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April 28, 2005 at 8:08 am #2188715
What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Lockedby anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
We were having a discussion yesterday here at work, The question was of all the motor vehicles ever made(car,truck,motorcycle)what are your favorites,and if you could have just 1 what would it be.
My choices1.1959 cadillac eldorado convt. cars just don’t get any bigger or cooler than this.
2.1969/1970 plymouth superbird/dodge daytona, these are pure racecars sold to the public so that they could compete in american motorsports
3.mercedes unimog, I worked for a farmer that owned 1,and this truck can do ANYTHING you could think of and not even break a sweat.
4.peterbilt model 379, this truck is the definition of the american trucking industry.
5.73-87 GM 3/4 or 1ton trucks,There are not any non military trucks available to the public that were built any stronger or durable. Give me a 1ton big block 4speed 4×4 and a big mud hole and I show you my idea of fun.
Last but not least the one vehicle I lust after more than any other.
1969 ZL1 Camaro,
all aluminium 427 bigblock ,500hp,4speed,and they only produced 69 of them.
There is a business owner in the town I live in that owns one, and I would give up everything I own to have that car.Topic is locked -
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April 28, 2005 at 8:12 am #3262445
‘E’ Type Jaguar
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Bottle Green, spoked wheels. Looks like it’s doing a 100 when it’s parked. Total b’stard to maintain though.
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April 28, 2005 at 8:31 am #3262419
Ah, but which marque and what engine
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to ‘E’ Type Jaguar
An oil-trader friend of bought a new Mk III with a V12 back in the ’70s but he reckoned the Mk I was as quick with the V8.
I can’t disagree with the choice of either.
Neil :p
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April 28, 2005 at 8:38 am #3262407
I like them both
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ah, but which marque and what engine
Not too bothered about the extra speed, the 12 pot gives the old ego a bit of a boost though.
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April 28, 2005 at 8:54 am #3262379
a little something…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I like them both
my mom has always proclaimed, is that men that drive cars such as the E-type or a car like the corvette with the long frontend are compensating for their “short” comings.
With that in mind the first thing I to to my vehicles is remove the entire frontend, because I have no need to compensate.;)
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April 28, 2005 at 10:57 am #3262229
Well, that may be so
by neilb@uk · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to a little something…
and who am I to disagree with your mother’s sayings.
But an e-Type Jaguar is beautiful and so are some other cars. I’ve never owned one and yet I still like looking at them although, alas, there a few on the roads these days.
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April 28, 2005 at 11:22 am #3262211
You may have something
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to a little something…
there or not. It’s finding out where the fun is.
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April 28, 2005 at 1:30 pm #3262699
you are correct…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to You may have something
that is why I was 17 and owned a chevy suburban, known to all as the shaggin waggin.
As for dear old moms thought, it was more of a jab at the old mans lust for a classic split window vette, but quite funny just the same.
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April 28, 2005 at 7:28 pm #3262563
Anykey could it be that your Mum
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to you are correct…
Wasn’t happy with the cost of her husbands toys? 😉
You should know the saying about men and boys the only difference between them is the cost of their toys. 🙂
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 12:10 pm #3261962
HAL 9000: My dad never did get…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to you are correct…
the vette he craved.
He spends all his money on tools for work,where he builds custom machinery, and is classified as a master mechanic.He has been certified a journeyman as a tool and die maker,
mold maker(for the glass industry),hydraulics, machinist,millwright,electrician,and machine repairman.
He keeps a spread sheet of all his tool purchases and last time I saw a copy the total was around $60,000, and that was 5-6 years ago.He keeps the spread sheet so that he can keep the insurance policy on the tools current.His spending habits for work have thus far kept him from buying that vette, but he still acts like a giddy little schoolgirl when he get near one, and is always on the lookout for one to restore.
Sorry I’ve not been aruond to much today, we had a transformer explode and has really kept me running. I’m sure some of you know how it is when the power goes out, all the semi-automatic button pushers think the world has come to an end.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:42 pm #3261454
Other than my accountant no one knows just how much money
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to you are correct…
I spend on tools! Personally I’m too scared to even begin working it out and the wife just might see it along with the amount that I spend on computers and would promptly kill me and sell them off so she could have a massive amount of money. Those cheap shoddy Snap On tools are really quite expensive. 😀
But I describe than as “They feel like you where born with one in your hands!” They are that nice to work with and I’ve yet to break one although I’ve worn several of them out. :p
Col ]:)
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April 30, 2005 at 6:03 am #3261390
A guy & his tools
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to you are correct…
My son borrowed some of mine recently, he split the handle on my favourite large screwdriver, only had it fifteen years. Still not talking to him, doesn’t understand, even though I’ve got many others that will do the job, that was the one I liked.
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April 28, 2005 at 7:23 pm #3262564
We used to get one of those in to service
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I like them both
Every 6 months or so and it was a real pig to work on. The first time we pulled the cylinder heads off and decoked it and then put it all back together and it ran so nicely. Then 6 months latter it was back in exactly the same as when we first saw the thing so we went over it with a fine tooth comb to try to find out what was going wrong. 🙂
Eventually we where told that it was the wifes car and she only used it to do the shopping and pick the kids up from school apparently she used to take off in first and then just bung it into top and leave it there. After that I used to take it out for a good drive and hammer it up the highway for about an hour and then turn around and hammer it all the way back. Cleaned it out very nicely and we didn’t need to spend so much time pulling it apart. 😀
I did suggest that the car was way too good for the purpose it was being used for and that a different car with an auto just might suit her better but he would have none of that or even consider fitting an auto to the Jag it would have cost him so much less in maintenance but it was a lovely car to drive. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 11:06 am #3262007
Shopping in an ‘E’ Type
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to We used to get one of those in to service
What a waste, that’s dumber than doing the school run in a Rangerover when you live in a city.
Now wonder it coked up quick you wouldn’t get near it’s performance enevelope. Not to mention the fact if you got an extra loaf of bread you’d have to make two trips. Must have been a small family as well.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:04 pm #3261461
Yes Tony it was criminal
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Shopping in an ‘E’ Type
But what can you say he had much more money than sense? 🙂
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 1:28 pm #3260842
I have..
by firefly1522 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to We used to get one of those in to service
an S-type and I love it!! I was taking it up the highway one day and was cruising at 80 mph wondering why everyone else was going so slow. Then I got on this lonely little stretch of road and got it up to over 100 mph with my sil in the car with me. It felt like I was only going about 60.
Oh and I’m a mother, too! 😉
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May 3, 2005 at 5:35 pm #3241262
While you may be a “Mother”
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I have..
At least you are driving it the way it was meant to be unlike the person in the above who only used it for the shopping and to pickup the kids from school it was hardly ever out of top and always at 35 MPH if even that. 🙁
On the other hand my wife wouldn’t think twice about going well over the magic 100 MPH mark when I had my 65 VW Beetle on the road she used to drive her work colleagues around in it and always took off by lifting the front wheels off the ground and then just dropping it into top gear when she hit 35 MPH. 😉
When she started driving one of my Classic Mercedes around she got nothing but complaints about the lack of Vee Dub and the poor old Merc was never accepted even though it didn’t set off car alarms at 100 Feet didn’t shake the glass out of the windows of buildings and generally was a nasty thing to drive around in. Every one just liked the way it went. 😀
Col ]:)
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May 4, 2005 at 8:08 am #3241007
Reply To: What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
by firefly1522 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to While you may be a “Mother”
I think I was meant to be a racecar driver in my other life. 😉
When I was a sr in high school, driver’s ed was a required class and I nearly failed because I couldn’t go the mandatory 10 mph on the course. I think it has to do with my issues with authority…
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May 4, 2005 at 5:40 pm #3241794
There is absolutely nothing wrong with going fast!
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to While you may be a “Mother”
Provided you do it safely. 😉
Many years ago I used to work for a very small company called McLaren and I got to drive one of their cars when there was a problem that I couldn’t sort. Now there is responsibility driving a 1 Million $ + car and knowing if I break it I’m one of the ones who has to fix it. But what a buzz. 😀
Now what was the name of that song the “Little Old Lady with the White Cortina?” We all need to grow old disgracefully. 😉
Col ]:)
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April 28, 2005 at 8:33 am #3262417
I remember
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to ‘E’ Type Jaguar
Good friend of mine in the 70s, while we were both in high school, saved up his money and found one he could afford to buy. His wise father convinced him he couldn’t afford to maintain it.
Personally, I’ve always liked a Lotus Super Seven – same colour, except the yellow around the air intake. Totally impractical but hey lots of fun.
James
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April 28, 2005 at 1:59 pm #3262681
Aguy in high school won a DeLorean
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I remember
When IN school, they had the stainless DeLorean’s being promoted at a local car show. They had one full of DuMarier cigarrettes and a guy in our school won it.
He was a knob, so he still got beat up everyday and never got a date, but he did own an original ‘snow’mobile.
When I was about 14-15, a girlfreind’s father had a Lotus Esprit, so we’d take it flying around town when he was away on business.
