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Super slick aero obvs
you motherfucker that’s why you were asking what’s the Swedish of scrotum in discord earlier lmfao
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Team Project Overdrive
Five people, all with a passion of automobiles gathered together to join a race. And why these people, which are seemingly random joined forces to join a race? Well, they are actually the moderators of an well known automobile forum, Project Overdrive. And they are joining the race because they wanted to celebrate for the fact that they are celebrating the 5th anniversary of the creation of the forums.
Drivers
Carol Lee/@CarolLee_218 - Malaysian. A 28-year old woman from Ipoh, she is currently the head editor of Drivers.com and a part-time model. Despite known for her car reviews this will be her first ever automobile racing event she ever joined, but she isn’t in charge of the racing on this competition. She’s currently the admin for the Car News sub-forum and also the moderator of the website.
(You probably know her before. yup, I’m actually doing this)
Tony Hayden/@TonyHayden - Australian. At 53 he’s the oldest in the bunch, Melbourne-born Tony is the owner of famed tuning company Hayden Works, and being a former Formula 1 racer he also has the most racing experience of the team. He is currently the leader of the Motorsports sub-forum as well as one of the site’s moderators.
Keichi Toyoda/@ToyodaSan - Japanese. A 46-year old school teacher haling from Sapporo who happens to know a thing and two about repairing and maintaining vehicles. Rumors said that he was the part of the Midnight Club at the 90s, before the group was disbanded. He is also an moderator of Project Overdrive, as well as the admin for the Tuning sub-fourm of the site.
Martin Blaire Jr./@BlaireTheGreat - British. The youngest in the bunch with an age of 26, the Liverpool-born is currently a test driver working for Porsche. He was a contestant of the first international Gran Turismo eSport championship and won several national-level eSport championships before that. Currently, he is in charge on the Gaming sub-forum on the site as well as being a mod on the site.
Arun Rajagopal/@ArunOverdrives - Indian. He was a software engineer working for Google, but now he currently owns Project Overdrive and maintains it. The 34-year old Bangalore local is also an amateur rallycross driver. Despite being the leader of the team he isn’t racing on this competition for now.
Vehicle - 1980 Ursula F7 300i
https://i.imgur.com/U9BwasQ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/BnnCwZi.jpg
This is actually the base model of the 2nd generation F7 series with a 149 hp 2.6 liter inline-6. It’s too large an handles like a large sedan, however the German full-size sedan accelerates well for its size (9 seconds 0-100 time) and was known for it’s reliability. The group actually bought the vehicle for the race, for some reason.
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TEAM BAKEWELL BOXER
Part 0 : Unregistered Import
Mandy, Connor and Johnny got out of Connors mum’s Ceder Korab 1.6 Diesel, how lovely…
Johnny: ‘‘It’s in the shipping container over there’’ said Johnny pointing to the container about 16 ft away.
Mandy : ‘‘it’s that one, you see it Connor? the red one’’
Connor: “I still don’t understand why you let Johnny choose the car, the last person I want to choose a car for a classic rally is Johnny”
Johnny: “It’s not even a classic rally it’s a track event”
Connor: “…But you said…”
Mandy pulled open the container doors with a hair raising squeal from the mechanism and told Connor to back the trailer up. He shuffled back over to the crossover
Mandy: “Christ I haven’t seen one of those for years”
Connor: “As long as it’s better than that bloody Egura we had in America, that thing was held together with sticky tape” said Connor sticking his head out of the Korab’s window whilst backing the trailer up
Johnny: “Don’t worry it will be, I have a feeling”
THE CAR
J.E.S.A Bianchi Nuova 300 Series - N316 Speciale
To be fair the car didn’t seem to be in bad shape considering who made it, designed by the Dutch and engineered by the Italians, what could possibly go wrong you may ask, well a lot considering the state of the company as of now, but regardless of that it has an under stressed 1.6 OHV Boxer 4 that only made 72hp when new and definitely didn’t feel like it when the car was unloaded as the workshop but after a bit of tweaking by Team Bakewell it seemed to be running decently enough.
Johnny had imported the car from Spain to the UK after finding it on the internet, without telling Connor or Mandy mind… Once back to the Jackdaw workshop in Blighty the car was given a full going over (see below).
