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PostSubject: My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol:   My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: I_icon_minitimeMon Feb 04 2008, 02:43

First came a Renault 5 GTS.. Sold for a 75 Apple Green Bug, that lasted all of one year and was found to be more fibreglass than metal in the rear 1/2 so "patched up and P-ex'd for a Golf CC Cab.. again a year later saw me back in Aircooled with this:

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Dotnewquay

Dorothy (Named after her first owner I was number 3) my 1969 Notchbak, ran a "built" 1776 with Webbers Cam etc.. was as quick a Boxster S as proved on my private test track (A303) on the way to RTTS one year.
As this was a VERY rare car (only 4 rhd in the uk) I bought this as a daily..

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Skyrocket1
'82 Scirocco GTi with 1.8 Gti engine, Braces, Srings, shocks, G60 BBs Yoko's etc.. Was go-kart round bends as I regularly proved on my way home from work by dusting with a old-style Carrera 4 on the back road between Bicester and Thame..

Anyway I got bored (stupid!) with Dorothy one year and mention to my then missus I was thinking of selling her as we were preping her for the RTTS show and shine.. Some bloke came up and offered me enough to cover all her costs and set me up with this:
My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Kirby1

64 Splitscreen Single cab.. Not a huge amount done to "Kirby" but I did get 100 (again on a private test track) out of here which was plenty scary.
at the same time as Kirby and the Skyrocket I also managed to collect:

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Trekker

My 72 Trekker (ex Dutch Airforce) and:

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Yumpie1

Yumpie, our 68 Gibralter import Fastback (owned by the Wife).

We also had a T4 van (for my work), a Polo (for the wife) and a Saab 9000 (picked up as another daily while the wife used the Skyrocket until she got the Polo. Confused?

So at ONE time we had: Split/Trekker/Fastback/Skyrocket/Polo/T4 and Saab (7 cars) and only 2 allocated parking spaces! They were distributed between Parent's garages and friend parking spaces..

Trekker/Split/Fastback were all sold for our wedding and Honeymoon.. The Saab was scrapped as it was getting too much trouble to fix, The (now ex) Wife sold the Polo for a newer "Open Air" model, and the Skyroket? Well she's in a lockup that's not been opened for over 2 years!

My daily is now the Pearl Ghey Corrado as you all know:

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: MineBsRados

However with a particularly nice bonus last Spring and the impending summer I went out and bought this:

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: 1b59_3

An 86 Small bumper Clipper Cab (one year only) and that's probably the reason why we had such a poo summer! Sold just before Christmas..
So there you are.. my (long) history..

Now any questions? lol! cheers


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PostSubject: awesome motors   My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: I_icon_minitimeMon Feb 04 2008, 16:27

wow john those are some cool motors...love the splity pick up!
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a fine colection indeed Very Happy
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thts quite a collection, sum pretty interesting motors man, love the splitty pick up
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Wow that trekker thing is mad...how fast did it go??
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PINKY wrote:
Wow that trekker thing is mad...how fast did it go??

Thanks to a low ended gearbox and Reduction boxes (a-la splt screen van) about 50!

But then again it was designed to do "walking pace" in 1st gear to keep in time with troops on foot, so actually it really only had 3 gears as 1st was useless!
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Great rides, all them VDubs. cheers
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New Hoopage has arrived, just waiting for Rubber fitment!

My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Bbslmr11

And how they look "on Car" (Yeah it's a nugget but you get the idea)

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Mmmmm Mmmmmm they look gorgeous!!! Smile
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Wicked!
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Love those rims dude, uber cool afro
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PostSubject: Re: My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol:   My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: I_icon_minitimeMon Mar 03 2008, 02:34

And here they are, finally arrived Saturday! so a bit of a "spoiler" for Thursday's meeting..
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Yeah they are 17's just don't really look it, which is nice.. will hopefully not attract too much "Traffic light racer attention"

Trial fit against the car for clearance:
My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Camerapictures03-03-08131

First one on... you can guess how big was my grin at this point!
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All fitted and on the floor:
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As the Yoot of today would say it has a "phatter stance" now!
My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: Camerapictures03-03-08133

Just need coilies as the new whhel/tyre combo has raised it a little, couldn't get a fag packet under before:
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Bit on the bright side it's just up enough not to have to worry about dragging the splitter over speed humps!
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PostSubject: Re: My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol:   My cars and the Pearl Ghey Corrado: like Lazarus... :lol: I_icon_minitimeMon Mar 03 2008, 02:37

as a daily you gonna have that much, have you rolled rear arches ?
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Dan, they clear all the arches at the moment... and don't anticipate trouble with coilies either...

7.5 with 35 et seems spot on!
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they look wicked mate , i love em
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Fitzy wrote:
they look wicked mate , i love em

Less than me, kept "popping out" to look at them all Sat night!

Just set the car off so nice! And don't look like drug-dealer 17's either!
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WOW


you have own and do own some quality metal

nice collection dude
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ah now i know what a notchback is ;-)

question tho.... what are these actually called becouse iv only known them as a "thing"

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Good choice john!!! your car looked awesome when you came to the nomads meet...i was well pleased for ya!...17,s work well on rado,s Cool
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andy121 wrote:
ah now i know what a notchback is ;-)

question tho.... what are these actually called becouse iv only known them as a "thing"

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Ah good Andi That is either a Thing (US) Trekker (UK) or Typer 181(LHD) Type 182 (RHD)
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ah thats cool. now i know. i want one. but im guessing there impracticle and slow as hell?
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They are cold and breezy but they don't have to be slow. They use the usual air cooled type 1 and 2 engines so they can be made to have a lot of grunt. Street legal and still do 12 seconds is possible for a bit of money...

The underneath of them is a standard type 1 so repairs on mechanical parts are simple and cheap, the body is however a little rarer but they were built with an army purpose in mind so they can take a bit of beating. Buy a ropey one and paint it army green and have some fun.
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Cold and breezy my arse! Ok yeah they can be (Mine had an Eiberspacher which looked like rats had been nesting in it so I didn't even try to get it sorted!) but when the sun's out, great fun, I have photos of driving it with the roof down, windscreen down and all 4 doors off! Now that was fun blasting through town 4 up like that!

Yeah mine was slow, 50-60 max! And a not practical 1st gear.. the early (military ones) have reduction boxes on the end of the axles which means that 1st gear was used to keep pace with marching troops.

So when mated to a 1600cc engine (originals were 1200) made 1st a bit pointless so actually only had 3 gears as I just pulled away in 2nd!

Plan was a Big 2.4 type 4 based turbo, Bin the reduction Boxes, sling in a new Berg 5-speed box and a tidy up of the body but still in primer... would have scared the living Cr@p out of the chavs!
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there was a black one at stoner park on polished teledials.... loved it. may have to get one... there rear engined right..... 911 turbo engine....
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