LOOK AT ALL THESE COOL EURO CARS YOU CAN'T HAVE

"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
08/28/2015 at 04:52 • Filed to: None

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(pics taken by me in warsaw recently)

DISCUSSION (50)

Cé hé sin > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 04:58

But I can have them all!

pip bip - choose Corrour > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:00

Kinja'd!!!

saw one of these today , in North Melbourne.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:06

But I can have them!

 V8 Rustler > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:11

Don’t want them.

KnowsAboutCars > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:15

Actually our American friends could have maluches but I think that they aren’t the first car on many peoples ‘to import’ list.

Osiris - I can haz Euro spec? > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:19

Kinja'd!!!

There is so much want here. I'm US military and I'm stationed in Spain and I could buy one, but I don't want to end up with something I can't import back to the states and would have to sell before I left. It makes me so sad.

duurtlang > Osiris - I can haz Euro spec?
08/28/2015 at 05:27

Buy something that’s 25 years old when you move back to the states.

Cé hé sin > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:36

Kinja'd!!!

Poland has changed its plates again? They look like Norwegian or Danish ones now.

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:41

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 05:54

keke?

facw > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 06:16

LOOK AT ALL THIS CHEAP GAS YOU CAN’T HAVE:

Kinja'd!!!

(note: gallons so divide by four to get the per liter price)

Osiris - I can haz Euro spec? > duurtlang
08/28/2015 at 06:20

Yea...but they don't make a 2015 Seat Leon that's 25 years old. I am however looking into an Audi Sport Quattro.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Cé hé sin
08/28/2015 at 06:53

Standard EU plates I believe.

ptak appreciates old racecars > facw
08/28/2015 at 06:54

FACK

ptak appreciates old racecars > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
08/28/2015 at 06:54

KEK KEK

ReaperChief > facw
08/28/2015 at 06:58

To be honest, cheaper gas is better than some of those cars..

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 07:14

Dat 159 Sportwagen tho.

HRRRRRNNNNNGGGGGGGGG

Cé hé sin > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 07:22

There isn’t a standard, except for having the EU symbol and a country code on the left (to which the UK objects). Poland has changed its layout over the years, it used to be ABC 1234 but some of the ones in the picture are AB 12345 and others are AB 1A234.

Cé hé sin > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/28/2015 at 07:23

Australia can into Puntos?

DoYouEvenShift > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 07:45

Do not want!!!!

But Im sure theres some that do...So no fair

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin
08/28/2015 at 07:46

Kinja'd!!!

yup!

Echo51 > Cé hé sin
08/28/2015 at 07:51

Had to look twice to check that they were indeed not danish..

Gonemad > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 08:01

Kinja'd!!!

Fiat Punto? This thing has barely 120HP in a 1.6 liter or 132HP in a 1.8 16-valves. Not suitable to ‘Mericans. Perhaps the first set of training wheels to your 16-year old kid. Which will be the butt of endless jokes all the way to used lot where he will trade it for a ‘78 camaro with a V8 and enough rust to build another car from it. It feels that ‘murica only dares to drive something with at least 250HP.

The rest of the planet is fine with the car, though.

georgechristensen > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/28/2015 at 08:03

Queensland plates as well

Gonemad > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 08:04

Kinja'd!!!

Forget what I said about the Punto. THIS would be the butt of all jokes. Fiat 147 has all the power of an egg-beater. It emits more blue smoke than an entire country. You should mix 2-stroke oil with its gasoline, otherwise you must fill the oil reservoir on each fill-up.

pip bip - choose Corrour > georgechristensen
08/28/2015 at 08:05

yeah , i noticed them too.

clearly someone from ‘up north’ down in the freezing south.

duurtlang > facw
08/28/2015 at 08:20

Meh. I pay €0.45 a liter ($1.93 a gallon US) in the Netherlands. That LPG conversion sure is a blessing.

Having said that, gasoline is (over) 3 times as expensive, diesel about 2.5 times more expensive.

Cé hé sin > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/28/2015 at 08:24

I’m guessing that “freezing” in an Australian context doesn’t mean quite what some of us would expect...

duurtlang > Gonemad
08/28/2015 at 08:27

Does a “‘78 camaro with a V8” even have 132HP? The base V8s of that era really weren’t very powerful. The power to weight ratio sure is worse .

misfitmascots > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 08:29

I’ll pass

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 08:34

But we have cheap gas though.

Gonemad > duurtlang
08/28/2015 at 08:38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet…

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Most of the engine and drivetrain components were carried over from 1969, with the exception of the 230 cu in (3.8 L) six-cylinder — the base engine was now the 250 cu in (4.1 L) six, rated at 155 hp (116 kW). The 1970 Camaro SS 396 had the 396 cu in (6.5 L) L78 rated at 350 hp (261 kW).

Even the shittiest camaro had 155HP, and wasn’t even a V8. The P/W ratio seems legit, though. Given they measured this thing at the shaft, not at the wheels...

So, there. I wild guessed, got lucky.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin
08/28/2015 at 08:40

how did you guess ;)

overnight -4 or -5C is freezing , winter this year has been the coldest for about 40 years. (bring on global warming!)

had a couple of weeks where the temps struggled to hit 10C.

MultiplaOrgasms > facw
08/28/2015 at 08:48

But for how long will it stay that cheap???

duurtlang > Gonemad
08/28/2015 at 08:53

In the early 70s (but after 1970) US market engines became far less powerful due to environmental legislation. According to this website (quick google search) the base 6 in the ‘78 Camaro had 90 hp, the base V8 135 hp. 135>132, so I’ll admit defeat :)

That website also shows a curb weight of 3560 lbs, which in less archaic units is 1615 kg. No way a Punto weighs that much.

Gonemad > duurtlang
08/28/2015 at 09:10

Yep, a Punto goes about 800-1000 kg. Still, the same engine putting out 135HP at the wheels is forcibly bigger without all the emission-gag mufflers.

Yet, Fiat dared to put a 105HP 1.6 engine pushing a full-blown station wagon at 1385kg in 2007.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Cé hé sin
08/28/2015 at 09:10

Oh hey, I didn’t know that. Interesting.

Are you a license plate aficionado or do you have some connection with Poland? Just curious :)

ptak appreciates old racecars > Gonemad
08/28/2015 at 09:11

*126. And it basically gave Poland the common man’s car.

ptak appreciates old racecars > Gonemad
08/28/2015 at 09:15

That’s the Abarth, you silly willy. It has 170 HP, in some versions 200

ptak appreciates old racecars > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/28/2015 at 09:15

Nice! The one I saw was an Abarth, though

duurtlang > Gonemad
08/28/2015 at 09:16

Doesn’t have to be that bad. My Ford Focus wagon company car from 2013 has 105 hp as well, from a 1.6 turbodiesel. It actually feels quick in the city, when the turbo kicks in. On highways not as much, but it’s okay. The empty weight of the Focus is 1274 kg, so curb weight will be 1374 kg.

Oh, and the 105 hp diesel wasn’t the base diesel engine in that Focus.

pip bip - choose Corrour > ptak appreciates old racecars
08/28/2015 at 09:16

you’re one up on me then.