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Batrock, I just got back from France where we drove around Alsace and the Vosges Mts.
It seemed like there was an 80's Land Rover in every driveway there, sometimes two!
I'm thinking of going back and buying 'em up to ship over here. Probably wouldn't make
much, would I?

Reilly,
Sep 8, 2016 - 01:23pm PT
That was decent was they weren't 'hooning'.

THIS is HOONING!

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there's weed wackers out there with more complex power plants

What movie were you viewing, Reilly?

In his book Alan Mann quoted Richard Attwood as follows: "He maintains to this day that, although it lacked downforce, the (Ford P68's) basic handling was very good and he tells me that he really enjoyed driving it in 1968. He points out that it was astonishingly fast and he also reminded me recently that, in every race it did in 1968, the F3L was on pole, led the race or set the fastest race lap. Those facts speak for themselves in Richard's way of thinking, and he feels that the car has been criticized too harshly ever since..."

The chase scene featured two Lola T70 Mk III race cars[12] being chased by Yamaha TA125/250cc two-stroke, race-replica motorcycles through two San Francisco Bay Area automotive tunnels: the Caldecott Tunnel between Oakland and Orinda and the underwater Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda.[2][2] According to Caleb Deschanel, cars drove at speeds of 140 mph while filming the chase.[2] Other cars appearing in several scenes of the movie include the custom-built Ferrari Thomassima cars; one of them is on display in the Ferrari museum in Modena, Italy.[13]

The chase featured a motorcycle stunt: Stuntman Ronald "Duffy" Hambleton (credited as Duffy Hamilton) rode his police motorcycle full speed into a fallen paint stand, with a ramp built to Hambleton's specification, flew over the handlebars, was hit by the airborne motorcycle, landed in the street on his back, and slammed into the crashed car in which Duvall's character had escaped.[2] According to Lucas, it turned out Hambleton was perfectly fine, apart from being angry with the people who had run into the shot to check on him. He was worried that they might have ruined the amazing stunt he had just performed by walking into frame.

The X1/9 succeeded the 1969 Autobianchi A112 Bertone Runabout (it) concept, with styling by Bertone under chief designer Marcello Gandini.
The engine was Designed by Aurelio Lampredi, famed Ferrari engine designer before he went to work for FIAT (the parent company, at that time).

In 1975 the X1/9 was chosen by Dallara to enter the World Championship for Makes in the Group 5 Special Production class.[19] The Dallara Icsunonove (the Italian pronunciation of "X1/9") featured a modified X1/9 engine with a custom 16-valve cylinder-head and fundamental suspension and body/monocoque alterations, the most obvious of which are the massively flared wheel-arches and the oversized rear wing.[20]

Ghia had partial involvement in the De Tomaso Pantera, a high-performance, mid-engine car utilizing a Ford V8.

Coachwork by Ghia (a subsidiary of De Tomaso)
The Pantera, penned by Ghia's Tom Tjaarda,

Its steel body, characterized by a low, shark-shaped nose, was designed by a young Giorgetto Giugiaro, then working at Ghia.

The Bora was designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign.

The word "mangusta" is Italian for "mongoose", an animal that can kill cobras. It was rumored that the car was so named because De Tomaso had some talks with Carroll Shelby to replace the Shelby Cobra with a racing car to be built in Italy by the Argentine-born De Tomaso ("De Tomaso Sport 5000" a.k.a. "De Tomaso P70"),[3]