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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Ah I've been to the Deutsches Museum: it's a cracker. They've got a great aeroplane gallery as I remember.
    Very cute little car that, I don't think many made it over here.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited August 2020 Posts: 9,041
    mtm wrote: »
    Ah I've been to the Deutsches Museum: it's a cracker. They've got a great aeroplane gallery as I remember.
    Very cute little car that, I don't think many made it over here.

    Yes, it was known as "Baby Corvette" since it adopted much of the Coke bottle shape of the then current 'Vette. It was based on the Kadett B, but was a lot more fun. It came with up to 90 hp - which at an unladen weight of considerably less than a metric ton made it one of the faster cars this side of a 911. It was also exported to the US and marketed by Buick, but using the Opel name.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 2020 Posts: 16,427
    Yes I was thinking the nose especially is extremely Corvette-like.
    90bhp for a little thing like that would feel like a lot, definitely. That's more power than I expected it to have to be honest.

    I was considering one of those Smart Roadsters years back, they were great fun even with their tiny little engines.
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    Posts: 2,533
    300 slr winner mille miglia 1955

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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,427
    Pretty sure I must've seen Sir Stirling drive that a few times over the years, he was always going for spins in it! :) That's a proper machine, isn't it?
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    Posts: 2,533
    mtm wrote: »
    Pretty sure I must've seen Sir Stirling drive that a few times over the years, he was always going for spins in it! :) That's a proper machine, isn't it?

    Sure is.
    I own a couple of cmc 1:18 ltd ed streamliner and slr with Stirling's signature on the bonnet like these.
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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,427
    He actually signed your model? That's fantastic.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited August 2020 Posts: 3,497
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    All you had to do was explain your appalling rudeness, I have no idea why you think it's fine to be so unpleasant with no reason. Move on.

    @mtm, please give it a rest. At this point, it's not about who started what a long time ago, it's about who's perpetuating this childish bickering.
    mtm wrote: »
    Anyway, ignoring the horrible rude people,

    Yes, "how rude!". Thank you.

    Once again, whether you like it or not, members are NOT obligated to explain anything, respond to a post or whatever else you might expect them to do. You may find it in poor taste, you may think of them as rude, but pressing the issue, as you have in your last couple of posts, is obviously playing much more to everybody else's annoyance than JC's silence is to yours.

    So, I politely ask you--again--to please accept the fact that members can just walk away from any discussion, at any given point. Whether that means they have accepted defeat, or are fed up with the whole thing or have stopped caring, is of no importance. The only thing that matters is that you accept this by moving on yourself. Dropping these unnecessary comments left and right doesn't mean you are, even if your next sentence is "Moving on." You clearly haven't. JC, however, is trying to walk away from the argument, but your provocative tone continues to draw him back in. And that is precisely why things turn ugly on an Internet forum.

    So here's the deal: think of yourself as the "winner" in whatever battle you seem to think you're in, and proudly walk away from the argument.

    Thank you.

    EDIT: I don't even understand what this is all about. I went back several posts and at first, all was fine and then, suddenly, something must have happened that was either deleted or holds little significance to me since all I can find is some car talk that makes little sense to me and opinions being exchanged in a relaxed and seemingly gentle way. How far must I go back to find the seeds of this animosity?

    @DarthDimi The "we get it" was nothing more than a sarcastic remark and all of a sudden I was his mortal enemy. Maybe he couldn't handle the "moving on", which to me only means that I don't want this thread to be too repetitive.

    So basically much ado about nothing.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    Here's one for you numerous Alfa Romeo fans:
    An Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 with a unique body by one Walter Freund. If I understand the story right Freund got the car from race driver Tazio Nuvolari around the mid-thirties and replaced the body. This single piece is also from the collection of Deutsches Museum.
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    Freund's stepson has a bunch of original photographs from when the car was in their family, mostly from the fifties: https://www.berglaufpur.de/berglauf/AlfaRomeo.htm
    Sorry, it's in German only.

    They ceded the Alfa to Deutsches Museum for DM 35.000 in the nineties. It's said to be worth over a million Euros now.

  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    Posts: 3,497
    Wonderful. :)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 2020 Posts: 16,427
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    DarthDimi wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    All you had to do was explain your appalling rudeness, I have no idea why you think it's fine to be so unpleasant with no reason. Move on.

    @mtm, please give it a rest. At this point, it's not about who started what a long time ago, it's about who's perpetuating this childish bickering.
    mtm wrote: »
    Anyway, ignoring the horrible rude people,

    Yes, "how rude!". Thank you.

    Once again, whether you like it or not, members are NOT obligated to explain anything, respond to a post or whatever else you might expect them to do. You may find it in poor taste, you may think of them as rude, but pressing the issue, as you have in your last couple of posts, is obviously playing much more to everybody else's annoyance than JC's silence is to yours.

    So, I politely ask you--again--to please accept the fact that members can just walk away from any discussion, at any given point. Whether that means they have accepted defeat, or are fed up with the whole thing or have stopped caring, is of no importance. The only thing that matters is that you accept this by moving on yourself. Dropping these unnecessary comments left and right doesn't mean you are, even if your next sentence is "Moving on." You clearly haven't. JC, however, is trying to walk away from the argument, but your provocative tone continues to draw him back in. And that is precisely why things turn ugly on an Internet forum.