Cool car, surprised i never got pulled over, drinking like a fish, ‘smoking’ like a chimney and racing around without a licence with a hottie in the passenger seat. Those were the days. 🙂
Wow, now i feel old!
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April 28, 2005 at 2:10 pm #3262670
Saw a painted DeLorean
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Aguy in high school won a DeLorean
About 20 years ago, almost made me cry…..
James
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April 28, 2005 at 2:31 pm #3262659
EEEEWWWW!
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Saw a painted DeLorean
The guy in high school used to always park outside the auto shop, until he saw us eyeing it up with a die grinder and tin snips.
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April 28, 2005 at 3:08 pm #3262637
DeLorean
by jellimonsta · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Aguy in high school won a DeLorean
My uncle (in the UK) used to have a silver VW Scirocco that looked like a DeLorean. I always liked that car. One of my buddies back in the UK had a silver Lotus Elise sport 135 convertible… man that thing could move.
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May 3, 2005 at 8:42 pm #3241197
Now I feel old…OLD???
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Aguy in high school won a DeLorean
I don’t want to hear it…I was hotwiring my elderly neighbor’s pink Cadillac Coupe deVille and going for joy rides with ALL of my friends jammed into it on the weekends before most of you were born, I bet…
BIG grin…
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April 28, 2005 at 8:34 am #3262414
DB9
by louk · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Without a doubt my favourite is an Aston Martin DB9. Got close to one at the Geneva motor show and it was love at first site! Just wish I could afford one.
Lou
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April 28, 2005 at 8:37 am #3262408
Just about any Jaguar!!! 56 Mercedes Gull Wing.
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
There are a few I have reservations about like the XJS but I’d even take one of those if it were a drop top. Since they’ve dropped Lucas as their supplier of electronics they have become much easier to maintain. Just bought a new 4 Litre V8 S type to ease the pain of maintenance on my 62 3.2. The one car I truly lust for is the 56 Mercedes 300 Gull Wing coupe or gawd forbid a 56 Mercedes 300SLR c/w the working air brake. That of course will never be possible as there are very few were made and thus not readily available, the last one being sold for well in excess of $2.5 million back in the early eighties. Economically it’s out of my league but I would willingly pay a couple of thousand to just sit in one and drive it a couple of laps, very quietly (yeah sure), around the Nurburgring. I can dream can’t I???
Dawg 😉
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April 28, 2005 at 7:33 pm #3262560
Dawg you would want to drive
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Just about any Jaguar!!! 56 Mercedes Gull Wing.
The Old circuit as the new one is way tooooooooooo slow. 🙁
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 8:32 am #3262082
Totally agree!!!
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Dawg you would want to drive
Either that or take the Sydney-Brisbane drive but roo bars might spoil the looks.
Dawg :^O
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April 28, 2005 at 8:46 am #3262396
My fav car
by itgirli · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
The 1985 DeLorean DMC12.
I also like the Lamborghini Diablo VT.
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April 28, 2005 at 9:50 am #3262296
No competetion
by dwiebles · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
The classic, the chic, the K-car.
If you have never driven a Plymouth Reliant-K, (or Dodge Aries, http://www.extremefunnypictures.com/funnypic779.htm video half way down page) you are missing out big time.
I have a personal fondness for the 1982 Buick LeSabre LTD. My Gramps car, and consequently my frist when he passed away.
Otherwise, I have always liked the 69′ Olds 442 convertible. Dunno why, just cause I guess
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April 28, 2005 at 10:27 am #3262259
OH man my high school buddy had a K car
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to No competetion
We had a good buzz on one weekend and decided it would be cool as a convertible.
We could not find his dads oxy torch so we took the top off with an axe and a wood splitting maul.
At this point we drunkenly decided to repaint it with spray paint. We discovered we did not have enough of any one color to do the whole car 1 color, so it ended up 6 different colors.When we finished my buddy thought it needed a little something that would put it in a class by itself, so in Kawasaki green on each door he painted T W A T MAGNET(that will attract the women.)
We finished that “restoration” at about the same time his dad got home from work.The old man thought it was quite funny and decided that we should show off our custom car work.Which was actually code for you f*ckin dumb@ss you will drive that car to school the rest of the semester and all summer long,or until he felt sorry for him and gave him his keys to his beater pickup back.
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April 28, 2005 at 10:36 am #3262253
All that
by dwiebles · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to OH man my high school buddy had a K car
Was still an improvement to the k-car. I had one for like a week (a relative couldn’t afford to renew their drivers license, too many accidents, or traffic tickets). It just felt like a piece of crap. When you climbed into the driver seat, you could tell that it was bottom of the barrel. The spider webbed front windshield didn’t help (At the time he had gotten his last ticket, he decided to punch the rear view, as an outlet for his stupidity)
Even my ’85 Mazda 323 felt safer, an that’s not saying much (it stood up to a deer rather well tho).
Oh, and has anyone else ever hit an Owl?
Cheers
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April 28, 2005 at 10:48 am #3262240
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April 28, 2005 at 10:57 am #3262231
I think…
by dwiebles · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I forgot to tell you about…
…My dad would have beaten me like a rented mule had I done something of that nature. But only cause it would have been parked in his driveway…
I do, however, know where he keeps the oxy-acetaline torch 😀
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April 28, 2005 at 1:26 pm #3262704
At one point I had 11 cars and trucks….
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I think…
piled up in my parents backyard, 4 of which were 79 impala parts cars that I needed to keep my primary driver going.
When I brought home the twelth car the old man dropped the hammer on me, he has the balls to tell me get rid of them in 2 weeks or I’m scrapping them all(can you believe that),any way at the end of 2 weeks I had not moved any of them and had 2 more cars waiting to be picked up, I come home to get my trailer and all my cars are gone. My dad sold them to his buddy with a junkyard for $100 each,well i say BY GOD GIVE ME MY MONEY, he says “can’t that was exactly how much rent you owed on the backyard”.
I’m not sure but I think I got screwed on that deal.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:01 am #3262106
Most cars ever owned would have to be my bro..
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to At one point I had 11 cars and trucks….
My brother Mike, the 2nd oldest of all my brothers — has owned more vehicles in such a compressed amount of time than any “ordinary” “non-rich” person in the world I swear..
I believe he is currently on vehicle number 43 or something like that…he’s owned more vehicles than the amount of years he is old. lol.
Granted most of them are/were total POS! But some were pretty cool actually…he had a ’63 (I think that’s the year it was early ’60) Falcon…all black, jacked up in the arse end…some nice mags on them a pretty tricked out engine..it actually looked pretty mean and sounded cool.
That car took a dive once his wife starting getting on something about “….you spend all your money on the car and we have bills to pay..yadda yadda…feed the kids…..yadda yadda…..buy too much beer…yadda yadda…”…lol.
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April 28, 2005 at 11:10 am #3262217
When I was
by maecuff · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to OH man my high school buddy had a K car
in highschool, my dad bought a brand new K car on purpose. It was yellow. what a dweeb…it’s no wonder my sisters and I had to go to therapy.
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April 28, 2005 at 12:11 pm #3262756
awww
by dwiebles · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to When I was
I bet the sales guy tricked him into it when he wasn’t looking. Those Daimer-chrysler guys are sneaky….
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May 3, 2005 at 8:47 pm #3241196
Olds 442 Convertible…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to No competetion
now THAT was a classy car…
🙂
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April 28, 2005 at 10:40 am #3262248
Hmmm… my favourites
by bixbyru · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
For auto, an 06 Stanley Steamer, a ’33 Packard Town Car or a Stutz DV32.
For truck, a ’56 Dodge D-300 dumper or an older J series Jeep pickup.
For bike, a mid 60’s BMW R69/S, and Ariel Square Four 650 or a Nimbus 750.
If I could have one? Well, I do have a ’78 Jeep J-10 Golden Eagle, and I love it to death.
Bix
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April 28, 2005 at 10:42 am #3262245
Hmmm… my favourites
by bixbyru · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
For auto, an ’06 Stanley Steamer, a ’33 Packard Town Car or a Stutz DV32.
For truck, a ’56 Dodge D-300 dumper, a 1950 GMC or an older J series Jeep pickup.
For bike, a mid 60’s BMW R69/S, and Ariel Square Four 650 or a Nimbus 750.
If I could have one? Well, I do have a ’78 Jeep J-10 Golden Eagle, and I love it to death.
Bix
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May 3, 2005 at 8:59 pm #3241195
DON’T laugh, okay???
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Hmmm… my favourites
Ok, sooooooo I’m in my ‘hood Starbucks the other day, and there were two techie type doods in there having a discussion about what I THOUGHT were some serious Hot Rods…finally couldn’t stand it (I’m sooo nosy) so I asked what kind of cars they were talking about? You could cut the pity (and disdain…) in the air with a knife…turns out they were discussing some new server technology, or something like that…
Hey, I’m just a 9-5 working stiff “consumer”…I sit in front of a computer 8-10 hous a day keeping my fingers from freezing up with arthritis and giving myself carpal tunnel syndrome doing point and click sh*t…how was I to know???
