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V8MoneyPit:
What other vehicular passions do you have outside 4x4's?

Passed over from a thread on the Defender forum, here's my MG Midget about to start it's second rebuild. Bought this when I was 17 (too long ago to remember!) rebuilt it in 1984 after an RTA and started racing it in 1985. It was laid up in 1991 or 92 for various reasons and never used since. I've decided it's time to get the poor thing out on the tracks again.....

The tyres are definately not mud terrains  :lol:

landyman Ash:
Nice motor mate!

Always nice to have other interests.  Put a 20" lift on that and you'll be fine in the mud  :twisted:

Dave:
If im not mistaken that a yokohama A008 i had a set of those on a astra GTE years ago they are brilliant. when they were ready for new one's i could not get any. I was tolled they only do mini size.
 I really miss that car my second car, i was 17 it was 2 years old. Had every thing done to it. 160 bhp at the wheels koni adjustable shocks pi 35mm lowering springes. American racing wheels i loved it my pride and joy. Ah memories.

old joe:
very nice

drool drool drool lets see the pics when its finished

dazza  :twisted:

Bush Tucker Man:

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Oh where do I begin? :lol:

Muscle Cars.
By that I mean the 'Ain't No Substitute For Cubes' American cars of the 60's & (very) early '70's.
Vehicles like;
1969 Dodge Charger R/T; (best know to most people as either; the assassins car in 'Bullitt', or as General Lee in 'Dukes Of Hazzard'

1968 Mustang GT390; Steve McQueens car in 'Bullitt'

AC Cobra; beautiful, but with a venonmous bite. It was reputedly killed the most drivers in comparison to its production figures (about 1100 427's)

Dodge 'Road Runner'/Plymouth SuperBird. NASCAR racers for the road.

Plymouth GTO

'Hot Rods'
Good examples include the '32 Ford Deuce Coupe in the George Lucas film 'American Graffiti'. Also the beautiful 55 Chevrolet Bel-Air driven by Harrison Ford in the same film

TVR
Simply awesome bits of kit, beautiful, Ferrari emabarrasing performance, stonking V8's & (now) straight-6's

'UniMogs'
So adaptable, a 'Tonka' brought to life :lol:

Trucks
I've got a soft spot for mainly 'traditional' layouts, ie; Normal Controls.
Thisis best shown with the American 'rigs' like the Kenworth W900 in the 1977 film 'Smokey And The Bandit', or 'Convoy' with a Mack R700.
Some European trucks are very nice as well, such as the Scania T-Series

Heavy Haulage
The 'Indivisible Loads', that alway used to make the new in the 70's. 2 Scammells moving a 200foot, 200 ton oil refinery structure


World Rally Championship
Sadly I haven't seen a lot this year, only the Sardinian

World SuperBikes
I still miss 'Foggy' (Carl Fogarty) on his Ducati

Steam
Showmans engines, tractors, rollers, fairground organs

Thisalbum has some good examples in, as do various other albums on my site.

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