Summary of Cars Condition
Regardless of whether Johnny had assumed the car was in original condition, it was not, it had been given the classic tart up and blow over of fresh paint that most classics suffer before resale. Mandy was still dubious of the cars longevity as 70’s J.E.S.A Bianchi’s were famed for their ability to rust instantly. Unfortunately the cylinder head had not been swapped out for the later twin cam head as is common practice in tuning circles.
Quickly done paint job
Poor re-sticking of vinyl roof
Slightly blowing exhaust
Carburettor was running to lean and had too much advance on the distributor and was idling at 1500rpm, likely to pass emmisions (now fixed).
Replacement air filter fitted in Spain
Worn and sagging seats
Crackeing steering wheel
Rust holes appearing on the chassis and bubbling under the new paint
Knocking on 90% of the body panels produced a hollow sound characteristic of dents and rust being slapped over with body filler.
Cheap make WanKing Chinese tyres on all 4 wheels
Moss growing around filler cap and windows (car had likely been tarted up then sat around somewhere damp)
Packet of cigarette and rosary beads left in glove box.
Now fitted with crosses on the headlights and racing numbers.
The Team Members
Mandy Carter - 24 years old : She and Connor have come home from a poor Once More Trip and now have been dragged on by Johnny to Sweden for the 24Hour race, which they still have not had all the details laid out to them.
Connor Johnson - 24 years old : Long time childhood friends with Mandy with no romantic feelings no matter how much both parties parents insist there existing. He has now become a full time English teacher at an awful primary school and has secretly been improving his driving skills for the trip… which were shocking. He has been with Mandy in all her driving trips and now can’t miss one.
Johnny Carter - 21 years old : The youngest Carter sibling, has already taken part in the 2nd Great Automation Run and failed but we’ll ignore that. He has a knack for buying terrible cars as is evident due to his current ride being a US imported slammed and very noisy Maesima Celento 1.5 “wangan wagon”.
Mandy and Connor hope to see some familiar faces on this trip, so do say hello if they have met before.
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My car, 1959 Harris Riviera Four
The Riviera was a rare coach built variant built using the longer nosed Australian market Harris 100 with a custom centre section to make a pillarless coupe body. The rear tailfins were cut down for a more streamlined shape and the front had an inset section either side of the radiator grille to fit driving lamps into the normally empty space.
Engine upgrades consisted of a more aggressive cam, polished inlet and exhaust ports and a larger more free-flowing exhaust.
The Team, the Knightwick owners club
Driver 1:
David Anderson, a 67 year old retired car mechanic who used to work at Knightwick dealerships and whose father owned the Riviera four from new. This very car kick started David’s love of cars as a young boy.
Driver 2
Paul Lawrence, a 36 year old school teacher who really prefers newer faster cars but couldn’t miss the chance of racing a classic car in Sweden.
Driver 3
Elizabeth Garrison, a 45 year old long distance lorry driver. Her experience of driving for 24 hours with little rest will be priceless in this competition
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What a beautiful looking car! Would be a shame if someone smashed it up…
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Just a reminder. Before putting anyone in the starting grid, I want both a presentation here and the .car-file sent in. So if you wonder why you aren’t in there, One of those things are probably missing.
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iPhone not part of the race
Days before the race started…
Project Overdrive chat group
@ArunOverdrives - 08:30 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
And now…let’s talk about the project shall we?
@TonyHayden joins the chat
@CarolLee_218 - 08:30 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Welcome, Tony. ╰(°▽°)╯
@TonyHayden - 08:31 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Hey, Carol. Nice to meet you.
@ArunOverdrives - 08:31 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Tony? Is that you? Yay, welcome!
@BlaireTheGreat - 08:31 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Fuckin’ hell it’s Tony from the Motorsports subforum!
@ToyodaSan - 08:31 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
@TonyHayden Welcome.
@ArunOverdrives - 08:32 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
OK. Can we talk about what vehicle are we using for the race now?
@CarolLee_218 - 08:32 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
@ToyodaSan - 08:32 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
What car?
@BlaireTheGreat - 08:32 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Any hints on what is it?
@ArunOverdrive - 08:33 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Yup, it’s black, it’s huge, and it’s German. Wanna guess?
@BlaireTheGreat - 08:33 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Well…maybe is an Ursula. If is that Carol might be very happy since she’s our resident Ursula fangirl.