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April 28, 2005 at 11:22 am #3262209
`61 VW Bug
by craig herberg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
It was a major piece of junk long before I was old enough to drive it, but it did hold fifteen of my closest friends.
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April 28, 2005 at 12:30 pm #3262741
Ford
by jellimonsta · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Ford Cortina mate!!… sup’d up, with a spoiler and rear window grills! 🙂
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April 28, 2005 at 1:47 pm #3262691
Vespa Mo-Ped
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
The Vespa and it’s related mo-peds are the best solution to motorized personal transportation.
Anything larger is just plain overkill.
Chas
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April 28, 2005 at 1:53 pm #3262686
Nice call Chas!
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
I always liked teh Mods and Mopeds. My brother had one when we were living in England, cool for getting to the beach and back!
BUT if we are not looking for whether SUV’s are neccessary, and just fav cars…
Most mopars (Cuda, Charger, SuperBee, RoadRunner), post ’63 but pre ’74 are a lot of fun to drive.
The 1987 limited edition, silver-anniversary Lamborghini Countach. (25 yrs, one winning body style)
The older XJS12 Jags.
All Ford trucks, in fact the older the better.
And the ultimate beater that never dies, the early 80’s Honda Civic!
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April 29, 2005 at 11:53 am #3261980
Late 1960s Triumph 650 motorcycle
by dc_guy · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Nice call Chas!
That was the essence of what motorcycles were all about. Yeah, they leaked oil by the pint, annoyed the neighbors, and weren’t the most reliable machines ever created. But riding a Triumph was like no other experience I’ve ever had. You became one with the bike and then you both became one with the road. The engine, the transmission, the suspension, the steering, everything did exactly what you wanted, seemingly with no effort at all from the operator. The only bike I ever had that NEVER went down. If I wanted to own another motorcycle, especially at my age, I’d buy my fifth BMW without a second thought. But when I dream of riding a motorcycle, it’s a 1969 Triumph TR6R.
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May 3, 2005 at 9:18 pm #3241190
1960’s motorcycles…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Late 1960s Triumph 650 motorcycle
Well, if you’re gonna get Serious and talk about 60’s classic motorcycles, gimme a Norton Commando any day…
NORTON TO THE RESCUE!!!
(Identify that quote and I’ll KNOW you’re as old – and maybe even as weird – as I am for shur…)big grin
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May 3, 2005 at 9:50 pm #3241173
how about the 40’s?
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to 1960’s motorcycles…
When I was younger, my neighbour in Vancouver colected and built vintage Euro bikes.
He had two Triumphs, stright from teh army in crates and still with machin gun mount on one wiht a sidecar, and three 43’ish Nimbus’.
He used to stunt them and do drive by shots in movies all the time. I though the side car was pretty cool at first, until I relaxed and then he he started lifting the side car purposely while flying down the street and around corners.
I enjoyed working on them more instead after that.
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April 28, 2005 at 4:26 pm #3262606
A hair dryer !!
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
Jeez get a proper bike, How about a classic chop ape hangers, girders in front and a re-furbed Norton 850 commando engine. At least it will sound right.
Any two wheeled vehicle designed to keep your suit clean while you are riding it just misses the point competely.
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April 28, 2005 at 4:30 pm #3262605
Old Vespa’s
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to A hair dryer !!
They’re just classic, and believe it or not, very popular in Vancouver now. People are getting sick of trying to drive and park in town, so they follow the way of the Japanese and ride mopeds.
Then again, the local Asians all have four Mercedes’ in the drive, all too often with one licence between the four of them. Making up for all that bicycle time I guess.
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April 29, 2005 at 12:42 pm #3261942
I believe that…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to A hair dryer !!
any american V-twin with a HUGE cam thumpin along at idle is about the most beautiful sound ever created.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:08 pm #3261460
NAH
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I believe that…
The bevel drive Ducati’s with Conti’s fitted sound so much better you do not so much hear as feel the thing. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 30, 2005 at 5:11 am #3261399
Well any time you are this side of the pond
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I do believe…
You are welcome to have a listen to my 1982 900 SS Ducati. :p
If you are very good I might even let you sit on it while I have it running and that is something that very few people get to do as it only has a little over 17K from new under its tires. 🙂
It has been under my control since new and I’m very protective of it for some strange reason even if it doesn’t get enough road/track mileage under its tires it is still a lovely sound that can not be recorded properly as the deep bass overloads the Mic’s that I have access to. 🙁
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 9:24 pm #3241186
Any american v twin…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I believe that…
As long as it’s got a Thunder Header too… you are right…
GOT Thunder Header on my teeny weeny widdle Sportster (aw, gee ain’t that Cute?!?) and I set off every car alarm in my neighborhood when i leave for work in the morning…course, sometimes it takes 2 or 3 runs around the circle to get the really stubborn ones going, but…
And they always blame it on the neighbor with the custom street chopper bar hopper…giggle…
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April 28, 2005 at 7:47 pm #3262558
Now Chas where is the fun in that?
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
I just love my 900 SS Ducati which attracts speeding tickets like a magnet attracts iron fillings but while being a total pig to ride around town is a beautiful ride when out on the highway. Top gear at minimum revs = 175 MPH and it only gets better from there. 😀
That isn’t overkill it’s fun. 🙂
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 8:46 am #3262072
Yeah but unless the guy riding it is really good…………
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now Chas where is the fun in that?
he’s about to become an organ donor. I love my Triumph Trident but have to keep a leash on my insane side. I used to think that bikes had only two conditions; either all on or all off but I’m getting a bit too old for that now. The miracle was that I never piled one up to the point they’d have needed a sponge to pick me up.
Dawg ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 10:54 am #3262013
Back in my younger days
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Yeah but unless the guy riding it is really good…………
when I weighed 130lbs wet through. I was foolish enough to take a 500 Katana for a spin. I can tell you, cured me, my life passed before my eyes. I was going round corners so fast no toilet roll was necessary, centrifugal force did the job admirably. Put it back in the show room and went back to chops and sidecars.
Cossack 750 Combo, room for one scooter fan in the side car.
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April 29, 2005 at 1:26 pm #3261898
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April 29, 2005 at 8:10 pm #3261459
And I suppose that
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Yeah but unless the guy riding it is really good…………
Slippery Sam was slow? 🙂
Now come on that was the fastest bike of its time and a Trident to boot. :p
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 9:30 pm #3241182
Yeah but unless the guy riding it is really good…………
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Yeah but unless the guy riding it is really good…………
Yeah but unless the guy (AHEM! orrrrrrrr girl) riding it is really good…………
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April 29, 2005 at 1:24 pm #3261900
Nature
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now Chas where is the fun in that?
Speed doesn’t do anything for me.
I can’t envision driving let alone owning a vehicle that has a top speed much above 80 MPH.
I much prefer being able to notice the world around me than have it go by in a blur.
Chas
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April 29, 2005 at 1:43 pm #3261887
Ok but speed makes…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Nature
natures little creatures fan out quite nicely on my windshield.
By the way the part about america needing to get away from the big powerful cars is crap.
Engine refinements bring efficiency and power, the more efficient an engine is the cleaner it will run and the more power it will make.Think about this the new Corvette is rated at 400hp and somewhere around 24 mpg.
My old 4 cylinder chevy celebrity doesn’t even get that, nor does my 2001 taurus with 180 hp.
All of these improvement have come about because of accurate COMPUTER controls. Thank God for silicon.p.s. I will drive my 300hp truck making 13mpg 400 miles a week until the day it dies cos I love my truck and would’nt trade it for an econobox even if you offered me 1 billion dollars.
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April 29, 2005 at 3:19 pm #3261509
Now your warming my globe
by tony hopkinson · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ok but speed makes…
Oh sorry wrong thread.
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April 29, 2005 at 3:39 pm #3261506
in all honesty…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now your warming my globe
I am now driving my wifes taurus back and forth to work, and the trucka is on loan to her.
the only reason is because I would rather feed my kids than put $75 a week in fuel in the truck. This should not effect the wife to much as she only drives 10 miles each day.I must go now as my fried spotted owl breast and my shark fin soup are ready for dinner.;)
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May 3, 2005 at 9:28 pm #3241183
Ducati at 175
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now Chas where is the fun in that?
