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CaptainK

CaptainK

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I've never understood that whole "put the wheels on at a weird angle and lower the car" look as pictured above. Surely it just means you wear the edge of the tyre touching the road really quickly and your handling is all screwed? And what do they do at MOT time? Surely they must fail like that? :unsure:

In my "youth" I didn't drive around in any chavmobile..... because of "medical reasons" I had my licence taken away not long after I got it. When I was back on the road a few years later I bought a 205 1.9 GTi. I only modified that car around 10 years later when it was my second car and the engine started dying. So I did the decent thing and put the 167 bhp 2 litre from the 306 GTi6 in it (and its bigger brakes), put Individual Throttle Bodies on it and re-mapped using a standalone ECU which upped power quite nicely. Still looked completely standard, but was amusingly faster than a lot of other cars at the time.
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Just before I left FL in dec 19, this was all the craze in Clearwater, I can’t understand it. Always on Rice burners as well.
I know different generations have their “thing”, but this craze I just don’t understand.
 
Derek Nicol

Derek Nicol

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CaptainK said:
In my "youth" I didn't drive around in any chavmobile.
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At 17 i was driving (and crashing) my Fathers brand new blue 1981 Mitsubishi Colt Lancer 1600gsr with factory alloys and two twin choke carbs which is why i missed out on the whole jacked up Cortina thing... my Brother in Law made up for it though, there was always something jacked up and fur lined in our driveway, one of them being a fake Lotus Cortina.
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Nassau65

Nassau65

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I forgot all about the fur interior. I fur lined a 1969 Mach 1 late 1977. A gallon of eco stick later I thought it looked pretty good. My gran ( who was a seamstress) made the seat covers. I don’t think dad was too pleased, but I sold it to the first person who viewed it. Then he was happy. Great times.
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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CaptainK said:
I've never understood that whole "put the wheels on at a weird angle and lower the car" look as pictured above. Surely it just means you wear the edge of the tyre touching the road really quickly and your handling is all screwed? And what do they do at MOT time? Surely they must fail like that? :unsure:

In my "youth" I didn't drive around in any chavmobile..... because of "medical reasons" I had my licence taken away not long after I got it. When I was back on the road a few years later I bought a 205 1.9 GTi. I only modified that car around 10 years later when it was my second car and the engine started dying. So I did the decent thing and put the 167 bhp 2 litre from the 306 GTi6 in it (and its bigger brakes), put Individual Throttle Bodies on it and re-mapped using a standalone ECU which upped power quite nicely. Still looked completely standard, but was amusingly faster than a lot of other cars at the time.
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One of my repping jobs in the mid/late 80's allowed me to choose any vehicle I liked with the proviso that it was the same price for a 3 year contract hire as a Mark 5 Cortina GL. My first choice was a Renault 5 Turbo. The contract hire people wouldn't have that, so second choice was a 1.6 Peugeot 205 GTI. With the rise of quicker 2 litre shoeboxes the GTI was not a traffic light grand prix performer. But as a daily hack and country road driver it was superb and although like most French cars (and TBH UK cars of the day) as the miles (80K) rolling on it became quite 'loose' it was probably one of the most characterful cares I ever had..........powerever I had a trip over to Terbo Technics at Northampton and drove a turbocharged 1.9 205 GTI and Sierra 2.8 XR4 back to back. Both very similar performer but in totally different ways.
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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Nassau65 said:
I forgot all about the fur interior. I fur lined a 1969 Mach 1 late 1977. A gallon of eco stick later I thought it looked pretty good. My gran ( who was a seamstress) made the seat covers. I don’t think dad was too pleased, but I sold it to the first person who viewed it. Then he was happy. Great times.
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A trip down the road to Romford market and I sourced some faux Ocelet fur for my '68 Javelin. That and the 'big 'n' littles' neccesitated both extended rear spring shackes and air shocks to clear the rear Grabbers. At least it looked 'the business' (well I thought it did.......)
 

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Chuffer

Chuffer

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Nassau65 said:
In my youth as soon as I got a different car, or dad got something sporty in, it got jacked up. Sometimes it even got a red light underneath the rear end to give it a glow at night. The Late 70’s was a great time.
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The late 70`s was a crap time ! The music was crap ( disco) , the decor was crap ( brown and biege) , cars were crap ( brown and biege and rusted before they left the showroom ) , crimpeline trousers were the rage ( hot , sweaty and generated static on velor car seats ) . How bad could it get ???
 
Roscobbc

Roscobbc

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Chuffer said:
The late 70`s was a crap time ! The music was crap ( disco) , the decor was crap ( brown and biege) , cars were crap ( brown and biege and rusted before they left the showroom ) , crimpeline trousers were the rage ( hot , sweaty and generated static on velor car seats ) . How bad could it get ???
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Don't remember the Crimplene strides. Do remember the platform boots. Do remember the popular colours of choclate brown and orange. So many top-end cars were finished in metallic brown. 'Ordinary' cars came in various shades of sepia, beige and off white. A very boring almost monochromatic period only broken-up by seeing so many blokes 'n' birds 'falling off' their platform heels. Remember offering to decorate the through lounge of my mothers then new flat while she went on holiday. She 'wisely' (er', not so wisely as it turned out) left the colour choice to me. I choose a very dark brown emulsion for the walls with gloss cream for the timberwork and doors..........well, it was a 'fashionable' colour back then. Mother was not pleased.
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Brown was THE colour of the late 70’s and suited some cars quite well. I remember Mercedes did a rather nice metallic brown well into the 80’s that looked nice on their cars.
 
Chuffer

Chuffer

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Nassau65 said:
Brown was THE colour of the late 70’s and suited some cars quite well. I remember Mercedes did a rather nice metallic brown well into the 80’s that looked nice on their cars.
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Yeah , and British Leyland had babies nappy contents colours off to a fine art ! :eek:
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Indeed. I think the BL Brown was called Havana Brown. We had a couple of stags that colour. Wasn’t too keen on it on them back then, but now I don’t mind it.
 
Nassau65

Nassau65

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Topaz orange and Java green. Both a bit bright for the 70’s, but now look nice. Both the stags in the Coventry museum are those colours ( one of each)
 
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