I am, with a mate of mine (for those who met him, Rob who came to LeMans with me)!
Not saying just yet what car we've won on Ebay to do it in though!
PPC Magazine £999 Challenge
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Any readers of the wonderful PPC Magazine entering the £999 Challenge?
I am, with a mate of mine (for those who met him, Rob who came to LeMans with me)!
Not saying just yet what car we've won on Ebay to do it in though!
I am, with a mate of mine (for those who met him, Rob who came to LeMans with me)!
Not saying just yet what car we've won on Ebay to do it in though!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
There's a page (36) about it in this months issue.
Challenge is to buy / build / modify / b'stardise the fastest car possible for under £1000. Must be taxed, m.o.t.d and road worthy!
There's a drag race and handling circuit.
You wouldn't believe what me and my mate have bought for £560!
Challenge is to buy / build / modify / b'stardise the fastest car possible for under £1000. Must be taxed, m.o.t.d and road worthy!
There's a drag race and handling circuit.
You wouldn't believe what me and my mate have bought for £560!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
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march109
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I reckon a sierra 4x4 with nitrous would rock. and would come in under £1000
325i Tech 1 Touring, breaking.
2.5 high comp. M20, 3.64 LSD, Fully undersealed, Spax springs & Bilstein shocks, s/s exhaust, Alpina rep wheels and more.
2.5 high comp. M20, 3.64 LSD, Fully undersealed, Spax springs & Bilstein shocks, s/s exhaust, Alpina rep wheels and more.
XR4x4 was a car we considered, as well as about a hundred others!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Spill the beans on what you have brought martin! If all goes to plan I should have something with about 190bhp/ton for less than £700, might be useable for this even though i didn't know it existed. Might have to subscribe to PPC soon, seems like a good mag. Couldn't scan that page in could you? 
I would Jon, but I haven't got a scanner! 
I think I'll keep you lot guessing for a while, 100 points for anyone who guesses even nearly correctly!
You MUST subscribe! Everybody must, it's such an interesting and entertaining magazine.
I'm wondering what you got now though!
I think I'll keep you lot guessing for a while, 100 points for anyone who guesses even nearly correctly!
You MUST subscribe! Everybody must, it's such an interesting and entertaining magazine.
I'm wondering what you got now though!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
We considered many Japanese cars because we think they are great (and we both work at a Japanese car spares distributor!), easily modified, usually reliable etc.
But..... no.
But..... no.
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Starion was on our radar, but alas, it just didn't cut it with us!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Yeah, we did think of nitrous but neither of us know a thing about it and we couldn't be bothered in the end.Theo325 wrote:How about a heavily stripped e34 535i manual with a helping of nitrous oxide? Very unimaginative, but could be effective.
Stripped out, yes.
Anything we got would have been stripped!
Just so happens someone had done it for us already!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Couldn't find a suitable one for the money!maxfield wrote:Some big yank V8?
Not great at handling most of them either!
If it had been a noise competition though...
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
maxfield wrote:Hmmmmm, capri?
I wish!
I love big engined Capris.
No, we needed easy and cheap tuneability.
It is turbocharged!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Theo325 wrote:Is it a 318is? We all know how quick they are....
BIIIIG clue here then because I'm crap at keeping secrets!
From the factory it had two turbos!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
Well done that man!mattG wrote:so
not rice
rwd
factory turbo x2
under a bag
pacerpetes Meserati fits the bill
Here it is in all it's glo.... well, here it is!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... &rd=1&rd=1
Ain't that the biggest turd you've seen in ages?!
We're gonna boost it until the heads fall off!
This challenge should be a right giggle!
Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/archives/challenge.php
We have the same thing over here.. I did the one year in a 325 E30 and another in a Peugeot 505 Turbo.. It was a good time. But the V8 conversion RX 7s were hard to run against..
Barry
We have the same thing over here.. I did the one year in a 325 E30 and another in a Peugeot 505 Turbo.. It was a good time. But the V8 conversion RX 7s were hard to run against..
Barry
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thats rad as shit!!! lol
Yep, it has it's good points. I think!Jon_Bmw wrote:Cor thats a sad looking thing!But it has all the right bits for doing this challenge. Bucket seats and harnesses etc.
When do the cars have to be ready by?
The challenge is on October 13th at York Raceway.
Jak / Bam2002 - that's cool! Amazing what cars you can pick up for hardly any money! Like the sound of RX7 V8!
I looked at my girlfriend all proud and said "You can tell all your mates that your boyfriend drives a BMW and a Maserati!"
She said "No, I'll tell them he's got two piles of sh*t!".
She just doesn't understand!
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Jeremy Clarkson wrote:...but it drives the front wheels. Theee wrooong wheels!
da4x4turbo wrote:I raced a vivaro on the motorway once in a 318is.... and lost!!!
