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Abo - 20 Oct 2009 12:50 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related

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Albert T Cone - 21 Oct 2009 10:00 GMT

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related

AIUI, to answer accusations from some German manufacturers that the
radical wasn't a real road car, they drove that to the 'ring from the UK
and used the same road tyres for all the runs.

Anyway, it's a pretty impressive lap. The karousel didn't look like
much fun, mind.

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Douglas Payne - 21 Oct 2009 12:12 GMT

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related

Sex wee! 170mph in something based on a tea tray.

That's pretty mad. I do think it's pretty cheeky how they get the road
legalness of it by driving it there.

Do you think you could UK road legalise something like an F1 car? Has
anyone tried doing something similar in the likes of a road legal Caparo
T1? I wonder if it would be faster.

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Abo - 21 Oct 2009 15:55 GMT

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related
>
> Sex wee! 170mph in something based on a tea tray.

Shame it didn't have an extra gear, the thing was on the limiter at 170 :D

> That's pretty mad. I do think it's pretty cheeky how they get the road
> legalness of it by driving it there.
>
> Do you think you could UK road legalise something like an F1 car? Has
> anyone tried doing something similar in the likes of a road legal Caparo
> T1? I wonder if it would be faster.

Someone in Japan did something like this IIRC, but I haven't been able
to google it. I remember it being yellow, originally had a Judd engine
but the owner dropped the engine from a Ferrari road car in for
reliability reasons. But that's all I can remember.

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Adrian - 21 Oct 2009 16:27 GMT

Abo <no@spam.thanks> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:

>> Do you think you could UK road legalise something like an F1 car? Has
>> anyone tried doing something similar in the likes of a road legal
>> Caparo T1? I wonder if it would be faster.

> Someone in Japan did something like this IIRC, but I haven't been able
> to google it. I remember it being yellow, originally had a Judd engine
> but the owner dropped the engine from a Ferrari road car in for
> reliability reasons. But that's all I can remember.

There was a real Jag XJR9 LeMans car on road plates (and taxed - IIRC,
the tax disk did indeed say "Jaguar", too) at Harpenden's Classics on the
Common last year...

I seem to recall somebody'd road-legalled a McLaren M6(?) CanAm or
similar car, too - and there's at least one road-reg Porsche 962.

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Fraser Johnston - 22 Oct 2009 11:03 GMT

>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related
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> owner dropped the engine from a Ferrari road car in for reliability reasons.
> But that's all I can remember.

Putting in a Ferrari engine to make a care MORE reliable. Wow.

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Abo - 22 Oct 2009 13:42 GMT

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related
>>> Sex wee! 170mph in something based on a tea tray.
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>
> Fraser

Yeah seems like that on the face of it, but I reckon you'd get more
miles per rebuild from a road-spec Ferrari engine than you would from a
F1 Judd...

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DervMan - 22 Oct 2009 18:29 GMT

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acSGbO0MGGI&feature=related
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>
> Putting in a Ferrari engine to make a care MORE reliable. Wow.

Does sound a bit odd. Now did it have that funky paddle shift Alfa
transmission, though...

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