The Italians are INSANE…rode my daughter’s friends Ducati for a couple of miles…and scared the beejeezuz out of myself…that bike is too fast…
(OMG, did I say that??? Ok, now I KNOW I’m getting old)
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May 4, 2005 at 5:42 am #3241084
Well my old Bevel Drive 900 SS
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ducati at 175
At minimum revs that’s 3,000 RPM to keep the oil preasure up runs at 72 KPH in first and 175 KPH in Top [5 th] and it only gets better from there. 😀
I really do not know how fast it will go but it has been clocked at 230 MPH on the back straight of Calder Raceway but then I had to back off for a corner it was still accelerating at the time. 🙁
I’ve never allowed it to have its head on the open road mainly because every Police Officer within 300 Miles would hear me coming long before I got anywhere near them so they would have pleanty of time to setup their speed measuring equipmnet. But on the up side currently anything over 250 KPH can not be measured by the current crop of Police Speed Measuring devices. Of course on the down side I would have to disconect the speedo as it only goes to 220 KPH and then you can wind the needle to the stop and keep accelerating past the point of the needle poping off the shaft. It works out to be quite expensive so to save my speedos and money I just disconect the thing. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 28, 2005 at 8:21 pm #3262879
Overkill me… Please!!!
by toab · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
I’m greedy, I’ll have two.
1956 Panhead Harley in a rigid frame
and
1969 Honda 750/4 (memories…)
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May 3, 2005 at 9:35 pm #3241181
Overkill me…Please!!!
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Overkill me… Please!!!
1956 Panhead rigid and 1969 Honda 750/4…
OMG, I think I’m in LOVE…hehehehehe
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April 29, 2005 at 8:10 am #3262096
This is sad
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
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You can’t even answer a fun-type question without advancing your radical and extreme left-wing — almost communistic — desires to force your will on, and judge others. Picture one of those Asian nations where you’ll see bicycles and mopeds crowding the streets, with the occasional rickshaw, of course, and I can’t help but think that you’d like to see that in America.For Pete’s sake, quit taking your radical views (and yourself) so seriously.
The best cars of all time were the 60s muscle cars, the 50s boats, and some English sports cars. A list of some of my favorites:
1963 Corvette
1964 GTO (The ’67 GTO might be “the best”, but the ’64 was the first.)
1956 Thunderbird (Better than the ’55 and ’57.)
1966 Chevelle Super Sport (396, not 327)
1969 Road Runner (Plumb Crazy version with the high spoiler)
1959 MGA
1969 Mach I Mustang (or Cobra, of course)
1957 Chevrolet Nomad
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April 29, 2005 at 1:17 pm #3261903
Actually I would
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
Yes Max, I would like to see the majority of people using human powered transportation. Whether for commuting to work, running errands, or for pleasure.
The bicycle and moped crowded streets in Asian countries is more the result of poor or no public transit than from the lack of automobiles. Since 4 to 6 bicycles can fit in the same space as a single car, think just how much more congestion there would be if these cities were full of cars.
I get more pleasure from a single 20 mile bicycle ride than the sum total of EVERY car I have driven or ridden in.
The USA will continue to slide both socially and economically until we give up our love affair with high powered automobiles.
In the spirit of the thread, I at least mentioned a powered personal vehicle. Vespa’s also were considered fun and chic at one time.
Chas
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April 29, 2005 at 1:19 pm #3261902
I know you would
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Actually I would
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I wasn’t kidding or embellishing at all. I’m getting to understand your “vision” of Amerika quite well. And like I said, I think it’s sad. -
April 29, 2005 at 3:07 pm #3261512
Our Freedoms
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I know you would
Max,
Despite what you think, I would not want to see my vision of America come by force of law.
I want to see mankind mature to the point where we as a society realize just how negative an impact the current “American Dream” has on the local, global, and long term environment.
I want a return to communities where you live, work, worship, learn, shop and play within no more than a 10 mile radius.
Where neighbors look out for each other.
Where it is safe to let children go out and play, because every adult looks after every child.
Where you are attached to the entire community, not just a small isolated plot of land.However, if you feel the need for a 10 acre lawn and a 5,000 square foot mansion, along with a big SUV or overpowered sports car, you should be able to make that choice.
But, as part of the freedom to make those choices, you should shoulder the entire environmental and social costs of massaging your ego.Chas
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April 29, 2005 at 5:46 pm #3261479
Chas – FYI
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Our Freedoms
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I live, work, worship, learn, shop and play within no more than a 10 mile radius – in fact, no more than a 6 mile radius (generally speaking), and most of the time, no more than a 2 mile radius. And believe it or not, Chas, half the time I walk to and from work.But to wish such a thing for everybody would be to take a trip into la-la land. And I would never be so presumptious as to judge others for how they choose to live.
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April 29, 2005 at 1:42 pm #3261888
And the really sad thing is this
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Actually I would
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Why don’t you just make it happen for yourself? You can have exactly what you want. There are communities all over the country where people walk or ride their bicycles, and everybody lives together as one big happy family. They range from the people like the Amish or some Quaker communities, to the more cult-like to something that resembles an old hippie commune to anything and everything in-between. But the problem I see with what you’ve been espousing, the really sad thing to which I refer, is that you want — or even expect — those around you to drastically change their lives in order for you to achieve your view of how you think things should be. And that is sad — very sad indeed. -
April 29, 2005 at 4:26 pm #3261494
Factually unrealistic
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to And the really sad thing is this
The effects of one’s actions to not stop at any particular place relative to that at which such action occurs.
For example, here in Pennsylvania witness the wholesale destruction of vast areas of our forests owing the airborne pollution that drifts in from states to our West.
There are a myriad other examples that might be given, but one alone suffices to expose the flaw in your argument.
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April 29, 2005 at 5:42 pm #3261481
Ooooooooookay
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Factually unrealistic
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April 30, 2005 at 4:47 pm #3261323
Oh, come now.
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ooooooooookay
You know precisely what I said.
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April 30, 2005 at 8:55 am #3261376
Yo, Max
by amcol · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to And the really sad thing is this
You and I are from the same era, and while I don’t always agree with the views you espouse in these forums as a child of the 60’s I totally respect your right to do/say/worship/believe as you will. But there’s a time and a place for everything. I believe I’m past the age of consciousness and righteous rage; I’ve found that just surviving is a noble fight (sorry, Billy).
The guy wasn’t getting political. You turned this whole thing into something it wasn’t meant to be.
Give it a rest, already. We’re talking about cars here.
I do agree with you on one thing. The absolutely finest ride I ever owned was a ’67 Goat into which my friends and I dropped a Corvette 454 engine. Hurst speed shifter. Gave fleeting thought to installing a nitrous system, but we were already approaching escape velocity with it so we let that go.
The new GTO is a pale imitation of the old one. Ah, the good ol’ days.
Of cars, not politics. Remember…I said give it a rest.
C’mon, admit it…until I said that you were ready to jump all over me, weren’t you?
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May 1, 2005 at 10:29 am #3261227
If I answered your question. . . . .
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Yo, Max
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“You asked, “C’mon, admit it…until I said that you were ready to jump all over me, weren’t you?”If I answered that question, I would have to violate your request to “give it a rest”.
So what should I do?
(Okay, let’s just say that, based on a long history of discussion, I “read into” the message in a way that (perhaps) only I could possibly have, or even begin to understand.)
Yep, 67 GTO was the best, but I still love the combination of (somewhat) innocence and hidden power in the original ’64. With the factory installed 389 engine and three (3) 2-barrel carburetors, duel exhaust and 4-speed transmission, it could, in some ways, be called the very first “muscle car”.
Of course, you could get one of the Impala 409s between 1959 (or was it ’58?) and 1963, and Impala had the Super Sport package available earlier (I had a ’62 Super Sport), but the 1964 GTO, in my book, might be the first true muscle car (or maybe the ’64 Olds 442?); but it certainly marked the beginning of an era. The Corvette was an established “sports car”; the muscle Mustang was still a couple of years away, Mopar wasn’t there yet, and in 64 came that GTO. That’s my choice for the first.
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May 3, 2005 at 9:39 pm #3241178
actually i would too, except…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Actually I would
only problem is I have a degenerative spinal condition and CAN’T…the only reason I can even ride my Sportster is that the vibrations act like therapy…
That’s MY story and I’m stickin to it…or it’s stickin to me…whatEVER…
“The USA will continue to slide both socially and economically until we give up our love affair with high powered automobiles…”
Ahhhhhhh, if only it was that simple…
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April 29, 2005 at 4:33 pm #3261491
Despite my disagreement with your views on other matters, I here concur …
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
that the issue at hand is not about what is now best for mankind as a whole, but rather which cars best exemplified the state of the art at the time they were produced.
In all matters, what might be today’s best choices are irrelevant to those of yesteryear.
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April 29, 2005 at 5:26 pm #3261482
When I was young and naive
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
Max, when I was young and naive, I did lust after some of the cars listed here.
Heck, my grandmother even owned a Road Runner Superbird.
(Grandpa hated it because the wing load up with snow and it spun around like crazy on slick roads.)I have grown past the need or desire for fast useless cars.
I did think of 2 cars I might desire though:
The Isetta (I think thats right) the car where the whole front opened up as the only door.
Or, the 197X Dale.
The never made it to production 3 wheeled answer to the 70’s energy crisis.Yes, the people behind the Dale were a bunch of crooks trying to make a fast buck. Still, if it had gone into production, I would have bought one just because it looked funky.
Chas
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April 29, 2005 at 6:07 pm #3261473
What I find sad
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
Max, what I find sad is your over reaction to even the simplest of comments.
