Monaro's older baby brother?

[anonymous-user]

Just found this: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C701131

[preciousmetal]

Looks interesting. But is it £10k, £20k, £30k £40k who kmows

Why do idiots do POA - it's for sale FFS

[ARAF]

Why put a Rover lump in it? Go the whole hog and LS it.

[91964]

Awesome effort and gives character to an otherwise dull car but 3.9 rover V8..........shouldn’t be too much slower than the 2.0 16v.
I was into rover v8’s for a while then got a ride in an IROC camaro. Then sold up and got a transam.

[mfp4073]

Blimey.....all that time,skill,effort, and money to create a car which is like a small Monaro!
One for the serious Calibra enthusiast that's for sure.....it must have been in reality a labour of love to build and that has to be respected.
If I bought that car ( assuming it is affordable) I would always think....I wish that I had the real deal, and bought a Monaro.
That's not to say anything negative about the Calibra, they are a good car, and they also have plenty of passionate fans.
Still it's horses for courses in the car world.

[maccavvy]

so much time and effort to rwd it and stuff a v8 in..

prob no quicker than a stock turbo one.

[SimonTheSailor]

Been for sale for many, many months.

Top work by the looks of it though.

[granjuiceymoose]

All that time to finish it then hasn't driven it....

[M11 MFP]

That's brilliant. I'd love to know how fast one of these would go at TR with about 500+ hp worth of cammed LS3. 180+, I'd wager. The Cd, cleaned up, is about 0.26 and the frontal area tiny.

You'd be entering the realms of unknown with high speed stability though.

[mfp4073]

M11 MFP said:

That's brilliant. I'd love to know how fast one of these would go at TR with about 500+ hp worth of cammed LS3. 180+, I'd wager. The Cd, cleaned up, is about 0.26 and the frontal area tiny.

You'd be entering the realms of unknown with high speed stability though.

Maybe fit a Mad Max roof spoiler....that would sort it out

Edited by mfp4073 on Monday 6th November 15:48

Edited by mfp4073 on Monday 6th November 15:49

[djgritt]

Nope. Horrid. I'm out.

[nickbV8]

Reminds me kinda of the day I was going over the Kingston bridge in Glasgow and pulled up behind a white Calibra badged as a VXR Monaro :0
The guy driving slid down deep in his seat as I slowly pulled alongside and then dropped well back into traffic.

[91964]

nickbV8 said:

Reminds me kinda of the day I was going over the Kingston bridge in Glasgow and pulled up behind a white Calibra badged as a VXR Monaro :0
The guy driving slid down deep in his seat as I slowly pulled alongside and then dropped well back into traffic.

Tragic! Some years back there was a guy in Norwich who had Aston Martin badges on his Jag XK8.....WHY!!! Part of me wonders if the calibra guy was having a laugh but the XK8 dude was definately trying to look DB7...ish