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Hadlock posted:1953 Lincoln Capri Golden Sahara Conversion This the one with the light up tyres?
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1953 Fiat 8V Zagato Olympic Mathlete posted:This the one with the light up tyres? I don't know but I hope so
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Hadlock posted:1948 Panhard Dynavia All Panhards are beautiful.
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Olympic Mathlete posted:This the one with the light up tyres? Yes! 
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Hadlock posted:1953 Lincoln Capri Golden Sahara Conversion We need more tan wall tires.
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Cool poo poo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggjoFyA_V68 Caterham EV with 240hp weighing the same as a MX5, plus a concept 7 EV. I'm glad they're addressing the batteries-weigh-as-much-as-an-elephant in the room.
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It looks like a jankier cayman and thats not an insult A little more refinement on the design,especially the lights and rear end, and it will be gorgeous. Also is it just me or are car designers moving away from angled surfaces and back to curved and streamlined? Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Jul 31, 2023 |
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Jul 31, 2023 09:39
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70s and 80s retro is out, generic lovely jelly beans are back in, baby!
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Finger Prince posted:Cool poo poo: I want it, the new concept and the 7 sprint racer. There's a few people doing EV locost (low cost 7) projects but they're almost all putting heavy tesla drive units which IMO is more power than necessary. I'd like to do one with a ~120-140hp EV unit on the rear axle then as much battery as I can keeping it under 1200lb. But I also want to do a kei based one with the engine out of a Honda Beat and see if I can keep it under 950lb.
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I saw a white whale this weekend while driving. (Sorry for out of focus pic, trying not to be too irresponsible.)
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Fuckin love the styling on that Caterham. One of the first genuinely attractive and innovative cars I've seen in god I don't know how many years I've been reduced to lusting over AMG GTs which feels wrong
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Hadlock posted:70s and 80s retro is out, generic lovely jelly beans are back in, baby! The jellybean is the ideal car body You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
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The Door Frame posted:The jellybean is the ideal car body Just add more jellybeans. 
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Rexxed posted:Yes! Undoubtedly one of the coolest things ever on a car.
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So are there any long exposure shots of those light up tires driving by at night or what
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Finger Prince posted:Cool poo poo: It's a Jaguar XC75! 
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Oh my god, that's why I liked it
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It looks neat but really it’s just another car I’ll never be able to afford. Wish more companies would put that kind of thinking into EVs tho. We need more interesting ones so that they eventually might be affordable.
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The new Prius actually looks pretty good and the jelly bean aero is adequately hidden with a bunch of tricks that make it look like a "sporty" wedge
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Is the descriptor "jellybean" from somewhere?
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Is the descriptor "jellybean" from somewhere? Late 90s early 00s ford, mostly. But there are others in the style. See the 3rd and 4th gen taurus for max jellybean Comes from Lee Iacoca putting down the 1st gen taurus as a "jelly bean car". Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 31, 2023 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Late 90s early 00s ford, mostly. But there are others in the style. When even the radio is an oval you know you've reached peak jellybean! ;D
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Yeah it really was in full swing when not just the exterior but all interior elements in the dash/console/doors were ovals or oblong blobs. I guess the thinking was it looked "aerodynamic" or "sleek"
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I always thought of it as "Oh hey we figured out how to use spline curves in design." followed by "Your engineers were so concerned with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they SHOULD."
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Hadlock posted:70s and 80s retro is out, generic lovely jelly beans are back in, baby! BRB, gonna get $40 out of the ATM so I can stock up on 3rd generation Tauruses.
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boxen posted:I always thought of it as "Oh hey we figured out how to use spline curves in design." And modern stuff was informed by an engineer walking into the design studio to say " that new press we have means we can put creases in multiple directions in sheet reliably now!" The second part is the same as the above.
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Speaking of the Taurus it tickles my brain that these two cars were on sale at the same time. They're from completely different design eras.  Edit, I can't find a single detail that matches. Triangle windows vs full frame, chrome bumper, grille, hood design, mirrors, door handles...all complete revolutions not evolutions.
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StormDrain posted:Speaking of the Taurus it tickles my brain that these two cars were on sale at the same time. They're from completely different design eras.
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There's a story I read once and have never been able to find again how there was someone who was a little girl during Oliver Cromwell's life and knew him somehow, and she lived to some absurdly old age, and one of her friends or family also lived super long, and so on and so on until up till some ridiculously recent time there was someone who could say "I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone (...) who knew Oliver Cromwell"
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A thousand years is only twenty fifty-year-olds.
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Data Graham posted:There's a story I read once and have never been able to find again how there was someone who was a little girl during Oliver Cromwell's life and knew him somehow, and she lived to some absurdly old age, and one of her friends or family also lived super long, and so on and so on until up till some ridiculously recent time there was someone who could say "I knew someone who knew someone who knew someone (...) who knew Oliver Cromwell" The setting for the article was 1999 but the remark was made in 1923 by a 91 year old who had been born in 1832. At the age of 16 she had married an 80 year old man named Henry. Sixty four years earlier, in 1784, the young Henry had, for obscure reasons, married an 82 year old woman. Her first marriage had been in 1720 and was to an 80 year old who had served Cromwell before his death in 1658! Whatever you make of this, it seemed worthy of mention because, at least in 1999, there was a man alive who heard a woman say “My husband’s first wife’s first husband knew Cromwell—and liked him well”. https://www.charlesholloway.co.uk/2010/09/a-theory-of-relativity/
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Book loving marked, thank you
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joat mon posted:The setting for the article was 1999 but the remark was made in 1923 by a 91 year old who had been born in 1832. At the age of 16 she had married an 80 year old man named Henry. Sixty four years earlier, in 1784, the young Henry had, for obscure reasons, married an 82 year old woman. Her first marriage had been in 1720 and was to an 80 year old who had served Cromwell before his death in 1658! In a similar vein for us yanks, John Tyler's grandson is still alive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler Yeah, that John Tyler, president in the 1840s.
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John Tyler is also known for being the president who had the most children (15, 8 with his first wife and 7 with the second). Lyon Tyler (Harrison's father) was born when John was 63 and in turn had 6 children, with Harrison born when he was 75. Seems Harrison hasn't continued the trend though, he had his last child in 1961.
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Good noises and overrun that is mechanical, not programmed in. https://twitter.com/Bertie23574627/status/1686372331352932357?t=rQVTnCr4jhUdisiq3a5EWg&s=19
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Good noises and overrun that is mechanical, not programmed in. Well gently caress me RUNNING
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Olympic Mathlete posted:Good noises and overrun that is mechanical, not programmed in. Dont post porn here Please keep posting, this is my fetish (Dead god what a noise....!)
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That Sentra almost had him.
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