Since you have helped me see the light and leave the dark side of conservatism, I understand many of Oz’s comments about your responses to his ramblings.
If you had not posted your rant, I don’t think anyone else in this thread would be taking my little comment as a call for social change.
We cannot put the genie back in the bottle. Now that you have poked and prodded me into re-examining my thoughts and positions on political, social, and environmental issues, you will just have to put up with the liberal that you have unleashed.
Chas
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May 7, 2005 at 5:13 am #3240167
What I find Sad Chas
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What I find sad
Is that I can not go the the T Q & A Section and attempt to help people out without being placed in a position of repeating almost word for word your answers! 🙁
Don’t you have a life outside IT? 😉
Anyway would you care to let me in on the secret of just how you manage to spend so much time on TR? 🙂
Col ]:)
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May 7, 2005 at 5:33 pm #3240064
Time Shift
by thechas · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What I find Sad Chas
Colin,
I spend on average about 4 hours an evening on line.
It is how I relax when I am worn out from a day at work.
When I log in it is early evening (US Eastern time) and the volume of new questions is beginning to dwindle.
I answer those that interest me, or I feel I can contribute to.
When I have a day at home, I have noticed that new questions peak between 1 and 4 PM (EST).
So, unless you wait until your wee hours of the morning, most of the new questions have been responded to before your day starts.
With the number of new peers answering questions, I don’t post near as many answers as I used to.
Chas
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May 7, 2005 at 8:24 pm #3240018
Chas I’ve just spent a bit of time on the T Q & A
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Time Shift
And on every occasion that I opened a question you where the first respondent. So we either have the same interests or you have far too much time on your hands to unwind. 🙂
Anyway if you actually look at the recommended computer usage times 4 hours a day is considered as a full addiction by the shrinks so you need help. :p
But I’m not one to talk as it is now 1.22 PM on Sunday and I’m hiding in my lab away from everyone that is here in an attempt to get a bit of peace and quite. I don’t even have the AC turned on so I really have no excuse for being here at all. 😀
Col ]:)
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May 8, 2005 at 4:49 pm #3239543
Well, I was pretending that it was’nt so, but …
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Chas I’ve just spent a bit of time on the T Q & A
you’ve just confirmed my self-diagnosis.
Does this mean I’m protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
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May 9, 2005 at 5:35 am #3239388
What the cure is
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Chas I’ve just spent a bit of time on the T Q & A
You will be forced to work with pre Beta releases of MS software and try to make it work. 🙂
You will not be even allowed Beta copies to work with as this will only help to deepen the addiction. 😉
If you do not follow the above instructions to the letter the only other option is “Electric Shock Therapy” and they do not stop applying it until the power provider goes broke. God where is Enron when you need them? 😀
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 8:16 pm #3261457
Max the MG
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
T series was always much nicer to drive than any of the A series cars. They also looked sooooooooo much nicer as well! 🙂
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 9:44 pm #3241176
This is sad…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to This is sad
WOW, faaar out…I haven’t heard anybody call someone a “communist” since the riot daze in Berkeley back in the late 60’s…
How quaint and nostalgic…
What’s next? American Love it or Leave it?
Exit singing:
And it’s one two three
What’re we fighting for
Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn
Next stop is Viet Nam (Kandahar? Bahgdad? Pyongyang?)siggggggggggh…YOu!!! in the back seat!!!
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May 3, 2005 at 9:15 pm #3241191
Just plain overkill
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vespa Mo-Ped
Yabutt, WHAT a way to die!!!
Myself, I currently drive either my 1991 Nissan 300ZX (NA…sighhhh, but you can’t have everything) that I got at a charity auction for $500 !!!! or my 2001 Harley-Davidson 883 Sportster Hugger, that I will be paying for well into my 70’s or beyond at the interest rate they slammed me with…but I’m kewl with it…I’ll prolly be dead before the loan is paid off anyway…
And for fun, I have a couple of daze a week night job driving new 2005 cars to rental car agencies and dealerships in my area from the nearby shipping and rail terminal…just last week I drove a new Pontiac GTO, a couple of different models of new Mustangs, a BUNCH of new Ford minivans and SUV’s, a couple of Chrysler 300C Hemi and a very nice Sebring convertible (the seats electronically mold to fit yer ass…perfect for us old folks with sore bones!)…a Lincoln Pickup (talk about freakin overkill!!!)…every new model of Ford pickup, including a duelly with no bed and a bunch of new models I can’t even remember now…AND I won the coin toss to get to drive the only new Crossfire on the drive-out crew list (only 7 miles total, from terminal to detination, but damn, what a 7 miles…)
aaaaaaaaaaaand, it doesn’t cost me anything in gas or insurance…in fact, they pay me to drive them…
so far my favorite tho was the new Nissan 350ZX…something about Nissan’s Z cars…they just FIT me…
big grin
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April 28, 2005 at 7:58 pm #3262893
no competition
by black panther · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Mad Max’s V8 Falcon – here’s a pic
http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/0405phr_falcon/
Followed by the Ford Falcon XY GTHO Phase 3 Falcon
http://groups.msn.com/falconGT/xwgtfalconhophaseii.msnw
look if you dare!!
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April 29, 2005 at 12:29 pm #3261949
I saw the Mad Max Falcon…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to no competition
at a car show, and let me tell ya that car is just as cool in person as it is in the movie.
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May 3, 2005 at 9:54 pm #3241170
Falcons
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to no competition
G’day Mate…
I dared to look…and I didn’t turn to stone or anything…just never could QUITE get excited about the Falcon…don’t know why…even at it’s best (as in above links) it just didn’t “ping”
Prolly a genetic defect…
Interesting links tho…
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April 28, 2005 at 7:58 pm #3262892
Ask an easy question why don’t you?
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
So many great makes and only one choice!
Well if I’m really pushed I would have to say for a car a 356 Porsche rough as guts totally impractical but a lovely drive followed closely by a WHO Bentley which again is another lovely car to drive although not at all piratical. 😀 Although several would come close from makers like Lotus, Ferrari, Masarati, Lam, Citron, Pug, Bentley, RR, Humber and the list goes on and on and on. 🙁
For a motor Bike that one is easy a Series C Vincent Black Shadow another pig to own but lovely to ride and again totally impractical for anything but gathering speeding tickets. 😀
For a truck another easy one a Mercedes 408 or 409 makes a very nice mobile home and it can even give a decent fuel economy as well. It’s even feasible to actually own one. 🙂
But if I was allowed a few more choices now !!!!!!:(
Col ]:)
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April 28, 2005 at 8:04 pm #3262887
OZ
by black panther · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ask an easy question why don’t you?
Hi Col
Notice you didn’t mention any Australian Muscle cars?
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April 28, 2005 at 9:08 pm #3262864
Australian cars? Shirley, you must be kidding!
by absolutely · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to OZ
For real acceleration adventure, tZero made by AC Propulsion. Zero to 60 in 4 seconds, OY!
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April 29, 2005 at 7:35 am #3262133
Well since they all fall into the GM/Ford groupings
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to OZ
I didn’t think it necessary. They all went for the Bigger is better idea which is nice but I for one like to get the maximum possible power out of a limited engine capacity improve the design rather than just make it bigger.
On the other hand I suppose I’m being a bit of a hypocrite there though as I’ve built numerous VW engines all around the 2.5 Liter mark on 1600 cc crankcases so I’ve improved the design as much as possible then made it bigger to get more power out of the thing. Currently I have a 65 Beetle with a 2.5 Liter motor with 1.5 – 1 Ratio rockers 12.5 compression pistons and a 6 pound flywheel, at the moment I have a dual 48 mm Webber on it but I haven’t as yet decided if I’ll stick with that or switch to one of the fuel injection systems to get even more power out of the thing. 😀
But I suppose because I used to work with the old V8’s that are raced here I see very little that is good about them as we where constantly fixing broken bits and rebuilding engines that had a lousy 2 cent part break and take the whole thing out. Back in the days when Harry Firth was head of the Holden team I was a mechanic for them and I just ended up with a gut full of the things as some of the failures where really frighting and potentially life threating. I’m really surprised that more drivers didn’t die in those days now that I come to think of it. 🙁
But they all still have live rear axles which is really something that as a mechanical engineer I really do not like.;) If they had of improved the design I would go a lot further in my liking of them but to me they are all still nothing better than a pre WW11 design with bits bolted on to make them legal. Although I do have a very big weakness for the old Ford Cortina’s that had the Lotus parts in them. 😀
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 10:02 pm #3241166
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April 29, 2005 at 8:14 am #3262095
You dont have to pick just one as…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ask an easy question why don’t you?
your personal favorites, pick as many as you like,but is there 1 vehicle that you are just craving over any other vehicle.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:29 pm #3261456
Well I would just love to
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to You dont have to pick just one as…
Buy a Gull Wing Mercedes for the wife to drive around {It’s the only way I could ever get one in the yard. :D} But I would love the Vincent Black Shadow even though the wife insists that I wouldn’t be happy with anything other than the Black Lighting. But I knew Phil Irving when he was alive and I got all the mods that he designed for the V Twins so it would after the rebuild be even better than the Black Lighting. 🙂
But when I worked at Porsche I got to drive some of their older cars from their museum and they where all lovely to play with and far better than my Group C 911 that was my company car, but they didn’t go anywhere near as fast but you really knew that you where driving them. 😀
Col ]:)
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May 3, 2005 at 10:05 pm #3241165
just one?
