[dave-r]

...this is the fastest truly fully street legal car in the UK.

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Fast ... 157214.htm

[Jimiboy]

Thanks for posting Dave, it was a pleasure watching! It makes me wonder if the feeling 0-60 at 1 sec, aint better then 6 with any woman

Thanks again Dave! Awesome!

[Eddie]

And with a smooth idle too! Amazing!

[drewcrane]

the fact he built it all in his locker,not sure what that is, but it looks like a very small space to produce that kind of quality work,and it must be a kick to drive on the streets,big kudos to him even if it aint a mopar it sure is sweet

[dave-r]

"Lockup"

It is a small garage usually in a block of them for people in hi-rise apartments. Usually in very run down areas. Usually just big enough for the average small british car and for you to squeeze out of the drivers door if you drive in and your car is right against the opposite wall. Usually no electricity in them either.

[fal308]

That was pretty sweet There is/was a guy here in the St Louis area that had a mid-sixties street-legal Vette that ran in the mid to upper 7s about ten or fifteen years ago. It really was a street car as I would occassionally see it on the area highways. Watching him run at one of the local tracks was always cool as he generally did a hug wheelstand if he wasn't hooked up just right

[dave-r]

The Street legal class in the UK is pretty tough.

The cars have to conform to strict Ministry of Transport tests and posses a test certificate, road tax disc and full road insurance.

They need a full exhaust system and fully treaded tyres. All lights working and glass windshields with working wipers and washers.

Before the race they have to cruise through towns and villages and fill up with regular gas at a regular gas station. No additives allowed. No changes to the engine allowed after the cruise.

Taking all that into consideration it is no mean feat to build a car like this.

[jh27n0b]

Nice, very nice. What the heck is 100 "Quid"?

[Eddie]

Over here it's 'wanker' (I think, hell I dunno)

[drewcrane]

"Lockup"

It is a small garage usually in a block of them for people in hi-rise apartments. Usually in very run down areas. Usually just big enough for the average small british car and for you to squeeze out of the drivers door if you drive in and your car is right against the opposite wall. Usually no electricity in them either.

ya know thats just pure dedication,especially with an american car, i have alot of respect for all of you guys that have an american car in a place other than the usa,
and then to get it worthy of your roads,we dont even have a saftey inspection any more ,that car ,and all of your cars are safer than our cars ,not to mention
probably faster too!again big kudos to you guys!

[dave-r]

What the heck is 100 "Quid"?

"Quid" is slang for Pounds. The UK Currency - not the weight.

1 Pound until recently was about $1.95 UDS but is now about $1.50.

[dave-r]

and all of your cars are safer than our cars

That at least is true.
Many of the old classic cars imported here from the US need a lot of work to the brakes and suspension/steering at the very least. You are not allowed on the road here with any play in the steering or wheel bearings. Bake efficiency is tested and has to correspond to the weight of the vehicle.

There are a lot of VERY fast cars in the US.
In the UK there is just not that sort of money in this hobby. Rich people tend to buy or build the cars of their dreams. The people with money here buy or restore exotic European or British cars. There is no history of American cars here. They are seen as poor quality gas guzzlers with little value.

People like me are seen as rather excentric.

It is only in the last 15 years or so that they have had any value at all over here and Classic car magazines here have started to mention and occasionally feature any of them.

[jh27n0b]

No wonder we threw all of your tea in the Boston Harbour. We thought you said squid not quid.