Nikkormat
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That GT6 is a Mk2 I think, US spec. The MK3 had plastic overriders. Still beautiful, although crap handling.
And as you say, all of the Michelotti Triumphs were beautiful. I speet on the Karmann TR6!
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That GT6 is a Mk2 I think, US spec. The MK3 had plastic overriders. Still beautiful, although crap handling.
And as you say, all of the Michelotti Triumphs were beautiful. I speet on the Karmann TR6!
Let's hope they survive the great Ford sell-off
Rover SD1, especially the Vitesse version, like this:
Also saw service in competition as a touring car...
... and a rally car in 1984/5:
(and in the latter incarnation it was responsible for a classic rallying moment of the 1980s, when Tony Pond stuffed it into a tree on the very first stage of the 1984 RAC, turned to the in-car camera and said, 'I don't believe it, I just don't fucking believe it!')
<e2a> A-ha! It's on YouTube, although sadly with shit music dubbed over the top:
Also saw service in competition as a touring car...
... and a rally car in 1984/5:
(and in the latter incarnation it was responsible for a classic rallying moment of the 1980s, when Tony Pond stuffed it into a tree on the very first stage of the 1984 RAC, turned to the in-car camera and said, 'I don't believe it, I just don't fucking believe it!')
<e2a> A-ha! It's on YouTube, although sadly with shit music dubbed over the top:
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Vintage Bentleys, this one a 3-litre model:
to be fair they don't really count bentley never made their own bodies it was either mulliner or vanden plais who made the bodies... bentely would at a price make you a bonnet... and a basic metal dash...
the nicest British Car for me would probably be ...
A10...
out of the classics though...
the cooper Lotus ...
GarfieldLeChat
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and of course all brms..
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
The Groke
hot hail/Paging Dr. Beat
Shoulda got a 17" Macbook
At wurk innit.
In any case, 15" was enough for me chief - I always thought the keyboard looked very forlorn and lost, adrift in the vast ocean of aluminium that is the 17". Besides, I wanted the LED backlit display too.
I hope you didn't get that awful gloss finish on your screen either.
*turns car thread into Macbook thread*
Kanda
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Capri or mini cooper
A minor claim to fame of mine is that I saw the XJ220 unveiled, at the 1988 motor show in Birmingham. I was nine. My dad was training lay readers for the church at the time, including one of the managers of the motor show, and he got us free tickets for press day. I was a bit young to appreciate what was going on, but there was quite a reaction when the covers were taken off the car - something between a cheer and a collective gasp. I did get a little promotional model, but I've long since lost it, which is a shame because it might be worth a bit now.
The motor show was great. It was very quiet - journalists and special guests only - so we could wander around at will and sit in the cars. I remember my dad turning down another glass of champagne at the Audi stand because he had to drive home. Ferrari took one look at dad with his two young sons in tow and closed the gate on their stand, but the Rolls Royce crew made a proper fuss of us - I remember being shown over the controls of the latest Bentley - and Porsche were happy for us to poke around their stand. Then a journalist came over saying, 'Just what I'm after!' and photographed my brother and I sitting on the tailgate of the latest Range Rover, covered in promotional badges and with armfuls of brochures, models and so on. We ended up appearing in the local paper, IIRC.
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
Why all the "super cars" when there are lovely small cars...
GarfieldLeChat
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GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Why all the "super cars" when there are lovely small cars...
largely cos the a35 was/ is a bloody arwful car...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
It's deeply cute, though.
not really it was a tinplate toy of a car... (as well as being the older sister to the minor... indeed it was over production of the bloody a 35 engines (a series) which lead to the Minor having that ugly scar down the middle and never ending up as the flat 4 hotrod it was meant to be...)
The Minor originally had the pre-war sidevalve engine though.
Got to disagree about the A35. I think they look great, in a camp sort of way. Owners tell me it's one of very few cars that will make people go 'Ah, innit sweet?'
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
The Minor originally had the pre-war sidevalve engine though.
the mm series yes but the series 2 onwards had the a series engine...
if you compare say the 35 to the oxford MO which cease production 2 or so years b4....
It's pugly...
also it shows that the genus of the mini was alive and well and wasn't nearly as revolutionary as it's heralded as being to my mind it's an obvious step from the Oxford MO reinvented as the MM series and the A35 reinvented as the Mini...
Well, it was a direct step from the A35 to the Mini in the sense that the Mini was the A35's direct successor as the very small BMC car, but technologically the A35 was a very conservative design whereas the Mini was revolutionary.
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