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I love classic cars I used to do a lot of spanner work on a lot of classics an full restorations on vw campers an beetles the last car I built my self was the little mini below she was a bear shell nu

Can’t beat an old classic     

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54 minutes ago, Daniel cain said:

Was popular one time ,around my way to drop the Metro 1.3 MG Turbo lump in the mini's ?...the rover metro GTi was 1.6 L 16 v from memory?rapid little cars in their day?

 

50 minutes ago, paulus said:

I thought the Metro was a GTA 

Rover metro was a GTA 1.4, 16v k series engine .

Wouldn't mind a metro turbo I reckon they'd still be good for a laugh .

 

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Just now, Chid said:

 

Rover metro was a GTA 1.4, 16v k series engine .

Wouldn't mind a metro turbo I reckon they'd still be good for a laugh .

 

whilst i was living in Germany in the late 1980`s the car dealer outside the Naafi said to me try this. A Daihatsu Charade GTTI by god the thing was frightening ?

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4 minutes ago, paulus said:

whilst i was living in Germany in the late 1980`s the car dealer outside the Naafi said to me try this. A Daihatsu Charade GTTI by god the thing was frightening ?

3 cylinder 993cc side intercooled turbo 100bhp 

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2 minutes ago, paulus said:

whilst i was living in Germany in the late 1980`s the car dealer outside the Naafi said to me try this. A Daihatsu Charade GTTI by god the thing was frightening ?

seen some sick tuned ones of these over the yrs at the jap meets...400 bhp in  one...?

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19 minutes ago, paulus said:

whilst i was living in Germany in the late 1980`s the car dealer outside the Naafi said to me try this. A Daihatsu Charade GTTI by god the thing was frightening ?

Aye there some car for a roller skate ?

Always thought a charade engine in a diahatsu hijet van would be a good laugh 

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11 minutes ago, Chid said:

Aye there some car for a roller skate ?

Always thought a charade engine in a diahatsu hijet van would be a good laugh 

Quite fancy something like this myself would leave a few red faces at the traffic lights ?

 

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9 minutes ago, Greyman said:

Quite fancy something like this myself would leave a few red faces at the traffic lights ?

 

Would be a good laugh ?

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33 minutes ago, paulus said:

whilst i was living in Germany in the late 1980`s the car dealer outside the Naafi said to me try this. A Daihatsu Charade GTTI by god the thing was frightening ?

I know a lad got one of these he’s had it for years its in storage. it’s proper rotten now but won’t part with it for love nor money when it was on the road about 20yr ago id been out in it quite a lot the thing was a flying machine it’d dust escort rs turbos I’d bet it’d give a cosworth a run for it’s money back then 

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2 minutes ago, poxon said:

Can anyone remember the old Suzuki swift 1.3 gti they were flying machines back in the day they used to upset the xr2 an Xr3i boy racers 

Me and the brother had a MK2 one .

Was real good fun and like you say flying machine 

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90s cars backwards  were so cool they were drivers cars that could be worked on by yourself at home or the side of the road modern day cars are poo to work on plastic everywhere censers for everything I hate working on modern stuff 

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10 minutes ago, poxon said:

Can anyone remember the old Suzuki swift 1.3 gti they were flying machines back in the day they used to upset the xr2 an Xr3i boy racers 

my brother had one ...lasted 3 days? ..he had a lime green 205 GTi few yrs later,crashed that,sold it on and the lad put the MI 16 v lump in it from the old 405 ..kiddy crashed it at over 130 mph ...had a payout and bought escort cosworth lux edition ?

my pal Martin got one of the first  VW lupo GTi from the factory...put an Audi TT engine in it...could fit a pack of rizla under the bonnet on it???

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