I've been spending too much time looking for the source image, but I'm 99% sure it's a picture of a 1950s MG TD roadster. Some roadsters have wire spoke wheels, but most have those steel wheels with hub caps. And the shape of the bumper with that rivet in that spot. It's an MG TD.
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I'm pretty sure it is a photoshop, no way he could drive a rig like that.
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How could you see out the front? It's taller than his head.
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That's why I said it's to be seen, not see. I'm sure he couldn't get plates in any state, and if he did he couldn't drive it. Got to be a photoshop. Even Mr Pig wouldn't want it.
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What a pretty car! After restoration that is.
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Why yes, I've got a couple old cars in the outbuilding. :lol2:
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Next time I overnight in Denver, I want to visit here.
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That looks cool. I'd heard of it somewhere, probably in a blog. :thumb:
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Clive Cussler is a prolific writer of men's adventure books, notably the Dirk Pitt adventures. I have read all of his books, even the nonfiction.
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Hey Boss, I finished sweeping the shop and cleaning the toilet, eh. What do I do next?
Hold on sweetie Well, uh, take that pile of sheet aluminium, and... uh... make me a Batmobile... and take your time, eh. Now where were we baby |
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Owner of classic E-type Jaguar crashed car just moments after having it restored
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What can you say? Daily Telegraph |
It's beauty was somewhat limited anyway by the travesty of having to mount the licence plate on the hood, so...
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He's likely got more than sheet metal damage, because the V-12 E types have so much stuff packed into the tiny engine compartment. :(
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The Jaguar's licence tag just aggravates a personal dislike of mine. Still a beautiful automobile, though.:yesnod: |
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I thought I was in the majority. Turns out most U.S. states require front and rear plates.
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How to make an elegant Italian sports car look like crap is what! I'm with you grav. These days, all car designs have a specific spot made for the rear plate, but the front plate is usually not considered, so it's just rudely drilled right into the plastic bumper. All hail the freedom-loving rear-plate-only states.
And by the way, dummy front-plate states, aren't you increasing the drag of every single car by .001%? Thanks, you just burned an additional 50,000 gallons of fuel per week, according to this statistic I just made up off the top of my head. |
I'm so jaded. I read about the crashed jaguar and immediately thought, "insurance scam."
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Parking enforcement lobby requires it. They don't want to have to walk around to the back of the car to write the parking tickets.
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Some places forbid backing into parking spaces, and even your own driveway, so that the rear-mounted plate is always visible.
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airborne baby woooooooooooooo!
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That's crazy, I've seen that happen on concrete roads in the heat. It usually fucks up traffic quickly.
glatt's dream wagon would suffer mightily on that. :lol: |
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Say it ain't so, Rolls, say it ain't so...
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That is one butt-ugly car.
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No shit.
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VW's 1950 competition in Europe, but I don't think any came here.
I guess they figured Americans didn't want that die Sensation. :rolleyes: |
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This is the most beautiful Cadillac I've ever seen. All the chrome garbage removed, back to the basic lines...
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I'm diggin' that color.
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sooooooo nice
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I can only speculate as to how a Jeep fire engine from Newfields, MO, ended up in the UK.* Having done a bit of digging around, it appears it was at a show in Kettering, Northamptonshire, organised by the Military Vehicle Trust. There's also a few stills on the LiveLeak page. * I'm making a huge assumption that it is the genuine article and not a vehicle restored in the guise of a fire truck according to the owner's whim. |
Good find Carruthers! I'd never seen one, but, it appears they're a thing.
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Speed trials on the Bonneville Salt Flats, many of the really fast cars have to be push started, because the battery and starter are eliminated to save weight and/or they're geared so high starting from a dead stop is problematic. so you have to have a push vehicle with weight for traction and power to push, usually a pickup truck. But some crews want to be a little classier.
Roll 'em out, Fire 'em up, puuush, puuush. Send 'em off, Haul 'em back, puuush, puuush. |
I$ that pu$h-car a 59 Caddy?!?
:mg: That'$ a little on the expen$ive $ide for a pu$h-car. |
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Yes. From the looks of the engine, wheels, stance, paint, and interior, I'd guess the money he put in that would buy several nice Caddys. |
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There is a website to identify instrument panels, and another to identify taillights.
The Bugatti Royals were to be limited at 25, and designed for Kings, Rajahs, their courtesans. Building reproductions is difficult except for the engines, hundreds of engines were built for railroad power. |
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915 cu in...Dayum. |
Yes 300hp from 900ci, now we get 900 hp from 300 ci.
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Da fuq izzat red button?
Either the overdrive lockout button or the ejection seat button. Not enough information to tell of they have the "Double O" option package or not. :) |
I'll buy that.
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This is soooo obvious :facepalm:
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But, who stole it from whom?
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So...I'm out riding around this morning, looking for yardsales. I'm driving down a little side street, when, what to my wandering eye should appear, but my old Pontiac! 1976 Pontiac Le Mans Sport Coupe, to be more precise. It had a Pontiac 350 when I got it. I drove it til it chewed up the timing gears and threw the chain. I put in a Pontiac 400, bored .060 over, big lumpy cam, extensively re-worked 7M5 heads, Quadra-Jet off a grain truck, about $2800 in the engine. I have always regretted trading it off (for a 73 Honda 750 Four, extended forks, ape-hangers, tall and skinny on the front, short and fat out back, motor "built out the ass" as they say). It was, and still is, my favorite car.
Attachment 57166 In better days: Attachment 57165 I stopped and asked after the old girl. She's had a hard life. Not running, trans funky, interior eat up pretty bad, mismatched tires and wheels. I tried to buy her back, but, dude just wasn't having any of it. I got up to $2500, which would have been stupid on my part. Turns out, dude is at least as stupid as I am. He flat told me he wouldn't sell it. And he stuck to that for a half hour. Then, I came home and have been reliving my glory days in 'The Silver Bullet' since. Man, I loved that car. Still do.:heartpump |
BTW, that hat I'm wearing was custom embroidered with "76 Pontiac" and the red, flying Indian head Pontiac logo.
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Sharp, how about a crowd funding campaign to raise enough to make him an offer he can't refuse and put her back in shape? :yesnod:
I take it he's not the guy you originally traded with, did you find out how may hands she's been through? I had a '66 I also wish I still had. |
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Grow up? Never!!
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Remember the "Hemi Under Glass" exhibition drag car from the 60's/70's?
Original driver Bob Riggle (80 in this clip) and Jay Leno go for an unexpectedly wild ride during shooting for "Jay Leno's Garage". Neither were hurt. Leno kept his sense of humor. I am hoping beyond hope that that was not the original Hemi Under Glass.:( |
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Ugly Lincoln show car with a really cool dash...
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Touted as Roy and Dale's honeymoon car but that's bullshit. Yes it's a '46 even though it has a '47 grille a parking lights.
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I love this wagon, smooth, clean, nothing excess...
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I don't think I want my car doing that. I'm trying to keep it going straight. :haha:
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Reminds me of the fork lifts with the wacky wheels.
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