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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 12:58 pm | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 1:09 pm | |
| I like the Checy Truck Rallys and polished woodgrain outline trim. Looks good!
-Mike | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 1:11 pm | |
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BigBlackBeaSSt
Posts : 4560 Join date : 2009-08-01 Age : 59 Location : Sanford, NC
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 1:24 pm | |
| Me likes polished trim................ Welcome!!!! Love the wheels. I thought about doing the same thing with a set of truck rallies....... INSIRATION!! Tim | |
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buickestate Moderator
Posts : 3301 Join date : 2008-11-04 Age : 60 Location : Chatham Ontario
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 2:33 pm | |
| Me likes polished trim | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 3047 Join date : 2010-04-13 Age : 37 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 3:35 pm | |
| Me likes polished trim Cool rims. What kind are they? | |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 10:29 pm | |
| Thanks for the welcome, pics and tips everyone! Nothing like sharing the madness!!!!!! | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 11:00 pm | |
| Madness cant really describe our feelings towards these wagons.I mean when someone has 4 wagons and is looking at another that can be called ------------------------------------------- perfectly normal.I see nothing wrong with owning 5 wagons unless you are thinking about adding a Subaru to the collection! Jim Gordon |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 11:00 pm | |
| I gotta ask about your screen name. I'm a child of the 80's and remember these weird BMW diesel powered RV's....called Vixen's.
Is that it??
-Mike | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Wed May 04, 2011 11:01 pm | |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Thu May 05, 2011 9:28 am | |
| Hey Mike,
I love the passion you guys have for the cars. I've definitely been bitten.
The name Vixenpilot comes from another old car I own. It's a 1968 TVR Vixen S1. It's a very interesting hand built British car with a tube frame chassis and fiberglass body with a 1600 crossflow Ford engine. I can post pictures if you like. I also have a 1963 Austin Healey Sprite vintage racer.
I've restored and enjoyed old cars since I was able to. Too bad I'm not smart enough to make a living at it! | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Thu May 05, 2011 9:54 am | |
| Love to see the pics, and I'll Google your TVR. I remember the slope-nose TVR sports cars in the 80's, but not before that. Will cehck it out.
The Sprite sounds cool too. I had a neighbor in Denver that had a little blue Sprite in his garage. It was about your's age I think, not a Bugeye but the model after that. Bone stock, it was a neat car.
Again welcome to the forum!
-Mike | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Thu May 05, 2011 10:00 am | |
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Sprocket
Posts : 6140 Join date : 2008-11-04 Location : Palm Beach County
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Thu May 05, 2011 6:10 pm | |
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brokecello Moderator
Posts : 3478 Join date : 2009-05-28 Age : 46 Location : Greenville, SC
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Thu May 05, 2011 6:45 pm | |
| Great pics of the wagon! Polished trim goes well with the lower trim and bling on the wheels Chris | |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: nice Healey Mon May 09, 2011 12:10 pm | |
| Here's a couple of images of the TVR. I found it iut in the middle of nowhere behind a house on blocks.[img] [/img][img] [/img][img] [/img] | |
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Bewber
Posts : 1583 Join date : 2009-01-07 Location : The eight one oh
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 12:29 pm | |
| Neat looking body design, but what had you so hung up on THAT one to bring it back from being so far gone? I don't think I could fit in it if I had to. | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 12:50 pm | |
| TVR Vixen were some quick little cars due to their very low weight.The coupe design and the Sunbeam Alpine coupe were 2 of my favorite brit cars along with my absolute favorite the XKE coupe series 1.When I was a kid I collected all of the dealer brochures starting in 65 and up.Would be worth some money today if I had kept them.When my 65 Alpine was running it was a blast to drive around with the top down and the tonneau cover on.I always thought that driving with the tonneau cover on made it look like one of the factory race cars.Use to have TTs (time trials) here at our Air Force base every summer and we always went as kids. Those were the days.Great memories too. Jim Gordon |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 1:01 pm | |
| There was only 117 Series one Vixens built. I wasn't looking for one and never thought I'd own one. I only paid 500.00 for it which is another reason! It still is very rough but it runs and drives well now, a ton of fun. Rare but not valuable though. | |
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BigBlackBeaSSt
Posts : 4560 Join date : 2009-08-01 Age : 59 Location : Sanford, NC
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 1:59 pm | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 2:40 pm | |
| This is the first Vixen that I have seen that is left hand drive.I guess that all of the ones I saw were soldiers cars.Are those Dunlop wire wheels and did you have them rechromed?The wires on my Alpine were beautiful but I never could get them to stay true.I have some great memories of cool summer evening rides with my girlfriend.Her Momma would only let her ride with me as long as I stayed off the main roads which was just fine with me.Drriving that car meant when she called home to tell her Mom we had broke down it was always the truth. I know that if I somehow managed to get in that car today I would be stuck for a while. Wonderful Memories Jim Gordon |
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jeffracer
Posts : 98 Join date : 2010-11-18 Age : 74 Location : Tampa, Floriduh
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 7:25 pm | |
| Glad to see there are more bi-polar roadmonster owners! Here's my 96 RMW and 62 Sprite. | |
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toomanytoyz
Posts : 3233 Join date : 2008-11-04 Age : 48 Location : Sandown, NH USA
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 8:05 pm | |
| Man, I love your wagon. That polished trim and steelies really makes me miss the wood! And that TVR is pretty damn cool, too. | |
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Bewber
Posts : 1583 Join date : 2009-01-07 Location : The eight one oh
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Mon May 09, 2011 11:48 pm | |
| I own the Austin Powers trilogy, and I've watched them all at least once - and I don't recall any part of any of them that pointed out that British people in the 1960's were midgets.
