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Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-17 01:51pm
by Bounty
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-17 03:33pm
by Phantasee
Fourth and seventh from the top are beautiful. What's up with the rear wheel of the Alpine?
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-17 03:56pm
by Bounty
I hadn't noticed. Extreme camber?
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-17 09:00pm
by PhilosopherOfSorts
What's up with the West Virginia Special (Euro Spec)? By which I mean the tan Citroen (I think) with the headlights tied on and the suburban gangsta at the wheel.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-18 03:56am
by Bounty
Lowrider 2CV on hydraulics. It drew a small crowd.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-18 06:42am
by Bounty
What everyone yearns for when a bird craps on their car:
A true Australian classic, several tonnes of glorious Leyland build quality:
That One Car every guy secretly wants:
John Z Delorean's baby, which incidentally shows why polished metal is a bad choice for a car's bodywork when combined with bright sunlight:
The coolest firetruck, like, ever:
Two rare cars nobody's heard of, one an Israeli attempt to market a British sports car, the other a Dutch monstrosity:
And speaking of Dutch handiwork...
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-18 10:17pm
by PhilosopherOfSorts
Bounty wrote:Lowrider 2CV on hydraulics. It drew a small crowd.
A work in progress I
assumehope?
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-19 09:50am
by Bounty
I hope so, the interior was... not really there.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-19 10:18am
by aerius
Phantasee wrote:Fourth and seventh from the top are beautiful. What's up with the rear wheel of the Alpine?
My guess is someone stuffed wider wheels & tires in the car and didn't want to redo the bodywork, so he had to put an extreme camber on the wheel to tuck it in under the fender.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-19 11:57am
by Bounty
The wheels looked stock. Apparently setting extreme camber wasn't uncommon when these cars were new.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-20 09:19pm
by JBG
What was the fourth car? A Merak?
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-21 02:25pm
by Tolya
1. Citroen 2CV ("Duck")
2. MG NA
3. Citroen BL
3. Sabra Sports (guessed by Bounty)
5. Alfa Romeo Giulia Junior
6. A piece of shit
7. Alpine A110
8. Goggomobil (small german car. I've seen this particular example myself. It is tiny and the driver keeps a spare engine in the trunk)
9. Alfa Romeo Giulia 2000
10. MG TA
11. Porsche 356B
12. From the left: dunno what, Fiat 600, Fiat 500, dunno what, Triumph TR4
--edit: updated the list with Bounty's suggestion
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-21 02:58pm
by Bounty
N°4 'dunno' is the Sabra Sports.
Re: Cool old cars
Posted: 2010-08-21 05:40pm
by Tolya
Bounty wrote:The wheels looked stock. Apparently setting extreme camber wasn't uncommon when these cars were new.
They are stock. A110 was a lightweight racing car. Extreme camber was there for a purpose. Every A110 I saw had extreme camber on the rear axle wheels.