Ideal Le Mans transport ?
Discussion
Going down to Le Mans normally inspires you to consider all manner of possible transport for the following year, funny I've always had a hankering for an ice cream van (ideal for keeping the beers cool).
Anyway there's a guy in Classic Cars this month who was suitably inspired after watching Jaguars romp to victory in 1988. While others painted their cars in homage to the Silk Cut cars - I seem to remember the first year it was a Cortina estate followed in subsequent years by a Volvo estate, this guy went the full hog and built himself a full on replica of a Jaguar XJR9. He bought the panels from XK Engineering (they supplied the originals), designed and built his own chassis & suspension based on cutaway photographs and powered it using a Jag V12. It's now road registered and was pictured at the Ace Cafe in London.
Incidentally a couple of pages on there is a picture of a barking hot rod powered by a V12.
Slight O/T but this reminds me of the time I bumped into a chap with a UVA buggy thing. Rather than the normal beetle engine this was powered by a rover V8. The extra power had interesting effects on the handling most notably the tendency to wheelie away from the lights hence he had to fit some gerry cans onto the front of the car !
Anyway there's a guy in Classic Cars this month who was suitably inspired after watching Jaguars romp to victory in 1988. While others painted their cars in homage to the Silk Cut cars - I seem to remember the first year it was a Cortina estate followed in subsequent years by a Volvo estate, this guy went the full hog and built himself a full on replica of a Jaguar XJR9. He bought the panels from XK Engineering (they supplied the originals), designed and built his own chassis & suspension based on cutaway photographs and powered it using a Jag V12. It's now road registered and was pictured at the Ace Cafe in London.
Incidentally a couple of pages on there is a picture of a barking hot rod powered by a V12.
Slight O/T but this reminds me of the time I bumped into a chap with a UVA buggy thing. Rather than the normal beetle engine this was powered by a rover V8. The extra power had interesting effects on the handling most notably the tendency to wheelie away from the lights hence he had to fit some gerry cans onto the front of the car !
Ok then folks how about one of these?
A road legal Porsche 962 by Dauer. What is more, despite all the brouhaha about the new koeniseggeggegege a 9ff Porsche 996 and indeed the mighty Big Mac this is still arguably the fastest road car ever!
For pure rarity on a budget we saw one of these babies a year or two ago and felt that for the 10 to 15 G’s you would have to pay for one on the continent together with plenty of V8 gusto and enough space for four its right at the top of the ‘What cat to take to Le Mans’ tree
Oh yes, a Monteverdi Sierra
A road legal Porsche 962 by Dauer. What is more, despite all the brouhaha about the new koeniseggeggegege a 9ff Porsche 996 and indeed the mighty Big Mac this is still arguably the fastest road car ever!
For pure rarity on a budget we saw one of these babies a year or two ago and felt that for the 10 to 15 G’s you would have to pay for one on the continent together with plenty of V8 gusto and enough space for four its right at the top of the ‘What cat to take to Le Mans’ tree
Oh yes, a Monteverdi Sierra
How about these... take your time...
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keitht1 said:
A fire engine. It's the only way. Just think of the fun you could have versus the water-pistols on the Friday by maison bleu entrance :-)
Oh baby what a thought. I can just picture them with their super soakers and being confronted by a full on Dennis fire engine. You’d be picking them out of the trees for bleeding weeks.
As an alternative how about something with a bit more of a military twist but which could be bought and driven on a regular licence like a Daimler Ferret
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