Old school hammers

[Doozer]

I think this is mainly due to spending my formative years watching them bombing around in both DTM and BTCC

I'm with you on this one Neal, mentioned the 155 to an Alfa mate* recently and he looked puzzled, so i guess they haven't quite reached classic status in Alfa circles. Hopefully they will before they all disappear.

I had a DtM 155 scalextric car in the 90's, now resides with a mate in Cornwall, it was orange and i think sponsored by Jagermeister, driven by Tarquini??

*not to be confused with a future pub toilet condom brand

Visa GTI, Intregrale for me

 

[Larry]

god yeah, the visa gti, i could write a massive list of old stuff id love

 

[Ridgeback]

I had an Alfa 90 2.5 about 8 years ago.I've never seen another.

 

[Chris H]

Fast,sound amazing and cheap.
But more fragile than a fragile thing



Maserati Biturbo

|Good shout, forgot abotu those

i've always, for some reason, fancied a nissan bluebird



feck knows why

Its cos you're a taxi driver. The turbos were ok.

Drove an 850ci, nice but I think I'd got for a similar age 7 series.

Mercedes AMG W124 E600 'Hammer'. Factory 6 litre engine option on the Merc/Porsche E500

Express drug/body delivery!

Designed using a straight edge, as all good retro cars are, and despite being wrong-wheel-drive and decidedly average in most respects, I have a soft spot for the Alfa Romeo 155 in red.



I think this is mainly due to spending my formative years watching them bombing around in both DTM and BTCC

Forgot abotu the old Alfa's I had a model of the BTCC one. Awesome lookign wedges.

And of course... the only car in history ever to make 3 spokes look good

Nah even Saab messe dup there.

An Alfa I like is the 75, look how badly thrown together it is, its liek a bad fence, all over the place. MAkes it even better

 

[Ridgeback]

Pucka Alfa.
V underestimated. the T Spark is as good as the V6

 

[Reno5gtt]

Good thread...

Here are a few of my favourites, the Escort Cosworth is my all time fave. I have had a couple of these (series 2 rs turbo, ax gt, uno turbo, bmw)

 

[Ridgeback]

Top choice.love the Escort Cossie,but my heart is with the RS 500 Sierra

 

[bidderman1969]

oh crap, that reminds me, i REALLY want one of these................

targa top of course!

 

[Ridgeback]

Good call! I'd forgotten about the 300zx too.
I'll have to dig out the pics of our Toyota Supra Turbo.That was a bit of a beast in it's day

 

[f2 clio]

This is a long list so no pics ,I'll need to win the euro millions first, here goes
Escort MK1 mexio bubble arch diamond white
Escort MK2 rs2000 diamond white
RST Fiesta diamond white
RST Escort S1 diamond white
2 x Escort cossie diamond white & imp blue
Serria cossie 3 door RWD mercury grey
RS Focus MK1
205 GTI miami blue
205 CTI miami blue
309 GTI miami blue
405 MI16 black
Pulsar GTIR black
Nova GTE silk violet
Nova GSI silk violet
2 x Astra MK2 GTE 8 & 16 valve silk violet
MK2 Cav SRI 130 saloon flame red
MK3 Cav SRI 8 valve saloon satin red
MK3 Cav 4x4 turbo satin red
Lotus carlton black
Imprezia STI Type R version 6 white
Imprezia 22B
Imprezia WRX wagon black
Civic EF SIR milano red
Merc E190 cosworth black
Citroen ZX 3 door 16 valve red
Audi quatro LWB red
MK1 Golf GTI red
MK2 Golf GTI red
Golf Rallye
Manta 400
Ascona 400

 

[Ridgeback]

Bit oddball, but a car I loved as a kid and definitely a 'Hammer'

Buick GNX

 

[Chet T16]

Lotus carlton black

I think you mean green

 

[f2 clio]

I think you mean green

They only came British Racing Green also called imperial green, i mean black cause i would repaint it.

