1990's Max Power shite

[Burnside]

Interesting - I always wonder what happens to these cars that have literally tonnes of money & time spent on them, where do they end up? (Aside from those that get smashed up).

 

There was a thread some time ago in a similar vein about what happened to 1970's custom cars/Hot rods that were featured in magazines (& shows) at the time. It's kind of nice to see some have managed to survive, maybe as a reminder of past times.

 

I know of someone who still has his modified Car from the early 00's. It's a 1991 Ford Sierra 2.0 GLX Sapphire. Being off the road years now stuck in a lockup needing a engine rebuild. He had a full cosworth kit fitted with big rims and shaved rear door handles and a flame kit in the boot!

 

He actually featured in a small article in Max Power about a Meet or Show can't remember now where they had a flame kit competition and he won after setting fire to his back bumper. 

[fordperv]

^im intrigued have you got a picture of it? I reckon alot are tucked away because one day they will get restored to their former glory, im guilty of it

[Burnside]

Got my brother to find some pictures of the Sapphire via Facebook. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry I can't find more but you can just about see it had the rear door handles shaved off and the small pictures of the flame kit he fitted!

 

Really hope he get's the mojo and the money to get it back on the road again one day, as I know it hold's good memories for him.

[Kringle]

In twenty years time all this stuff will be on "Chod SOS" no one will give a monkeys about Aston DB5s and e-types.

[Faker]

Double post

[Faker]

Yyyyeaah.....you know that knobber that was going round and round and round and round the carpark "drifting" his Nova with Mcdonalds plastic trays under the back wheels while Robert Miles blasted out of the boot install loud enough to hurt, with a couple of tipsy 5th year schoolgirls in the back seat?

 

That was me.

Sorry.

This thread is making me feel simultaneously happy and old.

Yeah.... that was me too... only no trays under the rear wheels.. I've had my fair share of abused yokes over the years! Added to that... I'm getting very very close to being 50. Christ I feel old

[fordperv]

Got my brother to find some pictures of the Sapphire via Facebook.

 

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Sorry I can't find more but you can just about see it had the rear door handles shaved off and the small pictures of the flame kit he fitted!

 

Really hope he get's the mojo and the money to get it back on the road again one day, as I know it hold's good memories for him.

Looks a nice motor that, sierras are becoming quite sought after now,

 

why don't you give a few words in his ear about how nice it would be to see it on road and lets pull it out it can't need that much work, this is what I've done with a pal of mine at the start of the week I get sad seeing his nova sat there untouched

[PiperCub]

In twenty years time all this stuff will be on "Chod SOS" no one will give a monkeys about Aston DB5s and e-types.

 

Sounds like an excellent future TV show. I'll be watching. 

[Guest Hooli]

 

Who also remembers carefully cutting a beer can to fit round your ignition coil? With extra points if it was some sort of strange brew you can’t easily buy.

 

 

I think they all own bikes now. The amount of twin shock bikes you see with redbull or monster shocks is proof of this.

[petermchugh79]

All I can say is that I'm loving this and keep the memories rolling, I remember the just 17s poster some topless young one lying on top of a load of alloys, ah the memories my 1 liter 6n polo lowered on 175-60-13 with gti polo spoiler and kami grille with an awia cd player with stuck on carbon petrol flap cover and spurious front spots

 

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[Pillock]

I think they all own bikes now. The amount of twin shock bikes you see with redbull or monster shocks is proof of this.

Followed a VW beach buggy down the A43 yesterday, Red Bull can around the coil.

[Timewaster]

Another factor in the demise of the Max generation...

 

XBox, play station, Sky TV and Sunday trading.

 

Bear with me....

 

At 45 I am old enough to remember when being a kid at home of an evening was boring as hell.

Sit in a room with your parents watching Panorama or go out on your bike with your mates and pull wheelies?

Turn 17 and then hoon up and down the high street trying to impress non existent girls who might just be around the next corner?

Sunday's only Halfords, the scrappy and the newsagents were open and there was frankly sod all else to do.

Most of us had jobs and disposable income and time on our hands.

