Sure is but it's been broke as no one would buy it!

Yep JohnS owned that car and was a pioneer in the Coupe community.

i thought flea had the record and nigel was close behind

Does any one have any clips of JohnS car in motion at TOTB??

I think that's just records of a flea map.

Nice to see another local bod in the fourm!

He didn't actually get to run, did he? From what I can remember he had a string of bad luck (including broken driveshaft) which meant he never actually got to race there. I could be wrong though!

???

im not sure i remember hearing from Nigel that John went for the top speed run and nailed it but they did not record it!?

I'm not sure..like I said, I could be wrong!

But I definitely remember reading somewhere about a broken driveshaft. I'd be interested to see videos too if they exist

yep that's correct marco....

wheni had mine i think johnS was over 400bhp! (got a long way to go when i get my next one!!! )

right this is a plea to any coupe person with a video of JohnS's car at TOTB could you please out it up for us to look at!!!

sickening

When John ran at TOTB 4-5 years ago it was with an older spec which was 460bhp on race fuel. With his final spec achieved 600bhp again on race fuel, but unfortunately it never ran at TOTB (breaking a driveshaft), or any other 1/4 mile/track days.

such a shame...

be good to see how a car with 600bhp on race fuel reacts!!

but in all truth, 600bhp is a bit too much (in my opinion) for FWD...

but still must be SOOOOO much fun to drive!

if you got anywhere near utilising that power you'd s**t yourself

Crazy power for a FWD.

Crazy power for any car FWD, RWD or 4WD that hasn't been designed for it from the ground up. I did quietly contemplate buying John's Coupé. He made a 600bhp coupe as reliable as it was ever going to be, but the fact is despite the low £10k price tag (considering what had been spent, the power it made and the value of components even when broken) it would need at least £5k a year throwing at it just to keep it going as a weekend play thing.

600bhp from a 220bhp car isn't pushing the envelope, it's trying to stuff 10 jazz-mags into an A5 envelope and expecting it to be delivered to the shops/your grandma's without it bursting shamefully before you've even posted it.