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62vette
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Tough way to prepare for the Club Champs climbo :D
Climbo will be doing a lot of climbing out of the saddle :p
mrkott3r
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Did anyone see the comparison of the E-Type and the DB5 on Top Gear tonight? Crazy price for the tricked up E-Type. :eek:
Of course that would be considered sacrilege wouldn't it matagi?
Noooooooo I was at work!
DB4 or DB5 are my favourite cars! The DB4 zagato is freakin sweet as well.
ed073
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No votes for the Lagonda??
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3a/89_Lagonda.JPG/800px-89_Lagonda.JPG
Thylacine
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So were they ever halfway decent bikes like say Schwinn, Malvern Star, etc and then the name got sold and they became crap bikes? Or did they start out as crap bikes and never improve?MBKs were quite popular in the late 80's at the shop I used to work in. They weren't art but they did have some neat design features. Now they're both generic Aluminium Taiwanese bikes. You could stick any sticker on the downtube....it just wouldn't matter. Appologies to anyone who owns either but I think they'd agree.
Now I must go back and read two pages of TAN I missed by being asleep.....
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Okay, now I'm up to speed.
I went to Hepburn Springs this weekend and got a massage and did the spa/sauna thing. The masseuse knew exactly what was up with me, it was amazing. My back is okay apparantly, but years of stooping has foobar'd my shoulders, my right leg is longer than my left causing me to be out of whack, some muscles on the outside of my calf were very tight apparently....
I'm not sure what happened to the days of 'shuddup and ride'. Now it appears I need to go to a chiro, and get my pedalling action fixed.
Getting old is expensive.
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On the Top Gear front, geez, both the DBwhatever and E-Type looked shithouse. I'm not sure why they'd do lap times in them anyway as they're not exactly balls out supercars.
Then again the only Jag I'd want to own would be a XK, and I wouldn't exactly be buying it to race! I'd be buying it to cruuuiiiisssse! :cool:
mrkott3r
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No votes for the Lagonda??
what the hell is that? Now this is hot:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/SC06_Aston_Martin_DB4.jpg
ed073
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MBKs were quite popular in the late 80's at the shop I used to work in. They weren't art but they did have some neat design features. Now they're both generic Aluminium Taiwanese bikes. You could stick any sticker on the downtube....it just wouldn't matter. Appologies to anyone who owns either but I think they'd agree.
Now I must go back and read two pages of TAN I missed by being asleep.....
Agritubel ride 'em....
matagi
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No votes for the Lagonda??
Nah, the Lagonda was not an attractive car - impressive performance, I'll grant you, but couldn't they have made the packaging a bit nicer?
10 points to anyone who can identify the car next to the Lagonda. :p
Thylacine
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My vote is a Bentley.
Have I told you all my plans for when I get rich? I'm going to buy a Karmann Ghia and a whole load of Carrera gear and make the worlds quickest Karmann.:D
matagi
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My vote is a Bentley.
Have I told you all my plans for when I get rich? I'm going to buy a Karmann Ghia and a whole load of Carrera gear and make the worlds quickest Karmann.:D
Bentley what?
Karmann Ghias are cute, but I don't know that I would want to own one. My vote from that era goes to the Gullwing Merc - SL300 was it?
miyata610
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Bentley what?
I know, but I'm not telling. :)
and did you know that W.O.Bentley moved to Lagonda after working out his contract at Rolls-Royce (after they bought his company in 1931). I don't know when Lagonda got swallowed up by Aston Martin though, I'm sure W.O. had left by then.
miyata610
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Do you reckon that's a Bristol behind the Lagonda and Bentley? The green thing with its bonnet up.
lotek
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I sorta like the gull wing merc in the background behind the Aston Martin.
Rode 15 miles today without wincing, whinging or going into spasms.
Mine was screwed up when a student sort of bumped into me and I
had on full scuba kit, sorta wrenched it, ok now tho (holds thumbs).
When I first started getting interested in bikes as a means to get me
places I lusted after a gitane.
They were nice bikes so were the Moto's.
I like this Gitane:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/French/Gitane/Git_GL_L.jpg
and this Moto:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/images/French/Motobecane/MotoJM2L.jpg
both fotos from classic rendezvous
marty
mrkott3r
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I sorta like the gull wing merc in the background behind the Aston Martin.
They look hot, but they dont exactly go like stink though. Something to do wtih weight and rear suspension?
DB4 is quick enough Thylo, a lot less weight them days. :D Or just get a GT 3 twin throat webers sound insane.
Arwell I wont ever be able to afford one :(
lotek
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They look hot, but they dont exactly go like stink though. Something to do wtih weight and rear suspension?
DB4 is quick enough Thylo, a lot less weight them days. :D Or just get a GT 3 twin throat webers sound insane.
Arwell I wont ever be able to afford one :(
sometimes its not just about the speed, eh?
Well for goes like stink and semi affordable there's always
Lotus Europa John players Special.
When I was in RSA there were a few Dino Ferraries selling for well
under $50,000 (US) I really should have bought one while I could,
when I left the same cars were about 4 times that price.
right hand drive but that never bothered me.
marty
Wilchemy
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Do you reckon that's a Bristol behind the Lagonda and Bentley? The green thing with its bonnet up.
I have no idea about that one, but the car in the far right corner reminds me of a Gemini Coupe - the young blokes across the road have a bit of a thing for them. Why, I have NO idea. :rolleyes:
I suppose the one in the picture is probably some crappy Vauxhall something....
matagi
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They look hot, but they dont exactly go like stink though. Something to do wtih weight and rear suspension?
DB4 is quick enough Thylo, a lot less weight them days. :D Or just get a GT 3 twin throat webers sound insane.
Arwell I wont ever be able to afford one :(
Bah, I already have something that goes like stink - the STi. If I wanted something with performance and looks, it would probably be the Jaguar XK220. Not many of them made, unfortunately. I have seen one up close and personal, at the Motor Museum in Beaulieu (UK).
miyata610
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I have no idea about that one, but the car in the far right corner reminds me of a Gemini Coupe - the young blokes across the road have a bit of a thing for them. Why, I have NO idea. :rolleyes:
I suppose the one in the picture is probably some crappy Vauxhall something....
I think that one is a DB-V8.
Thylacine
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When I first started getting interested in bikes as a means to get me
places I lusted after a gitane. They were nice bikes so were the Moto's. Both fotos from classic rendezvous.
martyI'm with ya there Marty. The big problem is when Aluminium came around in the late 80's, instead of looking at it as just another material to master, the vast majority of the French and Italian companies sat on their hands and waited for Cannondale and their ilk to take a lot of their market share, then went sooking off to Taiwan to buy really very shit Aluminium bikes to pad out their product range.
For many of those companies, all they have left is the ability to trade off their name. