Sunbeam Lotus & Chevette HS

[honestbob45]

i had a sunbeam ti back in the day and absolutley adored it. twin 40's big bore exhaust, roundabouts mmmmm.

[russ13b]

does anyone else watch the old top gear/clarkson stuff and wonder if it was shot at dunsfold??

[sunloti72]

Good on your uncle SDA,I`ve had my sunbeam lotus nearly 20 years and its so much fun i`d hate to part with it. :)

[SDAlsorts]

my uncle has a sunbeam rally car with a redtop engine in. he loves it so much he bought another but with a lotus engine today! xD soooo nice!

[turbotowbar]

gti=horse shit fwd is balls

[airsoftscott]

my dad knows the guy who owns the vauxhall

[hsr2300]

@airsoftscott

Hi Buddy, Its my car. Shot at RAF Alconbury in 2002. remember the day well

Tiff Needell driving, BBC bought me a new set of tyres after they scrubbed out the new set that was on there in 25 Min's!!

They were also filming other cars for the series that day including:-

New Aston DB7, pre production Mitsi evo 6, pre production Scuby P1 , Skyline GTR, Testarossa and of course My HS.

Got some pics of all the cars lined up together somewhere.

Kind Regards

Pete

[20rsmexico]

jeremy clarkson is such a dick if hes not talking about the fabulous "noise" of cars then ,hes useing the term volksvaaaagin

[mondyboy81]

@20rsmexico - thats because German's pronounce W in the same way as they say V. So whilst it maybe spelt VolksWagen, it is pronounced 'Volksvagen' in it's native German. The English pronouncing 'wagen' is incorrect. The same reason people refer to Porsche as 'Porscher' is because the E at the end of a word in german is pronouced as 'ER'

[20rsmexico]

@mondyboy81 i dont care what way germans say anything ,the same way i dont care about Chinese peoples toilet habits

[tim20519]

modern girl by the boomtown rats

[txakaiki]

Does anybody know the name of the song ? thanks.

[scotland137]

u can keep ure hairdressers golf....sunbeam for me.

[Dog328]

Well the Chevette was just a redesigned version, of the Gemini, the C-Coupe, only as the city version, so ikt had very sporty potentials, you could throw whatever you want in it because of its RWD.

From a loud cih or dohc, to the V6 up to an V8, in a golf, you only had choices from a G-charged 4 banger, or a heavy thursty vr6 engine, and you only could go straight lines, so basicly, the "brilliant" golf, killed the beloved RWD. And thats not what you call a good thing, would you? ;)

[EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME]

rwd is just so much better then fwd

[ilovesplittys]

Amen

[EXTREME4YEARSTOCOME]

my dads first car was a chevette

[donkey2k8]

I know mate, i NEED that exhaust note in my life :D (chevette)

[bassslapper1960]

brilliant cars! the sound of that chevette compared to a golf.......it just doesn't

[cherry1809]

Quality vid, well posted.