Can we please stop hotlinking pics?

I don't have a problem with either of those. The Juke, however. Must. Die.

They do look better with owner modifications.

Saw a Juke at an autocross last weekend. (Non-scca)

Was WTF material.

Saw the Dub Aztec in person, it actually does look spiffy.

ZOO wrote:

Duke wrote:

ZOO wrote: But to clarify -- am I supposed to take back my comment that I like the Juke. Or that the Karmann Baja Ghia reminds me of it?

BOTH! Immediately!

No! I also like this: And this:

ZOO wrote: Samuel Jackson does not scare me. I have teenagers.

This has to go in the magazine.

Unrelated Pic:

Not to float a canoe, but the new Craftsman bolt-on system is kind of blowing my mind:

Brutus

nderwater wrote: Brutus

Brought to you by the same Chrysler Europe that gave you the Simca Horizon.

And the same Chrysler Corp. that gave you the Omni

All three apparently good at Rally

Damn, that would be cool to find those body parts and wheels and throw them on an old Horizon or Omni.

I don't really care for Fox Bodies, but SO MUCH WANT!

Simca horizon was only available as FWD. Most of the suspension/drive train was carry over from the earlier Simca 1100 cars.

Colin McRae started in a Sunbeam...

iadr wrote:

moparman76_69 wrote: Brought to you by the same Chrysler Europe that gave you the Simca Horizon. And the same Chrysler Corp. that gave you the Omni All three apparently good at Rally

The Sunbeam Lotus was rear drive, I am 99% sure the base models were, too. No idea about the Simca. Triumph also had a bodystyle in the 60's that was in both FWD and RWD I remember by dad being sharp enough that he pointed out the VW cast into the block of the early Horizen a co-worker had bought.

Yep, the first ones used VW 1.7L (carbd) and Peugot 1.6L (pushrod, carbd) motors because the 2.2L wasn't ready yet.

Is it bad that I want to drop a 2.2T from a GLH/GLHS into a Matra Murena? The 1.6L engine was the same type used in the base Omni, and Dodge and Ol' Shel were able to stuff a 2.2T into that car...

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JoeyM wrote:

white_fly wrote:

titanium?

IIRC, there is a style in Japan where they meticulously weld several beveled sections of straight pipe together to make curves. Can't recall the term for it at the moment.

That's a style? My buddy at Ballistic Motorsports has been doing all his stuff that way for as long as I can remember. Pretty welds.

"Pie Cuts."

Apparently it's because you can't bend titanium the same way you can bend steel. I always assumed it was just fabrication masturbation.

Titanium is bendable, but "springback" and "metal memory" are two terms that come to mind. Must be mandrel and bend s l o w l y.

Newfound appreciation:

JoeyM wrote: titanium?

Yup. http://racefit-legend.com/

RexSeven wrote: Is it bad that I want to drop a 2.2T from a GLH/GLHS into a Matra Murena? The 1.6L engine was the same type used in the base Omni, and Dodge and Ol' Shel were able to stuff a 2.2T into that car...

Nope.

Added bonus, first youtube response is one that came from the factory with a 2.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCnA1LOLGiI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tJUAXiWhas

Looks cool as hell, bet it would be a monster with a boosted 2.2

ZOO wrote:

Is it bad that I ~really~ like that too?

Not sold yet on the front though...

Instead of a Matra, how about a newer Shelby powered AC sportscar?

Shelby AC ME3000

http://polybushings.com/pages/3000.html

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_ME3000

Sad story of the state the British car industry was in the seventies and eighties. Another what could have been, like so many other British sportscars.