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to You dont have to pick just one as…
nope…got the vehicle I have craved for years…my Sportster…
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May 3, 2005 at 9:58 pm #3241168
Vincent Black Shadow
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Ask an easy question why don’t you?
“For a motor Bike that one is easy a Series C Vincent Black Shadow another pig to own but lovely to ride and again totally impractical for anything but gathering speeding tickets. ”
One of my women friends is currently restoring her THIRD Black Shadow…everybody thinks she’s NUTZ, except her accountant…quick as she can get them back on the road somebody wants to pay her a bloody fortune for them…
And what does she do with the money? Goes out and buys another classic Harley…and another restorable Vincent…and so on and so on for as long as I’ve known her…
Go figger???
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May 4, 2005 at 5:55 am #3241071
Well there where only a limited number of the Vincents made
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Vincent Black Shadow
And a lot of those where gutted for speedway a long time ago they where unbeatable in the sidecar class and lasted well into the 70’s if not latter. 😉
Nothing could come near them in their day and Phill Irving made some major mods available for the speedway motors which made them even more reliable. Quite a lot of these have ended up in the road bikes as well. They also had a lovely note that put everything to shame at the time even the Harleys didn’t stand a chance against them even in the stand ratteling stakes. I just loved the way that the whole stand would rattle in symapthy when one went past fall blat. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 7:38 am #3262128
Bullit anyone? :)
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
I’m horrible with remembering exact years and models of cars….
However the Mustang Steve McQueen drives in Bullit — was that a fastback? Anyway..I have always loved that car!
Another long time car obsession of mine has been the good ol’ Chevrolet Corvette – particularly the later model ones starting around ’00. My pop is the opposite he likes the early ones … ’55 – ’60-ish.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:27 am #3262084
1968 GT Mustang Fastback
by maxwell edison · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Bullit anyone? :)
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April 29, 2005 at 9:03 am #3262061
How about a 68 429 Cobrajet??? Actually saw one on the street last week!!!
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to 1968 GT Mustang Fastback
Fully restored. I Had been under the opinion that the 68 Cobrajets were 428s, the 429 not showing up until 69.
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April 29, 2005 at 9:49 am #3262035
Of course how could I forget the cobrajet!
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to How about a 68 429 Cobrajet??? Actually saw one on the street last week!!!
Another nice car (at least I thought) was the Hemi-Cuda. 🙂
I had a bud (actually a mutual friend I knew through a friend) who had a fully restored ’69 Camaro SS, it was blue (this other guy at school had a ’69 also but it was yellow). Very sweet.
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April 29, 2005 at 12:34 pm #3261946
There is a guy where I live that restores…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to How about a 68 429 Cobrajet??? Actually saw one on the street last week!!!
classic Mustangs and only goes after the rare cars, and always has a couple for sale.I can put you in touch if you have some coin that needs a new home.
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April 29, 2005 at 9:46 am #3262036
Thanks Max…I loved that car!
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to 1968 GT Mustang Fastback
There you go the GT Fastback….sa—weeeet!
(Ironically I really can’t stand much of that movie..but I do love the chase sequence).
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April 29, 2005 at 8:19 am #3262091
UNIMOGs RULE!
by winkyx · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Indeed they do, let there be no doubt.
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April 29, 2005 at 9:04 am #3262059
Are you some kind of wingnut???
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to UNIMOGs RULE!
UNIMOGS indeed!!!
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April 29, 2005 at 12:39 pm #3261944
Unimogs….
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Are you some kind of wingnut???
The Uni that I used to use around the farm had a 90hp diesel and could be geared down to somewhere close to 1100:1 crawl ratio. You could actually smell faster than it would move, and it multiplied the torgue so much it would pull ANYTHING you could hook to it, and I mean ANYTHING.
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April 29, 2005 at 8:35 pm #3261455
Give me a 959 Porsche
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to UNIMOGs RULE!
Any day over a Unimog they are far more fun off road than anything else I’ve ever driven. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 9:56 pm #3261444
I remember reading that…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Give me a 959 Porsche
Bill Gates had a 959 stuck in customs in Washington. What an id10t all that money and still could’nt find a poor customs agent to just take care of it for him.
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April 30, 2005 at 5:23 am #3261397
Now that is criminal
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I remember reading that…
I spent so much time working on the design of that car to see them used in such a way makes me want to cry. 🙁
I can still remember Jacki Iccks driving me in one around the Nurburg Ring and it was a beautiful car but maybe I’m just a bit biased on that count.
I still remember when we finished designing it the head of the department handed it to the styling guys and told them that they could change anything provided that nothing at all on the car was altered in other words their only options where in the way it was painted and the color of the insides provided that they didn’t change anything other than the seats and door trims color. 🙂
That was the only vehicle that I really felt safe in with Jacki behind the wheel those bloody awful DAF trucks where a real nightmare and I can still vividly remember bashing Jacki over the head with a clip board demanding that he stop the bloody thing so I could get out and be safe. I walked back to the pit area from the end of the back straight and just refused to allow him to ever drive me again in one of those trucks. That year in the Paris Dakar he hit a bit of rock at about 140 MPH and tore the left hand front off the car and cracked the sump so he drove it to the next checkpoint where it expired a natural death through the total lack of oil in its motor but it got him there before dieing. 😀
Col ]:)
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April 29, 2005 at 4:20 pm #3261495
Valkyrie 400
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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April 29, 2005 at 7:04 pm #3261468
Land Rover Series 1 SWB soft-top
by john.bennetts · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
Efficient little 2.25 litre F-head engine, 4×4, versatile, go-anywhere, rocommended top speed 40mph, tough, great to learn to drive in, aluminium panels, simple mechanicals, wind in the hair… what more could I ask for a young man’s first car when I was 18 and it was 15?
Loved it then. Wish that I still had it now.
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April 30, 2005 at 4:27 pm #3261324
1959 Ford Skyliner
by willcomp · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
First time I saw one in action (it was new) couldn’t believe my eyes. The hardtop retracted into the trunk and a cool convertible emerged.
Dalton
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April 30, 2005 at 4:48 pm #3261322
Datsun 240Z
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
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May 3, 2005 at 7:03 am #3261119
favorite vehicles of all time…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
ORIGINAL POST: We were having a discussion yesterday here at work, The question was of all the motor vehicles ever made(car,truck,motorcycle)what are your favorites,and if you could have just 1 what would it be.
My choicesLast but not least the one vehicle I lust after more than any other.
1969 ZL1 Camaro,
all aluminium 427 bigblock ,500hp,4speed,and they only produced 69 of them.
There is a business owner in the town I live in that owns one, and I would give up everything I own to have that car.REPLY: good choiceS,especially the Camaro – only back in 1969 I used to beat the socks off the Camaro with my factory experimental 69 Mustang 429 Cobra Jet at the drag strip…sorreeee, just HAD to say it…bygone daze of glory and all that…
My favorite today is my Harley-Davidson Sportster…that’s my #1 choice and that’s what I have sacrificed a whole lot of other things so I ride…vrrrrroooooom vroooom vroooooooooooom
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May 3, 2005 at 8:20 am #3261064
What is this experimental you speak of….
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to favorite vehicles of all time…
I have never heard of ford running any “special” 429’s at the strip.
If you ever had the chance to race against a true ZL1 you are a very lucky person indeed.That particular camaro is probably the most rare,and wicked musclecar to roll off of GM’s assembly line.
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May 3, 2005 at 8:30 pm #3241199
Factory Experimental
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What is this experimental you speak of….
My oldest son’s Godfather sold cars at and later managed a Ford dealership in 1969 in Honolulu, HI…Ford made a limited number of Factory Experimental versions of the 429 (or was it 428? gawd, it’s been a looooooooooong time…memory cell ain’t as elastic as it used to be…) Cobra Jets…that were actually street legal to boot…except there wasn’t anywhere to really take her on the street cuz there was no freeway on the island at the time…waaaaaaaay fast trip to the supermarket tho…hehehehe
Anyway, we were lucky enough to get one shipped to Hawai’i for promotional purposes…she was hella faaaaaaaast off the showroom floor, and with a little rear end modification, and the right tires (and ME driving,of course…she sez ever so humbly 😉 she got even faster…not much going for it on low end but on the high end the Mustang was kinda scary…was hard to even find a bracket to race in because there was only one comparable car on the island at the time that was any real competition…and, if memory serves, it WAS a Camaro ZL1…owned by a US Army Master Sergeant…
That was back in the good old daze when Honolulu police officers owned their own patrol cars…could drive what they wanted and most had pretty hefty muscle cars…and HALF the police force would be out at the drag strip on any given weekend…
The Mustang and the Camaro used to regularly beat up on each other in the ET brackets, although I got really good at “tricking” him into running out of bracket when I couldn’t out muscle him… and between the two of us we absolutely humiliated anything Mopar had to throw at us…EXCEPT…a 1940’S something Willys running (I think it was) a Chrysler hemi that was FROGGY as heck…that Willys used to LITERALLY jump! off the line…and then it was just GONE.
