Steve Bennett Cossie
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Were they all performance Ford thrash times?
Any of those cars on slicks or were they all running road tyres?
Cheers Paul
Any of those cars on slicks or were they all running road tyres?
Cheers Paul
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Road tyres, ye Performance ford did a lot of thrashes over the years, redline used to do a few too but they'd cover other brands not just fords
Seeing that list brought back a few blasts from the past, John Chadwick, anyone remember his cossie? Had a good spec to it iirc, not sure it ever reached its potential but I liked the car back in the day, anyone know if it still exists?
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It had about 600hp plus nitrous and wasn't geared for sprints,just think it must have been really light, run into the 11's with 380hp, mad part was he never run it at full power with the proper box and everything working properly, did a 10.5 at Santa pod with a quaife box, so he basically rolled it off the line,up against terry Davis mk2, they both did 10.5, don't think he ever got round to fitting the ffd box in it,got close to a 9 at brunters but the inlet exploded he then sold the engine and later the car.
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Road tyres, ye Performance ford did a lot of thrashes over the years, redline used to do a few too but they'd cover other brands not just fords
Seeing that list brought back a few blasts from the past, John Chadwick, anyone remember his cossie? Had a good spec to it iirc, not sure it ever reached its potential but I liked the car back in the day, anyone know if it still exists?
Seeing that list brought back a few blasts from the past, John Chadwick, anyone remember his cossie? Had a good spec to it iirc, not sure it ever reached its potential but I liked the car back in the day, anyone know if it still exists?
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I remember the car you're talking of, as you say, pulled big speed quite easily, but it seems to have totally disappeared off the radar.
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Lovely looking car that magenta carwise saff, think I've got that mag laying about too....
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The carwise one was that from the letchworth area? I remember going to a place in letchworth that had a magenta sapphire with evo brakes on it and a red audi s2 avant with big hp. Wonder what happened to both cars?
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Crazy when you see some of those old times , back when big power was 500 bhp but the cars got thrashed . Now a lot of 700 bhp cars but how many actually get used to the same limit.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
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Crazy when you see some of those old times , back when big power was 500 bhp but the cars got thrashed . Now a lot of 700 bhp cars but how many actually get used to the same limit.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
remember watching a vid of Kev Sharps escort cossie at a strip, it was lined up against Dee Irelands (I think) supra which was 1000+bhp, and the commentator on the mic making quite a fuss of this 1000bhp car running and how it was going to be very fast, well the lights turned green and the escort left it! Bloke must of been a bit embarrassed after bigging it up so much.
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Looks so good, Makes me wanna paint mine red
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Sure this is kev sharp
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That's the one, awesome car, it never had side skirts for some reason. 3.2 bar of boost!!!!!
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They stopped trading years ago and seemed to just disappear, shame as they done some really nice cars and were one of the first in the uk to start doing things different from the old t4, rs500 inlet set ups.
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Crazy when you see some of those old times , back when big power was 500 bhp but the cars got thrashed . Now a lot of 700 bhp cars but how many actually get used to the same limit.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
Still the quickest cozzy i have ever seen off the line was Kev sharps old escort T4 , 8 injector set up with some nos, but had proper box and diffs and used to the limit.
10's 1/4's 10+ years ago.
As for Steve Bennett car, raced him at pod once.. I saw his time before I finished my run
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There's a picture of it in the abandoned fords thread if its the orange sapphire i'm thinking about. Loved that car, the colour really suited it well.
The carwise one was that from the letchworth area? I remember going to a place in letchworth that had a magenta sapphire with evo brakes on it and a red audi s2 avant with big hp. Wonder what happened to both cars?
The carwise one was that from the letchworth area? I remember going to a place in letchworth that had a magenta sapphire with evo brakes on it and a red audi s2 avant with big hp. Wonder what happened to both cars?
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Was at Brunters with Neil when he ran. Mark mapped the car on the day. It managed 186mph running 3 bar & showed 100 deg Charge Air the highest Mark had ever seen. It was claimed to have 600bhp but without control of Charge Air it was never going to run the 190+ potential. Think Neil sold up & went to Scotland. Great guy.
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No that was another company. Luke & Danny were the guys names. They went to PF & said they were going to ruin the Topspeed record. I have the mag cuttings of the build & preparation to ruin the record. THEN SILENCE.