Tempted or what?

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:54 pm

Thanks to Pez and his hunt for a Celica GT got me searching ebay and found this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-FORD-SIE ... _338wt_958

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:58 pm

I spotted that a few minutes ago. After missing out on that Celica I'm even eyeing up track prepped 205's and XR2's now

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:13 pm

I can't believe i'm sitting here thinking about a track cars and searching fleabay.

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:16 pm

As long as you don't start drinking beer you should be fine....

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:27 pm

Now this is a quick and built for purpose car.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Cors ... 3065wt_958

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:49 pm

That Corsa was up for

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:01 pm

I don't think people realise just how quick that thing actually is.

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:23 pm

pablo wrote:I don't think people realise just how quick that thing actually is.

Absolutely mate, in fact in TA 2013 he was predominantly quicker than (or snapping at the heals of) a pair of reportedly 700bhp twin turbo 300zx'

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 12:08 am

This year they've mainly gone for the big power circuits, but i'm still surprised that no one has bought it.

jap.slapper · Post by **jap.slapper** » Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:04 am

I'm still reeling over losing out on that GT this afternoon, so in an attempt to cheer myself up I've been doing as you have been doing mate and hit ebay again

Out of principal I have to stay within my 'Valentines present' budget and whatever I decide upon has to be a fully functional/running 'track shitter' with minimum of a roll cage fitted (preferably welded but bolted would suffice). The zed build will continue concurrently (incidentally the new wheels should arrive next week so I can get the slicks fitted and start working on fitting the over fenders properly)

so sticking with the same idea of cheap ready built track car the few that seem to tick the right boxes are predominantly Pugs and Saxo's of all things...

This 205 GTi with GTi-6 conversion looks promising (as it stands I'd expect this to weigh somewhere around the 800kg'ish mark with the GTi-6 lump producing around 160-170 bhp) though it does look a bit scratty and I'd want to ensure that it wasn't suffering from any hidden tin worm issues

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-H-Peugeo ... 4acb819853

this one looks to be a tidy example though running a fairly standard 1.9 GTi lump, that being said it should still be putting out around 115-120 bhp I would have thought?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221367872915? ... 1438.l2649

this one looks interesting but maybe a bit too 'home built', still could be quite a bit of nippy track kit for a relatively small amount of money

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251441948414? ... 1438.l2649

Incidentally the Celica GT that I bid on was built by Stoner Racing for a young Indian driver named Alok Iyengar, he used the Celica to compete in the GT200 class of the Nippon Challenge from 2010 onwards by all accounts.

I'd done quite a bit of internet trawling to find out as much as possible on the car itself and I suspect it cost him around the