My personal choice has to be my 2015 HD Street Glide "Special"
103 cubic inch with full Screaming Eagle air intake conversion and a set of Freedom Performance pipes.
Just came off the dyno last week with 110bhp at the rear wheel.
And it's very brave of you to stand up in public and admit that you're pleased with that
My 7 year old unmodified K12s still makes >170 at the rear wheel...
Just a friendly poke at Harley riders. 85% of all Harley's ever made are still on the road. The other 15% made it home...
Still - better than a car.
Admittedly the Harley is quite impressive when you consider torque rather than horsepower. I expect that's where your effort has gone as they still do pretty well on the quarter mile.
Cheers!
I often take the vintage Fezza for a run though "The Royal" (national park). I've discovered the corner speed advisory signs can be ignored by a factor of 3.
e.g. if the advisory is 15km an hour, you can safely negotiate the corner at 45km an hour....have fun and and still avoid a speeding ticket.
This becomes hilarious when a P-Plater (usually in something Japanese with "fully sick" body kit) sees something mid-engined and low ahead, who then proceeds to rapidly catch up and expect some sort of race or to tailgate or both.
I'm usually 1/2 way through the first hairpin ahead when the nose of the car behind will violently dip, with a puff of blue smoke off the tyres, plus a little slalom to regain control for good measure...
Even a humble 45km hairpin can totally make my day
1974 MGB GT with over drive. Left it in a barn in the UK and my Dad auctioned it off ;-(
Had a Morris Minor as well- 1968. The garage repair bills were too much for me as a student.
My Mini was better (was better than the Fiat 126).
I'm with the A to B crowd. Whatever gets you there safely, (and the family).
If I win Lotto it would be a Series 2 Landy AND Triumph TR 5/6 or an Austin Healy.
Drive a Jeep now (my second one) and its Ok but it's not a Land Rover!!
Graz
PS My mate in the UK painted his land rover to look like the zebra striped one from Daktari- I will see if I can find a picture.
And it's very brave of you to stand up in public and admit that you're pleased with that
My 7 year old unmodified K12s still makes >170 at the rear wheel...
Just a friendly poke at Harley riders. 85% of all Harley's ever made are still on the road. The other 15% made it home...
Still - better than a car.
Admittedly the Harley is quite impressive when you consider torque rather than horsepower. I expect that's where your effort has gone as they still do pretty well on the quarter mile.
Cheers!
well a mate of mine had the t-shirt "...... and on the sixth day god created harley davidson, and on the seventh day he was still trying to start the F@!$#%^ thing!"
and one for the triumphs, as they dropped an awful lot of oil, that they done two petrol stations to the mile ha ha!
i am with lewis on this one (for once ha ha) i have a 2008 passat 3.2 petrol, it goes like a flamin stabbed rat, sticks like poo to a blanket and stops on a sixpence............... i absolutely love dubs!
pat
incidentally my first car was a 68 monaro powerglide two speed racing box auto, i fitted it with some triple s.u's and the noise of those carburettors were something else!
I often take the vintage Fezza for a run though "The Royal" (national park). I've discovered the corner speed advisory signs can be ignored by a factor of 3.
e.g. if the advisory is 15km an hour, you can safely negotiate the corner at 45km an hour....have fun and and still avoid a speeding ticket.
This becomes hilarious when a P-Plater (usually in something Japanese with "fully sick" body kit) sees something mid-engined and low ahead, who then proceeds to rapidly catch up and expect some sort of race or to tailgate or both.
I'm usually 1/2 way through the first hairpin ahead when the nose of the car behind will violently dip, with a puff of blue smoke off the tyres, plus a little slalom to regain control for good measure...
Even a humble 45km hairpin can totally make my day
I often take the vintage Fezza for a run though "The Royal" (national park). I've discovered the corner speed advisory signs can be ignored by a factor of 3.
e.g. if the advisory is 15km an hour, you can safely negotiate the corner at 45km an hour....have fun and and still avoid a speeding ticket.
This becomes hilarious when a P-Plater (usually in something Japanese with "fully sick" body kit) sees something mid-engined and low ahead, who then proceeds to rapidly catch up and expect some sort of race or to tailgate or both.
