being born in the end of the 80's i missed the 80's era of boy racers with the xr3s etc...,

i had to put up with 106's, corsa's, saxo's, punto's etc...

what about you guys?

 

nova sr's!!!

also ax gt's, r5 turbos, bright yellow mk4 vans sitting in the weeds with tsw stealth's, those were the days, lol

 

Corsa's, Saxo's.

Whatever was widely reported as a cheap to insure car was a chav mobile he I was younger. So Metro's, Skoda's and Volvo's (Seriously, some numb-nuts chav around my way has chavved up a Volvo estate )

 

Capri 2.8i, escort xr3i. nova sri/gte rs turbos, richer boy racers cossies/Cavvy turbos etc etc.

 

1300 nova SRs

 

XR3's (Mk3), Astra SR's (Mk1), Astra GTE's (Mk1/2), Golf GTi's (Mk1/2)

 

nova sr's (i had 1) s1 s2 turbo's cossies xr2's astra/nova gte's xr3/3i's r5gtt's ax gt's, uno turbos.

 

MK1 Granada 3.0 S

 

cossi ,mexi, mini ,nova, ren 5 ,xr2,xr3, uno turbo,metro,sri's,GTE

 

Capris mantas Renault 5 gt turbos novas mk 2 escorts 205 gti

 

back in 1962 when i started driving the lads were still driving pre-war cars like 1930's Austin 7's. The quick cars were 1.5 Rileys or 105 Anglias fitted with larger Ford engines. My first modded car was a Austin Healey to which i fitted a Super charger my brother mentioned recently just how scary fast that car was . Then along came the Mini Cooper & it all changed we soon had them past 100bhp when fitted with a Shorrock Blower. They were the greatest ever days for boy racers, we were the first generation of lads to own our own cars & there was no speed Limits. We drove like maniac's with timed records to the nearest towns or the London run. My Tadley - Basingstoke record of 6min 57secs in a highly modded 'S' stood for altime as speed limits & road changes made it impossible to beat. Today that run is 20+ mins .

 

I would give anything to have been around then

 

mk2 mexico capri 30.s with fishnets ohhhhh

 

Mk3,4 escorts. Mk2,3 orions. Mk2,3 fiestas. Mondeos, sierras.
Ax gt's.
Novas, astras, cavs.
Mk1,2,3 golfs, jettas, polos.
BMW 3 series.
Pug 205, 309, 405.
Renault 5, 19, lagunas.

 

Dimma kitted 205's
One lad had a bluebird turbo
Novas
Ax gt's
Astras
One sod with a integrale

 

16yrs old, just left school
i paid Ł300 for a cav sri 130, one of the lads had a brand new 200miles old 1996 Corsa GSi driven to SBD and returned, built on mental cams and throttle bodies with 9000rpm rev limmiter!!
i had,
2.0 SEH 8v powered nova
4x SRi130 cavs
a 190bhp Uno Turbo
Turqoise S1 RST
cav turbo
astra GTE 1.8 Turbo Technics (genuine factory TT car)
V6 cav diplomat
nova with Swindon powered XE motor
Irmscher bodykit/2.4 engine mk2 astra
carlton 2.0 GLSi
Cav Calibre, LET build
Saphire cosworth, flint gray, 2wd grays T34, no actuator pipe!
mk2 escort 4dr, brown 1300 screamer
mk2 escort 4dr, sahara beige 2.0 pinto conversion
easily 6 mk3 escorts, XR31, RS Turbo, basic and quick ones
2 mk4 escorts
1x1600e orion in grey
1xorion 1600 ghia mk1
mk2 RS2000 x2
sierra sapphire cosworth replica x2
Turbo Technics capri x1
3dr cosworth rep x1
Opel manta, one coupe and one GTE saloon
mk1 golf GL,and a GTi, also LHD GTi
audi coupe 2.3 B3, coupe B4 2.3 7A
Pulsar GTiR, red sex wagon, loved it!

then i was 18 and bought a flint grey 2wd 400bhp saff!!!!!!!!!

fuckloads morebut cant remember as now

 

I'm with MadRod, just a very few years after. Anything from Minis to AC Cobras still in your teens.
I remember upgrading my mini from cross-ply to radials.

