My car history plus current car project

My car history plus current car project

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ady_GTi

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326 posts

216 months

Tuesday 15th April 2008
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Starting with the boring stuff (you will see)
My first car was a clio 1.9 diesel, lasted a little while but then blew the head gasket. So i saved this MK2 XR2 from my friends garden and ran it for a year or so.


Me running it in an autocross at uni


But as all fords eventually do it got too rusty to repair, so i bought this

Engine was a bit ropey so swapped it for a 1.9 GTi version but kept the 1.6 box, makes it pretty nippy.
not done many mods but it has a pugsport GroupN exhaust and a quickshift gear linkage.
Picture of it looking shiney


About 6 weeks ago i moved out to America to stay with my dad for a while and get some engineering experience.
Few pictures of cars hes had since hes lived here:

Me in the drivers seat (far too young to be driving)

Then he moved onto this

Unfortunatly the viper found some ice and a corner at the same time in a desert! and ended up in a ditch.

Nice little S2000 as a stop gap


This is his current car


Aaaaaand this is my run around while im here

Not quite as exciting, its pretty slow and has no power and even manages rubbish MPG, but it guess its kinda fun.

While im here as i mentioned above im helping my dad design some cars, an engineering degree doesnt count for much without some practice. Here are a few renderings of the bodys.

Carbon fibre tub and a LS7 motor.
Also doing a roadster version


Hope you enjoy :-D

C. Grimsley

1,366 posts

201 months

Tuesday 15th April 2008
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Lucky git, just for having family in America, makes a nice break i can imagine, the cars are an added bonus.

Carl

Tidy_tom

37 posts

202 months

Tuesday 15th April 2008
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That viper doesnt look real? The whole pic looks like a toy model or something?!

matc

4,717 posts

213 months

Wednesday 16th April 2008
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Tidy_tom said:
That viper doesnt look real? The whole pic looks like a toy model or something?!
??

m4tt

591 posts

204 months

Wednesday 16th April 2008
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I thought the same, just looks kinda plastic, but if you look in the background it is indeed real, just a trick of the mind.

Westy Pre-Lit

5,087 posts

209 months

Wednesday 16th April 2008
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I thought the same about the viper. Looks like it's been planted on a set of Tracy island ( Blue Peter stylie )

hehe

Liking the designs

Edited by Westy Pre-Lit on Wednesday 16th April 18:02

ady_GTi

Original Poster:

326 posts

216 months

Friday 18th April 2008
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haha, well its real enough or was. made an amazing noise!

cheers for the comments

flattotheboards

6,687 posts

212 months

Saturday 19th April 2008
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I really like the designs that you have put together, your dad appears to have had some nice cars whilst hes been outr in america.