I've met several lads now in their twenties who just aren't fussed about cars. Massive insurance costs mean it's just not an option for a lot of them

[Burnside]

Looks a nice motor that, sierras are becoming quite sought after now,

 

why don't you give a few words in his ear about how nice it would be to see it on road and lets pull it out it can't need that much work, this is what I've done with a pal of mine at the start of the week I get sad seeing his nova sat there untouched

 

The shell is in good condition from memory and he had it resprayed just before it came off the road because of the engine. Next time I speak to him I'll ask him about it. He did start to tinker with it about 18 mths ago then someone robbed the back bumper as he forgot he left it outside after getting a call about his lad falling off his BMX. So dashed off and by the time he remembered it was too late. So think he lost his mojo when he saw the prices for a bumper.

 

Hope your pal get's his Nova sorted. I always wanted one since my Uncle had a C reg 1.3 SR back in the early 90'S when I was about 8, remember seeing it for the 1st time and him blaring out Prodigy and thinking to myself I wanted that life.  

[Lord Sterling]

Found this at work whilst aimlessly browsing the web, a typical 90s Max Power scene and style:

 

[scruff]

I worked in the same office as Max Power just before it was killed off. My claim to Max fame is they borrowed my V8 Series 2 Land Rover for a photoshoot on dogging in Peterborough. 

 

I did go to the closing party, it was very boozy with lots of boobs.

[LostnotFound]

I'm just too young and was could only look on with jealousy at the cool kids with full body kitted escorts. I was always a Ford kid so would have happily sported one of the 'saxos are shit' rear window graphics!

 

Insurance I still think is the real key, I might have grown up in the 90s but came of driving age a few years after the millennium. The first car I insured myself was a 1.1 205 and that I wasn't far off a grand, and would have been unfeasible if I'd put and declared alloy wheels on it.

At the same time as there was a real push about undeclared mods, it was an easy get out for the insurance companies and useful for plod in relation to the crack down on cruises.

 

Nowdays with fuck all police about as long as you have a number plate of some sort that doesn't ping up anpr as uninsured you'd need to do some serious damage to something for anyone to take enough interest to care. So perhaps there is some hope for a resurrection.

[HMC]

When was the last Max power issue? Says a lot that I hadn't realised ditto does "revs" still exist ?

[egg]

I was born old.

 

Me - Car Magazine, Setright, Bulgin, Bremner etc, supercar classics, 60's blues LPs(!), Dickens novels, staying in etc

 

my younger brother - Max power, going out, the Prodigy, soundgarden, being sick on cheap lager, playing in a band in a Ben Sherman shirt, Nuts, mates etc

 

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I think the 'girls' bending over a bonnet was meant to be 'empowering' - I think those 90's teenagers are educating their own daughters a bit differently!

[cobblers]

There are three 4x100 17" TSW Venoms behind my mums shed if anyone wants em. Rough but free!

[vulgalour]

Rough but free!

 

The wheels, the shed, or your mum?

 

#classicbantz

[Pillock]

I can think of at least four people with three wheelers. Bub, your trike would look ace on Venoms!

[cobblers]

I can think of at least four people with three wheelers. Bub, your trike would look ace on Venoms!

They'd fit too (with wobble bolts)

[Talbot]

Another factor in the demise of the Max generation...

 

XBox, play station, Sky TV and Sunday trading.

Add "the internet" being actually useable as a social media platform from the mid-2000s onwards, and I think you've nailed it there.

 

Whilst one particular thing probably wasn't the specific downfall of the Max generation, the combination of all the points raised here no doubt killed it off. It's just a shame that some of the factors killed of a lot of fiddling with cars in general, not just the LaxPower cars.

[motorpunk]

^im intrigued have you got a picture of it? I reckon alot are tucked away because one day they will get restored to their former glory, im guilty of it

 

A neighbour of mine has a Ford Puma with a Cosworth engine in, was 90% finished (missing trim bits) but hasn't moved a wheel in 5-10 years at least. "Fuscsia clasic m8"

[fordperv]

A neighbour of mine has a Ford Puma with a Cosworth engine in, was 90% finished (missing trim bits) but hasn't moved a wheel in 5-10 years at least. "Fuscsia clasic m8"

Nice, there used to be a silver cosworth powered wide arch puma around stoke which I used to see about around 10 years ago

[barrett]

Anyone want these for the cost of postage before they go in the bin?

[dozeydustman]

Was it me, or was every owner of a Max Power car called Kevin or Dave? (No offence to any Kevins or Daves on here)

[Aston Martin]

The worst TV show ever made.

 

[Pillock]

Anyone want these for the cost of postage before they go in the bin?

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Absolutely yes please!

[barrett]

Cool, PM me your address and I'll send them asap!