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Cool old cars

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See if you can ID them all!

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Fourth and seventh from the top are beautiful. What's up with the rear wheel of the Alpine?
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I hadn't noticed. Extreme camber?
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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.
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Lowrider 2CV on hydraulics. It drew a small crowd.
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What everyone yearns for when a bird craps on their car:

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A true Australian classic, several tonnes of glorious Leyland build quality:

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That One Car every guy secretly wants:

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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:

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The coolest firetruck, like, ever:

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Two rare cars nobody's heard of, one an Israeli attempt to market a British sports car, the other a Dutch monstrosity:

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And speaking of Dutch handiwork...

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Bounty wrote:Lowrider 2CV on hydraulics. It drew a small crowd.

A work in progress I assumehope?
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I hope so, the interior was... not really there.
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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.
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The wheels looked stock. Apparently setting extreme camber wasn't uncommon when these cars were new.
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What was the fourth car? A Merak?
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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
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N°4 'dunno' is the Sabra Sports.
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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.
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