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Should I sell my '00 Westfield and buy a good condition little classic car - Spitfire or MG Midget, with a plan to throw a better engine into it???
I do love the Westfield as nothing can touch it for utter madness and eyeball vibration, but would also love a cassic car with a suprisingly huge engine...
Or do I have too much time on my hands to be coisidering such lunacy? :indiff:
FFS, keep the westfield :rolleyes:
If you get to use your westfield on the track reasonably often surely it has to be worth keeping ??
IMO classics should be in "as production" or "as raced" configuration ... not modded to be stupidly quick, although that could be fun.
Your not a lunatic. Its natural for a normal male to think of buying an unsuspecting car and then modifying it.
Westfields are what I would call a but tacky and only really designed for one purpose - driving. However something like a Spitfire or MG has nice style etc and can be just as fun if not more than the westfield.
Go and do some research on some engine options. :thumbs:
I haven't tracked the Westie yet - purely because I can't predict the weather far enough in advance, and refuse to drive in anything other than bone-dry conditions.
I'd be quite happy with a nice clean Spitfire or Midget unmodded, especially the Spitfire, as they are dirt cheap at the moment, and there's a specialist repairer down my road.
I don't, however, have any storage space for it, as it would be my 4th car... :indiff:
I haven't tracked the Westie yet - purely because I can't predict the weather far enough in advance, and refuse to drive in anything other than bone-dry conditions.
I'd be quite happy with a nice clean Spitfire or Midget unmodded, especially the Spitfire, as they are dirt cheap at the moment, and there's a specialist repairer down my road.
I don't, however, have any storage space for it, as it would be my 4th car... :indiff:
But don't forget to take into account that a Spit or a Midget are, by and large total crap, will break down regularly, are dynamically inept (even by the standards of the day) rust to buggery and are... well... shite.
If you want to change the Westfield there have got to be other 'classic' cars out there that are preferable to those two.
Whats the budget you've got?
Having driven my old mans immaculate spitfire ............
keep the Westie. :nod:
If you want to go down that road, get a TR7 and put a V8 in it :thumbs:
You could put a GT6 engine in a spit, but it would still be shit at stopping/corners/not bending :wack:
A more reliable alternative to a Spit of Midget might be an X1/9 :wack:
I've seen your westie and it's gorgeous! FFS don't swap it for some shitty old english (pretend) sports car. :furious:
I'm coming round to beat you with a large stick, just for thinking about this! :smash:
A more reliable alternative to a Spit of Midget might be an X1/9 :wack:
Lovely retro car..... :thumbs:
But don't forget to take into account that a Spit or a Midget are, by and large total crap, will break down regularly, are dynamically inept (even by the standards of the day) rust to buggery and are... well... shite.
If you want to change the Westfield there have got to be other 'classic' cars out there that are preferable to those two.
The spitfire may be based on a dodgy saloon chassis, rusty and old... but it's gorgeous :smitten:
It would be in no way a match for the Westie on a track, or the road :no: But then I'd drive everywhere at 5mph :nod:
I've seen your westie and it's gorgeous! FFS don't swap it for some shitty old english (pretend) sports car. :furious:
I'm coming round to beat you with a large stick, just for thinking about this! :smash:
It is gorgeous, and I don't really want to sell it!
I'll have to build a bigger garage :rolleyes: I could then buy a mint Spitfire for the same cost as 16 tyres for the sx!
Get a Cobra replica with a monster engine and sorted suspension.
mmmm :smitten:
Mint_Sauce
16-07-2004, 11:54
mmmm, Cobra :thumbs:
Get a Cobra replica with a monster engine and sorted suspension.
mmmm :smitten:
I do prefer smaller cars... If I got something with a V8, it'd have to be a classic ferrari replica - with a mid mounted V8 or Jag V12 ;)
The Spitfire...
http://www.armfield.freeserve.co.uk/car/car_photo_01.htm
And here's my little Westie, not a car to be trifled with :)
RADS_S13
16-07-2004, 12:07
What about an old school v8 MG
What engine has the Westie got?
TR6 :nod:
End of discussion
Gah, I drove my mates midget. Its chuffin fritening! I could hardy see as the headlights barly work and the screen was so old it was hard to see though. It didnt go anywhere when you put the exelerater down.... but that was good cos the brakes were so bad you stoped some time next week. You would need to spend a LOT of cash to get a car like that to a stage where it was fesable to put a more powerfull engine in it :nod:
2 Black Lines
16-07-2004, 12:45
TR6 :nod:
End of discussion
Not quite.
Having had a Mg Midget, which was minted BTW, I WOULD not By one ever ever again,(look at MX :ghey: 5 instead), I currently have a F27 ( westie copy type thing), which spends more time under lock and key than actually driven - and thats during the summer, so its getting sold, look instead at;
Mazda MX5
BMW Z3, (its hairdresser time),
Or even Fiat Barchetta,
All are preferable to the antiquated, Rusty, under engineered piles of cack that... wel lyou get the picture
A more reliable alternative to a Spit of Midget might be an X1/9 :wack:
LOL :D :D :D
All of those vehicles are from rust-bucket central! :nod:
Although the Fiat (because it IS a Fiat ;) :Plug: ) is obviously the better of the three :nod: :thumbs: :wack:
gaz.thomas
16-07-2004, 12:58
TR3a.
Gaz
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Geraint Thomas
16-07-2004, 13:01
NOoooooooo, FFS if you've got a Westfield, Tiger, etc the only place left to go is a Caterham.
You wouldn't go and get a 944 after the 200, would you. No of course not you'd get a Skyline! Or possibly a Supra (one with the body kit that makes the front end look like a 360 Ferrari!).
There's a natural progression to things and you could upset the balance of nature and tip us all into the next ice age. :rant:
Anyhow if you're bored with the Westy I'll look after it for a couple of weeks if you like. ;)
The Westie is a 1.8 Zetec, factory reconditioned, with the usual twin Webber sidedeaught 40's, and Alpha management. It's fantastic fun, but only in the dry, which is all too infrequent :(
Older cars have alot more character I think. Rust and dodgy chassis aside, they are all a lot more pleasant to look at than an MX-5 or anything of that ilk.
I suppose what I really want, is to have my cake, AND eat it :thumbs:
The owner of the MG would like to point out (and cant be arshed posting :p ) that his MG was very ill at the time and has spent the last 2 years on axle stands (I added that last bit). Ill give it another go when he's finished fixing it :nod:
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