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***Motors Chat Thread*** Round 1
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ShadowHearth wrote: »okay lads, explain me: what is iconic about twincams?
I dunno... and I can't believe I am about to say this..... but I would love an AE86
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Irish people always had a thing for toyotas, back in the late 80s and early 90s the thing to do was import one from the uk and put a yellow reg on it.
They were very reliable and drove well. They became deeply uncool after that then suddenly became valuable when drifting became popular.
i was told that twincams are iconic cars, but bejaysus i cant remember any iconic stuff about part the drift king and a few drifting twincams.
i still see it as overpriced old bucket, which is only good for diffing, but i just wanted to double check
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ShadowHearth wrote: »okay so, still stands the question... wtf is so iconic about them?
They're a liftback version of a Corolla, RWD with a 1.6 engine. They looked good and were / are fun to drive. Twincam owners were doing donuts and generally making a nusance of themselve way before the modding scene took off here. They were the MkII Escort of the 90's.
If you look up old Japanese drifting vids you will see how they became iconic.0 -
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You couldn't have planned that to happen! 0 -
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RoverJames wrote: »Back in 1998/1999 a guy I knew had a 1987 one (Silver over black) for sale for months for IR£1500 for months and months and couldn't get rid of it. He eventually swapped it for a front wheel drive one, a 1988 iirc.
There was defo a few years in the late 90s when they were available for reasonable enough money before they climbed in value. They would have been in original condition though for the most part and less than mint too. Debatable how much filler was in them back then :pac:
They sound lovely in fairness with the right exhaust.
We must have mixed in different circles so!
For sure I remember lads grumbling in 2002 how a '5 grand car was now 7 grand' after the euro changeover when people were still trying to grasp it. Ok, I might have been a bit ahead of myself with mid-nineties but they were definitely fetching big enough money by the end of the nineties.0 -
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Actually to put a bit more context on it I remember one of the lads at work used to work in the Sports Car Centre in Cork City (crowd who used to specialise in fast shtuff mainly), he was saying one day how he used to go for a burn in an Impreza at any opportunity, this was defo 1999, I remember him saying once how in 5/10 years time Impreza turboes would be like twin cams, ie available for sweet feck all !!
In fairness he was right about the Impreza turboes but I don't think he anticipated the price climb in twin cams
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RoverJames wrote: »Actually to put a bit more context on it I remember one of the lads at work used to work in the Sports Car Centre in Cork City (crowd who used to specialise in fast shtuff mainly), he was saying one day how he used to go for a burn in an Impreza at any opportunity, this was defo 1999, I remember him saying once how in 5/10 years time Impreza turboes would be like twin cams, ie available for sweet feck all !!
In fairness he was right about the Impreza turboes but I don't think he anticipated the price climb in twin cams
there are plenty of classic scoobies out there for small money, but a lot of them are just half dead or on their last legs though
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ShadowHearth wrote: »......... but a lot of them are just half dead or on their last legs though
That's what he meant exactly, like twincams at the time :pac:0 -
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80224700&postcount=5
another top poster gone, all the best Mr Kildare dude.0 -
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Limerick man wrote: »Mx5s are cool and all but they have nothing on a cam. Plus the fact that the mx5 looks like a girla car, cam doesn't.
you dead right, cam looks like scang! 0 -
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why is he gone, and wherE?RoverJames wrote: »http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=80224700&postcount=5
another top poster gone, all the best Mr Kildare dude.0
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