@ArunOverdrive - 08:34 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Yes. You’re right Blaire. It’s infact one of these:
https://i.imgur.com/U9BwasQ.jpg
@CarolLee_218 - 08:34 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
A F150 Ursula F7? Not a bad choice. Kinda wished it’s the higher-end models tho, because it’s looking like the 300 or the 400 to me.
@ArunOverdrive - 08:34 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Yup. It’s got a 150K kilometers on the odometer, equipped with the base 2.6 liter inline-6 engine and a manual transmission.@Carol_Lee218 It’s a 1980 F7 300i.
@CarolLee_218 - 08:35 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
OK. Glad it’s not the problematic carbed early model 300, AFAIK the late model 300i is much reliable thanks to the improved engine.
@ArunOverdrive - 08:35 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Well, if that was like you said then I may have got a good car then.
@TonyHayden - 08:36 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Wow. I remember this car, I think I had owned it for 5 years before I sold it for something else. It’s comfy, nice and pretty remarkable to drive.
@ArunOverdrive - 08:36 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
@TonyHayden Well, you may relive your old days then, at the race.I have a plan then,. As I’m still on the airport, I can’t do anything right now, but if you all can do anything we’ll meet at Blaire’s house, shall we? I’ll meet you next day.
@BlairTheGreat - 08:37 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Fine. I know that Keichi and Tony are now in my place, and I don’t know about Carol since she haven’t told me anything yet. But right now I’m going to eat my lunch, it’s nearly 2 PM here on Liverpool.
@ArunOverdrive - 08:38 PM MYT (+8 GMT)
Okay.
(just trying out a new method lol)
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Originality is just encouraged! 
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"The Wild Bunch"
Car no. 86 will hopefully propel the six Brit’s to victory in Sweden
The Car.
In 1975 Bogliq USA debuted the third generation of their very popular Bazooka. Basically a refinement of the second gen Bazooka, the third gen car was hobbled by anti pollution equipment and engine reductions, which reduced the excitement for petrol-heads substantially. Export versions were equipped with the same line-up of engines as the USA where applicable but leaded fuel markets, such as Sweden, were equipped with 60’s era leaded motors as they were proven to work well with lead based additives.
Because Sweden was a niche market that valued US cars for their “American-ness”, the Bazooka was fitted with the same engine which debuted in the Mk III Bison in 1963. Five litres of capacity, V8 power and smoothness with renowned (lol) Bogliq reliability. The powertrain was selected also because the car would be imported by Bogliq Sweden on an “on demand” system; basically they were optioned, paid for then ordered for the next available delivery.
The Wild Bunch’s car was a prized possession of a Bogliq Sweden workshop controller who bought it new in late 1975, then drove the car extensively until he was too incapacitated by age to drive any longer. It sat in a garage for 10 years, original and pristine, until the car was bequeathed to his grandson on his death (old age, in his bed). The grandson had played too much NFSII and proceeded to change the wheels for cheap alloys, respray the car a poor variation of Bogliq Orange, then installed an ugly hood scoop on the carburettor without bothering to connect it to the air cleaner. Yup, the scoop’s non-functional! The grandson drove it for a while then dumped it in the backyard when he could afford a new Znopresk hot hatch.
The Wild Bunch added the stickers and numbers, changed the oil and replaced the brake fluid and coolant. That’s it… Brave men, brave men indeed!
The Team:
John Smith: 61 years old, bought the Bogliq sight unseen because he “loves the underdog”. Works in a financial institution as a management accountant, fancies himself a bit of a tin-top hero.
Neil Jones: 59 years old, named the team and wouldn’t change it despite it being lame… Works with John and considers himself a ladies man. Is hoping there’ll be grid girls so he can pretend to be Jeremy Clarkson.
David Williams: 51 years old, John’s brother-in-law, loves cars and racing, is also terrible at cars and racing!
Roger Taylor: 65 years old. Works with John, kinda, in HR. Has structured the trip as a business expense so no-one has to pay for anything… Owns an MX-5 so knows how to drive underpowered cars quickly.
Tiff Davies: 63 years old. Head mechanic at the dealership where John gets his car serviced. Is rumoured to know how to fix carburettors (hasn’t seen one since late 1999, lol) and is the grease monkey for the team.
