Cars you hate?

[Retromotorsport]

Vista ... as Fiats ..opps I mean Ladas go, once the engine is sorted the cars are pretty damm good ... infact really good, if you watch the first part , look at the back axle ... planted on its standard 5 link, yep 5 link, no cart springs in there ... and the front is just let down by the tyre tuck, camber and spring/damper rates.

 

There was one that was circuit racing with the Gp4 Fiat arches on it ... and its didnt look bad.

 

They other plus side.. the steel the Ruskies used was better than the Italian steel.

 

 

It sorta looked like this

[Vista]

I take your point, but what your saying essentially is once you've spent a shit load of money on it, it's a good car. Well surely you could apply that theory to virtually anything If for instance I bought an Allegro or an Alfa Arna and spent huge amounts on a non standard high spec engine, RWD conversion, fancy suspension package etc etc, that could end up being a race winner in the right hands too couldn't it? But because you've spent a shitload of money on it and converted everything to make it competative, is it still the source car?

 

I stand by my opinion that Lada's and specifically the Riva is one of the worst cars to grace British roads. Though I will dilute my opinion slightly to include the phrase "in stock trim"

[D A N]

Cossie or V8 engine in a otherwise standard looking Riva Estate would be funny.

[Gonzo]

I've got a renault 5 I love my renault

 

You can blame the old bag who used to live across the road from my old man for my hatred. she had one that was about ten million years old and whenever she started it you couldn't see for blue smoke! bloody thing was knackered but she refused to get rid...

that and the starter sounded like it was chewing on shrapnel. like fingernails down a blackboard but 1,000 times worse...

[Retromotorsport]

Thats the things Vista... its not that expensive ... Get a mk1 / 2 escort (£2000+), chuck out the 1100cc x-flow and sling in an all singing and dancing HPE pinto... straight cut box.. new leafs, new dampers ..lowered springs up front etc etc

 

Now grab a Lada (£200-).. engine, box, lowering springs and dampers and its allready 5 linked ..cheap as chips and you'll blow the Saxo's away with a LADA !!!!!

 

And i know you love a challenge... you've got an Alfa

[Vista]

Thats the things Vista... its not that expensive ... Get a mk1 / 2 escort (£2000+), chuck out the 1100cc x-flow and sling in an all singing and dancing HPE pinto... straight cut box.. new leafs, new dampers ..lowered springs up front etc etc

 

Now grab a Lada (£200-).. engine, box, lowering springs and dampers and its allready 5 linked ..cheap as chips and you'll blow the Saxo's away with a LADA !!!!!

 

And i know you love a challenge... you've got an Alfa

 

It was a challenge, an expensive one too. rebuilding a quad cam dry sump V8 with mechanical fuel injection that almost nobody lists or makes parts for let alone manuals for? Then getting the suspension sorted from the horrible wobbly thing that Alfa produced it as? Got all that done now I just need to find me some 4 pot calipers off a late 70's 7 series BMW in order to get the brakes a bit better. Joys of classic ownership eh? It turns heads in a way I've never seen though, most people have never seen or heard of a Montreal.

[Slik 50]

Police cars

[Daggle]

Police cars

 

Only when they are up your chuf with the lights on

[Vista]

Police cars

 

Only when they are up your chuf with the lights on

 

Or hiding away like the ones in Jo's post at the link

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... ht=#351846

 

Underhand Daggle

[Daggle]

Police cars

 

Only when they are up your chuf with the lights on

 

Or hiding away like the ones in Jo's post at the link

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... ht=#351846

 

Underhand Daggle

 

That's not me, can't see the point in hiding in bushes, if I wanted to do that then I would go off and join the army, then I could hide in bushes to my hearts content, the only time that someone would get done by me is if there were aggravating factors.....

[Retromotorsport]

Vista ... your going to have to take the Alfa to Boxhill... maybe i'll even slip out the workshop then... its been a few years since i've seen one.. may even have been yours

[Vista]

It's a long way for me to Boxhill, but what the hell I was born, grew up and went to school just down the road so it'd be good to look around the old stomping ground again (Oxshott heath here I come)

 

When is the next meet, just had a look in the meets section and can't see anything on it other than a map.

[Slik 50]

Police cars

 

Only when they are up your chuf with the lights on

 

Or hiding away like the ones in Jo's post at the link

 

http://www.oldskoolford.co.uk/phpBB2/vi ... ht=#351846

 

Underhand Daggle

 

That's not me, can't see the point in hiding in bushes, if I wanted to do that then I would go off and join the army, then I could hide in bushes to my hearts content, the only time that someone would get done by me is if there were aggravating factors.....

 

sat in the bushs catching up on some sleep time or playing with your PSP