Factoids.

[Negative Creep]

A new model Danny Dyer has been spotted testing. This new model represents a move upmarket for the brand and will utilise soft touch materials. It will offer a range of petrol and diesel engines shared with another manufacturer with Macpherson struts on the front and a torsion bar rear to increase bootspace. Official figures reveal it will be slightly wider and longer than the outgoing model with an increase in kerbweight. Dyer is expected to hit showrooms this spring

[CreepingJesus]

^The Zakspeed 1.4 was a bit special, so to say. Home grown twink head, injected, all steel bottom-ended screamer.

The 6R4's engine was 6/8ths of a Rover V8, tweaked by Williams tho', wasn't it? Never did understand the logic in that one. I'd be interested to know who the mystery German tuners are.

Group B was to be replaced by Group S. Basically, the manufacturers could do what they wanted - effectively carte blanche. 1.5L forced induction, 3L naturally aspirated; it had to look a bit like a production car, but there were no minimum numbers for the base car. So, essentially, prototypes and one-offs were ok.

Lancia got off the blocks quickly with a Group S Delta; armed with a detuned Ferrari F1 turbo engine (about 750 bhp, IIRC), and built properly, unlike the cobbled-together Breadvans. I'm sure Toivonen tested it, and liked it a lot.

MG Rover had a variant of the 'EXE' prototype, running a 1.5L turbo; developed in conjunction with Williams, and with an interesting 'new' axial-vane turbo from ABB. (It wasn't really new - ABB actually held the patents for such a design, apparently since the 1920's, but had never put the idea to use in that way)

Rumours abounded about Ford building something not unlike the RS200, with a Cosworth DFV in it.

Serious stuff, and a shame the hasty canning of Group B put paid to it. Rallying's not been the same since. Fact.

[ashmicro]

Pfakt: I once worked for ABB, here:

 

 

 

Nowt to do with turbos, though. Well sort of, it was gas turbines.

[Station]

My mate's dad had a blue Cortina circa 1987. My mate and his sister spent most of the summer holiday in France peeling the copper heat strips from the rear window, much to the chagrin of the fatha.

Once, when I was in the car on a journey when the car was proving troublesome, the mother quoted 'This car is a right heap'. To which the pissed off father replied, 'Thanks, I really needed that'. The car was traded in for a brown F reg Metro, which could only travel up the hill towards their house in reverse.

[Rocket88]

All Danny Dyers in "shock manufacturers recall" story. Apparently, the part of the ECU that controls the exhaust emmisions, will, under certain circumstances, revert to Bob Hoskins mode, and then fail completely.

[Alexg]

My Dad will have your dad - fact.

[Cavcraft]

We have a big telly because we live on a council estate. I think it's like the law or something.

[mattblack]

Following the sucsess of the Fiesta and Escort, names that Ford considered for what became the Sierra included the Men Only, the 50+ and the Razzle readers wives' special.

[Station]

I always wondered about that jazz-mag connection. Escort, Mayfair, Fiesta, etc.

 

[scaryoldcortina]

Hustler?

 

ps, I actually had to set safesearch to "strict" to find that... and it was still 4 pages down.

[autofive]

i bought a jazz mag once

 

there wasnt a single article about kenny ball, louis armstrong or dizzy gilespie

 

very disappointing

[Richard]

I bought a scud mag once. Not a word about tactical ballistic missiles, shrimplike aquatic crustaceans or low, detached clouds.

[Cavcraft]

Jazz: love the magazines, hate the music.

[Pete-M]

Diesels blow donkey cock. Fact.

[Station]

They get some diesels in for those horrid animal porn films!

[M'coli]

I bought a copy of Playboy once, it had wonderful articles on cars, politics and world affairs, but did nothing for my libido.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I imagine diesels could suck donkey cock, the induction on them is quite impressive.

[autofive]

danny dyker is available in only one colour

 

tit pink

[George-Roper]

danny dyker is available in only one colour tit pink

 

What happend to bell end purple?

[chaseracer]

Hustler?

Got wood?

 

[Station]

danny dyker is available in only one colour

 

tit pink

 

[autofive]

danny dyker is available in only one colour tit pink

 

What happend to bell end purple?

 

discontinued after mike brewer sued for copyright infringement

[Pillock]

Bryan Adams has a prosthetic leg.

[autofive]

Bryan Adams has a prosthetic leg.

 

 

....... he keeps it in his airing cupboard

[scaryoldcortina]

Bryan Adams has a prosthetic leg.

 

 

....... he keeps it in his airing cupboard

 

Heather Mills has issued a statement calling him a "Bastard"

[simmo]

In the summer of 1969 Bryan Adams was living in Tilehurst near Reading

[warren t claim]

Following the sucsess of the Fiesta and Escort, names that Ford considered for what became the Sierra included the Men Only, the 50+ and the Razzle readers wives' special.

 

There was deffo a mag called Probe and I'd be surprised if wasn't one titled Cougar.

[pogweasel]

I'd be surprised if wasn't one titled Cougar.

I would probably buy that one...

 

There was deffo a mag called Probe

...probably not that one though.