You went to France twice and not Italy! Shame on you! LOL JK :p Sounds like your having fun, cant wait to see your new stuff. Have fun and be safe,

Frodo

 

Randy, what kinda cars were those hot hatchbacks, the yellow and the silver one? What is under their hoods? Nice thread .

 

I saw so many odd ones but I think you are referring to the Skoda's . Maby one of our euro members can help us out ?They were everywhere. I am not sure that they had under the hood but this one in particular had a LOT

Photo by Ian Kuah

 

That looks like a MG but I have no idea what model. I saw a few when I was in the UK for a Mini2 event a few years ago. I saw one here too, they look great in stock trim too.


Edit, I just looked back and the yellow and silver cars are made by SEAT. Some local Italians have some nice kits over here.

Frodo

 

Hey thanks, is Seat a manufacturer or just a modder? They are pretty mean looking . Any clue what they have under the hood?

 

Manufacturer. Google is your friend: http://www.seat.co.uk/

 

Seat, THATS it ! I knew it began with a S. There were a lot of hot hatches running around. the one I really liked was the red Mitsubichi . I have no idea what model it was.

Randy
M7 Tuning

 

2002 Evo Colt.

The official name was the Colt SR 4X. I don't think it ever made it to production.

It was developed by Ralliart Germany with AWD and the 4G63 Evo 6 engine it was basically an Evo 6 drive train in a Colt/Mirage.

Wicked fast - at the time it could smoke an Evo 6. The thing weighed like 2600 lbs and put down over 280 hp.

 

Seat is a Spanish manufacturer that is part of the Volkswagen Audi Group. They use alot of VW/Audi engines to good effect IIRC they've got an Ibiza Cupra (or GT) that is "around" MINI sized and has a 1.8T under the hood

 

Here are a few more shots for you .

Yes I don't beleive it either . Honda Civic ( more on honda's than lambos these days ) on a Ferrari .





Nice line up.



Tuner challenge line up.



Stands at Hockenheim.



VW hopping truck







Good looking ride.



But I don't know if i could ever not think I had a flat with that thin of a sidewall ?



Clean GTI





AC Schnitzer is a very popular body kit over here. This is one nice example.



Hot little hatch.



More to come .

Randy
M7 Tuning

 

Just like my brother - makes me carry the engine while carries the tools

 

You should have seen the look on the guys face as he drove by in his stock Carrerra Gt and saw this monstor from Gemballa sitting there . Priceless








One sexy interior



This wheel and brake combination might just cost more than my entire car



Another heat issue being discussed . You will be seeing Aerogel on some interesting cars in the near future



Not your mother's SUV. Tech art has some AMAZING cars .







This Opel is bulit on the Elise chassis. Ran real good on the track.



These two even looked good on the trailor.





Clean ride .



Nice grocerey getter .



Thats it for now more to come .

Randy
M7 tuning

 

I'm sooooooooo jealous of your incredible trip boys...and thanks for the pics...

 

Here is tonight's upload.
This was one of my favorite cars of the weekend. A real piece of automotive history. I would like to thank our liaison in the UK Ian Kuah for the great on track shots.








500 old school horse power



Heat issue , Aerogel solution



AC Shcnitzer wagon





The lone S 2000









Thats it for now.

Randy
M7 Tuning

 

Finally had a chance to process some more pics and these are of our trip out to the Goodwood circuit. What a beautiful place. They have a lot of vintage vehicles around for atmosphere and the grounds are immaculate. We were there during a track day event and there was quite a varied collection of cars. As you can tell from the pictures the do not mind a " moist " day. We were really lucky as this was the only one of two rainy days on the entire trip.

Randy
M7 Tuning



Looks like the sun will never shine again .



Thats what rain tires are for



As you would expect lots of vintage iron







And a some new stuff .







Ill put some more up in a day or so.

Randy

 

Found a few more of the Goodwood shots.

Randy
M7 Tuning

Classic timing tower



They try to keep everything with a vintage feel.



Some of the cars are not so vintage Loved the look of this little Clio





Thats it for now back to work

 

Thx for the new pics. .

 

Finally got the rest of the pics from the trip and I will start processing them as i get time. This next batch are mostly from the Nurburgring museum and the surrounding areas.

Randy
M7 Tuning











And once inside the displays are amazing.
















Thats it for now. MANY more to come, Randy

 

Here is my next installment of shots from the Nurburgring



Skoda's are big over here.



This was a interesting display of a GT car in its mostly dissasembled pieces.







I view from the second floor or one of he four buildings. This is worth a trip in itself



They have race bikes too.





So Tuls you think you are runnign a turbo? THIS is a turbo LOL



More powerplan goodness. A race truck motor.



Mercedes power





Work of art intake.



This F1 display was amazing







Thats it for now more to follow.

Randy

 

I finally realized that I have way too many Nurburgring shots and I am going to start a separate thread for those. I will move these to that thread and leave this one for the remainder of the trip photos.

Randy

 

Here are some shots of the Minimotorsport Center in the UK. Tony is our newest dealer our forth coming press release will detail will be working with us to combine both the UK and USA tuning concepts for a united approach to improving our cars . As Tony was the former chief engineer for the John Cooper Works company for over 20 years and is the current owner of the Mini Motorsport Center which also manages the now seven year old Mini Challenge Series in the UK I feel it is safe to say that his knowledge base with regard to the Mini is large indeed.

Love the transports.



This thing was so cool . It was a car that Mike made for JCW as an entrant in the UK gravity races which i beleive they held at Goodwood. This is the actual nose cone to a Cooper formula junior race car. After seeing the cars the guys are making in the states this just facinated me. The finally stopped the races when Mclaren started doing wind tunnel testing on thier car and had movable aero panels. There was supposed to be a budjet limit but all teams were going way over it .







Everything in this shop had a story. This was a spare hand formed nose piecereplica for the tragic Ferrari shark nose race car thatcrashed and killed so many spectators. Ferrari withdrew from racing and had all of the cars crushed and destroyed. Mike's partner built one from scratch based on recovered drawings and it came out so nice that Ferrari wanted to buy it for thier museam. The dealwas never completed but Ferrari is allowed to borrow it for special events.



I noticed the very distinctive shape of a Lotus 7 under a tarp and had to take a peek. Wasn't too sold on the color but did like he CF fender.



Cockpit was very buisness like !



And in this shop nothing is as it seems



This GP was up on the lift. For those of you that have not seen the underbody panels on the GP here they are .





Thats it for now , back to the 24hrs of Le Mans

Randy
M7 Tuning

 

Here are some more shots of the drifting competition . Like i said they drift everything over here . Thanks once again to Ian Kuah for the great shots .

Randy
M7 Tuning

You basic drift Lada



Drifting police car .



Attempting to drift a Porsche .



This one had a hard time hanging it out as well.



No such problem here



Or here .



Now this guy used ALL of the ttack.



This vinal wrap looks familiar .

 

How did you ever become such a great photographer?!

Pictures are great!

 

I would like to take credit for them but as I mentioned at the beginning of the post our good friend in the UK Ian Kuah took many of the shots . The rolling ones are his and I just did the snap shots in the paddock area. Peter also has some great shots from the Nurburgring that he has not had time to process as yet.