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·I used to have a VW type 3 fastback.... VW couldn't match any of the brake parts until we started looking into 914 parts.... then it all fit together perfectly...... Go figure!
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i20rider
·This is my very rare (only 2 made) 1963 Lotus Cortina Ogle allegedly owned by Sir Stirling Moss. The Ford Cortina GT modified by Ogle is a car designed by the Ogle Design Organisation for Stirling Moss, to fulfill his personal requirements for a four seater GT car. Stirling Moss specification required a balanced relationship between performance-comfort- economy - and a reasonable purchase price. It was important to him that his car should be based on a proven production car, for which service was freely available.
Old picture of the Cortina
Picture of the car when I found it.
Picture of the car after full restoration. Won 1st in Class in my country's premier Concours D' Elegance.
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·Unlike a lot of sports cars, the GT-R is very stable at high speed over imperfect roads - it was tuned for the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
With stock power of 550hp I've had it up to 138mph on a road course. Double and triple stock power is possible but traction becomes an issue.
With stock power of 550hp I've had it up to 138mph on a road course. Double and triple stock power is possible but traction becomes an issue.
I was behind one of these on the expressway going home
yesterday. I had never seen one. I thought hmmm, GT-R,
these are fast. I saw the Alpha badge and made a mental note
to look it up later. OMFG. !! Streetcar. Didn't sound nuts either.
This thing is a coffin.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesI was behind one of these on the expressway going home
yesterday. I had never seen one. I thought hmmm, GT-R,
these are fast. I saw the Alpha badge and made a mental note
to look it up later. OMFG. !! Streetcar. Didn't sound nuts either.
This thing is a coffin.
http://alphaperformance.com/packages/r35-gtr-alpha-16-performance-package/
Some years ago, I actually ran this thing down that same track as that GT-R used, clocking a much more leisurely 15.73 seconds at 89.8 mph.
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OmegaSean
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At the Nurburg ring one of the few places the full potential of the car can be used including launch control !!!
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I remember taking one of those for a test drive, 0-60 took about an hour if I remember correctly. An hour later I took one of Fiats little coupe's out for a test and bought it on the spot.
Chalk and cheese different.
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noelekal
··Home For Wayward WatchesBack in the olden days I once left my office in the bank and went out and repo'ed a Yugo. That Datsun sorta reminds me of it. As I'm a fairly big ol' boy, I drove the wretched thing back to the bank with my knees on either side of my ears.
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i20rider
·Alittle rx7 action. ..
Poor bugatti
Poor bugatti
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··Ωf Jury memberI'm not an auto racing fan, but nevertheless love good photos of wild looking cars in action…
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OmegaSean
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This was in Tesco Car Park the other day was my first sports car in 1986 Ford Capri 2.0S
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Prange
·Anyone else like the Vincent?
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Stewart H
·I do. My Dad bought a new Series D Rapide when he finished his national service and owned it for three years before selling it when he got married. He still talks about it (57 years after he sold it) as if it was sitting in his garage. I tried to locate it a few years back but with only the registration plate from the 1950s to go on, I came up with nothing.
Back in the late 1980s, my uncle was involved with some sponsorship of John Renwick's Vincent project in historic racing which was an insanely low solo built using sidecar engineering theory. It was a rocket ship but twisty circuits were a challenge. I can remember watching it race at Thruxton which was probably its ideal circuit but it used to scare the proverbial out of the rider.
For most of you who won't have heard of him, Renwick was one of the leading designers/builders of racing sidecar outfits back in the heyday of that sport.
Back in the late 1980s, my uncle was involved with some sponsorship of John Renwick's Vincent project in historic racing which was an insanely low solo built using sidecar engineering theory. It was a rocket ship but twisty circuits were a challenge. I can remember watching it race at Thruxton which was probably its ideal circuit but it used to scare the proverbial out of the rider.
For most of you who won't have heard of him, Renwick was one of the leading designers/builders of racing sidecar outfits back in the heyday of that sport.
