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Root Bear posted:I got to set the wheel alignment on a recently restored one last fall. After hearing what it was potentially worth, I didn't mind so much that I wasn't allowed to test drive it afterwards: Jesus, an uglier one sold on BJ for $2.1 million. I can't imagine how nervous I would be even taking a wrench to one of those beauties
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When I looked through my pictures, I realised these were taken ten years ago, jfc where did all that life go? Anywho, here are (the only two) pictures I took of this car when Midnattsolsrallyt (a historical rally) was arranged around here.  Yes, that's a 1958 300SL Roadster, driven IIRC by a man aged 65+ with his wife as co-driver. That's a goddamn million dollar car, being used as a rally car (so I can't really fault the guy for being a bit slow as evidenced by this video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRB-zqlzLg0 Some of the other guys step on it a bit more, some really nice cars and sounds in that vid.
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I saw one of these while driving once, and all I could think of was "you had the chance to get gullwing doors and you bailed on it?" Are there any gullwing door cars that aren't horrendously expensive or absolute garbage?
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My dad got his freshly painted 1937 Jaguar SS 100 back from the shop a few days ago: He's had it for 49 years, in primer. Longer than I've been alive. It was about time. I guess that's not actually awesome, but here we are. AnnoyBot fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Jul 31, 2016 |
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AnnoyBot posted:My dad got his freshly painted 1937 Jaguar SS 100 back from the shop a few days ago: No that is definitely awesome. That is a pretty fuckin car 
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El Scotch posted:So I ended up behind this recently: That inboard brake 
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It's like he went searching for the least surface possible.
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Jul 31, 2016 09:36
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:I saw one of these while driving once, and all I could think of was "you had the chance to get gullwing doors and you bailed on it?" Of course gullwing, because gullwing, but honestly, personally, I prefer the roadster's looks. It's just a prettier car.
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Root Bear posted:I got to set the wheel alignment on a recently restored one last fall. After hearing what it was potentially worth, I didn't mind so much that I wasn't allowed to test drive it afterwards: Some crappy photos from the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart. Dad and I spent a ton of time looking at the frame and taking pictures of various things on it. I'm not a huge Merc guy but their museum was amazing and a must see if you're in the area.             
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HandlingByJebus posted:That inboard brake Pinion brakes are pretty common on trail/mudding rigs like that. Monster trucks use a setup like that as well, some of them are actually multi disc wet setups inside of the diff casings. I think most of them are just like the picture above, but mounted between the driveshaft and pinion out of sight instead of on the back side of the diff.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Some crappy photos from the Mercedes Museum in Stuttgart. Dad and I spent a ton of time looking at the frame and taking pictures of various things on it. I'm not a huge Merc guy but their museum was amazing and a must see if you're in the area. Between the Porsche and Mercedes museums, I think Stuttgart would be a great place to kill a few days.
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FuzzKill posted:Pinion brakes are pretty common on trail/mudding rigs like that. Monster trucks use a setup like that as well, some of them are actually multi disc wet setups inside of the diff casings. I think most of them are just like the picture above, but mounted between the driveshaft and pinion out of sight instead of on the back side of the diff. The one pictured is a Rockwell axle. I think they are common because it's a very cheap axle for the strength. Along with better clearance and driveline angles.
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I wish I could have gotten a good side-profile shot of the off-road whatever it was, but we passed it quickly and I forgot to turn HDR off on my camera so all I caught was the front wheel. 
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slidebite posted:That's something I found different with museums in Canada/US vs Germany. If that was in North America those cars would be, at the very least, behind ropes. If not lovely people would be touching "trying to get a better look" and parents would see it as permission to let their kids run roughshod and touch/get into everything. If the parent is at all responsible, the rope/cordon will remind them they need to haul back on little Braylynn before it runs amok - if they are shithead parents, they will gladly pass the buck/yell angrily at the kid rather than take responsibility once you call them out on it. Source: too many years of working security at a large museum 
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slidebite posted:That's something I found different with museums in Canada/US vs Germany. If that was in North America those cars would be, at the very least, behind ropes. If not lovely people would be touching "trying to get a better look" and parents would see it as permission to let their kids run roughshod and touch/get into everything. Germany there was respect to not touch. There were a bunch of europeans getting their grubby hands all over the cars at the BMW museum. It was shocking to me.
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FuzzKill posted:Pinion brakes are pretty common on trail/mudding rigs like that. Monster trucks use a setup like that as well, some of them are actually multi disc wet setups inside of the diff casings. I think most of them are just like the picture above, but mounted between the driveshaft and pinion out of sight instead of on the back side of the diff. Fun thing is to watch the tough truck challenges where sometimes they end up putting a shitload of heat through that brake and lighting it up like a racecar. Don't you also get some advantage by braking before the axle gear reduction?
