car porn

[Roadkill]

This isn't so much a car-porn mag as the entire stock of an automotive porn shop: Juha Kankkunen's car collection.

His own 1985 Safari-winning Toyota Celica, 1992 Portugal Rally-winning Lancia 'Deltona,' and the older-spec 16v Delta in which he won the 1991 RAC Rally and secured his third world championship, along with some Group B madness.

Kankkunen with a Peugeot 205 T16 from 1986 - maybe one of the ones he drove on his way to his first world championship - the '92 Lancia and the Toyota Celica in which he won the 1993 RAC Rally.

Five Ferraris and a Lancia Delta.

Ford Porn.

I suppose all that's what being for years the most successful rally driver in the world buys you...

 

[DownwardDog]

That is filth. It's particularly good because a) it's in his house and b) he's actually won races in lots of those cars.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

At my local hairdressers, to get the kids to sit still....

 

[gosub]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The idea behind that is to deter motorbikes from speeding in Somerset. Don't really follow the logic myself...

 

[hash tag]

I'm starting to fall in love with Brian Johnson (AC/DC). He presents Cars That Rock on Quest. It is an hours programme and each one is devoted to a marque, last nights Bentley. Although Im not that keen on AC/DC or particularly Bentley's he presents the programme with great passion, enthusiasm and knowledge. He talks about the history of the company and picks out a few of it's landmark cars to look at. He really takes you in and drives you along with him, superb and worth checking out. He also has an interesting garage!

http://www.questtv.co.uk/shows/cars-that-rock/

 

[Roadkill]

I'm starting to fall in love with Brian Johnson (AC/DC). He presents Cars That Rock on Quest. It is an hours programme and each one is devoted to a marque, last nights Bentley. Although Im not that keen on AC/DC or particularly Bentley's he presents the programme with great passion, enthusiasm and knowledge. He talks about the history of the company and picks out a few of it's landmark cars to look at. He really takes you in and drives you along with him, superb and worth checking out. He also has an interesting garage!

His Bentley really is car porn IMO:

There's already one vintage Bentley on this thread, but another won't come amiss. It's one of my life's ambitions to have a go in one of these.

 

[hash tag]

Bar steward! Glorious.

 

[SikhWarrioR]

His Bentley really is car porn IMO:

There's already one vintage Bentley on this thread, but another won't come amiss. It's one of my life's ambitions to have a go in one of these.

Impressive peice of machinery even the name seems appropriate

 

[DownwardDog]

Gojira with Liberty Walk widebody kit and 20" Pur rims. Nice mix of VIP, bosozoku and Gran Turismo influences.

 

[mauvais]

Want of the day: a pinstripe Abarth.

 

[DownwardDog]

More Liberty Walk. Their body kit for the Aventador...

If I owned this car I would polish it every day with my jizz.

 

[Roadkill]

A rather different sort of car porn: the 350hp Sunbeam that was driven by Kenelm Lee Guinness to an unofficial land speed record in 1922. Subsequently it was sold to Malcolm Campbell and renamed Bluebird, after which it officially took the land speed record at the Pendine Sands in 1924. It was the first car to crack 150mph. The engine is an eighteen-litre V12 from an aeroplane:

After a long restoration it was fired up earlier this year, for the first time in 50 years, deafening a couple of hundred people in the process:



I love early racing cars: brute force and ignorance.

 

[discokermit]

A rather different sort of car porn: the 350hp Sunbeam that was driven by Kenelm Lee Guinness to an unofficial land speed record in 1922. Subsequently it was sold to Malcolm Campbell and renamed Bluebird, after which it officially took the land speed record at the Pendine Sands in 1924. It was the first car to crack 150mph. The engine is an eighteen-litre V12 from an aeroplane:

After a long restoration it was fired up earlier this year, for the first time in 50 years, deafening a couple of hundred people in the process:



I love early racing cars: brute force and ignorance.

made in wolverhampton.

 

[moose]

Make mine a Martini *swoon*

 

[Poi E]

This rare road going GT40 was re-built by a guy I bought a modified Datsun off. Totally stripped down to the panels and rebuilt just as Ford Slough made it i.e. not as good as it could have been in the hands of my acquaintance. Still, originality is king for classic cars.

 

[Poi E]

Wow, there's a function on at the honourable artillery company grounds our office overlooks here in moorgate with the lotus F1 team lorry dropping off a dozen vintage and modern F1 cars, there's a racing GTR, aventador , gull wing merc and all sorts of other expensive looking stuff. Lucky bankers.

 

[hash tag]

A '69 Mercury Cyclone...

 

[DownwardDog]

I've just bought one of these...

Mine is a silver 2002 6 speed manual that doesn't run and needs 4 new tyres, brakes all round and a clutch. I'm going to fix its many electrical and mechanical problems then do a 2WD conversion. Apparently going 2WD improves fuel economy from 12 to 16mpg.

 

[hash tag]

Could a Vauhall fit on these pages?

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/microsite/vxr/vxr8/index.html

 

[mauvais]

I've more time for Vauxhall than some other brands of Germanic boredom, but in porn terms, it's a bit Readers' Wives.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I've more time for Vauxhall than some other brands of Germanic boredom, but in porn terms, it's a bit Readers' Wives.

Naturally the Ozzies do readers wives better than most...

 

[DownwardDog]

Those V8 Commodores are appalling; they are underbraked and the interiors drop to bits within 12-18 months. GM is going to end production in Australia in 2017. The only reason they have endured this long is that various governments kept throwing money at them to make fantastically irrelevant cars than nobody wanted in the name of "protecting jobs".

 

[Dr_Herbz]

If I had 11 grand like it was nothing, I'd buy this. I love it so much.

The car has a new 4-7ltr V8 which has covered only 1500miles the gear box and clutch are all new as well, she can also run with a touch of nitrous which can be switched on that will give a extra 150 BHP

• Engine power (BHP):350
• Torque (lbs/ft):400
• Top speed (MPH):150
• Acceleration:0 to 62 in 4 seconds
• Fuel consumption (MPG):20
• Driven wheels:Rear Wheel Drive

I'd kill myself in about 10 minutes obviously.

I'd pay good money to anyone who set that on fire and put the video on youtube... Hideous doesn't even start to describe it.

 

[Idris2002]

A few pics I took over the summer and have been meaning to post up for a while:

 

[Roadkill]

Bump.

There's a lock-up at the bottom of my street. Sometimes the door is open when I walk by and I'd noticed a load of pictures of Lotus Cortinas and the like on the walls, so I'd guessed the owner is an enthusiast, although there's never been anything more interesting in the garage than a new-ish BMW M3. This morning I walked by on my way to work, and was confronted with one of these:

And it's a real one, with only 30k on the clock. Lovely thing.

 

[Sweet FA]

*growling voiceover* Take a 1965 Ford Mustang, Add a Roush Yates 410 cubic inch Ford V8. Add a six-speed transmission. Add all-wheel drive. Add paint and bodywork that make it downright terrifying to look at. You get The Hoonicorn, Ken Block's ride of choice for the seventh installation of his Gymkhana insanity-fest.

 

[Sweet FA]

From the comments:

 

[mauvais]

That only works because Ken Block doesn't need to see where he's going, on account of (a) only ever sliding round in circles and (b) just doing another take if he gets it wrong.

 

[Sweet FA]

That only works because Ken Block doesn't need to see where he's going, on account of (a) only ever sliding round in circles and (b) just doing another take if he gets it wrong.

An outrageous slur