropped and noise puking Clio in their 60's?

Dunno, but at 52 this year, I've not got long to find out . . . I'm still driving the same make and model of car I bought aged 25 - and its only the second one I've had, having continuous, overlapping, ownership of that type all that time.

With due deference to those who get upset about me mentioning it, I won't mention the name of the Italian, two litre 16 valve turbo-charged, four wheel drive, left hand drive, coil-over equipped, strut-braced, stainless steel twin outlet exhausted, tuned, recirculating dump-valved, hot hatch

 

[bricol]

Or a 4.4TDV8 , they still can go offroad.

Amazingly still came back with the five tyres I left with intact.

While technically "off-road", I'd be happy to take my kit-car up and through that . . .

 

[Edward Teach]

Dunno, but at 52 this year, I've not got long to find out . . . I'm still driving the same make and model of car I bought aged 25 - and its only the second one I've had, having continuous, overlapping, ownership of that type all that time.

With due deference to those who get upset about me mentioning it, I won't mention the name of the Italian, two litre 16 valve turbo-charged, four wheel drive, left hand drive, coil-over equipped, strut-braced, stainless steel twin outlet exhausted, tuned, recirculating dump-valved, hot hatch

Not an FQ360

 

[Nick DV]

Not an FQ360

That's not Italian

 

[Nick DV]

Dunno, but at 52 this year, I've not got long to find out . . . I'm still driving the same make and model of car I bought aged 25 - and its only the second one I've had, having continuous, overlapping, ownership of that type all that time.

With due deference to those who get upset about me mentioning it, I won't mention the name of the Italian, two litre 16 valve turbo-charged, four wheel drive, left hand drive, coil-over equipped, strut-braced, stainless steel twin outlet exhausted, tuned, recirculating dump-valved, hot hatch

Yellow, red or black?

 

[Robotstar5]

In the 70's there were shops that sold tuning/customizing kit or you ordered stuff from magazines by posting a cheque and waiting for a delivery, non of this click "buy it now" malarkey

Photo shows some of the "in vogue" mods of the time, quarter bumpers, sump guard, air horns etc. on my Mini

 

[bricol]

Yellow, red or black?

Coventry Rosso Which is at least a partially Italian sounding name . . .and I think a Ducato van colour too

 

[Morrisman]

In the 70's there were shops that sold tuning/customizing kit or you ordered stuff from magazines by posting a cheque and waiting for a delivery, non of this click "buy it now" malarkey

Photo shows some of the "in vogue" mods of the time, quarter bumpers, sump guard, air horns etc. on my Mini

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I saw a very tidy one on the road a couple of days ago, wide arches, wide rubber, a few other period mods. Never ceases to amaze me how small real Minis are in comparison with their modern counterpart monster. And how amazingly well they did in competition back in the day.

 

[Rannsachair]

I saw a very tidy one on the road a couple of days ago, wide arches, wide rubber, a few other period mods. Never ceases to amaze me how small real Minis are in comparison with their modern counterpart monster. And how amazingly well they did in competition back in the day.

I am a mini fan, though your post reminded me of this:

 

[Edward Teach]

That's not Italian

Certainly not

 

[bricol]

I am a mini fan, though your post reminded me of this:
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Bug ger . . . I can't imagine that ended particularly well . . .

 

[minimutly]

I am a mini fan, though your post reminded me of this:
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Driveshaft failure...

 

[bourbon]

Driveshaft failure...

and a bit more by the looks of that wheel

 

[minimutly]

and a bit more by the looks of that wheel

Bottom ball joint failure, followed by the upper, followed by driveshaft, TRE, brake pipe.
Been there, done that, more than once. A solid (rosejoint) inner bush is never the good idea it seems...

 

[Rannsachair]

Bottom ball joint failure, followed by the upper, followed by driveshaft, TRE, brake pipe.
Been there, done that, more than once. A solid (rosejoint) inner bush is never the good idea it seems...

Me too, fortunately at relatively low speed.

 

[Bobupndown]

In the 70's there were shops that sold tuning/customizing kit or you ordered stuff from magazines by posting a cheque and waiting for a delivery, non of this click "buy it now" malarkey

Photo shows some of the "in vogue" mods of the time, quarter bumpers, sump guard, air horns etc. on my Mini

View attachment 338096

Proper modifications

I saw a very tidy one on the road a couple of days ago, wide arches, wide rubber, a few other period mods. Never ceases to amaze me how small real Minis are in comparison with their modern counterpart monster. And how amazingly well they did in competition back in the day.

They are indeed small.

 

[Other Daniel]

They are indeed small.
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How does fuel consumption compare ?

 

[Edward Teach]

They are indeed small.
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Look at all that space
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