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Old 02-01-2008, 11:26 PM
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You Have £50,000 To Spend, And so does everyone else, You Want To Be The Fastest/quickest on the track so what would you buy and why? If you don't spend the full £50,000 on the car you can use the rest of the money to upgrade it.

I would love to hear your ideas, Benni.
Old 02-01-2008, 11:28 PM
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£15K on an escort cosworth and the other £35k to make it reliable.

and then thats not a dead cert.
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Audi RS4......then tune to 550bhp and suspention, Brakes ect
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Lotus exige with tuned audi/vw turbo engine.
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peugeot 205 1.9,,,,, and spend the rest of the cash on hgh class hookers
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Westfield XTR, and 20K of driving lessons.
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Originally Posted by Chip-3Door
Westfield XTR, and 20K of driving lessons.

Old 02-01-2008, 11:35 PM
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a spaceframed carbon fibre mk2 focus cosworth

or becouse im sometimes more of a looks kind of guy maybe a grp4 mk2 escort cosworth
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A combine harvester, so no matter how slow I drove nobody would get past
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Originally Posted by blueovalspanker
A combine harvester, so no matter how slow I drove nobody would get past
That's a good plan.... Providing you started first.
Old 02-01-2008, 11:36 PM
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I have 3 options....


1st

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/304556.htm then get someone to drop a S3 engine into it


2nd

Mini - Rear engined turbo hayabusa


3rd

If someone gave me 50k to spend on a car and make it for track, Id be temped to do my GTiR
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Dax Rush with 4wd and 580Hp
Old 02-01-2008, 11:38 PM
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Hire Lewis Hamilton for a day.....
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Originally Posted by Gatecrasher
Dax Rush with 4wd and 580Hp

and a wooden box made from the change
Old 02-01-2008, 11:39 PM
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probably buy the best speced radical i could for the money
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if its pure track work, an old f3000 car... http://www.racecarsdirect.com/viewli...php?view=10948
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I would buy an ex F1 car

http://www.f1-sales.com/fa13.htm

A 1992 arrows



would leave 2and a half grand left over for petrol for the day

steve
Old 02-01-2008, 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Benni
Originally Posted by blueovalspanker
A combine harvester, so no matter how slow I drove nobody would get past
That's a good plan.... Providing you started first.
In that case I would start harvesting
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Originally Posted by the youth
I would buy an ex F1 car

http://www.f1-sales.com/fa13.htm

A 1992 arrows



would leave 2and a half grand left over for petrol for the day

steve
you'll probably find it comes without an engine...
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Originally Posted by philram
Originally Posted by the youth
I would buy an ex F1 car

http://www.f1-sales.com/fa13.htm

A 1992 arrows



would leave 2and a half grand left over for petrol for the day

steve
you'll probably find it comes without an engine...
so I will sit in it and make brum brum noises then!!

no one will notice! lol

steve
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Id have a mk6 JWRC kitted Fiesta Cossie
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M3 CSL,,

OR A CORSA
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Originally Posted by Charlie Chalk
Originally Posted by Gatecrasher
Dax Rush with 4wd and 580Hp

and a wooden box made from the change
check it

http://search.autotrader.co.uk/es-uk...=&max_mileage=

24K left to buy more goodies for it
Old 03-01-2008, 12:15 AM
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radical would be my sensible option,just slightly over 50k this one...

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/viewimage.php?photo=8282
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http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/291103.htm

this or something like an ariel atom
then insurance with the rest of the money
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It would be something along the lines of

ariel atom
radical
ultima
etc
Old 03-01-2008, 05:49 AM
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S1 exige, with super charged honda or a audi engine

you can then use on track or drive to work
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as a pure track motor then one of them gtr ulimate things

if it was to buy a car and then cobble it together it wold have to be a sierra with one of them 1500 hp twin turbo'd v8's in the front for $20k and the rest would be spent on welding it together and getting mike to tell me whats the best set up
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Default Re: You Have £50,000 To Spend, And so does everyone else,

Originally Posted by Benni
You Have £50,000 To Spend, And so does everyone else, You Want To Be The Fastest/quickest on the track so what would you buy and why? If you don't spend the full £50,000 on the car you can use the rest of the money to upgrade it.

I would love to hear your ideas, Benni.
The Jun Hyper Lemon r33 GTR was/is for sale for 50k.

That would do me nicely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZUQKwxhHg
Old 03-01-2008, 09:09 AM
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Default Re: You Have £50,000 To Spend, And so does everyone else,

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Originally Posted by Benni
You Have £50,000 To Spend, And so does everyone else, You Want To Be The Fastest/quickest on the track so what would you buy and why? If you don't spend the full £50,000 on the car you can use the rest of the money to upgrade it.

I would love to hear your ideas, Benni.
The Jun Hyper Lemon r33 GTR was/is for sale for 50k.

That would do me nicely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZUQKwxhHg
to race around a track? do you want to come near the back in this race or something?

I'll have the best Radical £50k gets me and I will give you a wave every time I lap you

Unless it doesn't have to be a road car... then I would just get an old Single seater or maybe a nutcase race Kart.
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Originally Posted by TIFF
Audi RS4......then tune to 550bhp and suspention, Brakes ect
PLANK!

Thought the pug would have taught you that lugging unnessecary weight around a track... is NOT fast!
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Porkie says it like it is.....
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A hayabusa 1.5 turbo

And life insurance
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Originally Posted by dojj
as a pure track motor then one of them gtr ulimate things

if it was to buy a car and then cobble it together it wold have to be a sierra with one of them 1500 hp twin turbo'd v8's in the front for $20k and the rest would be spent on welding it together and getting mike to tell me whats the best set up
poor mike has the job of getting that around a track as quick as a radical
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Mini hyabusa - it's gotta be - 450bhp and no weight - yes please

But if not the 4x4 dax rush thing!

Or the Radical

But i'd rather have the mini - or as close to pat dorans mk6 fiesta spec as I can get!!

And loads of life insurance!!
Old 03-01-2008, 10:09 AM
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I wouldn't bother with 4 wheels, I'd buy an ex WSB or MotoGP bike
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seans exige, and put a hayabusa turbo in and more carbon
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@ porkie
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A nice AC Cobra, real or replica im not fussed but must be fast and sound good.
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Id see if Gareth Lloyd would take £50000 for his Escort... highly unlikely though


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