What Car Thread (Lunatic Edition)

Lancia Stratos!

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• small? oh yeah
• has many reusable components? well, I'm sure the Alfa V-6 is reusable...
• has a decent track width and wheelbase for racing? heck, the car is almost as wide as it is long
• has enough room for a competent, powerful FWD drivetrain behind the driver area? well, 3.0V6 mounted in the middle
• exceptionally good looking as a tube chassis race car? You joking? This car is BEYOND sexy

Gotta build one though: http://www.hawkcars.co.uk/hf3000/index.html

Fiat X1/9:

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In reply to Adrian_Thompson:

Somehow I doubt the legendary handling prowess of the imp would be positively affected by swapping the ~100lb alloy climax lump for an almost 300lb scooby unit.

ditchdigger wrote: In reply to Adrian_Thompson: Somehow I doubt the legendary handling prowess of the imp would be positively affected by swapping the ~100lb alloy climax lump for an almost 300lb scooby unit.

Remove rear seat, install Scooby snacks in the middle was my IMPlied technique.

BTW, not sure if the 'legendary handling' was supposed to be sarcastic or not. But they did handle amazingly well, many not in the know assume arse engined mean crappy handling.

P.S. I purposely sought out a Sunbeam Stiletto, not a regular Imp for that pic.

Adrian_Thompson wrote: BTW, not sure if the 'legendary handling' was supposed to be sarcastic or not. But they did handle amazingly well, many not in the know assume arse engined mean crappy handling. P.S. I purposely sought out a Sunbeam Stiletto, not a regular Imp for that pic.

No sarcasm from me. The Imp was one of the great "Could have beens" The period writeups stated it was a better mini than the mini. I love imps.

And here I thought it was a californian

SCCA STU. I am pretty sure anything goes as long as it is not a turbo and it is under 2.0 liters. I am pretty sure you could race it there.

oldtin wrote: Maserati biturbo - about e30 sized, decent handling, good looking car. Giveaway pricing - you're replacing the stuff that breaks. No one expects a biturbo to make it to a track, much less around a track. NASA is about the only road race venue I can think of - then again there may be some hill climb TT kind of things (which circles back to NASA).

(That's a rad Biturbo, BTW)

One day, someone here is going to do an engine swap (LS or whatever) into a Biturbo and I will applaud it VERY enthusiastically. There's something about the styling of those cars that just works for me.

Corv8? Probably not light enough and twice as many sparkplugs as you want.

http://www.corvaircorsa.com/evans02.html

All you people are crazy...but in a good way! I'm gonna vote 944 turbo...attach the motor to the transaxe without a torque tube?

ditchdigger wrote:

Adrian_Thompson wrote: BTW, not sure if the 'legendary handling' was supposed to be sarcastic or not. But they did handle amazingly well, many not in the know assume arse engined mean crappy handling. P.S. I purposely sought out a Sunbeam Stiletto, not a regular Imp for that pic.

No sarcasm from me. The Imp was one of the great "Could have beens" The period writeups stated it was a better mini than the mini. I love imps. And here I thought it was a californian

Sunbeam Stiletto and Hillman Californian had the same coupe body. The Californian had the regular single headlamp front end, base dash, base single solex carb engine etc etc . The Stiletto had the Sunbeam quad head light front, a really cool dash, twin Stomburgh carbs and sport head, oil cooler etc etc.

End Geek - Ex owner of something like 10 Imps and derivatives including both a Californian and a Stiletto as well as a Davrian Mk VI before moving this side of the pond