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nm posted:There were a bunch of europeans getting their grubby hands all over the cars at the BMW museum. It was shocking to me. Same with the porche museum. Sitting and leaning on cars for pictures. Opening doors and getting in. The staff was just frazzled.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Fun thing is to watch the tough truck challenges where sometimes they end up putting a shitload of heat through that brake and lighting it up like a racecar. 
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slidebite posted:That's something I found different with museums in Canada/US vs Germany. If that was in North America those cars would be, at the very least, behind ropes. If not lovely people would be touching "trying to get a better look" and parents would see it as permission to let their kids run roughshod and touch/get into everything. Germany there was respect to not touch. Maybe it's a side effect of having a rich corporate daddy, because not all of them are like that. Like in the Speyer and Sinsheim museums you can get onto a train or u-boot, but most cars are behind ropes:   Possibly because of this: bird cooch posted:Same with the porche museum. Sitting and leaning on cars for pictures. Opening doors and getting in. The staff was just frazzled.
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Digging the Miura piddling oil all over the place.
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Volvo-truck and Volvo-crane. I'm convinced in the winter time he also has Volvo-plow.
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The Porsche Museum was awesome. As long as you made it clear you were being careful via body language you could get super-close and take some neat pictures.
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xzzy posted:Digging the Miura piddling oil all over the place.
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Wrar posted:The Porsche Museum was awesome. As long as you made it clear you were being careful via body language you could get super-close and take some neat pictures. How close you ask? Here's pics from the various museums, all photos taken with a poo poo cell phone Mercedes - https://goo.gl/photos/87XwPaz6LZGLobVi7 Porsche - https://goo.gl/photos/ApY47S1ezS6pia1v8 BMW - https://goo.gl/photos/wnvqp3zZuUVZSV788 VW - https://goo.gl/photos/eurXFSY3qh893gTR9 Another place that everyone should visit is the Classic Remise in Berlin. Old train station converted to private car storage with several shops having space as well. Pics - https://goo.gl/photos/NKK3i3ba6bFsujKg8
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slidebite posted:That's something I found different with museums in Canada/US vs Germany. If that was in North America those cars would be, at the very least, behind ropes. If not lovely people would be touching "trying to get a better look" and parents would see it as permission to let their kids run roughshod and touch/get into everything. Germany there was respect to not touch.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:If the parent is at all responsible, the rope/cordon will remind them they need to haul back on little Braylynn before it runs amok - if they are shithead parents, they will gladly pass the buck/yell angrily at the kid rather than take responsibility once you call them out on it. There's a car museum in Shreveport with, among other similarly rare things, an Auburn Speedster on a turntable, with a ding in the original paint of one fender from some dumbass (who blamed it on his kid) running up past the rope and touching it, causing it to spin around and hit something, let's say the Deusenberg SJ, doing $100k worth of damage to the Auburn and whatever he spun it into, just from paint flaking off the dents in the flared fenders of a couple of million-dollar cars. The above was told to me by the docent after I asked her if I could get a closer look and promised not to touch, and she let me behind the rope and opened the door for me so I could see inside the Auburn. I was not allowed to put my plebian rear end upon the seat, but I did lean in the door and get a good look at the dashboard. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 07:21 on Aug 2, 2016 |
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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supermegaultra posted:Was Megatron there?? Yes that would be the M12/13 I4 engine with the gently caress off sized turbo    
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NitroSpazzz posted:Yes that would be the M12/13 I4 engine with the gently caress off sized turbo it really loving bothers me that they put the compressor on in the wrong orientation
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In this morning's edition of "what's in the parking garage?" : 
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Wrar posted:The Porsche Museum was awesome. As long as you made it clear you were being careful via body language you could get super-close and take some neat pictures. Google Earth has a view of the Museum. A little clunky, but short of being there it's pretty cool. https://www.google.ca/maps/@48.8342085,9.1524921,3a,75y,336.54h,60.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1se5nPiAXo2mlRAstYC2tH1w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
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1966 ROTARY Beetle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO2dpG96-2g
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I saw that yesterday.. my favorite part is when they open the engine lid. It's all engine. Too bad the owner has the charm of a rusty hammer, didn't give Leno much to work with.
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Yeah that interview was pretty ugly but to be fair to the guy Leno seemed a little out of his element too.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Yes that would be the M12/13 I4 engine with the gently caress off sized turbo What I find most amazing about these is that in a cost-no-object shoot-for-the-moon environment with all the carbon fiber this and exotic alloy that, it still has a distributor. Kind of like yamaha running carbs on their early motogp bikes but with even less explanation. 
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Probably a known technology vs. new system with uncertain reliability thing. EFI or electronic ignition are great if they work perfectly, but if it craps out on the track and it takes you three times as long to fix because there are only a few mechanics experienced with the system, welp
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Not sure if this is awesome car poo poo exactly, but I saw a dude's 500cc Sears lawn tractor. Motor came out of a Honda bike. Youtube flipped my video though   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhFS9zor6M
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Awesome and they looked exactly as they should
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