I'm Marko and I've recently started a company called SpeedView Displays. I sell a small head-up display that projects speed onto your windscreen and hope to create some “how to” guides for fitting it each to model with the forum’s help. I thought that I’d say hello first though!
No Ses or RSes in the stable I’m afraid (about the closest I get is when they come thwacking past on the main straight on the Bedford GT circuit...) but there are a few toys on the current fleet:
My first car – verging on family heirloom now as I’ve had it half my life.
It had an 8 valve pushrod carbed 2.3 petrol in at first, which did 15mpg, had 50 bhp, needed leaded petrol, and took a shade over 30 secs to hit 60. The insurers wouldn't let me put a 2.5 turbo-diseasel in, but any smaller engine was fine. (I was 17 at the time) Any engine I asked? Anything you like, so long as its smaller. I didn't ask twice!
The engine came from a Rover 220 Coupe Turbo, big intercooler, with the boost set to, err, several? Live axles, leaf springs, and drum brakes on the front and the rear. Knobbly Teflon cross-plies added to the fun!
I also own 1/3 of what seemed like a really, really, good idea in the pub. (Damn you eBay for Android) Could have been worse I suppose, as we found a few cheap double-deckers in the watch list.
An ex-Westminster XJ8 that Dave Cameron might drive it if he was as flair as JFK. She’s an early extended wheelbase 4.0 V8 sovereign with a half a hundredweight of structural reinforcement to replace the stiffness lost when the roof was removed. The structural work is complete, just the minor task of refitting all the electronics/interior and a lick of paint. Kitted out to tow so if you see any Oz Clark/James May worthy caravan knocking about...
The sensible daily. They cost about 20 pence to insure, the engines/gearboxes are completely indestructible, and they're an absolute riot on the B-roads at “Hey, I’m not going to lose my licence” speeds.
Great in town what with being short geared, manual, and RWD – point and squirt. Tedious on the motorway though as folks regularly try to kill you. Part because mine’s a dark/tarmac coloured object with a roofline below their door-handles, part because folks in bigger cars actively try to prevent you entering the outside lane. (mostly an M25/M42 phenomenon)
Hello anyways, I hope I’ll fit in and can be of some use! (commercial post cleared with PhilT)
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Marko
More toy detail here:
http://www.speedview.co/about
