Lovely, lovely Cressida...

[penski]

been doing a little bit on the cressida here and there finaly got round to getting the new tires and wheel nuts for the new wheels here's a few pics ;D

hopfully sort the bodywork out soon and paint it then after this years show season stick a new lump in it as the 2.0 thats in it is a bit heavy on juice and light on power ???

That's the daily-driver of the guy who is building the light-blue-and-orange turbo Kadett that I keep posting.

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[penski]

How it looked when he got it:

A little scared of the road and in need of new rims.

Wheels (pre-refurb):

Rmad's Cressy:

1979 Toyota Cressida, 2.0, Lotus 7x14 rims, 185/60s and an angle grinder lowering job.

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[penski]

JDM Cressy:

More of Rmad's mowtah:

8-ball gearknob:

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[penski]

Sweet. Lovely looking Toyota there, but he needs to sort that HUGE dent in the passenger's door though. Spoils the whole look of the car from that side......

He says the bodywork and paint's getting sorted - read the OP

How low?

Although the owner says the can reminded him that it wasn't low enough...

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[penski]

Complete coinkidink:

That pic was taken in 2004

The car on the right is Rmad's uber-low-cressy-on-Lotus-rims.

The car on the left was bought in 2005 by the guy in the OP.



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[penski]

Sorry penski but I'm just not getting it. You've posted loads of pics lately but to me they all just look like old sheds on deep dished rims. Surely there's more to modifying than fitting silly offset wheels and stretched tyres

It depends what you're after with regards to modifying your car. Most of the stuff I post are daily drivers; they're used for commuting every day and clock up ubermileages.

What's wrong with modifying a car based on looks only? Nice wheels, lowered, tidy bodywork...?

As for 'sheds'...Hardly. Both Mark and Simon's Cressidas are rot-free. Mark's got hit by someone over xmas so it has a knock on the door...which will be repaired shortly. More than 5 years old != Shed.

(8 ball gearknobs are lower on the scale than LED washer jets IMO)

You have to remember that a lot of what I post is done with a wry smile and tongue FIRMLY in cheek.

Educate me!! (but not with more pics of the same old junk though, please!)

I can only suggest popping over to www.retro-rides.com, browsing the galleries and then the forums; in particular, General and Reader's Rides. The range of stuff on there is amazing; from pre-war vintage up to brand new. All shapes, sizes and nationalities.

Best car forum around, in my opinion.

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[penski]

Tidy bodywork? It's an old boxy Toyota with a dent in the door and a dent in the bumper?

If you read the thread, you'd see that's getting sorted.

And the light blue one - what can you nitpick about that?

Now that I can agree with. It's a good looking car to start with, not some boxy Toyota with fat wheels.

Right...So, irrespective of what is done to it, you'll never like a Cressida because of the base car? Is that what you mean?

Believe me, I'm a big fan of modded cars, even ones with purely body mods however a set of ugly wheels

Opinion...certainly not one shared by all.

and mega low springs fitted to anything pre-1970

Both cars are from '79? :/

isn't what I'd call imaginative. At least some of the Corsa/Saxo guys are *trying* to be different. (although not always succeeding)
Surely monster tyres fitted on uber fat wheels with totally innappropriate offsets fitted to cars with outdated suspension anyway would make them handle worse than a Mk2 Astra!

Crikey...I think you'd have a heart attack if you visited Hoodride...

As I've said before - it's about being low...it doesn't matter how it handles, it doesn't matter if you take 10 minutes to get over a speed bump, it doesn't matter if you deem the offset to be 'inappropriate' - my new wheels are ET0...My car's designed for ET32-37. Oh noes...

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[penski]

Well, to be honest a Cressida is off to a pretty bad start as it's an ugly car to start with but that can always be changed with some nice mods. Problem is that adding a set of ugly wheels to an ugly car isn't gonna suddenly turn it into a thing of beauty.

As I said before; that is completely subjective on both parts.

I'm a big fan of oldish cars like Mk1 Golfs, some of them are very nicely modded but they have the huge advantage of being decent looking to start with and normally modded by people with taste.

Again; subjective...And insults get you nowhere.

It's a car, generally used as a form of transport so how can handling not matter? If it tramlines all over the place and can't go round corners at more than 2mph then it fails to be a car, it's now just an ornament.

It will still go around corners at the speed dlimit, it doesn't tramline. I (and I suspect you, originally) was referring to handling in the 'OMGZ! IT'LL PWN IT IN THEH TWISTIES!' manner so loved by many members (term used loosely) of this forum.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Low cars might be quirky and fun at first but after you ground out on a speedbump for the 50th time the novelty wears off.

Depends if you do it as a novelty or whether you genuinely enjoy rolling around in a car with half an inch between the road and the crossmember.

Changing the offset by 37mm is gonna destroy anything that might've resembled handling (not to mention the stress you're gonna put on your wheel bearings etc.)

Wheel bearings are cheap, plentiful and quickly replaced. How will the 'handling' (again, please define exactly what you mean by this...) be destroyed?

I've driven a stock-height, stock-sprung Shuv on ET10 Mattig steels and found it very sure-footed.

My car (60mm lower, SPAX springs, Koni dampers) breaks away slightly at the rear if pushed and has a slight rear-bias. A trait that was non-existant with the lower-offset wheels on the hatch...In fact, it gave an incredibly neutral balance.

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Woah, that's gonna be a nasty scrub radius, surprised if you will actually be able to turn the wheel at low speeds.

Mantas with ET0 rims exhibit no issues...And Chevettes with ET10 rims exhibit none either....

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[penski]

How do they bypass the rules of vehicle dynamics. The centre of the tyre and centre of rotation are going to be so far apart. Bump steer anyone?

Er...ET0 means that the mounting face of the wheel is in the centre of the rim. On a chevette, that brings the centre of rotation about 30mm closer to the centre of the tyre.

What is that *n you put after your posts? I've always wondered

My name's Nicky...I started doing it on Usenet about a decade ago and it became habit...

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[penski]

I like the red one. I saw a satin black Polo coupe, on the deck on red & polished wheels in Swansea the other day, anyone you know penski?

Not offhand. Sounds a laugh though. The guy who runs r-r may know him - he's in Swansea.

Woody the Pooloo lives 'round that way too:

Yes...that's the sub in the bog. Best. Install. Ever.

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