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[Lizzie_Zoom]

No prizes for guessing where this one's going!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A99-WESTMINSTER-BANGER-PROJECT-BANGER-RACING-SPARES-/330516200644?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cf44cfcc4

Ah, yes, the big Austin Westminsters, the classic 'old banger' racer!

I'd soon have one complete and fully in working order though!

[Amigo]

No prizes for guessing where this one's going!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A99-WESTMINSTER-BANGER-PROJECT-BANGER-RACING-SPARES-/330516200644?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cf44cfcc4

Ah, yes, the big Austin Westminsters, the classic 'old banger' racer!

I'd soon have one complete and fully in working order though!

Check the next link i posted Lizzie. They're all there for you.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

No prizes for guessing where this one's going!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/A99-WESTMINSTER-BANGER-PROJECT-BANGER-RACING-SPARES-/330516200644?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item4cf44cfcc4

Ah, yes, the big Austin Westminsters, the classic 'old banger' racer!

I'd soon have one complete and fully in working order though!

Check the next link i posted Lizzie. They're all there for you.

Thanks Guy, found them!!

Many brilliant examples and takes me right back to frequently travelling in my future father-in-laws Westminster.  They were, or are, beautiful cars and had all the top of the range features of a 1960s luxury car.

This one particularly caught my eye Guy, as it appears to have A40 Mk1 headlight and indicator chrome trim:




..........and as for racing it?  No way!!

 

[david036]

Would rather see these classic 'used' than sat in a garage gathering dust......And when they're finished with get them raced....We have a stockpile of classic inc MK1 granada coupe, MK2 Triumph 2000, XJS, XJ6 Alegro, minors etc and these are all waiting to be raced!!!!
Have just seen a westie that sold for £2000 and has been bought to be banger raced..which is a little bit excessive!!!

[zirax]

I would love to, but the cash required would be crazy. One of my highlights is watching the legends race at Brands.

After a few laps all the cars started getting too hot and locking up ...... At Druids a mini Cooper S was nearly taken out by a TR4 locking up and sliding straight towards him. I was close enough to see both drivers eyes (both were crapping themselves) and the gasps for breath from the crowd as it slid ever closer.

About 2" away (and nothing more than that) it stopped and they went around for another lap, the whole crowd cheered. You could see the drivers relief and how much they loved it 

That mini though was spanking pretty much every exotic from the era right through to 80s stuff in the bends, but obviously lost on the straights.

[mrgreen]

No offence anyone but these threads usually "decline" into the hugely expensive cars, Ferraris, Mustangs, Lotus Cortinas & Mk1/2 Escorts which are out of reach to most if not all of us. I'll add the original Mini Cooper S to said list as like the Lotus Cortina it was a giant killer.
   On a more down to earth note being the classic Ford fan you all know i am i could shoot myself for some of the old fords i've killed on the oval raceway @ Angmering many years  ago. They were just old motors at the time.

yes if i had all my old motors from my youth stored away it would be quite the collection of classics and some of them worth some real money!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGULcLUr0I4
Reliant Robin..............erm

I owned a couple of plastic pigs way back in the seventies ...A 600cc Regal....and the later 700cc Regal Supervan....which went like sh*t of a shovel....

Needless to say...... being only 17or 18 at the time ...I rolled the pair of them....Happy days....  

[Olympia5776]

I guess I'm part way there having this wrapped up for dry sunny days ,



And helping build and rally this ,



But don't think 'cause it isn't exotic it's low cost. To be competitive in the Historic series over here costs a significant sum usually initiated by ,
" Faster ! or Better Brakes ! or Gotta handle better ! " or the worst one," We'll beat that Blaggard  next time........."

[Amigo]

Nice pair!!!!!

[sotmh]

Now there lies the rub, money, money, in a rich man mans world.

For the rest of us how about one for oof members possibly under class e.g 2.5/2.6 and 2.0 and racing against a clock? also makin g it day out with other events around it.

Possibly insurance needs to be considered etc.

[Amigo]

Now there lies the rub, money, money, in a rich man mans world.

For the rest of us how about one for oof members possibly under class e.g 2.5/2.6 and 2.0 and racing against a clock? also makin g it day out with other events around it.

Possibly insurance needs to be considered etc.

Don't say that or Elite Pete will buy another MX5!!!!!

[zirax]

Now there lies the rub, money, money, in a rich man mans world.

For the rest of us how about one for oof members possibly under class e.g 2.5/2.6 and 2.0 and racing against a clock? also makin g it day out with other events around it.

Possibly insurance needs to be considered etc.

Don't say that or Elite Pete will buy another MX5!!!!!

That's fighting talk that is! Especially when there is a track perfect for this, barkston heath. Javelin already run sprinting there for £90 a go.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i2EeBgA6vv4J:www.javelintrackdays.co.uk/+javelin+racing&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
Cached as their website has died again 

Hmmm I could roll out the MR2

[Martin_1962]

Now there lies the rub, money, money, in a rich man mans world.

For the rest of us how about one for oof members possibly under class e.g 2.5/2.6 and 2.0 and racing against a clock? also makin g it day out with other events around it.

Possibly insurance needs to be considered etc.

Mike Dundee will win the 2.6, and I'll have the fastest auto 2.6

[Martin_1962]

Would rather see these classic 'used' than sat in a garage gathering dust......And when they're finished with get them raced....We have a stockpile of classic inc MK1 granada coupe, MK2 Triumph 2000, XJS, XJ6 Alegro, minors etc and these are all waiting to be raced!!!!
Have just seen a westie that sold for £2000 and has been bought to be banger raced..which is a little bit excessive!!!

I hate banger racing - such a waste of old cars.

Now old cars on a proper track or rallying - that is good

[Martin_1962]

Now there lies the rub, money, money, in a rich man mans world.

For the rest of us how about one for oof members possibly under class e.g 2.5/2.6 and 2.0 and racing against a clock? also makin g it day out with other events around it.

Possibly insurance needs to be considered etc.

Don't say that or Elite Pete will buy another MX5!!!!!

That's fighting talk that is! Especially when there is a track perfect for this, barkston heath. Javelin already run sprinting there for £90 a go.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i2EeBgA6vv4J:www.javelintrackdays.co.uk/+javelin+racing&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
Cached as their website has died again 

Hmmm I could roll out the MR2

Used to know a 1.6 owner, and he was surprised when he was hammering it and I kept up with my Sunbeam .