zilspeed
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:16 AM |
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Vision Sports Racer
Always thought these looked fantastic.
Unfortunately, they're now starting to fall into the anoraks only category with most people never having heard of them.
Clubmans as a formula is pretty low level these days, I understand though.
What a car though.
http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/42690/vision_91_1.html
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maccmike
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 10:26 AM |
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the side view of the back looks like a panoz. cool look
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scootz
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 11:26 AM |
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Always liked the club mans cars.
It's Evolution Baby!
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zilspeed
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 11:39 AM |
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Like a Panoz only predates is by a long distance.
1985-86 would be when these first came out, 1986 I think.
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RK
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 02:59 PM |
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i think we're all anoraks aren't we??
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D Beddows
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 03:56 PM |
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Yes we are  lovely car! - whatever happened to Clubman racing? they are/were proper race cars and 25 years ago most race meetings were packed with
Clubman races, now you just really only see them hillclimbing or sprinting, I know there is a BARC class for them but only about 20 people seem to
take part - there must be hundreds of them rotting away in peoples garages 
[Edited on 27/5/12 by D Beddows]
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zilspeed
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| posted on 27/5/12 at 04:33 PM |
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They were and remain magnificent.
One of my favourite theories is based on watching Clubmans cars.
The B cars had an FF1600 engine and no airbox and sounded pretty bleeehhh....
The 'A' cars had 1700 xflows, steel bottom ends, huge valves, twin 45s, and a big forward facing airbox.
These sounded fecking mega, especially when they were headed right towards you.
A bit like the E30 M3 with S14 engine in terms of focused induction noise.
A metallic bark that would raise the dead.
Lovely.
Since I first heard that sound, a proper racing car has to have proper focused attnetion grabbing induction noise.
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