I'm usually 1/2 way through the first hairpin ahead when the nose of the car behind will violently dip, with a puff of blue smoke off the tyres, plus a little slalom to regain control for good measure...
Even a humble 45km hairpin can totally make my day
To see what it would be like to have something like a Westfield on your tail, watch this:
I often take the vintage Fezza for a run though "The Royal" (national park). I've discovered the corner speed advisory signs can be ignored by a factor of 3.
e.g. if the advisory is 15km an hour, you can safely negotiate the corner at 45km an hour....have fun and and still avoid a speeding ticket.
This becomes hilarious when a P-Plater (usually in something Japanese with "fully sick" body kit) sees something mid-engined and low ahead, who then proceeds to rapidly catch up and expect some sort of race or to tailgate or both.
I'm usually 1/2 way through the first hairpin ahead when the nose of the car behind will violently dip, with a puff of blue smoke off the tyres, plus a little slalom to regain control for good measure...
Even a humble 45km hairpin can totally make my day
We often say of that crowd: he arrived at the apex and ran out of talent.
Nice machine Peter - although I promised myself the only Ferrari I'd ever buy would be a 250GTO. Which is a convenient excuse, really :-)
Cheers,
Andrew.
i am with lewis on this one (for once ha ha) i have a 2008 passat 3.2 petrol, it goes like a flamin stabbed rat, sticks like poo to a blanket and stops on a sixpence............... i absolutely love dubs!
pat
Indeed.
I once was at a set of lights with some purple Commodore or Monaro whatever next to me. He started to do the rev rev.
OK, you wanna play with your V8 vs a V5 with a ****e load of torque. Slipped it into manual...
He gave up after 40 metres. WIMP!
The V5 I have might have been chipped... slightly Good kiwi bloke did that.
I think he translated all his power into smoke, noise, and an oscillating car
OK..it might corner well, but the 430 driver being lapped was probably my age....and the Westfield doesn't even have a windscreen.
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Strictly speaking, that was a Caterham.
Both Westfield and Caterham are replicas of the venerable Lotus 7.
Arguably the most accessible 'bad-ass' car you can legally put on a domestic street in this country. (entry level is around the same outlay as a generic family car)
Incidentally, the 360 that is being lapped at 8:45 is the one being lapped at around the 2 minute mark... I think the guy in the 430 is on the limit.
Take one for a drive, they are astonishingly fast.... a similar experience to riding big capacity Japanese sports bikes (but much quicker in the corners)
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OK..it might corner well, but the 430 driver being lapped was probably my age....and the Westfield doesn't even have a windscreen.
Windscreens are really useful.
Even really small ones.
While riding my (then youthful) Honda 750 during a hot Perth afternoon, I flipped up the face visor on my helmet for some cooler air.
A microsecond later I had a face-full of monster moth (timing is everything )
Nearly dropped the bike!
Didn't taste too good either.
My westie does have a windscreen, but that caterham has considerably more HP than I've got. But I sure recognise the handling, and getting hard on the power much much earlier than anything else can. You can see that the Ferrari never really gets a chance to stretch its legs on that track though. It would be a very different story at the Nurburgring.
I once forgot to put the visor down while heading out for a club superbike race up at Wanerroo. A bee hit my sunglasses at about 200km/h. Smashed lens, black eye, and a change of underwear required...
there are many faster cars in a straight line, but very few that can out corner it. I remember several memorable drives... between Lancefield and Tooborac moving quickly but without effort, noticed an SS Commodore working VERY hard to keep up, upped the effort a bit and left him in the dust. Driving between Echuca and Deniliquin on a dark summers night, roof off looking up at the milky way.... Punting down to Lorne the back way in the rain, totally secure... I love this car, even though it is bloody hard to get into and out of after a hip replacement....When I'm too old to drive it, I'll just look at it...
My brother bought a 25yo Caterham 7 recently (mid life crisis). It's a really simple motorcar - probably only 130bhp , but it weighs nothing. Lots of fun without being stupid - and where can you do that on public roads without being nailed by the constabulary? A friend let me drive his Porsche recently - went for a gentle drive up Mt Nebo on a random weekday afternoon and was followed by a motorcycle cop for most of the trip. Certainly wasn't trying to drive hard in someone else's pride and joy, but it wasn't worth even considering it...
