The Latest Retro Car

RedMist · Post by **RedMist** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:23 pm

I always liked the M250 as a Stratos replacement.

rollaholic · Post by **rollaholic** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:52 pm

thats win.

someone has deep pockets!

eskimo · Post by **eskimo** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:44 pm

Dam you fezza's dam you!!

R.U.F · Post by **R.U.F** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:10 pm

Agree with DXrolla should have stuck with POP up headlights.

d1 mule · Post by **d1 mule** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:22 pm

not that its gonna happen, but cant get popups homologated for road use anymore, too much of a padestrian hazard

BZG Wagon · Post by **BZG Wagon** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:43 pm

d1 mule wrote:not that its gonna happen, but cant get popups homologated for road use anymore, too much of a padestrian hazard

Serious? I had no idea.

That really sucks.

~SlideWays~ · Post by **~SlideWays~** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:19 pm

d1 mule wrote:not that its gonna happen, but cant get popups homologated for road use anymore, too much of a padestrian hazard

Oh FFS!

GDII · Post by **GDII** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:50 pm

I think the last car to have pop up headlights was one of the Lotus Esprit cars. Also it reduces your top speed. But who drives at top speed at night anyway....

MAGN1T · Post by **MAGN1T** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:49 pm

One of my mates actually built a Lancia Stratos replica about 25 years ago, well him and another person built 2 of them.
Roger did the chassis fab, (he even cast his own wheels) the other did the plywood body plug, made the moulds, then did 2 fibreglass bodies.
Rogers car was based on Lancia beta running gear, he later swapped out the motor for a Nissan V6. I've driven it too.
With the Lancia Beta motor I think it did low 1 min 20s around Manfield.
I seem to remember him telling me that it was too light, with the big tyres it wasn't good in the wet. Tended to aquaplane badly.
He's working on a fully enclosed motorcycle right now, has training wheels that drop down at low speed so it doesn't fall over.

Steve

TRD Man · Post by **TRD Man** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:53 am

We must have mutual 'mates' because it was a very good friend of mine that built these cars.
In fact I was looking at importing a replica out of the UK a short while back and got to wondering where these things are these days.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:36 am

Don't suppose this is one of the replicas you're talking about?

TRD Man · Post by **TRD Man** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:08 pm

That's the deal.Looks like a Hawk kit. Is that one locally owned?

Post by **Mr Revhead** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 12:17 pm

Saw one in Welly a while back. Nearly got a speeding ticket trying to catch it up for a closer look!

LEAKER · Post by **LEAKER** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:29 pm

could have been that one. Correct me if im wrong but i'm firly sure thats out the front of te papa?

~SlideWays~ · Post by **~SlideWays~** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:35 pm

Malcolm wrote:Don't suppose this is one of the replicas you're talking about?

Looks like the one from a member of the Constructors Car Club in Wellington. All kinds of interesting cars.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:56 am

Yep that's right, it's someone from the Constructors Car club. They had a display outside Te Papa when I was down there displaying/presenting during the F1 exhibition there. Got to snap a bunch of pics of the cars as they were leaving but only managed to speak to a couple of owners/builders.

~SlideWays~ · Post by **~SlideWays~** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 9:59 am

Malcolm wrote:Yep that's right, it's someone from the Constructors Car club. They had a display outside Te Papa when I was down there displaying/presenting during the F1 exhibition there. Got to snap a bunch of pics of the cars as they were leaving but only managed to speak to a couple of owners/builders.

That would make sense, I was thinking it must have been a while ago since those wire tree things haven't been there for ages.
Here's the car's details:
http://www.constructorscarclub.org.nz/replicas.html