A 1988 ford fiesta?? Even w/ the cherrybomb, it sounds too sweet to be true to me. And does it handle this well stock also? If so, I really need one of these!!!
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Oct. 30, 2009 2:33 p.m. mrwillie Reader
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Oct. 30, 2009 3:52 p.m. TJ HalfDork
Fiesta ≠ Festiva.
It says in the comments that it was stock, but who really knows.
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Oct. 30, 2009 4:33 p.m. Carson Dork
There are a lot of people that have swapped in Mazda B6T engines into these things. Sounds fun to me.
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Oct. 30, 2009 5:06 p.m. dean1484 Dork
Fords are cool but when it comes to engine sound I always come back to Ferrari. In Car at silver stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2kdW6qxtHM
The sound, the slip angle. I dont know if this is vintage racing or what but they are at 10/10ths with these cars. Really cool to watch!
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Oct. 30, 2009 5:24 p.m. Kia_racer New Reader
OH YEAH!!! That was an older Ferrari. I kept watching the D-Type Jag trying to hit him. It was probably a 250 gto or gtb. I would take either. Gotta love to oldies.
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Oct. 30, 2009 5:59 p.m. iceracer HalfDork
That's a stock Festiva ? Bull. Note that it didn't even lean and we don't know the speed. Neat road though.
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Oct. 30, 2009 6:02 p.m. maroon92 UberDork
my Asspire sounds alot like that with just an exhaust leak...sure, it could sound like that. It looks like the suspension has been modded though, cuz my car wallows like a pig in the mud.
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Oct. 30, 2009 6:16 p.m. RXBeetle Reader
Sounds a lot like Rendezvous, but not fake.
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Oct. 30, 2009 6:29 p.m. oldsaw HalfDork
Kia_racer wrote:
OH YEAH!!! That was an older Ferrari. I kept watching the D-Type Jag trying to hit him. It was probably a 250 gto or gtb. I would take either. Gotta love to oldies.
The clear carb cover indicates it's a TR:
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Oct. 30, 2009 6:31 p.m. oldsaw HalfDork
RXBeetle wrote:
Sounds a lot like Rendezvous, but not fake.
Listen to this and get back to us:
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Oct. 30, 2009 11:08 p.m. friedgreencorrado Dork
dean1484 wrote:
Fords are cool but when it comes to engine sound I always come back to Ferrari. In Car at silver stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2kdW6qxtHM
The sound, the slip angle. I dont know if this is vintage racing or what but they are at 10/10ths with these cars. Really cool to watch!
I think I agree with oldsaw here. 250TR.
It's vintage racing in Europe (Silverstone full course, same one used for F1). However, one of the things I've noticed about vintage racing over there is that it's still serious racing. Those guys are a lot more aggressive than I've ever seen anybody be over here.
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Oct. 30, 2009 11:53 p.m. Treb Reader
Well, the video captions say it's a 246S. So that would be my first guess. (2.4 liter V-6; TRs had a 3-liter V12)
Here's a pic of one at Goodwood (probably the same car as the video) -- note the tall hood scoop with the flat back (note the glare in the video)
A GTO or a GTB would have a roof.
Matt
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Oct. 31, 2009 1:16 a.m. friedgreencorrado Dork
Treb wrote:
Well, the video captions say it's a 246S. So that would be my first guess. (2.4 liter V-6; TRs had a 3-liter V12)
Good call. I missed it. The whole thing about Ferarri naming cars by the cylinder cc instead of total displacement always screws me up.
Treb wrote:
Here's a pic of one at Goodwood (probably the same car as the video) -- note the tall hood scoop with the flat back (note the glare in the video)
A GTO or a GTB would have a roof.
Matt
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Oct. 31, 2009 8:19 a.m. TJ HalfDork
How'd this thread go from Festivas to Ferraris so fast?
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Oct. 31, 2009 10:17 a.m. Treb Reader
friedgreencorrado wrote: Good call. I missed it. The whole thing about Ferarri naming cars by the cylinder cc instead of total displacement always screws me up.
The mix of nomenclature is strange -- the 246 in this thread is displacement + # of cylinders, like the 308-328-348, or the 312 F1 cars of the 60s and 70s.
The 250 TR -- made at the same time as the 246 -- was named for the displacement of a single cylinder (250ccx12=3 liters). Why wasn't the 246 called a 400? Why wasn't the 250 TR called a 312? No idea.
Ferrari used both types of nomenclature through at least the mid-1970s, off the top of my head, and today uses both total displacement (F430=4.3 liters) and displacement + cylinders (612, 458). Just to mess with people.
Matt
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Oct. 31, 2009 10:51 a.m. iceracer HalfDork
TJ wrote:
How'd this thread go from Festivas to Ferraris so fast?
Well, the first two letters are the same.
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Oct. 31, 2009 11:38 a.m. cwh SuperDork
I'd like to know where Canyon Road is..
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Nov. 1, 2009 12:06 a.m. ValuePack HalfDork
Sounds fairly stock to me. Given the weight, all it'd need is a bit of breathing mods and overinflated tires to crank out that kind of performance.
<--- used to rock a 2050lb. '98 Tercel that most would swear was modded.
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Nov. 1, 2009 12:48 a.m. benzbaron Reader
I'm sure you all know in the film Rendezvous the ferrari sound track was just used to cover the filmmakers path. The car was a mercedes 450sel 6.9l. Don't believe me take a look at the making of rendezvous on you tube. They show the mighty 6.9er with the cameras on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHn5Q15kaIA
Of coarse a mercedes can't handle though so it must be a ferrari. I'd really like to hear the undubbed video with the original mercedes soundtrack.
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Nov. 1, 2009 1:13 a.m. MitchellC HalfDork
It would probably be silent.
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Nov. 1, 2009 3:52 a.m. Jay Dork
benzbaron wrote:
I'm sure you all know in the film Rendezvous the ferrari sound track was just used to cover the filmmakers path. The car was a mercedes 450sel 6.9l. Don't believe me take a look at the making of rendezvous on you tube. They show the mighty 6.9er with the cameras on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHn5Q15kaIA
Of coarse a mercedes can't handle though so it must be a ferrari. I'd really like to hear the undubbed video with the original mercedes soundtrack.
Wasn't it shot on film? I don't think the original camera had sound recording capability.