WHY for the love of all things COMFY and ROOMY, would a society of full sized adults repeatedly design/build/buy/sell HALF SCALE CARS??!! | |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: more pics and retorts Tue May 10, 2011 12:31 pm | |
| Nice cars Jeff. I like the Halibrands! Here's a couple of my Sprite and my old Midget racer and link to a short YouTube video at VIR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhGzKk5HpzUBill, Thanks for the compliments! Where did you get the hood on the Marshmallow? Hey Bewber! Sounds like someone's got size issues!!! [img] [/img][img] [/img][img] [/img] | |
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Bewber
Posts : 1583 Join date : 2009-01-07 Location : The eight one oh
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 2:37 pm | |
| I think it's cool stuff, since everybody knows that go-carts are fun. And I swear that I'm not that big really, just big enough that I don't think I could comfortably get in, drive, or get out of a car that small - and that's with me driving a cavalier as a daily. I'd me like the limerick about the guy from Boston who drove a wee little Austin. Also, Crovo stole that hood from someone local to him out of a wheeler dealer. | |
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81X11
Posts : 9876 Join date : 2010-06-23 Age : 50 Location : Round Rock Texas
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 2:45 pm | |
| I like the TVR be I don't think I could fit through the door opening! Ha!
Neat Sprite too!
-Mike | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 3:19 pm | |
| Hey Vixen those hardtops are pretty rare themselves,did you race with them inplace or did you go full convertible with the extra rollbar reinforcement?Beautiful british cars and no matter how open the exhaust and built up the engine,at full song you are still not going real fast are you?But the grin says it all dont it? Jim Gordon |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 4:51 pm | |
| Jim, The top on the blue car is a works speed equipment part. I got lucky happening upon it. The red top again was an accidental find. I don't know who made it. I raced with the tops on as they would have in europe in the day. In the U.S. in the day they would have run with no top or windshield, just a deflector. I tried that and didn't enjoy getting hit with rocks and rubber! Here'sa link to a video of me in the blue car at VIR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhGzKk5HpzU | |
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Guest Guest
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 5:18 pm | |
| Vixen I am still LMAO at your video.Were you doing that for the camera or just really throwing (I mean heavy emphasis on THROWING) it into the corners?In order to get the Sprite sideways you almost have to jerk the steering wheel dont you?Great video and I watched the other one too. Take Care Jim Gordon Still Laughing |
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vixenpilot
Posts : 14 Join date : 2011-05-02
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 8:47 pm | |
| Jim,
The skinny street tires don't provide a ton of high(er) speed grip. I want to experience the car as would have been raced in the day. Bias plies cost more than racing tires these days. Bias plies would have given me the forgiving tell I'm looking for. Cheap skinny steel belts is what my budget allows. When you go into a corner too fast something's going to happen. Since that corner on that weekend I've gotten to know what the car will do. It wasn't show for the camera...but it was and is fun and scary as hell!!!!!! | |
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Sprocket
Posts : 6140 Join date : 2008-11-04 Location : Palm Beach County
| Subject: Re: Hello from Rock Hill SC pics Tue May 10, 2011 9:30 pm | |
| My "Big" Healey handles in a similar fashion. They were DESIGNED for oversteer. It doesn't take much pedal to get the back end out. I'm running 165s which is pretty close to a stock width. I like the hardtops. Especially the one where I keep looking for Suzanne Sommers, lol. | |
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