Update: F1-67 Designer Comes to Hooniverse!
Pardon us while we feel all full of ourselves for a second, but Ian Gray, designer and builder of yesterday’s glorious F1-67 Race Car Replica, stopped by yesterday to give us a little more information in the comments. In case anyone missed it — and I would have, if he hadn’t emailed me to tell me he had visited — I’ve posted it below the jump.
A Visit from Ian Gray. It's like Christmas, but we didn't even have to give him cookies!
So, it appears that the only disagreeable factor about it is that it’s being built in the UK where everything is much more expensive. £30,000 in the UK is the price of, what, a nicely-equipped Focus? A stripped-down BMW 3-series? Quite affordable. Unfortunately, when you exchange it for Canadian Dollars, the universally-accepted currency standard as we all know, that works out to almost $70,000, which is roughly the same as a nicely-equipped Jaguar XF. And I can’t remember if the American currency is still in free-fall, but let’s just say that amount of money in US dollars would buy, oh, say, Detroit. (All math done off the top of my head, so pipe down you nit-pickers.)
That said… that’s still really damned affordable. Detroit ain’t worth nothin’ no more anyhow. And Mr. Gray informs us that it is quite driveable — I think that’s what he means when he says it’s a “doddle” — with power levels appropriate to your skill level. I, personally, would choose the 350-hp option, not because I consider myself a fantastic driver, but because I want to be able to say I did it. And I like scaring myself.
Now that’s out of the way, I’m personally putting Ian Gray’s name forward as a nominee for our first official Hoonourary Knight of the Realm. All in favour, say aye!
Sorry, I seem to be getting British all over the blog here. Maybe that’ll mop up. Terribly sorry.
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AYE! (That's the 350HP kind)
AYE!
You better clean that up quick I think that might stain.
Nice video, too. A tad too much in the strings and not quite enough pistons, for me, though.
Oddly, some of the side-mount camera looking at the rear suspension seems to be synchronized with the music.
If you watch for the "associated videos" or whatever, they've got the clips from the cameras before they were all edited together. The reason for the lack of pistons is that the wind-noise overloaded the cameras' mics.
Needs more velocity trumpets.
That over-the-shoulder shot with the stacks and rear wheel made my naughty bits tingle.
Hellz yeah, I mean, Aye!
Welcome good Sir Gray, Barron of Batshit Crazy Vintage-y Madness!
AYE!
Welcome, Sir Ian.
AYE!
And thanks, Sir Gray, for stopping in with the details!
That's pretty damn cool. Too bad I don't have a spare Detroit to spend.
Deathair, you just want the 350hp model because you're a Canadian with free medical coverage. Incidentally, that would also be my reasoning.
Shh. I didn't want to make the Americans jealous.
You'd only be making half of us jealous. The other half, it seems, are buying into the right wing(nut) teabaggers who are flapping their arms and going off at every opportunity about "Obama the Mad Socialists" and how he's gonna turn us into a *gasp* socialistic state. Silly f-tards. I've said it before and I'll say it again, try to find a Canadian or European who'd give up their system in favor of what we have here. Just try.
Apologies for the politico-rant. I took a deep breath and had some green tea with ginseng and honey. I feel better now.
Yeah…let's not make it a habit, mmmkay?
(This is said with no indication as to whether I agree or disagree with you…but the point being little-to-no politics is one of the few rules we'd like to stick to)
aye!
Aye aye!
less politics more Pah (!).
Deartháir had an interesting conversation with one of my FB friends some time back about this. My friend swears that every Canadian he knows hates the system because they have to travel to the US for everything. I guess they forgot about how the Canadian government still paid for it all, including the trip to the US… Oddly, the Canadians themselves were strangely silent on the matter (except our friend Deartháir).
Dang! Didn't think of that.
He's passing Se7ens! Blasphemy.
(IIRC, Stuart Taylor also makes a Se7en of some sort.)
not for afew years – sold out of that after i got past 400 chassis !
Aye! Wholeheartedly, aye!
Welcome to our corner on the fringe of sanity, Sir Ian!
$70000 is about what I was thinking. The good news is, I live in America and after converting to USD it's like $20!
Still, even at that price you are getting a vehicle that takes the spirit of vehicles costing millions and putting it in an affordable package we'd be willing to race. I, for one, think Hooniverse should pool its resources and buy one. I'd be willing to change tires, or calculate drag, or something.
We pooled our resources earlier, and realized we didn't have enough, collectively, to buy a coffee at Starbuck's.
I only had enough to get a ghetto late (http://starbucksgossip.typepad.com/_/2006/09/a_re… But I'm lactose intolerant! FML.
Wow… that was amazing. The number of people who thought there was something wrong with that. I'm sorry, it's STARBUCKS. They're ripping you off and raping you over a barrel, and someone figures out how to get raped a little less, and that's somehow wrong?
Ripping. Raping. Raped.
Nice.
Aye.
I'd start at 250 and work my way up from there. I think I have enough to learn about car control to get me into trouble for a while.
PAH!!!
ooops, I mean AYE!!!
Daily Telegraph’s test drive story had this line: “The first customer version is on its way to Texas, fitted with a BMW V12 at the customer’s request.”
Totally beats me why would Texan customer choose this motor over V8….
Telegraph
AYE!! Awesome. My other half keeps talking about getting another "toy." I just made him watch this video.
Hmmmm… I know it would screw up the whole vintage aesthetic but one of these with a LS9 seems like it would be a whole lot of fun, in the "HOLY SH*T I'M GOING TO DIE!!!" way.
I wonder what it would take to make one street legal…
While there could be worse music to add to this footage, engine noise would be even better! I guess the wind noise was a bit overpowering…
I almost forgot: Aye.
Aye! Chocolate covered awesome.
BTW, if we paid Detroit, we'd have to add about 1/4 of Cleveland just to break even.