DT
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Not much attention went into the body panels and interior fittings on the pre 90's models.Like Ferrari said " you pay for a great engine and great running gear and we give you a body and interior for nothing." Ours is a 308 GTS same as Tom Sellick drove in Magnum PI.Took a lot of work to get it looking as it does now.
Not much attention went into the body panels and interior fittings on the pre 90's models.Like Ferrari said " you pay for a great engine and great running gear and we give you a body and interior for nothing." Ours is a 308 GTS same as Tom Sellick drove in Magnum PI.Took a lot of work to get it looking as it does now.
The latest BMW here has 4 wheels, 2001 E39 530i m-sport. I've recently got it safe and I like it, might be a keeper. Took it over Mt Glorious and couldn't under stand why all the jap cars where braking at every corner, very frustrating. Still a lot of work to do on it but a 3 litre inline 6 is a bit of a treat.
My old Mark 3 Mini Cooper S, long gone sadly. Pity it struggled in wet weather due to the unfortunate placement of the distributor behind the grille. Oh, and a pity about the tendency to rust around the rear sub-frame and scuttle too. Totally impractical, but fun. No way would I drive one now though.
We're Mitsubishi people, an inheritance from Rally interests.
Currently driving either of my (our) two favourite cars, my 2000 Mitsi VR4 Legnum wagon or my wifes Mitsi VR4 Saloon. Both are 2.5 litre V6 twin Turbo 206 kw (280 hp ) with 4 wd, AYC ( Clever LSD ). Sitting on 17" 245 45 alloys and Eagle F1 D3 tyres. And ceramic pads on 10" Vented disks.
They go like stink ! Ride is firm and you feel the road. They corner like on rails thanks to McPherson strut suspension all round and the Active Yaw Control (AYC) which shifts power across the back diff ( not like braked LSD) and balances front to rear drive power through the centre diff.
It is the Mitsi EVO's big brother, all the same running gear beefed up a wee bit. ( Driven a couple of those as well )
I've had them both up to 180 kph on the track where they hit the limiter but unchipped they will go at 240 kph in street standard kit.
The Legnum is a bit different with some Ralliart components in the motor, Pod filter, cold air ram and big bore exhaust, interior is Recaro Seats (so wrap round comfortable) and Momo wheel.
Biggest problem ? They are thirsty and require servicing every 5000km to keep the turbos smooth. But boy do they pay back on long trips.
4500 km in two weks round the Sth Island last year, 1500 km in 4 days last weekend following Rally down Sth. But we love them a lot. Absolute drivers car....
My other fav would have been ( you guessed it, another Mitsi) a 1989 Mitsi Mirage Cyborg 1600 NA hatch back. They were made in Japan to be an entry level club sport race car\road car. Mine was only the FWD version but with a pair of 17" rims up front, decent tyres and a solid 5 speed box it was the most fun in a tin box you could have. That could get to 180 kph as well, bog standard. Great fun sledding the front in wet weather round corners, chuck it in too fast and just apply power, heaps of it. Even had vented disks all round. Although the seats were not Recaro they were factory copies with good bucket shape. That car was a lot of fun.
Looked at a Mitsi Ralliart Diamante a few years back. That comes under the 'Bloody Big Evo' category. 3.5 litre V6, NA and Ralliart cam. Huge torque output and surprisingly good to drive on corners thanks to the McPherson suspension all round keeping the tyres flat on the road. Even had a big EVO wing on the back, nearly bought it but the Legnum appeared with all the right bits already attached.
Driven a Lambo,... meh A number of Evo's, 2, 4, 6. .. much better, BMW's on the track, pretty darn good but a bit soulless. Various ToyMotas .. reliable but boring, Nissans, Holdens, Fords, Mazdas ( new MX5 recently, nice but a bit gutless ).
Next probable car, either Mitsi EVO X or their bigger SUV. Been in the EVO X on track with a hot lap. Totally insane ! Which impressed me but also scared me. He was braking at the point he had been telling us to turn in at in the Lambo having braked from about 50 meters further back ! He took the pit exit, a sharpish right hand onto the track at full noise, all wheels screaming under acceleration, .. with 3 passengers on board .... We exited the lane at over 100 kph and it was only 60 meters long.