Brands hatch today - Page 2

thegingerninja · 29-03-2010, 01:55 PM

Yep, fresh paint - but we had masked off all the faced areas. It actually turned out to be incorreclty supplied wheel nuts - the taper angles didn't match the wheel. Another important lesson learnt in life!

Shimmy, were you racing in the TTRS? I know a guy (Simon Glen) who was driving an E30 M3 in those races.

Silver Bullet · 29-03-2010, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by thegingerninja

Apologies Silver Bullet - the only reason I assumed you were next to me in the paddock with a Sunbeam is because the Sunbeam's number plate was "Silver Bullet"

no worries!

If it was the white and green one we saw on saturday it was very quick!

Love the golfs by the way, i had a mint Tornado red Rallye back in the day, I was a golf nut!!!

TANKSLAPPER · 29-03-2010, 06:55 PM

Sorry "Silver Bullet" about hi-jacking your thread, but I don't give a sh1t away

LOL

Phatgixer · 29-03-2010, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullet

no worries!

If it was the white and green one we saw on saturday it was very quick!

Love the golfs by the way, i had a mint Tornado red Rallye back in the day, I was a golf nut!!!

That is Joss Ronchetti. Now that thing is fookin rapid. 330bhp and 770kg... Drum rear brakes! I beat him in the wet, but in the dry he is a bullet!

2.7 Lotus highly tuned. Still on carbs...

Phatgixer · 29-03-2010, 09:30 PM

Silver Bullet · 29-03-2010, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by TANKSLAPPER

Sorry "Silver Bullet" about hi-jacking your thread, but I don't give a sh1t away

LOL

Theres me thinkin murray walker had come out of retirement using the alias of the T$

Silver Bullet · 29-03-2010, 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Phatgixer

That is Joss Ronchetti. Now that thing is fookin rapid. 330bhp and 770kg... Drum rear brakes! I beat him in the wet, but in the dry he is a bullet!

2.7 Lotus highly tuned. Still on carbs...

Great to see this sort of stuff at meetings

mattCSLnut · 30-03-2010, 05:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Silver Bullet

Love the golfs by the way, i had a mint Tornado red Rallye back in the day, I was a golf nut!!!

I still kind of am one

and have a MK2 16V GTi

A small bumper 3 door in Helios Blue with factory Leather & A/C ... Originally SOLD New by "Dovercourt at Battersea" for £16 500

back in 1988 (I still have the original invoice). Apart from all the usual 16V GTi speck it has pretty much every other option including factory remote alarm ( a novelty in 1988 ), PAS, lecky windows, rear head rests with the before mentioned leather interior and factory Air Con ( £1300 option back in 1988 ) She's a "Rolling Restoration" and once finished will probably be SOLD to the next Golf Nut

By the way, great days racing by the look of things

shame about the loose/incorrect wheel nuts

Silver Bullet · 30-03-2010, 07:37 AM

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Originally Posted by mattCSLnut

I still kind of am one

and have a MK2 16V GTi

A small bumper 3 door in Helios Blue with factory Leather & A/C ... Originally SOLD New by "Dovercourt at Battersea" for £16 500

back in 1988 (I still have the original invoice). Apart from all the usual 16V GTi speck it has pretty much every other option including factory remote alarm ( a novelty in 1988 ), PAS, lecky windows, rear head rests with the before mentioned leather interior and factory Air Con ( £1300 option back in 1988 ) She's a "Rolling Restoration" and once finished will probably be SOLD to the next Golf Nut

By the way, great days racing by the look of things

shame about the loose/incorrect wheel nuts

Thats a lovely car mate, cant be many like that left unmolested......even the dealer plates look like new

My pa had a big bumpered 16valve, i used to love it when he wound it up in second gear, great revving engine.
He part x'd it for a Corrado VR6 in the end after we found out it had been in a massive crash,front,back & both sides

thegingerninja · 30-03-2010, 09:48 AM

Decent Mk 2 16V are becoming quite rare now - especially since the Golf Championship started in 2007. There have been around 70 cars built for the championship since then and I reckon it has had a small impact on availability and prices of these cars now. We used to be able to pick up a 100,000 miler with a bit of MOT, solid shell, everything complete and working for about £500 - thrash it all the way home and they would never miss a beat - the perfect base for a race car. You have to pay nearly double that for pile crap now.

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thegingerninja S5 - Full Throttle Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cheshire Posts: 370 Casino cash: $4367	Yep, fresh paint - but we had masked off all the faced areas. It actually turned out to be incorreclty supplied wheel nuts - the taper angles didn't match the wheel. Another important lesson learnt in life! Shimmy, were you racing in the TTRS? I know a guy (Simon Glen) who was driving an E30 M3 in those races. Last edited by thegingerninja; 29-03-2010 at 01:58 PM.

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TANKSLAPPER S5, Sport Off, DSC M-track Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 801 Casino cash: $8979	Sorry "Silver Bullet" about hi-jacking your thread, but I don't give a sh1t away LOL __________________ Club Tankslapper: No doughnuts or wingnuts, if but’s, and monkey nuts. It's not a proper accident until you eat hospital food

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30-03-2010, 09:48 AM	#20
thegingerninja S5 - Full Throttle Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Cheshire Posts: 370 Casino cash: $4367	Decent Mk 2 16V are becoming quite rare now - especially since the Golf Championship started in 2007. There have been around 70 cars built for the championship since then and I reckon it has had a small impact on availability and prices of these cars now. We used to be able to pick up a 100,000 miler with a bit of MOT, solid shell, everything complete and working for about £500 - thrash it all the way home and they would never miss a beat - the perfect base for a race car. You have to pay nearly double that for pile crap now.