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Apr 20, 2007 21:21:51 GMT
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bought this today, gonna blat round in it for the summer, then strip it and dump the engine and sidepipes into the Minx. check the metalflake.    |
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Apr 20, 2007 21:31:59 GMT
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 Not seen one of these before, I bet the V8 sounds good! 
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Apr 20, 2007 21:33:20 GMT
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cortina based thingy, its bouncy and burbly and LOUD when you plant your foot as it goes around in circles. lol
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Apr 20, 2007 21:45:40 GMT
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cortina based thingy, its bouncy and burbly and LOUD when you plant your foot as it goes around in circles. lol ;)I know some women like that! ;D :)It looks a lot of fun to me in a mad non sensible way! |
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RV eaglearthurbrown
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Apr 20, 2007 22:20:58 GMT
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HA HA!
I imagine that those things are properly vile, doubtless held together with 8bn slightly too short self tappers.
Still if it yields a decent RV8 for that Minx, it is a good purchase.
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Apr 20, 2007 22:55:48 GMT
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haha, way slower than in the minx but i bet it's more fun to drive like that!
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Apr 20, 2007 22:57:34 GMT
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Reminds me of Daisy dukes Dixie Jeep.
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Great! I'd never heard of 'em, or seen one, until I got offered a free one last year, but time and space being what they are.... I think my bro kept the original sales brochure though, IIRC it's got some odd VW based sportscar type kit in too. |
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My fleet:
Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres
A borrowed Mondeo
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I had one a while back but based on a Daihatsu Taft, they're pretty terrible. I guess this is an Escort-based model?
Also, Brushscript is the least appealing font ever - why does everybody use it to paste inane sayings onto their cars?
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Reminds me of Daisy dukes Dixie Jeep. That's what I was thinking! ;D |
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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I had one a while back but based on a Daihatsu Taft, they're pretty terrible. I guess this is an Escort-based model? Also, Brushscript is the least appealing font ever - why does everybody use it to paste inane sayings onto their cars? This ones based on amk3/4/5 cortina which is another reason i bought it as its full of spares if i need em for mine. The guy i bought it off has an ex company demonstrator based on a very early diahatsu 4trak and its actually pretty nice as it happens (well, as these things go anyway!) |
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Apr 21, 2007 12:18:18 GMT
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Excellent stuff. Also, Brushscript is the least appealing font ever - why does everybody use it to paste inane sayings onto their cars? You mean "Free Spirit"? I quite like it, I can imagine some free radical, 'naked indian dude' type wanna be driving it. I fear that if this fell into my hands I'd have to save it, so best it has not really. There must be potential for a Jeep type project there with some tightening of "self tappers" etc.  but best sense has been seen. I Guess the shell could be plonked on a Range Rover Chassis? or is that wrong  Whatever happens, its sure intersteing to see kit cars coming through RR RR pages with us hungry for the donor components, funnt how things go. |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Apr 21, 2007 13:01:41 GMT
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I say rob the engine and crush forthwith! looks bloody awful. ;D
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1975 Mazda 929 Coupé
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1979 Mazda 929 Hardtop
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qwerty
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RV eagleqwerty
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My mate had one of these sat in his yard for ages. I think Scaryoldcortina has it now. Or a very similar one.
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Apr 23, 2007 10:53:03 GMT
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i think theres some potentail there. salm it on its ass, cut away the fornt wings in a roth stylee. paint it candy orange. and change those god awful rims and youll be getting somewhere.
alternativly, sell it to me for a pittance and ill do it ;D ;D ;D
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Apr 23, 2007 21:08:18 GMT
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a mate looked at ordering an Eagle kit many years ago (went for the Pilgrim Sumo Cobra rep instead). He didn't see the point of having a 2 wheel drive jeep so looked at the Daihatsu version. The Diahatsu donor has a narrower track than the Cortina version and he couldn't believe the amount of offset needed to fill the arches. One of the kitcar mags also mentioned it when they tested the daihatsu version. They were still available until recently but people have been having problems getting an answer at the Jordan Developments factory. The latest version is Sierra based which would suggest the 4x4 Sierra could be used. I would love one of these beasts Ian |
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I have been driving about in it this weekend in the sun, i think I'm gonna be keeping it, tidied up, with better paint, MUCH wider rims and low profiles and dropped on the deck i reckon it'll look ok, its way to much fun to take to bits. |
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Great news pop up! there is potential with teh right bits n bobs. passed one on the way back from leicester yesterday, a few intersting things on the motorway. |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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YAAAAAAY!!! I'm glad your keeping it together!! It'll be sweet!
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May 14, 2007 19:08:39 GMT
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had her on the rolling road saturday, made 147.1bhp, so the engine is pretty healthy. Have done 200 odd miles this weekend and apart from some slight dampness from the tatty hood there were no problems at all, definatly a keeper. |
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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Not seen one of these before, I bet the V8 sounds good! 
but best sense has been seen. I Guess the shell could be plonked on a Range Rover Chassis? or is that wrong 
