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Tarbuster
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:28am PT
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Back when I was Bitchen' and doing some world traveling, hanging in the Dolis, my gal and I came down off of a Via Ferrata into a vintage rally!
I think this is a Ferrari California:
(note the cobblestones)
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Tarbuster
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:31am PT
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Coolest Jaguar known to man, a rare XKD; no doubt purpose built for racing, from the Ralph Lauren collection:
Check those knockoffs on the wheels: straight out of Ben Hur!
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Tarbuster
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:49am PT
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Hey Reilly, does your buddy have one of these knocking around in the garage:
A Gullwing Merc!
Would be fun to go tooling around in Sierra Madre or Upper Monrovia in one of these no?
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Risk
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Olympia, WA
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Apr 11, 2013 - 12:24pm PT
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guyman
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Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 11, 2013 - 01:51pm PT
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That is not a trad car.... that is a classic!!!!
20 M is a bargain....... Last I heard a 62 GTO went for 39 M!!!
And Tar... that is a California in that photo. Biggest mistake of my life, and this is no lie, I had a chance to buy one of those for $7,000 in like 1985... and I had the CASH. It was in OK shape except for the little hole in cylinder #1....that would not have been to hard to fix.
When Enzo passed away, every one of his cars went up in value by 400%.
Anyway... love old 30's French cars, they are works of art.
Rilley TFPU
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Elcapinyoazz
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Joshua Tree
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Apr 11, 2013 - 02:19pm PT
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Had my Buicks mixed up. early 70s Riviera was what I ws thinking (not the wildcat)
And the Vette got on the "boat tail" design even earlier, a '63 Stingray seen here:
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goatboy smellz
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Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Apr 11, 2013 - 05:38pm PT
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Those boat tails date back to '34 Packard's.
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2013 - 05:52pm PT
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Hey Reilly, does your buddy have one of these knocking around in the garage:
No, Tar, he's all about Frogland: Voisin, Bugatti, Talbot-Lago, Hispano-Suiza,
and Delahaye. He has one of the three Bugatti EB 110SS produced after
Artioli resurrected Bugatti in '87. I'm still lobbying for a ride in that
or his new Veyron. ;-)
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2013 - 07:27pm PT
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Mr Drool, mon dieu, talk like that will get yer face rearranged in much of Canada.
Now you boys behave or I'll pull le plug on this thread; it's about Trad and
class, remember? Froggie Canucks doing kinky stuff on ice ain't in it!
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 11, 2013 - 07:45pm PT
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Bien sur mon ami! Laissez les bon temps rouler!
OOps! Konyechno, tovarish! :-)
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MisterE
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Apr 11, 2013 - 09:26pm PT
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Classy doesn't have to be fancy:
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Tarbuster
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
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Austin Healey 3000 or some such?
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Jaybro
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Wolf City, Wyoming
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:12pm PT
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A trad car is versatile in some regard,
Here the turbo Saab as beast of burden
All to keep the home fires burning
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Tarbuster
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Apr 11, 2013 - 11:13pm PT
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Reilly said, about the guy who owns the car in the OP:
Tar, he's all about Frogland: Voisin, Bugatti, Talbot-Lago, Hispano-Suiza,
and Delahaye. He has one of the three Bugatti EB 110SS produced after
Artioli resurrected Bugatti in '87. I'm still lobbying for a ride in that
or his new Veyron. ;-)
I remember when Bugatti was resurrected: it's fantastic he has one of those!
Most of those cars don't even turn a head in the average enthusiast' s lexicon; but even punky boy tuners know what a Veyron is.
Frog land: I guess it helps to specialize in a specific and categorical engineering vernacular so you can get a handle on the recurring challenges?
Isn't the French stuff particularly difficult from a mechanical/wrenching/assessment/purchasing standpoint? I'm guessing he shops out any restoration, or does he just buy stuff that's already frame-up restored?
This guy's net worth must be equivalent to that of a small country !!!
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MisterE
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Apr 12, 2013 - 12:40am PT
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Tar, you were right, an Austen Healy.
Speaking of Bugattis, here's a sweet 1931...
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Tarbuster
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Apr 13, 2013 - 06:48pm PT
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As I recall the designation of those Austin Healey were Mark I through Mark IV.
Okay.
Being that this thread has my name on it and I grew up around autoracing, I'm going to roll out some stuff.
When I was four years old my old man had a Triumph TR3.
I'm standing next to it there in Sierra Madre California circa 1962:
Sure seems like most guys come into this life and leave it without much hair on their heads. I suppose that's why men once wore hats?
But I digress.
I have memories this far back. Note the hood is up; as a consequence pops bought an extra car at this time in my life, ostensibly for my mother's use and I remember the day he brought it home! The first thing I did was waddle straight into the open door of that VW Bug and worm drive between the seats to crawl way up into the parcel stowage area behind the back seats. It was lined with some sort of coarse fabric with a woolen hand and an abrasive texture. Shortly after this I spent an afternoon lying down in that cubbyhole while pops taught moms how to drive in the Rose Bowl parking lot. I slept during most of her driving lesson and sustained a position in the cramped and somewhat abrasive space. As Teutonic blood runs deep in my veins, it's now incumbent upon me to tell you the original VW were Hitler's "people's car".
No pictures of that particular auto, or the Porsche Speedster he owned later, so I'll toss these out:
That might be Reilly, in the crash helmet on the left.
Don't let his name fool you, or mine for that matter ... McClenahan is an adoptive name.
Rodger was a doorstep child so to speak, somehow arriving stateside all by his lonesome as a baby. I suspect by U-boat.
Pops used to say that I looked like Albert Speer, architect to Hitler:
Photoshop a Stetson on that guy and methinks we might have something!
Speer was later Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich.
Now I drive a BMW: that's Beh-Em-Vay to all you plebes.
Car tawk to be continued ...
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guyman
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Moorpark, CA.
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Apr 15, 2013 - 06:59pm PT
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Hitler didn't have a Speedster... first year was 55.
Hitler loved his Benzo....
So Roy, your Pops had a TR3, so did he let you work on it?
Drive it?
I can relate to the cool spot to hang in the bug, the little spot behind the seat with the wool smell.
you could lay down there and watch the overpasses go by.....
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