    So here's the deal: think of yourself as the "winner" in whatever battle you seem to think you're in, and proudly walk away from the argument.

    Thank you.

    EDIT: I don't even understand what this is all about. I went back several posts and at first, all was fine and then, suddenly, something must have happened that was either deleted or holds little significance to me since all I can find is some car talk that makes little sense to me and opinions being exchanged in a relaxed and seemingly gentle way. How far must I go back to find the seeds of this animosity?

    @DarthDimi The "we get it" was nothing more than a sarcastic remark and all of a sudden I was his mortal enemy.

    Sarcastic about what? What is it about posting a photo of a car in the thread where we post pictures of cars which required you to be sarcastic? What did you 'get'? Why aren't you saying 'we get it' to everyone else who posts pictures of cars? And no, you weren't my mortal enemy, but refusing to acknowledge me or answer what you meant by it (it still makes no sense) meant that you showed yourself up. Even Darth Dimi can't work out what you meant by it- just a pointless act of nastiness, compounded by your rude behaviour afterwards. You have a serious attitude problem.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
    Posts: 24,187
    Yes, thank you, children, off to bed now. You're being dreadfully exhausting.

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  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited August 2020 Posts: 3,497
    All is cool. :)>-

    Still ugly: the Cizeta V16T...

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    :-?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited August 2020 Posts: 16,427
    My dad just sent me this Jag which I think looks like an absolute hoot:



    I love a beefy brutal Jag- so wrong it's right.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    Posts: 3,497
    Old Jags are a real hoot indeed.
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    Posts: 2,533
    "Toyota GR hypercar will have no doors"
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    Doors on cars are overrated... :)>-

    https://www.motoring.com.au/toyota-gr-hypercar-will-have-no-doors-125797/
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,341
    JamesCraig wrote: »
    Old Jags are a real hoot indeed.

    That ... "thing" has so many rust bubbles underneath that matte green skin, that I hope they made the best out of a wreck rather than turn a still decent Jag into this mean machine.
  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    Posts: 3,675
    It's disappointing that that Cizeta can't be used as a background.
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    Posts: 2,533
    Looks good with the lights down.

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  • PropertyOfALadyPropertyOfALady Colders Federation CEO
    Posts: 3,675
    Any Back to the Future fans in here? Did you know that the DeLorean was dubbed by a Porsche 928 with holes drilled in muffler?
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    edited August 2020 Posts: 3,497
    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Any Back to the Future fans in here? Did you know that the DeLorean was dubbed by a Porsche 928 with holes drilled in muffler?

    Ah yes, they used the 928's V8 sound...
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 16,427
    PropertyOfALady wrote: »
    Any Back to the Future fans in here? Did you know that the DeLorean was dubbed by a Porsche 928 with holes drilled in muffler?

    I wonder what the sort of whining superchargerish noise it made was..?
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    edited August 2020 Posts: 2,533
    Pink McLaren 570S crashes in central London.... :))

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    The unapologetically pink supercar collided with a VW Golf in a 20mph (32kmh) zone, however pictures posted on Twitter suggest at least one of the cars may have been travelling faster than that.

    More mclaren crashes at :
    https://www.caradvice.com.au/876193/pink-mclaren-570s-crashes-in-central-london/
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,341
    If it was not the McLaren driver's fault, insurance will cover it. If it was his/her fault, he/she probably has the money to have it fixed. No big deal.
  • JamesCraigJamesCraig Ancient Rome
    Posts: 3,497
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    1973 Ford Escort Mexico.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    Still the same model produced since 1967 and those cars racing around the ice rink in 1969's OHMSS...
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 5,995
    Do you know that Douglas Addams's Ford Prefect is named Ford Escort in France ? Because nobody here would know what a Ford Prefect is.

    Las week, in Paris, I saw a Jaguar XJ6 (or 12), the model with the round headlights, and what seemed to me a MGB, on the Boulevard Saint Germain.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    Posts: 9,041
    I doubt that when the first Ford Escort came out, anyone in Germany knew what an escort was. AFAIR, it was the first "small" post-war Ford that came out here, intended to be a rival for the perennial VW Beetle and the Opel Kadett. But the Ford Prefect was strictly a British model that never made it to at least Germany.
  • 007InAction007InAction Australia
    Posts: 2,533
    Gerard wrote: »
    Do you know that Douglas Addams's Ford Prefect is named Ford Escort in France ? Because nobody here would know what a Ford Prefect is.

    Las week, in Paris, I saw a Jaguar XJ6 (or 12), the model with the round headlights, and what seemed to me a MGB, on the Boulevard Saint Germain.

    Paris must be amazing to visit ?
    You are very lucky to live near there
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
    Posts: 3,176
    Gerard wrote: »
    Do you know that Douglas Addams's Ford Prefect is named Ford Escort in France ? Because nobody here would know what a Ford Prefect is.

    That's a brilliant fact! Thank you!
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