If you had won the lotto?

[Rover Raver]

Originally Posted by YorksMG2013

I guess I am bending the conversation away from the Clarkson POWERRRR thread, but if I won serious money in the lottery, I would be commissioning a recreation of the R75 Coupe

Andrew

So would I, complete with V8 power and rear-wheel drive. Body colour? As a fan of the Rover P5B Coupe it would have to be a dark blue, probably Royal Blue pearlescent with a Sandstone leather interior with complementary dark blue piping for the edges of the seats and the 'quarter-to-three' position on the steering wheel. Dark blue carpets too. 18-inch Vortex alloy wheels already look nice enough, thank you, so there is no need to put something else on instead.

To link in with the original question set - I would probably go for a 4.6-litre Rover V8 engine (i.e. derived from the original 3.5-litre unit and as used in the P38A generation Range Rover until late 2001) which I would commission Calloway to work on to improve its power output and breathing, before mating it up to ZF-derived automatic gearbox.

It does not sound very exciting in terms of power output, but it is a car I would still look forward to driving on high days and holidays.

[ardvark]

I like the idea of a ZT coupe with that 2valve supercharged v8 we read about earlier then rubbing clarksons nose in it because then he'd have to say what the people missed out on. 700bhp ZT coupe. What competition would there be?

[tdm34]

Easy, I'd drop an S62 from an e39 M5 in, 400bhp and a sound to die for...

[chrissyboy]

if i won the lottery i would buy 3 75`s and take them to the guys at chop shop ,get one done as a soft top and a tourer chopped to what they think it should be like and a saloon chopped to suit , i would get them to put the biggest engine they could put in it ....

[klarzy]

if I had won the lotto I would be reading a Veyron forum...

[Paulifa1]

If I won the lottery, it would have to be this...

http://www.teslamotors.com/models

It makes everything else seem so last century...

[VMax1000]

Originally Posted by Paulifa1

If I won the lottery, it would have to be this...

http://www.teslamotors.com/models

It makes everything else seem so last century...

That's a lot of money for carrying a battery in a car

[MrDoodles]

Originally Posted by chrissyboy

if i won the lottery i would buy 3 75`s and take them to the guys at chop shop ,get one done as a soft top and a tourer chopped to what they think it should be like and a saloon chopped to suit , i would get them to put the biggest engine they could put in it ....

That would be the last place I'd take them too, as their work is absolutely dreadful!

For me, I'd find a nice low mileage V8, pop it in a Jumbo and get it over to Chip Foose, to build me a convertible with a bored and stroked Modular V8 with a Kenne Bell on top!

[VMax1000]

Originally Posted by MrDoodles

That would be the last place I'd take them too, as their work is absolutely dreadful!

For me, I'd find a nice low mileage V8, pop it in a Jumbo and get it over to Chip Foose, to build me a convertible with a bored and stroked Modular V8 with a Kenne Bell on top!

Great, when you get I back from Chip it won't corner.................
It will be fast though..........

Overhauling' yeah................ over taking................no..............

[MrDoodles]

Originally Posted by VMax1000

Great, when you get I back from Chip it won't corner.................

It will be fast though..........



Overhauling' yeah................ over taking................no..............

It'll be that fast in a straight line, you could get out and push it round the corners!.....