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Mar 25, 2014 12:04:55 GMT
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This little corsa has two engines but you can google that, but watch this as it goes up againt a Maclaren MP12C... www.autoevolution.com/news/twin-engined-700-hp-opel-corsa-drag-races-mclaren-mp4-12c-video-64440.htmlSorry if this has been here before. He's German but couldn't get it street legal in Germany wonder why, so brought over to the uk and got MOT and uk plates, but ofcourse Germans didn't like this as it could start a trend, so they are saying he is not uk resident so can not drive the car with uk plates so they can nab it. |
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Mar 25, 2014 12:07:21 GMT
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Ahh, it's that Nova  , it's propperly fast. Wasnt it built by Cosvaux in Sheffield about 10 years back? Sure I saw the start of the project in their yard when it was just a rusty shell. |
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Mar 25, 2014 12:57:53 GMT
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If he wants me to put the logbook in my name I only ask he lets me drive it a couple of times a year..............
Hull to Germany isn't that far with the ferry.
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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VIP
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Mar 25, 2014 13:32:35 GMT
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Corsa A, not Corsa B. How the hell he managed to get it UK-registered when it clearly needs a BIVA test is beyond me.
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Mar 25, 2014 13:44:16 GMT
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Corsa A, not Corsa B. How the hell he managed to get it UK-registered when it clearly needs a BIVA test is beyond me. Really? have a look through the readers rides threads on here. Youll be shocked by how many vehicles that need a BIVA test are still being driven by people who either don't know any better or don't care!! Cool car though, whatever its registration status is!! |
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Current fleet:
'58 A35 (half mine)
'67 11 window splitscreen vw (half mine)
'77 mini 1000 (not quite 1000 any more!!)
'86 Armstrong MT500
'89 XR4X4
'94 Corrado VR6
Some sort of sevenesque kit car (no age yet!!)
'01 Mondeo estate 2.0 (engine eventually destined for kit car!) - scrapped, engine only left!
'98 E300 estate, rusty but seemingly reliable, fast-ish tat hauler. eventual engine donor
A35 van, or whats left of it after it lived in a field for many years
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Clement
Europe
ambitious but rubbish
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Mar 25, 2014 14:27:36 GMT
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I'd love to have a BIVA'd heavily modified car on UK plates, and drive around France to curse word out the friendly police.
Although actually residing in the UK would be to hard. Not enough kinds of cheese.
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Mar 26, 2014 12:26:05 GMT
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Although actually residing in the UK would be to hard. Not enough kinds of cheese. This of course is untrue The Corsa A was called Nova here for some reason, the car we think of as the first Corsa being therefore the B. It confused me for a bit whilst looking for Corsa B rear shocks for my Micra. |
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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tdk
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Mar 26, 2014 12:44:59 GMT
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Interesting car, but poor reporting; "When you’re in a McLaren MP4-12C and you line up at a drag strip" , I think a drag strip is the last place you'd find an MP4-12C owner. |
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Clement
Europe
ambitious but rubbish
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Mar 26, 2014 18:30:05 GMT
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Wagoneer : it must seem sad but I'm serious... I spent two months in Liverpool (which in itself is a pretty nice city, yes I seem yet sadder), and was quite disappointing not to be able to find some St-Nectaire, Bleu,chèvre frais, reblochon, cantal, etc. Although there was every single variation of cheddar ever imagined, of course.
I stand to be corrected, cheese faceoff at RRG?
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Dom
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Limey
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Mar 26, 2014 18:31:29 GMT
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I'd love to have a BIVA'd heavily modified car on UK plates, and drive around France to curse word out the friendly police. Although actually residing in the UK would be to hard. Not enough kinds of cheese. Actually France has about 400 kinds of cheese, the UK has over 750. |
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Clement
Europe
ambitious but rubbish
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Mar 26, 2014 18:50:03 GMT
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Please correct me, I insist! I'd love to taste some  And now for something Corsa-related, it means Race in Italian. I think. |
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Mar 26, 2014 19:31:02 GMT
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Yes I believe Corsa does mean race so goodness why they used it for the Nova replacement. Your mention of Cantal is the second time in ten minutes that I've seen the name having never seen it before!
It's true, we do have one or two more cheeses than you might expect, just not in a certain cheese shop.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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Ah but who can't forget the milk marketing boards 'Lymeswold' (where?) blue cheese even us English hated it!
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There's another one in the works, should be ready within a couple of weeks now. Adam Beard's car has two 450bhp (ish) C20LETs and is mind-meltingly well finished. Here's a link to his build page. www.facebook.com/Twinenginecorsa?fref=ts |
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johnd
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Beardys on corsasport is truely epic yes
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petea
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Please correct me, I insist! I'd love to taste some And now for something Corsa-related, it means Race in Italian. I think. And Nova translates as "Doesn't go" in spanish IIRC. That one certainly does  |
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Siggy too Biggy.
Dirty Diesel Peugeot Partner HDi van. Lows,Wellers and dents... The abused workhorse.
Scarlet red 406 V6 Coupe, The occasional waft-mobile.
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, it's propperly fast. Wasnt it built by Cosvaux in Sheffield about 10 years back?