 

xr2's
couple of cosworths in town
granada scorpio lowered on tsw venoms with an rs bodykit
few rs turbos etc!

 

born in 71 so when i was 15 ish in mid 80s it was mk2's, golf gtis, then cossies when new, mostly corrolla dx and sr and then twin cams rwd, starlets, mantas,

 

Nova SR's
XR2's
Uno turbos
Mk 1 Astra
Orion 1.6i Ghia's etc

 

loved blowing about in my golf when i was 18

 

nove sr,s but i was a lucky one i had a sri130

 

rs turbo's, xr2's and cossies for me, of course the nova's and astra's were flying around too.
nothing has changed it seems.

 

Pug 106 205 309 Saxos corsas fiestas escorts and orions golfs novas polos puntos metros etc older lads had xr and RS turbos golf Gti's cab turbos cossies etc one mate had a c20 xe nova fuckin years ago and to this day we believe he was the first to do it for example lmf I think it was bought it off him to copy the conversion and wrote it off in a couple of days lol. The clever twat has since gone on to build several metro 6r4 replicas one running an let rwd a 4wd Evo 8 powered one and a rx8 rwd one lol

 

Nova s were huge ,xr2,r5 turbo,cav sri s,rs turbo s
Tsw stealths and venoms were on everything lol i hated venoms stealths are still cool i think boy racing was awsome down my way in late 90 s its crap now imo

 

Chaviliers, Saxo, 106, Corsa B's Nova's

 

Anything they could nick, 'boy racing' is a relatively new thing.

Modifying cars isn't. lol

 

cossies, rs turbo's lots of nova's etc but i had my mates mums 1.9 205 gti that we used to take out racing at night while she was on the nightshift, i was 14 at the time lol

 

A vivid memory is that of 2 escort combi's (might have been 1 combi and 1 escort) giving it all or nothing past my mum, bro and myself on a main road side by side. It was not a duel carriage way but a 30mph built up. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up then fucked off with the noise. Having driven the same stretch a few year's later showing 95mph on the clocks of a 105 bhp Orion they must have been going well. I started to buy the ford mags after that. I did have a soft spot for the Nova's too if I'm honest.

 

As many have said above Rs Turbos XR2's 3's 2I's 3I's Nova SR's/GTE's Astra GTE's Pug 205/309 GTI's Golf GTI's. Fond memories of TSW Hocks flat faced Evo's and Blades lol. Cant beat the early Ninetys of 3 Spokes, Fido Dido and On a Mission stickers though lol

 

1st inspirational moment was when I witnessed a mk1 astra gte racing a orion 16i ghia flat out around the bend near maccie's/argos in blackpool around 17years ago.

2nd moment was on my second driving test, I was overtaken by a saff and escos racing on the seafront.

 

mk1 ,mk2 escorts ,chevettes, sunbeams ,later on came the mantas , asconas,then fwd appeared

 

Shitroen saxo's, 306's, 106's one round here with a mk1 FRS, mk2 Sierra hatch, and now land rover defenders

 

Nova sr... Ax gt's.. UNO turbos r5 turbos..

 

It was mostly novas when i was a lad.

 

for me it was all vauxhall chavs in my area as it was chevettes and vivas, most of my mates had mk2 cortinas as I was in my mk1 capri

 

Nova sr's, 205's rover coupes, 106 xsi's

I had a Nova SR. In 2002

 

When I was at the impressionable age (mid 80's) it was capri's, cortina's, mk1 and mk2 escorts, the mod of my day was the challenge of fitting a rover v8 engine into anything lol

then the 90's arrived and it was 5gt turbos, uno turbos, 21 turbos and of course the blue oval brigade 3i's rst's and cossies none of the boy racers had a cossie round my way though cos they were a lot of money to buy back then, one of the local villans had a stolen moonstone 3 door but that was as close as I got to one for a long time, one of the local business men had a black 3 door which he still owns to this day


Luciano

 

early memories of my older brother, mk 2 xr2 with 3 spokes n fido dido sticker! rs turbo engine aswell, the car what got me into fords

 

For me it was

Nova sri
R5 GTT
Escort RS T S1/S2
Astra GTE
Cav SRI
XR2
Xr3


There was few Mk2 Escorts and Cortinas still floating about but not many