My 'New' Car

[loonyfm]

Excellent Elton !

Respect

It's great to see you are still enjoying yourself matey.

 

Here's my souped up transport....

Youtube Video ->

 

Do they do electric yet?.....

http://www.streetfire.net/video/worlds-qui...ster_163899.htm

(you have to make your own engine noises tho')

 

Respect dude !....Enjoy !

ttfn

LoonyL Liam

[Newt]

Welcome back Liam and hope to be seeing more of you.

[Elton]

Crikey, Liam. Where have you been hiding?

 

Those scooters look fun! You see a few of them, and variations, at the custom car shows.

 

Don't suppose you've still got a Chopper pushbike knocking around? Sticking a motor on that would be fun

[Rusty]

Glad to see that there are a few people on here who 'get' the whole rod thing

Of course there are, I went a bit more traditional though with a very large (455ci) pushrod engine and the original Rochester Quadrajet.

 

[Elton]

That's a monster of an engine!!! You still running the car?

[Steve Walker]

Something interesting on eBay if anyone fancies joining in:

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1967-FORD-CORTINA-MK...#ht_12585wt_920

[Elton]

That car looks neat, Steve. I'll have a proper look when I'm on a PC later. Too much effort to read it all on my phone

 

I noticed a new member with 'ratrod' in his username today. Looks like we'll have a subdivision of Anglers' Net soon

[Steve Walker]

Sounds as if he's done a proper job, but it still looks pretty standard to the casual observer - got to begood for a laugh!

[Rusty]

You still running the car?

 

No sadly, it was a phase I went through about 15 years back. I owned the car for a couple of years and just enjoyed driving and tinkering, never really got into the show scene. I took it to Devon (from Kent) once to see my folks and deliberately kept at 60mph on the motorways to see how good it could be on fuel, 19mpg and that was the best I ever saw. Usually I was lucky to see more than 12 but I suppose seven and a half litres is never going to impress the greenies. Good at smoking tyres though

 

Keep us posted about yours Elton, I'm looking forward to see how you get on with it.

[Elton]

No sadly, it was a phase I went through about 15 years back. I owned the car for a couple of years and just enjoyed driving and tinkering, never really got into the show scene. I took it to Devon (from Kent) once to see my folks and deliberately kept at 60mph on the motorways to see how good it could be on fuel, 19mpg and that was the best I ever saw. Usually I was lucky to see more than 12 but I suppose seven and a half litres is never going to impress the greenies. Good at smoking tyres though

 

Keep us posted about yours Elton, I'm looking forward to see how you get on with it.

 

Will do. Plan is to drive it, for another month or so, at every opportunity. Then, over the winter, my workshop should be up and I can do a few bits to it to make it 'mine'.

 

Talking of smoking tyres, I took a few photos of this car at the Nats a coup,e of weeks ago covered in rubber. Now I know how it got there...

 

Youtube Video ->