More Bruntingthorpe

[Dave Lowe]

QUOTE = More scans. Bored yet??


Nope, all photos you or anyone else has are History so this is where they should be, keep em coming.

[chevy2]

QUOTE = More scans. Bored yet??


Nope, all photos you or anyone else has are History so this is where they should be, keep em coming.

x2, especially when the picture quality is this good,

the 80s style graphics on the nova & dart were typical of then.

[hurnleft]

Great stuff, keep it coming. Love the Pop, found this earlier picture.
Cheers, Bob.

[Hotrod Rod]

Check out those Regency Roadsters jackets.............as for the pics keep 'em coming

[Oldun]

Great stuff, keep it coming. Love the Pop, found this earlier picture.
Cheers, Bob.

I think that's Ant Williams in his pop coupe doing his rearend in during the driving games at Stoneleigh 1986.
Captain Scarlet will know for sure.

[The Pop Shop]

Did that Pop Coupe have Triumph Herald rear suspension by any chance.....?

[Oldun]

Did that Pop Coupe have Triumph Herald rear suspension by any chance.....?

I've just had a chat with Ant Williams who gave me this info.

Post #5. At this time the car was basically a modified Pop body on a Triumph Vitesse chassis complete with original type engine, trans and running gear. He believes the picture was taken at the Stoneleigh Internationals 1985. The crazy rearend angle is , as I think you suspected, due to the Triumph design and not a breakage.

Post #2. For 1986 Ant changed the colour to green, fitted a Rover V8 and changed the rear end for one out of a Dolomite Sprint. In this form he did wreck the diff at Stoneleigh 1986.

He also said that while the car was green he never took it to Bruntingthorpe and presumes the photo must have been taken at Avon Park.

[nigel3432]

Brill photos!!,always love this posting,as i had only just passed my test 21 years ago and to experience the drive there in my worn out,lowered morris ital pick up,the village atmosphere,the race track,the party's,the cars,the people(apart from the 2 t##ts on the gate writing registration numbers down,who somehow managed to get the event stopped,bl##dy politics),and The Bumpkin County Cruisers camp whose partys where second to none,brings back good memories,more bruntingthorpe!bring it on!












More scans. Bored yet??
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o261/von_trippenhopf/UK%20Hotrod%20History/Brunt21.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o261/von_trippenhopf/UK%20Hotrod%20History/Brunt22.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o261/von_trippenhopf/UK%20Hotrod%20History/Brunt23.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o261/von_trippenhopf/UK%20Hotrod%20History/Brunt24.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o261/von_trippenhopf/UK%20Hotrod%20History/Brunt25.jpg

[KimLeonard]

Gold/graphics car is a Plymouth Scamp, was owned (around that time) by 'Skies' from the Village Cruisers.

[luke-the-drifter1953]

Just love the green Prefect Coupe. I wonder if it survives? Is there any more pictures of this knocking about in anyones archives please. :):):)

[pauline als diner]

am not bored yet love the old pics;)

[Captain Scarlet]

Just love the green Prefect Coupe. I wonder if it survives? Is there any more pictures of this knocking about in anyones archives please. :):):)

'DVLA computer says no'
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa202/ijarm/jokey%20stuff/5b982fb3.jpg

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This car was built 2 miles from where i live.
Looks like its dead now.

[Oldun]

Just love the green Prefect Coupe. I wonder if it survives? Is there any more pictures of this knocking about in anyones archives please. :):):)

It certainly doesn't survive in coupe form as Ant tells me that in 1987 he changed it again, this time quite radicaly.
He removed all the bodywork leaving just the scuttle and A pillars. He then fitted Pop rear quarters and wheel arches, the rear of a Pop roof mounted 6" further back than stock, a Prefect boot lid, which was reverse angled so the back end appeared more like a Y sedan and an Astra van fluted roof. He used a Prefect windout windscreen and the car was no longer being chopped. He then painted it yellow with burgandy wheels.
Running gear remained as before.

Ant sold the car to someone in the Northampton area. He was later told that the guy had emigrated to Aussie and took the car with him, but cannot confirm this.