Motors Retro Cars Show at Santa Pod tomorrow...

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  1. Shadowed_fury

    Shadowed_fury Minimodder

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    :D Will do then...
    Hopefully will have a nice mini by then too!
     
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  2. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    Gotcha ;)
     
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  3. fatty

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    Most of the retro cars on show people still drive as every day cars in australia my mate has a hotted up escort rs2000 lol

    Forgot to add my first car was a 62 or 63 ford anglia it never actualy made it on the road under my ownership :(
     
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  4. Emzay

    Emzay "He's doing a poo!"

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    fatty - a lot of people at RCS used their show cars as their daily drives too! It was a great mix of people like that, peoples daily drives, peoples personal projects, professional team drag strip projects etc really nice :)
     
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  5. fatty

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    Sweeet pity I live so far out otherwise I would have come for a look see....
    My mates and I used to always go down to a drag strip called calder park just out of melbourne and watch the cars drag or race our bikes
    It's funny my pride and joy when I was 21ish was an old 81 model RX-7 it's now a retro car lol
     
    fatty, 6 Jul 2005
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  6. penski

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    Fatty - there's a very well known V8-powered mini pickup (uses the chassis from a Ford GT40 replica)...

    I watched it drive into the show with a roof rack on containing tent et cetera. I'd say that only 5-10% of the cars at the show were trailer queens.

    *n
     
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  7. penski

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    PS: work is underway on the penskimobile.

    Plastic body, four cylinders, rear wheel drive, 10,000 rpm, over 200bhp, covered in moss and completely unassuming-looking...

    That's all I'm saying at the moment...

    Pics will appear when I have the bugger in my grasp.

    *n
     
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  8. Emzay

    Emzay "He's doing a poo!"

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    Plastic body ? A Trabant!!!? (or were they fibre glass? :/)
     
    Emzay, 6 Jul 2005
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  9. penski

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    They were made of a duraplast - a byproduct of the cotton industry (I think)...

    It's bloody strong stuff.

    But no, it's not a Trabby.

    It's the four-wheeled equivelant of an icon of substandard, ovverrated BBC comedy.

    *n
     
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  10. Emzay

    Emzay "He's doing a poo!"

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    a four wheeled reliant van?
     
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  11. penski

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    Nope.

    *n
     
    penski, 6 Jul 2005
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  12. fatty

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    I had a 320hp Mazda RX2 13B bridge port engine twin 2" exhaust RX7 series 4 turbo gearbox 1 tonne clutch etc alway painted in red oxide undercoat but it was rather quick used to eat a few V8's in its day
    but I doubt very much it would come close to a mini with a V8
     
    fatty, 6 Jul 2005
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  13. Piratetaco

    Piratetaco is always right

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    a Reliant Scimitar?
     
    Piratetaco, 7 Jul 2005
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  14. penski

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    Completely absolutely...nowhere near.

    *n
     
    penski, 7 Jul 2005
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  15. Piratetaco

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    a Reliant Kitten?
     
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  16. Shadowed_fury

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    Mazda 787B? ... ok ok...
     
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