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[Encyclopedia]

Sweet Fords, Rue!

 

[sanmusa]

SAAB 900 Turbo. I win.

 

[Rue]

Sweet Fords, Rue!

👍 Yeah, getting back into the cars from when I was a lad.

What the heck ... ?!

 

[Joey D]

He's got that BMW on BBS RS's now and it looks a lot better.

 

[Leonidae@MFT]

Rims might look better but what about the rest of the poor car?

 

[Joey D]

That car is awesome. I believe it was a junker the guy brought back to life.

 

[Keef]

The thing used to be epic clean on the outside, but then it got wrecked. The A-pillar and smashed in pretty bad. After that the car became "Rusty" and eventually led to this...

 

[happycorey]

Yeah it looked better when it was still the solid body BMW but then he chopped the top and took everything too far

 

[speed junkie]

Fantastic post rue! Had to visit the site.

 

[Keef]

Most people I know liked it the way it was before. But I like this one purely because it's ridiculous. He didn't have to, but he did, and it took a helluva lot of real, professional fabrication to do it. Hot rod guys have been doing this for decades - why is it wrong when somebody sleds a BMW?

I personally think this is the baddest thing since Halle Berry, but whatever. Screw the purists.

Cesar, I've already spied an annoying problem with that Exige chassis you posted. That rear spoiler mount is obviously a custom solution and...isn't the sturdiest thing I've ever seen. That's a shame because the rest of the car is pretty nicely done.

 

[exigeracer]

Fantastic post rue!

Elise/Exige images

I see you've found my posts in that Vortex thread. I'm just slowly plucking them from things I've posted on GTP and posting them there.

 

[happycorey]

Most people I know liked it the way it was before. But I like this one purely because it's ridiculous. He didn't have to, but he did, and it took a helluva lot of real, professional fabrication to do it. Hot rod guys have been doing this for decades - why is it wrong when somebody sleds a BMW?.

To me it just flowed so nice with the stock lines of the BMW. It's not a bad thing he hot rodded it out, but I just liked the look of Rusty when he was.. rusty sitting on RS'

 

[Luminis]

Speaking of BMWs...

 

[McLaren]

All these classic Ford posts are

Wonder what kind of cash is required to bring one over to the US. 💡

 

[happycorey]

All these classic Ford posts are

Wonder what kind of cash is required to bring one over to the US. 💡

I had a friend in high school that drove a Sierra Cosworth to school all the time

 

[Carlos]

The Sierra RS500 goes for around 50k (Euro's) in Germany. The Sierra Cosworth goes between 15's and 20's.. Your looking at this:
http://suchen.mobile.de/fahrzeuge/showDetails.html?lang=de&id=140614584&pageNumber=1&scopeId=C&sortOption.sortBy=price.consumerGrossEuro&sortOption.sortOrder=DESCENDING&makeModelVariant1.makeId=9000&makeModelVariant1.modelId=36&makeModelVariant1.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant2.searchInFreetext=false&makeModelVariant3.searchInFreetext=false&vehicleCategory=Car&segment=Car&siteId=GERMANY&negativeFeatures=EXPORT&damageUnrepaired=NO_DAMAGE_UNREPAIRED&export=NO_EXPORT&customerIdsAsString=&tabNumber=1

50k in EU is around 69k in US dollars.
15k in EU is around 20k in US dollars.

 

[Keef]

I had a friend in high school that drove a Sierra Cosworth to school all the time

Sure it wasn't a Merkur XR4-Ti?

 

[happycorey]

I just remember it was a Ford and it was real dressy. Like aero looking parts

 

[Rue]

My godfather had one of the first Sierra RS500's made. It went like a jack-hammer and I loved it. Throughout the 90's I became increasingly more resentful to Cossies no thanks to the kind of people that drove/stole them at the time. Coming back to them twenty years later I now appreciate them a whole lot more. My only gripe is what's up with the rolled lip exhausts they all have? They're awful.

Royal 'Nail' post van

The Royal Nail is a surprising little sleeper. To the untrained eye, it's just a slightly shabby mkIV Escort van. But hang on - those steels are slightly larger than standard, aren't they? And what's with the drainpipe exhaust?

The Royal Nail's secret lies in its warp-speed propulsion system. Power comes from a 386bhp Cosworth YB, delivered through all four wheels via Cosworth running gear. That's enough to get it to 60mph in 4.4 seconds.

- Or 3.4 judging by the video below...

What do you get if you mate a Beetle with a Porsche Boxster? Answer - A Bugster!

Gotta love Evos ...

Although you can't post Evos without a bit of balance

 

[Luminis]

What do you get if you mate a Beetle with a Porsche Boxster? Answer - A Bugster!

My father used to own ones of those. It was built up on a shortened 911 chassis, though... Basically, a shortened Porsche with a Beetle's body fitted to it, or something. I don't remember the details too well. But it was appearently a pretty popular thing to with (crashed) 911s back then.
Sold it when I was a small kid, but he kept telling stories about how awesome that thing was.

 

[Crash]

Wonder what kind of cash is required to bring one over to the US. 💡

Well, you too, can be the owner of a fast old European Ford. No promises on whether that car will be allowed to stay in the US though; but hey these are reaching the 25 year mark, so you may be able to federalize it.

 

[McLaren]

Well, you too, can be the owner of a fast old European Ford. No promises on whether that car will be allowed to stay in the US though; but hey these are reaching the 25 year mark, so you may be able to federalize it.

Little too much car for my blood given its history as one of the infamous Group B monsters. Probably going to sell for more than the $120K they estimate it at.

 

[speed junkie]

Cesar, I've already spied an annoying problem with that Exige chassis you posted. That rear spoiler mount is obviously a custom solution and...isn't the sturdiest thing I've ever seen. That's a shame because the rest of the car is pretty nicely done.

Yeah I noticed that right away. Seems like it would flex allot under load but if you look at the first pic you can tell its pretty thick steel (assuming.) Maybe it really doesn't flex much, I'd like to believe that whoever is in charge of that car came to that design for a reason and not because "it gits the job dun."



You can forget about grapes and ponchos...

And also this...

 

[RPM_Online]

 

[NINE_HUNDRED]

^^

 

[Keef]

Serious fitment right there. Besides the spoiler, just looking at the wheels shows this car means business.

 

[happycorey]

R34 GTRs are among the elite timelessly aggressive cars of all time.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Serious fitment right there. Besides the spoiler, just looking at the wheels shows this car means business.

Fitment is perfect. Doesn't get much better than that.

 

[motortrend]

R34 GTRs are among the elite timelessly aggressive cars of all time.

Definitely. To me R34>R35 and R32>R33

 

[Perfect Balance]

Car looks cool, but at "Varrstoen - The perfect wheel" after they created an identical looking copy of the Volk TE-37 in 19 inch.