HI -ANOTHER ONE FROM THE UK....!!!
10-06-2009, 12:46 AM
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HI -ANOTHER ONE FROM THE UK....!!!
Well, waddya know two new Brits in the same month...??
I'm Terry and I'm from Poole, UK which is in the sunny south. We have a good car and van scene down here and I've always been into American cars since before I got my driver's licence.
My most recent car and the reason for joining here is a 68 Fury convertable. I bought it locally from another guy who got it as a real barn find. The guy bought it literally out of a farm barn which had been its home for 14 years. Unfortunately the car didn't have much done to it and it sat in a garage about a mile from my home for a further 3 years.
The car's a real survivor and is in good shape. It's virtually rust-free, which is quite unusual for the English climate. I'm planning on a little work to it -nothing outrageous just paint, lowering and wheels and I'm hoping that I'm going to get some tech info from you guys to ease the build.
Other cars I have at present are a 90 Mustang LX, a 95 Mustang convert, an 89 E150 dayvan (for shows) and a big block powered Ford Cortina racecar.
I'm Terry and I'm from Poole, UK which is in the sunny south. We have a good car and van scene down here and I've always been into American cars since before I got my driver's licence.
My most recent car and the reason for joining here is a 68 Fury convertable. I bought it locally from another guy who got it as a real barn find. The guy bought it literally out of a farm barn which had been its home for 14 years. Unfortunately the car didn't have much done to it and it sat in a garage about a mile from my home for a further 3 years.
The car's a real survivor and is in good shape. It's virtually rust-free, which is quite unusual for the English climate. I'm planning on a little work to it -nothing outrageous just paint, lowering and wheels and I'm hoping that I'm going to get some tech info from you guys to ease the build.
Other cars I have at present are a 90 Mustang LX, a 95 Mustang convert, an 89 E150 dayvan (for shows) and a big block powered Ford Cortina racecar.
10-06-2009, 05:41 AM
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I was in the UK last year (Manchester and Bolton) and honestly cannot figure out how you fit our cars on those roads. I saw one dodge ram there and it took up 2/3 rds of a typical municipal road. Crazy!
Also, WTF is with your measurements systems
Canada is 100% metric, but you guys still measure gas, beer and speed/distance in imperial and EVERYTHING else in metric????
Also, WTF is with your measurements systems
Canada is 100% metric, but you guys still measure gas, beer and speed/distance in imperial and EVERYTHING else in metric????
10-06-2009, 09:46 AM
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glad your here, man I keep seeing all theese mopes turn up overseas in mass numbers, and im wondering how they all got over there. especially when there was a chrys. aussie.
10-06-2009, 10:03 AM
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Welcome! Looks like a great starting point.
Pretty easy to figure how that one got over there, It's a boat!
Pretty easy to figure how that one got over there, It's a boat!
10-06-2009, 02:02 PM
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Thanks for the very warm welcome guys.
The Plymouth is now almost completely black and I've taken delivery of some shiny new wheels.
Fitting such huge barges on uk roads can be a problem but a bigger one is often the traffic calming measures local administrations impose upon many urban areas. Some areas look more like asphalt MX tracks there are so many speed bumps.
Talking of Aussie cars, I've had several of those , a 68 Chrysler Regal 318 (looks like a Dart and was my first car at age 14), a Holden Monaro, a Chrysler Wagon and a Ford Fairmont wagon. They were very popular in their day as they already have the steering wheel on the correct side. The Holden is still available in the UK and I believe the late GTO is the same car with a badge change.
The Plymouth is now almost completely black and I've taken delivery of some shiny new wheels.
Fitting such huge barges on uk roads can be a problem but a bigger one is often the traffic calming measures local administrations impose upon many urban areas. Some areas look more like asphalt MX tracks there are so many speed bumps.
Talking of Aussie cars, I've had several of those , a 68 Chrysler Regal 318 (looks like a Dart and was my first car at age 14), a Holden Monaro, a Chrysler Wagon and a Ford Fairmont wagon. They were very popular in their day as they already have the steering wheel on the correct side. The Holden is still available in the UK and I believe the late GTO is the same car with a badge change.
10-07-2009, 04:32 PM
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My god, we're getting knee-deep in bloody POMs around here!
Well, at least they're not FRENCH! Yeah, I know I'll hear it for that one. haha Welcome guys.
Well, at least they're not FRENCH! Yeah, I know I'll hear it for that one. haha Welcome guys.
10-08-2009, 01:24 AM
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I only live 40 minutes from them here, Stinkwheel. You can smell the garlic from here.
There's a LOT of great MoPars over there though. If you ever get over to the MoPar Nats at Santa Pod (not far from you eh, mate) you'll see quite a few French registered beauties......
Lots of the cars bought in our region here in the deep south seem to drift across the English Channel -even as far as Italy and Germany. A growing trend................
There's a LOT of great MoPars over there though. If you ever get over to the MoPar Nats at Santa Pod (not far from you eh, mate) you'll see quite a few French registered beauties......
Lots of the cars bought in our region here in the deep south seem to drift across the English Channel -even as far as Italy and Germany. A growing trend................
10-09-2009, 03:01 AM
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Cor Lumme.........an' stone the crows....!!
A real motor, guv an' a proper cockerney drivin' it an' all........!!!
The real car is in a museum not far from my home here in the south called Beaulieu (pronounced Bewley). The pleace is worth a look if you're over here...........
Stinkwheel, I know Santa Pod very well as I have over 1000 passes racked up there over the years -many of them in international competition.
For the benefit of you guys in the US, Santa Pod is Europe's premier dragstrip and also has the distinction of having the fastest ever 1/4 mile being run on it by the late Sammy Miller and his Vanishing Point rocket car back around the early '90's if memory serves............
A real motor, guv an' a proper cockerney drivin' it an' all........!!!
The real car is in a museum not far from my home here in the south called Beaulieu (pronounced Bewley). The pleace is worth a look if you're over here...........
Stinkwheel, I know Santa Pod very well as I have over 1000 passes racked up there over the years -many of them in international competition.
For the benefit of you guys in the US, Santa Pod is Europe's premier dragstrip and also has the distinction of having the fastest ever 1/4 mile being run on it by the late Sammy Miller and his Vanishing Point rocket car back around the early '90's if memory serves............
10-09-2009, 02:51 PM
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No. Not the same Sammy Miller. By the way the British Sammy Miller opened a new and very large motorcycle museum in New Milton, Hants. Also worth a look.
The American Sammy Miller was a Texan racer and oil worker. He was the owner/driver of the world's fastest accelerating wheeled vehicles. Namely a succession of rocket powered funny cars all called Vanishing Point. His 0-60 times were routinely in the, get this, 0.3 second bracket. Quarter mile times in the UK were recorded in the 3's at close to 400 miles per hour.
Sammy ran fastest in the UK as US insurers were reluctant to let him run full passes Stateside. Therefore the fastest dragstrip in the world is technically not in the US -it's in good old england. Hurrah.
Sammy was killed in an oilfire incident some years ago but flying Frenchman Eric Teboul runs his rocket powered motorcycle at Santa Pod and dedicates all his runs to Sammy.
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12-13-2009, 01:48 AM
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Hi Guys.
Car is now finished and on the road just in time for the December cruising season.
Yippee.......................!!!
I posted some pics on the members rides board.
Car is now finished and on the road just in time for the December cruising season.
Yippee.......................!!!
I posted some pics on the members rides board.
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