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Aneirin -> RE: 2009 Dodge Challenger (2/11/2008 4:35:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Politesub53
I could never make my mind whether i prefered the Charger over the Challenger. Like Aneirin i loved the Camaro Z 28s, and was lucky enough to own a mk1 Celica. There were a few decent British cars about at that time, such as the Cortina Lotus, and later the Mk 11 Cortina savage, built at Crayford Cortinas with a 3000 V6 engine. As well as this we had the Rover V8s and the slab sided Humberhawk.
Mk1 celicas were a beautiful shape and I believe once again modelled on a US car. The engine was superb, a 1600 twin cam.The biggest fault with those cars was the same for any other Jap car of the time, -tin worm! The celicas had it with a vengeance! I have often looked around, to see if there are any reasonable examples still surviving, as that to me was a beautiful shape for a car.
You had a Humber Hawk and remark at the slab sidedness. It was an earlier thought of mine that slab sided cars were particularly British. My Father had two reasonable cars, one was a V4 Corsair, I believe 2000 cc ,(he still thinks that is the hairiest car he has had). The other car was an AC Greyhound, which was a bag of nails, quick when it went, but was always undergoing repairs, he swopped it for an Austin 1100????
The quickest I have had was a Mk 2 Cavalier SRI 130 saloon, a very pretty and understated car, I used to manage Oxford to Liverpool in 4 hours on a friday night with that, throttle it, and it went well.
I have also had a series one Land -rover and a bay window VW camper. I think after I out grew speed I went for slow things with a bit of style. Mind the lure of speed is still there, but fruitless on our roads with our congestion.
Still hanker after a Celica though.
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