Ahhh, the good old daze…
Nowadaze I putt around on my Harley with my loud pipes, give my grandchildren rides, etc. and think I am sooooooo baaaaad…NOT!!!
BIG grin
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May 5, 2005 at 5:20 am #3239894
That is what is so cool about the…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Factory Experimental
musclecar wars of the 60’s & 70’s there were actually factory built racecars availble to the public. They did that just to establish bragging right, it wasn’t about how many can we sell it was about can we beat all the cars built by our competitors, and keep the price at a point where most average joes could actually afford them.
I wish they still had that attitude today.
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May 4, 2005 at 12:58 pm #3241879
1968 MGC roadster (BRG of course)
by cortech · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
427SC Shelby Cobra
Series 1 E-type
Lamborgini Maura SV
Morgan Plus 8
1970 Ford Torino Cobra
1970 1/2 Camaro Z28
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May 4, 2005 at 5:49 pm #3241792
Well I’m surprised nobodies mentioned
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
The Sutdebaker Lark now that was a nice car to not only drive but own as well it’s one of the few US built cars that I would like to have one of. 😉
Col ]:)
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May 4, 2005 at 7:06 pm #3241764
Studebakers
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Well I’m surprised nobodies mentioned
You’d go crazy for a place near where I live…an older gentleman Studebaker enthusiast has over 100 vintage Studee’s in his yard surrounding his farmhouse…all lined up like a rainbow…it’s quite a site…
Sad thing is the local county government is telling him he has to get rid of them because his property is not zoned for a “junkyard”…how Rude!!!
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May 4, 2005 at 8:28 pm #3241734
Now THIS is truly sad…
by lke2005 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
I’ve got to entirely too much time on my hands…
here’s the list to date…?E? type Jag (Mk III with a V12)
06 Stanley Steemer
1959 cadillac eldorado conv
1968 MGC roadster (BRG of course)
1969 ZL1 Camaro
1969/1970 plymouth superbird/dodge Daytona1982 Buick LeSabre LTD
1985 DeLorean DMC12
’33 Packard Town Car
427SC Shelby CobraSeries
E-type
Lamborgini Maura SV
Morgan Plus 8
1970 Ford Torino Cobra
1970 1/2 Camaro Z28
100′ Azimut
Fairline
62′ Grand Turismo
56 Mercedes Gull Wing
61 VW Bug
63 Ford Falcon
65 VW Beetle
69′ Olds 442 convertible
73-87 GM 3/4 or 1ton trucks
Any Jaguar
Ariel Square Four 650
Aston Martin DB9
Cadillac Coupe DeVille
chevy suburban, known to all as the shaggin waggin.
corvette
1950?sDB 9
Delorean
Ford Cortina
J series Jeep pickup.
mid 60’s BMW R69/S
Lamborghini Diablo VT
Lotus Elise sport 135 convertibleLotus Esprit
Lotus Super Seven
McLaren
mercedes unimog
Nimbus 750.
’78 Jeep J-10 Golden Eagle
peterbilt model 379
Stutz DV32
’56 Dodge D-300 dumper
S-type
Sutdebaker Lark
The classic, the chic, the K-car
Vespa MoPed
Late 60?s Triumph 650
Any American V-Twin
1969 Triumph TR6R
HD Sportster (MINE!)
Nissan 300ZX
Nissan 350ZX
Datsun 240Z
68 and/or 69 Mustang 429 CobraJet
Norton Commando
?43 ish Nimbus
classic chop ape hangers, girders in front and a re-furbed Norton 850 commando engine.
The bevel drive Ducati’s with Conti’s
1982 900 SS Ducati
Triumph Trident
C Series Vincent Black Shadow
Vincent Black Lightening
500 Katana
Cossack 750 Combo
56 Panhead Harley ? rigid
69 Honda 750/4
1963 Corvette
1964 GTO (The ’67 GTO might be “the best”, but the ’64 was the first.)
1956 Thunderbird (Better than the ’55 and ’57.)1966 Chevelle Super Sport (396, not 327)
1969 Road Runner (Plumb Crazy version with the high spoiler)
1959 MGA
1969 Mach I Mustang (or Cobra, of course)
1957 Chevrolet Nomad
1957 Buick Convertible
67 GTO (The GOAT!)
62/63 Impala Super Sport 409 (?)
Grandma?s Road Runner Superbird
Isetta
197X Dale
MG T Series
Mad Max?s V8 Falcon
Ferrar
Masarati
Lam
Citron
Pug
Bentley
RR
Humber
356 Porsche
Mercedes 408 or 409 Truck
WHO Bentley
tZero
68 GT Mustang Fastback
69 Camaro SS
959 Porsche
Valkyrie 400
Land Rover Series 1 SWB Soft-top
59 Ford Skyliner
427SC Shelby Cobra
Series 1 E-type
Lamborgini
Maura SV
Morgan Plus 8
1970 Ford Torino Cobra
1970 1/2 Camaro Z28
100′ Azimut
Fairline 62′ Grand Turismo
68 MGC Roadster (BRG)Now close your eyes and just imagine all these vehicle in a museum…what a sight!
That’ll be $20 admission and $5 for the vehicle list…please
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May 5, 2005 at 4:22 am #3239932
I should have added that the RR
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now THIS is truly sad…
Was a car we got in to work on a 1926 Silver Ghost with a pre-selector gearbox in mint condition with only 7 miles on the odometer. 🙂
Of course as it was trailed everywhere and never driven the pre-selector gearbox had seized up and we had to strip it send the broken bits off the England and then 18 months latter when everything had arrived back reassemble it. What a nightmare that was but eventually we had it running again and I then proceeded to do the worst possible thing I actually drove it for all of 125 miles and the owner hit the roof when he got it back as it had been driven. We also had to rebuild the complete drive system and replace every bearing in the thing as they had all rusted up owing to a total lack of lubrication. 😉
While it was by no means the fastest car I’ve ever driven it was the best for turning heads. 😀 Pity that the fuel consumption was measured in gallons per mile though. 🙁
Col ]:)
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May 5, 2005 at 5:09 am #3239908
HAL, you are my HERO, will….
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to I should have added that the RR
you adopt me PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.Can you send me some cool pics of you thrashing cool cars. I am officially taking down all my posters in my garage and will be replacing them with pictures of my new hero. 🙂
Seriously though, it sounds like you have spent time with some REALLY COOL autos and I wish I had stories that were half as cool.
When it comes to really cool OLD cars I am planning on going to the Auburn,Cord,Duesenberg museum, and the Kruse automotive and carriage museum. I can hear the excitement in my wife’s voice already.(ha ha)
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May 5, 2005 at 5:14 am #3239902
that is not sad….
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Now THIS is truly sad…
but it might cause us to be envious(sp)of all the spare time you have on your hands.
that is actually pretty cool. I didn’t realize that there were that many cars listed
I will put your check in the mail when the Email man gets here.
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May 5, 2005 at 5:48 am #3239863
I was witness to one of the greatest…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
moments in automotive history yesterday.
There is this young A-hole that has one of those import tuner cars(think The Fast and the Furious)
and he is always talkin trash about how fast it is and how he could beat any car in the parking lot with that car. He claims it will turn a low 13 second quarter mile(that is quite respectable)Well his stories caugt the ear of a former army tank mechanic and certifiable diesel fanatic that we work with. He tells this kid that his PowerStroke Ford 1ton 4×4 could beat him any day of the week.Keep in mind that this guy has low 12second time slips to back up his mouth.
This guy tells the kid he will pay all his costs and to bring his rice grinder to a nearby dragstrip for the weekly test and tune night
($15 run what you brung).
When the kid gets there he says I’ll bet you $250 that I can out run that truck by at least 2 seconds(what a retard)the old man says he’ll take a little of that action.After the diesel smoke cleared the kid got his @ss handed to him by a 8000 pound diesel truck:)he got beat by almost 2 seconds(4 times no less).
I will say that the kid has caught all kinds of hell this morning, and is no longer running his mouth.
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT.
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May 6, 2005 at 6:43 am #3242339
Hmmm..M1A1 Abrams (well it has a motor) :)
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What are your favorite motor vehicles of all time
I’d say the M1A1 Abrams main battle tank. Its a motor powered vehicle. Of course now they have the A2 which is more improved still.