Michael Evans: 57 years old. Owner of the pop-up cafe in the building foyer of John’s workplace. Owns classic cars but has never owned anything older than the 00’s… The team brought him for his quality coffee logistical abilities and his ability to attract the ladies!
So, with high hopes and low expectations, the Wild Bunch are hoping to win the 2020 Clunker 24hrs!!!
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TEAM BAKEWELL BOXER
Part 0.5 : Teething Trouble
8:04 AM
Mandy and Johnny were at the Jackdaw Engineering workshop in the UK trying to get used to the JESA Bianchi’s road feel and little niggles
Johnny was sitting inside the J.B turning the engine over with a little splutter and cough as it tried to kick into life
Johnny: ‘‘IT WON’T START MANDY!’’ Johnny shouted sticking his head out of the drivers side window, trying to be heard over the sound of angle grinding from the next door section of the business.
Mandy : ‘‘PULL THE BLOODY CHOKE OUT’’ Mandy shouted back.
Johnny did so, the car started turning over lumpily and chugging as the fuel flooded the engine
Mandy: “HOLD YOUR EFFING FOOT DOWN YOU’VE FLOODED IT NOW!” Mandy walked over at a pace putting down her tea with a slop on the roof of her project ‘Hot PAZ’ 200 which was parked just behind the JESA.
Mandy “You’ve got to clear it out now keep your foot down” She said sticking her head through the passenger side window
As the words left her mouth the JESA chugged into life with a cloud of black soot and condensation spraying the front of Mandy’s PAZ
Mandy: “Johnny middle name: lack of mechanical sympathy Carter we should have called you” she said drily.
Johnny: “Well it wouldn’t hurt if they’d’ve put the choke pull in a normal place like everyone else why put it in between the speedo and rev counter” Johnny replied.
Mandy: “Because it was made my the Dutch and the Italians, one team was smoking weed and the other was drinking wine whilst they were designing this car, if you’d have got a S2 they fixed that with the new dashboard” Mandy plonked herself down at the desk amongst a mound of invoices…
She sifted through her emails on the company laptop
Mandy: “Did that moron with that Mark 1 Kadett Beat get back to you about that camshaft upgrade by the way” she said looking over the rim of the screen.
Johnny: "No he went quiet after Dad said ‘no one with a brain would swap a Piper Ultimate Rally cam into a completely standard engine’ "
Mandy: “Right, that’ll explain the radio silence then. Dad wasn’t wrong tho…”
Johnny: “Still effectively lost us a job though”
Mandy: “Eh we’ve still go that Žnop Zenit turbo job to finish anyway…”
Later on Mandy took the J.B out for a test drive, the 1648cc engine was torquey and pulled nicely with the long ratio 5 speed box, but it wasn’t the rev happy, high lift cam, big carburettored classic she was used to, but all seemed fine, so long as the competition isn’t too rapid that it…
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PART 1
04/24/2017
On lap 56, driver Adrian Perez has a collision while attempting to overtake the car 42. The fuel tank seems to be ruptured.
Oh yeah it has bursted into flames! Oh my god is the driver still inside!?
2 HOURS LATER
Marla- Thankfully he managed to scape before it finally exploded… Do you think we will be able to keep running this season?
Joaquin- There´s no money for another car, remember that the 1100R was expensive as [REDACTED]. And even if we had the money, Adrian seems quite shocked, i dont´t know if he will be able to drive again…
Ricardo- [REDACTED][REDACTED][REDACTED]!!! Why can´t we win a [REDACTED] race?!? [REDACTED]!
Joaquin- Calm down please, I think the only option left for us is retiring. But don´t worry guys, i have the hunch next year will be much better…
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I started to wonder what the… you were doing when the race wasn’t even started yet, then I saw the date…now this might be interesting.
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PART 2- Can this be considered good news?
10/03/2018
Cristina- Where was your phone?!? I´ve been trying to call you for hours!
Joaquin- uhhhhh i was sleeping sorry, it´s been a wild night, you know
Cristina- Please this is serious, we had a call from the hospital, your uncle had an infart and… he… is no longer with us. I´m so sorry… he was your greatest fan.
Joaquin- Wow…that´s… hard to swallow mom
Cristina- I know this is a hard moment but… he was preparing you a surprise, for your birthday, you know how much he loved you. I´ll send you a link, open it when you feel ready.
