Show Us Your Motors!

Lopéz · 18 Oct 2002 at 08:32

Post pics of your motors here, be it car, bike, whatever.

PLEASE KEEP IMAGES TO 1280 x 1024 MAXIMUM WHEREVER POSSIBLE!
MAXIMUM OF 4 PICS PER POST.
IF YOU HAVE BIG PICTURES , OR LOTS OF IMAGES THEN LINK TO THEM BY ALL MEANS.

If you don't have the ability to re-size pictures then mail them to me and I will gladly do it for you.

Lopéz · 18 Oct 2002 at 09:34

I'll start things off - My Pug 205. Road rally spec, all the usual palaver.

Lopéz · 18 Oct 2002 at 10:13

Rover 213S. 12 months MOT and 3 months tax and it only set me back £150 :cool:

It's taken me to Manchester and back three times, and Leicester twice without faltering. Handles like a bag of sick and revs to 8,000 rpm without even a hint of valve bounce. Sounds like a swarm of hornets at full chat.
This is what you call budget motoring!

[Oh, and yes they are Weller rally wheels originally off my old Nova]

Nine months of relentless thrashing later and it's still alive. Just.
Switched back to standard wheels because the Wellers induced mental torque steer (!)

£150 well spent methinks.

Lopéz · 9 Jul 2003 at 13:52

Peugeot 309 GTi
1905cc, Magnex stainless exhaust system, 4-branch manifold, Pipercross induction kit, flushed and de-locked back panel.

Was lovely until I slammed it into a bridge

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/leonlane2000/gal/30904.jpg

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/leonlane2000/gal/30905.jpg

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/leonlane2000/gal/30907.jpg

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/leonlane2000/gal/30908.jpg

Lopéz · 21 Jul 2003 at 15:58

Current motor.

1988 VW Golf GTi 8v (Digifant)
Rare Helios Blue colour, otherwise nothing worth writing home about. Eibach springs, Sachs gas dampers, Pagid fast road pads, Ronal 14" wheels, Pipercross induction kit.

Lopéz · 29 Oct 2011 at 10:56

Company thing. Noisy.

Amusingly, at idle it's louder with the door shut than it is with the door open.

Lopéz · 2 Nov 2011 at 22:17

Lopéz · 4 Dec 2018 at 09:21

1982 Ford Escort XR3. 5 speed carburated version. Standard other than the RS1600i front splitter

Lopéz · 5 Dec 2018 at 11:28

Cheers guys, yeah it came from France originally so it's LHD. If anyone (ha!) sees a LHD dashboard in even half tidy condition let me know

I could have bought one of these for £300 when I was 17, but insurance was astronomical. Now I had to pay a lot more than £300 to buy the car but the insurance is £97 a year. Being old has it's ups and downs.

Lopéz · 5 Dec 2018 at 16:19

Yeah I might check out a couple this year - a mate has just picked up a mint Mk4 cabrio so it would be good to do a couple of shows together.

Concours is NOT my thing though!