DonW
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5 hours ago, Venom said:
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Fair cop!
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She keeps her Moet et Chandon
In her pretty cabinet
"Let them eat cake", she says
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I've spent time around these cars and this is fabulously evocative. I love it.
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I suspect they'll find it was the nut behind the wheel...
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12 hours ago, HomerS said:
Tiger Woods flys his SUV at double the speed limit.....no citation issued......Wow, just Wow!!
The man's an idiot and should be locked up. With his licence revoked for life. It's just luck that no innocent bystanders got hurt. Just my opinion.
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Great model. This 'plane has always fascinated me because Lindbergh has no forward vision at all! He would yaw the thing and look out of the side windows, apparently he was used to flying mail planes from the rear seat with the front loaded with mailbags. A periscope was developed but it's not clear if this was used much if at all.
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These vehicles had dodgy handling even with the standard engine, so the extra power will make a very challenging drive!
That said, I love the Cheetah and what you're doing with it!
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Good to find out what it is, it was completely under my radar!
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1 hour ago, Anglia105E said:
Yes, I know, Don....... it would have been most unlikely to have seen a Hudson Hornet parked outside the showroom at 54 St James's Street around 1958, and you can imagine the reaction of such people...... Only this morning I received a magazine from the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club in the post, of which I am a paid-up member, and there was a photograph of a 1950's pink Cadillac that used to be parked on a Luton roadside. The comment from the RREC editor was " Vulgar doesn't do it justice ".
David
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I'd love to have seen the reaction of the Hooper staff to the sight of a Hudson gracing the front of their premises!
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Yes, I'll never forget the sight of her in that Ford Transit yelling at all sorts of exotic cars and superbikes to get out of her way!
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From the official F1 website:
Sabine Schmitz, the pioneering female racer and only woman to have won the Nurburgring 24 Hours endurance race, has passed away at the age of 51.
The German racer, affectionately nicknamed by many as the ‘Queen of the Nurburgring’, revealed last year that she was diagnosed with cancer in 2017.
She twice won the 24-hour race at the fabled Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit in a BMW M3, and raced a Porsche in the same event in 2008 to finish third.
Schmitz was also known for her appearances on British motoring show Top Gear, in which she famously attempted to lap a Ford Transit van around the 15-mile circuit under 10 minutes.
Far far too young.
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I started out thinking Mercedes 60hp, then Michaels clue led me to Mercedes-Simplex - but both those are chain driven although otherwise the roadster versions are almost identical to the Pings-Finch. I suspect a connection. Then more vaguely random searching for American roadsters built in the same year as the Mercedes Simplex gave me the answer. Btw, it's a Pings-Fitch not a Pungs-Fitch!😀
Here's the Mercedes-Simplex - note the rear wings which cover the drive sprockets as well as the wheels:
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The world of car design can get pretty incestuous sometimes!
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Although it is sacrilege to take the roof off a GTO, you did a fine job and it is perfectly in the spirit of the NART convertibles. And I love yellow Ferraris!
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Well done Ken, you got there in the end!
Cheers and thanks for the challenge Michael and Richard,
-Don.
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Epic! The front end is very well resolved and I can't fault your choice of engine!
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That's lovely, well done!
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Lovely green, it matches the lower half of the walls of my study!
Do you plan to build the Peace Arch? It would be 2.68 feet high by my reckoning....
Cheers,
-Don.
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1 hour ago, Paul Payne said:
Lee, did we create a mystery? One of the Italian body companies created a beautiful coupe or two. Maybe looking up when these were made would help.
No mystery - the Aurora kit was released in 1965, two years after the 1:1 ceased production, as young Snake points out.🙂
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1 hour ago, otherunicorn said:
Oh, this will be easy - all I have to do is match the radiator. Oh, they all use that radiator.
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55 minutes ago, dw1603 said:
Oh dear, I am no good with these Brass Era cars.
There are so many different manufacturers of them, I was very surprised to find that as I was searching. One of the most challenging quizzes for me! I like this particular one a lot.
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Well I thought this would be easy, but not so. An inspired choice, Michael!
What Did You Get Today? (Not Model Related)
in The Off-Topic Lounge
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I love the 70s rear jack up kit - with the leaf springs bowing the wrong way! Great car with potential, what are your plans?