THE LINK
FOR SALE
BARDOT FOUDRE 150T
The car is in a pretty good condition, some small signs of wear in places like the front seats or the dashboard, but all is minor stuff. The mechanicals are all working as new, the turbo was substitued 6 years ago and we installed a much more reliable unit, which would help a lot if you are aiming for daily driving this car.
This unit came equipped with the 1500cc turbo engine, equipped with multipoint injection, but it won´t be a big hassle. It looks sporty but don´t expect a lot from it, it´s engine situated over the front axle grants tons of understeer to work with.
Anyways, this car was a pioneer in several technologies, and it looks like a clear candidate to become a future classic. All this for the affordable price of 2500€
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The car
1973 Mikadzuki Yoru 150
The Company
Mikadzuki was a Japanese lawn mower company, in 1968 the new owner wanted to enter the car industry. After 5 years of testing and designing the car, the Yoru 150 was their creation, a cheap sprotive car. It was the beginning of a successful sports car company.
The Racing Team
3 Young people with a passion for racing and a dream to ever drive a race saw a great opportunity in this 24 hour race, they decided to join with their father’s car. They are The Bakusho Racing Team.
The drivers
- Miku Hatsoune
- Taro Mori
- Yumi Sakamoto
Car File
Mikadzuki_-_Yoru_150.car (29.2 KB)
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To make the starting grid look less stupid, I randomized the numbers that was #1-3 earlier and changed them, I hope that nobody objects that…you can get your number back if you want to.
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Team Clapper Snapper: Issue 1
Bill: Hey guys have you seen this 24 hour race thing in Sweden?
Kyle: No, but sounds fun. What are the rules?
Harold: Says here that you bring an old beater, your mates and some toold and see how long ypu can keep the things running.
Kyle: So I guess we’re gonna give it a try then??
Bill: I guess so. I’ll pop down to the wreckers tomorrow morning and see if I can Grab anything worthy.
Harold: please don’t get something non interesting like the time you got us a Corolla for a demo derby, damn things are like cockroaches.
The Next Morning
Bill shows up outside the garage in an old GMI 221
Harold: I told you not Boring!
Bill: this ain’t boring… it’s a gen 2 Rally
- SideNote in 1972 GMI facelifted their famous 221, a rear engined flat 4 powered commuter car, know for lively handling and semi decent economy. The '72 facelift offered a newer F4 with overhead cams and larger intake ports for more power. The '75 brought by Bill is the Rally model with a slightly better gearbox and the 1750cc engine. These were often bought by teenagers ast first cars since they felt fast even though they weren’t that fast at all.
Kyle: I think my dad had one of these…
Bill: Same here, although this one is in need of new tyres… and a roll cage with Harolds driving
Harold: Heyy you [Beep]
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Team Collapsing Sun
By @Ryan93 and @mat1476Driving a crusty 1990 Tycoon offroader with upgrades of questionable taste.
Blinding competitors with the zillions of auxiliary spotlights on the front while draining the battery in seconds.
Driver: David Gordon
- 23 years old (USA)
- Moved to Sweden for university and eventually found a job there.
- First car: 1973 Sierra Durante (still owns it and wants to eventually import it to Sweden.) He wished the team opted for a big unstressed v8 like in his Sierra for the race.
Driver: Lucas Carlsson
- 21 years old (Sweden)
- University Student in Mechanical engineering
- First car: The 1993 Tycoon in question (He crashed it in 2017. After that it stopped working properly and sat outside and rusted for 2 years until we met in school and decided to bring it back to life for the 2020 race.
- He told David to sod off with his V8 idea and suggested they should use the stock engine and bring it to unprecedented levels of insanity instead.
The thing, when Lucas daily drove it 3 years ago, great for offroading and sunday roadtrips.
Ah Jesus Christ Lucas, how can you be such a bad driver... Crashed it in a ditch during a foggy and drizzly day.
After that crash it just stopped working properly, so he got a reliable daily and the Tycoon sat in his backyard for almost 3 years... Until we decided it could be a great project car to bring it back to life, and why not making it absolutely insane in the process? I mean, you only live once...
Click here to see our mighty creation.. May god help us.
More info soon, maybe. And no, we didnt bother to repair the windshield, because we are broke college students, remember?
Car file soon
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