Wealthy as Hell, But Still Cant Drive for Shit.

[scumdog]

If you've never driven a rear wheel drive car before, you better not start with a 300kw, 400bhp, 380nm, 3.6l highly tuned V8.........

Hmm, last 1/4 mile in the Mistral (no, not your namby-pamby hair-dressers 4X4 but a tasty '60's kit-car) I had the steering wheel spinning faster than the rear wheels as I tried to correct copious amounts of over-steer (the crowd loved it but my Y-front cringed) and ended up with a boring 14.5 e.t. for the 1/4 - on a dry road.
In my 'lorry', the '55 F100 it's not as bad 'cos it's auto but it's 450hp (enough KW to light Manchester street) and on a wet road it's top-gear wheelspin- opposite lock from one set of lights to the other! (or so they say).

Only 'lost-it' once and then got out O.K. and with clean Y-fronts.

[NordieBoy]

I made the first Baja before there were Baja kits - I cut the rear out with a gas axe then trimmed the engine cover and guards back with tin snips,no running boards.Brush painted with Sampson black high gloss house paint.

Dad made a Baja in about '79-80.
Kombi reduction hubs with huge rear wheels (large diameter - not width) and the town & countrys from the back of the Beach Buggy on the front. Alloy running boards and a huge horn off a bedford truck stuck under the bonnet.
Number plate AD3001.
Man that thing would go anywhere.
Damn I miss it

[MacD]

Motu, did you ever have a Hillman Imp?



1963-1976, rear engined, aluminium block and head, overhead cam, what more could you want!?

[Motu]

I did that to my 58 in 1973,fitted a 1300 into it...before that I had a 54 small back,totaly destroyed it....and lost my licence by passing a cop in the rain and taking the Panmure roundabout sideways.After the door fell off in his hand he told me to take it home and never use it again.....he was waiting at the end of my street the next day - Failing to Comply With Traffic Officers Instructions,along with speeding,failure to keep left,no Wof,no rego and just general bad attitude.Who needs a licence when you're 19?

When I had the 58 Bug I had a 58 Kombi too....but just the one 1300 motor,that was the main reason for cutting the back off,I would put them back to back,pull the motor out on a beer crate,spin it round and put it in the other one...all in a sat morning.Oh,and one set of wheels,that's why the Bug had Kombi wheels

[justsomeguy]

my cousin sold his mr2 just before he lost his leg... was a good car... i reckon it understeered like a bitch tho....

nothin like a big-block powered, XB falcon coupe for goin 'round corners quick...
or a 350 chev powered LX torana!!!

Whaaaat????? How the hell did you make a M-id engined R-ear wheel drive 2-seater understeer??

And shouldn't a lighter car with a decent power to weight ratio be faster than a heavier car with a similar power to weight around corners??

Like in bikes 400cc versus 1000cc ........ or is this a wind-up???

[scumdog]

my cousin sold his mr2 just before he lost his leg... was a good car... i reckon it understeered like a bitch tho....

nothin like a big-block powered, XB falcon coupe for goin 'round corners quick...
or a 350 chev powered LX torana!!!

There's a supercharged 460 V8 powered 'coon down here, can smoke the tyres for 200-300 yards WITHOUT riding the brakes, (with 5 passengers and the stereo blaring Metallica) - take care you limp-wristed soft-cock wankers that need diesel and riding the brakes to get tyre smoke!!!

[Motu]

Motu, did you ever have a Hillman Imp

1963-1976, rear engined, aluminium block and head, overhead cam, what more could you want!?

No,but I've worked on heaps back in the day,our first experiance with under bucket shims for valve clearance.They were a Coventry Climax motor.

The guy who works for me has an Imp,he's had it for years,and gave up on the original motor a few years ago.So now he has fitted a 1400 Subaru motor,he got it running a long time ago,but just hasn't got around to finishing it.

When I was a kid Roy Harrington used to race an Imp,it could really fly,beating Mini's,but he seldom finished a race.We used to go and watch him race at Puke on a sunday and blow it up - next week we would walk past his workshop and watch him working on it and ask what happened this time.He had a Garage at Eastern Beach,and that's where I grew up.

[FEINT]

just some photos of oversteer gone wrong. Oversteer isn't as easy to control as it looks. Photos taken from Pukekohe open days.

[scumdog]

just some photos of oversteer gone wrong. Oversteer isn't as easy to control as it looks. Photos taken from Pukekohe open days.

Yeah but where are the arm restraints eh?

In my Mistral thing are more exciting, REAL short wheelbase (Like about the same as my Sportster) and about 230+ horsepower makes for a bunch of fun!

O.K., if I want to I can 'haze' the tyres in 4th gear but only in a 'controlled enviroment'.

[justsomeguy]

just some photos of oversteer gone wrong. Oversteer isn't as easy to control as it looks. Photos taken from Pukekohe open days.

Oh really?? Is that why every man and his dog aren't drifting and why Keiichi Tsuchiya is soooo respected??????

[scumdog]

Oh really?? Is that why every man and his dog aren't drifting and why Keiichi Tsuchiya is soooo respected??????

OK, 45lb in the rear tyres and it's like driving the Mistral on a muddy paddock - even if it IS actually on a sealed section of road!!!

A lot of you don't know you're alive!!!

[justsomeguy]

OK, 45lb in the rear tyres and it's like driving the Mistral on a muddy paddock - even if it IS actually on a sealed section of road!!!

A lot of you don't know you're alive!!!

Yeah yeah...... was a passenger in a friends 85MR2. He's been an amature rally driver since wayy before I was born.

First time I ever experienced real g-forces in a car...... the experience.

[scumdog]

[QUOTE=justsomeguy]Yeah yeah...... was a passenger in a friends 85MR2. He's been an amature rally driver since wayy before I was born.

First time I ever experienced real g-forces in a car...... the experience.

I am no 'amateur' rally driver but I have had the experience where the interior mirror get flung off when I changed gear, in my 35 years of (licenced) driving I have never experienced lateral G forces like this!!! ..QUOTE]

Never looked like dropping it(4 wheels and all) but a bunch of fun.

[justsomeguy]

I am no 'amateur' rally driver but I have had the experience

Funny how I tend to lose my mental abilities when I'm hungry.

But you're a cop aren't you?? So don't you guys go to the James Bond school of driving??

[scumdog]

Funny how I tend to lose my mental abilities when I'm hungry.

But you're a cop aren't you?? So don't you guys go to the James Bond school of driving??

O.K., I wasn't ALWAYS a cop, I use to be a 'normal' freezing worker, back in the '70's I use to be pretty good with a rear-wheel drive on gravel, - plus I 'knew' tricks that OSH would not approve of.

James Bond was movie shit, my driving was 'real'.

And I'm not 'skiting'