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after seeing the lovely photo of the dtv rally chevette i got to thinking. theres been a lot of press about baby bertha lately,but what about big bertha? anyone got pics? I'm sick of the nekkid laidee ive got as wallpaper.   ;D ;D ;D ;D |
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Big Bertha was the Ventora yes? Closest I've got so far is this:  EDIT! paydirt! bit small though. will keep looking! |
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Last Edit: Jan 4, 2005 16:50:03 GMT by nickb
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nickB youre a f*cking super star.i spent an hour looking and turnad up s.f.a ;D
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No problemo, matey! Doesn't seem to be much. If you google it, most of the pages you get seem to relate to this......   |
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yes.  must keep an eye on my spelling ;D ;D ;D |
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theres some other rather sweet looking stuff on there.  wish i could read finnish or whichever scandinavian language its written in ;D  |
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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hairnet,man what a pic!!!!!
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It is a good picture! That Imp's a spaceframe chassis with an Imp lookalike fibreglass body put on, they used to use Imps as the basis for shillouette style racers a lot, as in many classes the idea was that the car had to have the engine and drive axle in roughly the same location as they were in the production cars, so the Imp, a lot of Skodas, and the VW Beetle, were often used because they allowed a rear engined (or if you pushed your luck just a little, and they often got away with it) a mid engined/rear drive layout, plus they were quite compact, which was quite good as because the basic outline (or shillouette, hence shilouette racer) of the racer had to be roughly the same as the production car, spoilers, vents, splitters not included, so a compact and small car to begin with would be more suitable than a car that would be forced to be big and heavy as a racer because the original was big and heavy. That and the Imp engine and transaxle were very suitable for that style of racing, being lightweight alloy and so easily removable. Nah, the Firenza was Baby Bertha, which was sort of the (little) sister car of the earlier Big Bertha, which was that Ventora. You see more about Baby Bertha than you do the bigger car, wasn't Big Bertha written off and that ended it's racing career? |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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retro cars did a mahoosive poster of the firenza and it made me think...................... |
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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It was pretty cool that poster! |
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Jan 11, 2005 11:12:11 GMT
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Picture I took at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2003 of Gerry Marshal being re-united with Baby Bertha.....  I must admit, I thought this Firenza was Big Bertha too - now I know! ;D *Edit - sorry picture is abit huge!* |
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Last Edit: Jan 11, 2005 11:17:40 GMT by DerbyDan
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Jan 11, 2005 11:25:43 GMT
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Andrew
Part of things
who needs track days when u live in wales
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Jan 11, 2005 12:21:29 GMT
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Last Edit: Jan 11, 2005 12:21:42 GMT by Andrew
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;D ;D ;D ;D
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