 

[Reno5gtt]

This is a long list so no pics ,I'll need to win the euro millions first, here goes
Escort MK1 mexio bubble arch diamond white
Escort MK2 rs2000 diamond white
RST Fiesta diamond white
RST Escort S1 diamond white
2 x Escort cossie diamond white & imp blue
Serria cossie 3 door RWD mercury grey
RS Focus MK1
205 GTI miami blue
205 CTI miami blue
309 GTI miami blue
405 MI16 black
Pulsar GTIR black
Nova GTE silk violet
Nova GTE silk violet
2 x Astra MK2 GTE 8 & 16 valve silk violet
MK2 Cav SRI 130 saloon flame red
MK3 Cav SRI 8 valve saloon satin red
MK3 Cav 4x4 turbo satin red
Lotus carlton black
Imprezia STI Type R version 6 white
Imprezia 22B
Imprezia WRX wagon black
Civic EF SIR milano red
Merc E190 cosworth black
Citroen ZX 3 door 16 valve red
Audi quatro LWB red
MK1 Golf GTI red
MK2 Golf GTI red
Golf Rallye
Manta 400
Ascona 400

I remember a few of these from when I was younger, the nova gte in silk violet rare... with the standard 3 spoke? I had a mk2 16 in red with tsw venom once . The two colours of cossies are good, imperial blue being my fave but I also like aubergine. Miami blue is awesome for a 205 gti by far the best colour...

I had a black 205 1.9 gti when I was 19 an absolute minter, lift off oversteer out of a corner, broad sided and hit a telegraph pole (just behind my drivers seat) at 80-90mph and rolled it twice how I survived I don't know??? (seat belt on i suppose) Here's the pic's.


Before...

After...

 

[minichapperz]

jesus that needs a good jig

 

[Chris H]

Bit oddball, but a car I loved as a kid and definitely a 'Hammer'

Buick GNX

did any of those make it over here?

Crap but fun I reckon.

 

[Larry]

I remember a few of these from when I was younger, the nova gte in silk violet rare... with the standard 3 spoke? I had a mk2 16 in red with tsw venom once . The two colours of cossies are good, imperial blue being my fave but I also like aubergine. Miami blue is awesome for a 205 gti by far the best colour...

I had a black 205 1.9 gti when I was 19 an absolute minter, lift off oversteer out of a corner, broad sided and hit a telegraph pole (just behind my drivers seat) at 80-90mph and rolled it twice how I survived I don't know??? (seat belt on i suppose) Here's the pic's.


Before...

After...

did you walk away from this mess? you got lucky i think, that looks fairly nasty

 

[Ridgeback]

did any of those make it over here?

Crap but fun I reckon.

Not officially,but quite a few were imported in the 80's and early 90's.
I lived in Streatham back then and the guy across the road from me,used to import American cars.He made a killing, importing Geo Trackers (Suzuki Vitara's) and selling them to Yuppies,as they had leather,aircon etc.Anyway,he treated himself to a brand new GNX,with all the factory performance options.Took me for a spin down to Brooklands when they had a Yank day and the way the tyres lit up in a straight line left a big impression!
In it's day,it was one of the fastest accelerating production cars you could buy. 0-60 was less than 5 secs

 

[Reno5gtt]

did you walk away from this mess? you got lucky i think, that looks fairly nasty

Yeah I walked away un hurt luckily,the pictures were taken the day after the car had been recovered. The car actually landed upside down in a ditch and the full petrol tank had burst, I was dangling by my seat belt covered in petrol in the pitch dark. The telegraph pole shattered into pieces and the power cables came down all over the road, could have been up in flames or if the pole had of hit my drivers door rather than the pillar behind me I wouldn't of been here now.

Very lucky, I knew of a girl who hit a tree head on at 40-50mph broke her neck and died instanly.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/5033422.stm

Not even a mile away from where I crashed the 205, she had a blue 206.

 

[Ridgeback]

Damn you were lucky!
I think you were maybe going a little bit too fast into that corner....