Yeah so everyone here you can out run me with your fancy cars, but I’ll just lob a 120mm explosive round at you. Yeah you say you’ll be miles away but that’s ok…I can fire miles away (with sick accuracy). First I lob a round to make a crater in front of you..at your speeds you can’t avoid it in time..hmmm…then I’ll just run over you with 80+ tons of force…OUCH!
😉
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May 6, 2005 at 10:21 pm #3240198
Bad Boy Tom time to be hit with a
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Hmmm..M1A1 Abrams (well it has a motor) :)
Rolled up paper over the nose for your bad behavior. 😉
Well all know that the only thing worth stealing is a D12 CAT fully fueled as they might not be fast very little stops them and absolutely nothing that the Local Police have. 🙂
If they throw a road block in front of you just raise the blade and drive over their cars/trucks as you don’t want them to be able to follow you do you? 😀
Col ]:)
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May 8, 2005 at 7:44 pm #3239502
Col you might want to whack him with a blivet.
by sleepin’dawg · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Bad Boy Tom time to be hit with a
:^O
Dawg ]:)
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May 9, 2005 at 5:41 am #3239382
VE Day
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Bad Boy Tom time to be hit with a
As my little bit I took my kids to Canadian Forces Base Borden, home of Canada’s first air wing, and first tank school. Lots of planes, tanks and guns to look at.
They had a Sherman Flail tank that would do that job even better. Think of a a spinning reel out front, with heavy chains attached. At the end of each chain a fist sized steel ball. I wouldn’t stand in front.
James
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May 9, 2005 at 6:52 am #3239336
How about one of these?
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to VE Day
http://home.quicknet.com.au/colinluck/pages/images/kone.jpg
Garantieed that while they may not be fast they certainly would not have anyone stand in front of one while it is running. Those buckets on the front each pick up 20 cubic feet of earth or whatever is in front of them and the head spins at 2,000 RPM.
Those dinky little cranes on the sides can only lift 400 tons each so this is a really small beast. 😀
Col ]:)
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May 9, 2005 at 8:31 am #3240618
Its a small world after all
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to How about one of these?
I see by the sign on the side that its a Krupp. Krupp own Thyssen. Thyssen makes the Leopard series of tanks that Canada currently uses, and there was one very close to the flail tank I mentioned.
The size of that thing is wild. Like a ditch digger that went through an expansion device. I would have thought the buckets hold more than 20 cubic feet….
James
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May 9, 2005 at 7:57 pm #3240316
That is each bucket
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Its a small world after all
And from memory there are something like 20 buckets on the head.
The whole thing is electric and has a massive diesel generator in its guts to drive it something that Dr Porsche pioneered in WW11. And it was something that he wanted to continue developing but never got the time. 🙂
The guy who sent me that picture wanted to sell them to the US Military for use in Afghanistan after all what good would a hole on a mountain be with one of those things coming at you? 😀
Col ]:)
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May 9, 2005 at 3:11 pm #3240415
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May 9, 2005 at 7:38 pm #3240320
Bucket excavator for open pit mining
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to How about one of these?
I know we’ve discussed this heap before, there are a few sites that show that and other pictures from that move in Finland, another one has video of a SIMILAR move (audio in German)
http://www.bergheim-net.de/bagger/baggerumzug/umzug.htmBut when I saw them in a BC open pit mine several years back they had some smaller ones that could actually eat a small car in the bucket but it spun really slow actually, perhaps several HUNDRED RPM at max.
I think an even larger one would have a greater capacity but at a slower RPM, bucket excavators for the open pits are not really designed to take HUGE bites, as they rely on multiple buckets to get the same volume, but I think even a small one with a bucket capacity of just under 2000 litres (used in Alberta’s open pit mines as a bucketwneel reclaimer) would eat a lot more than 20 cubic feet at a time.
This one in Finland is actually supposed to be the largest track based excavator on Earth.
Either way, I wouldn’t argue with it! 😀
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May 9, 2005 at 6:48 pm #3240333
Funnies
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Mine Sweeper
You’re right Chas.
Many D-Day reports actually state one of the biggest mistakes by the US landing parties during D-Day was sending field engineers in replacement of ‘funnies’ (modified Sherman’s or Churchill tanks) onto the beach.
This was first practiced in Dieppe in 1942, when the Canadian troops were sent to a virtual slaughter on the beaches of France. And later one of the biggest life savers of D-Day.
Other landing parties used more funnies that engineers including ‘crabs’ or ‘flail’ tanks, the funnies described for mine sweeping, commonly nicknamed named crabs for thier inch-by-inch advancing, or flail tanks for thier appendages.
Hobart’s Funnies, which were tanks fitted with an inflatable bladder to allow then an amphibious assault on the beach.
And for the areas of blue clay that would nearly swallow a vehicle and hold up footsoldiers, they used tanks with large drums that would lay a canvas carpet behind them, this was strong enough to allow other tanks and troops to move up the beaches faster.
These modified tanks were actually a major factor in the success of the D-Day invasions. As usual, times of war create the need for some pretty innovative inventions.
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May 10, 2005 at 5:30 am #3241639
As well
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Funnies
The US parties did have large numbers of DD tanks – they used a skirt around the tank to make it just bouyant enough to float, and had a duplex drive(hence DD) to run a small propeller.
Unfortunately at Omaha(US site with a very difficult beach), they launched these tanks too far out – farther than they had in practise and in the manuals, and the rough seas of the channel sank the vast majority of them(some with troops inside). The British didn’t make the same mistake and the vast majority of theirs came ashore. Omaha would have been a lot easier if a couple of dozen tanks had come ashore.
The flails didn’t come ashore in the first wave – they were landed in Landing Ship Tank (LST) that were in the second wave.
The other “funny” I saw Sunday was a Churchill with the flame thrower attachment. Essentially it had what looks like another short gun in the front glacis of the tank(not the turret).
James
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May 10, 2005 at 8:50 am #3241545
Here’s a link you should find interesting
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to As well
Figured you’d like this site.
http://www.valourandhorror.com/DB/BACK/D_Day_inv_sites.htm
Use the navigation to search through photos and teh chronological tiemline, it’s actually quite well put together. A lot of the links off site seem to be dead now, they all worked at one time.
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May 10, 2005 at 2:21 pm #3256369
Oz, thanks for the link.
by deepsand · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to As well
My father was an MP, in a C-47 over Normany on D-Day.
His job was to cut loose those whose static lines failed to separate, thus resulting in their being battered to death as their bodies were repeated slammed against the fuselage.
We’ve long heard of those lost owing to their landing in hazardous terrain, but little to nothing of those who jumped but were already dead when they landed.
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May 10, 2005 at 8:32 am #3241553
Ouch…pass the Advil ;)
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to VE Day
Those mine sweepers (my bro calls them mine killers) tanks are vicious.
I have to believe that in war time they used them to sweep enemy infantry too.
What a horrible death that would be…gives “smack down” a whole new meaning!
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May 10, 2005 at 8:37 am #3241551
LOL..I saw that on Spike TV once actually
by tomsal · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Bad Boy Tom time to be hit with a
On an episode of “Amazing Police Videos” some crazy person near LA, stole one from a construction yard and drove through the neighborhood…it was plowing over cars (and basically anything) like they were mere toys.
The cops were trying to avoid killing the driver so they just followed him around..after about 30 cop cars pursued, the narrator of the show said the guys mistake was overlooking the poor gas mileage of the vehicle.
When he ran of gas…about 30 plus cops swarmed him from all sides.
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May 10, 2005 at 10:08 am #3241488
Saw that too
by jamesrl · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to LOL..I saw that on Spike TV once actually
The tank drive did intentionally cause havoc by running over cars. What did him in is that he tried to cross the divided highway by driving over the divider. The tank got hung up. He forgot to lock the hatch, someone jumped on top – bang bang.
James
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May 10, 2005 at 2:48 pm #3256356
Sounds like two stories
by oz_media · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Saw that too
I think you are referrig to the tank that was stolen from the motorcade and got hung on the highway divier, wheras Tom is talking about a bucketwheel stolen from a construction site.
I have seen the tank vid (many times) but not the other one.
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May 10, 2005 at 9:09 pm #3256275
What about the one
by hal 9000 · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to Sounds like two stories
Where a guy in some US town who was really PISSED OFF with the City Council or whatever it’s called so he welded up a D3 and proceeded to wreck all of the business of those on the City Council who voted down any of his proposals for his business.
I always thought a D3 a bit small but then I suppose you use what you got don’t you? 😀
Col ]:)
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May 11, 2005 at 4:43 am #3256207
I think we are now talking about 3 different stories…
by anykey??? · about 18 years, 11 months ago
In reply to What about the one
The tank was stolen from a reserve base by a former reservist, and yes he did wreak havoc. Well that is until he had his hot lead injection.
The D3(it might have been a larger model) was totally armored by the owner and the police could not stop him,and yes he did wreak havoc.
Well,that is until he gave himself a hot lead injection.The third story, I do not believe was a bucket wheel excavator,I have seen the video about a guy that stole a gigantic mining dump truck and took it for a joy ride down the highway.no hot lead injection to report on this one.
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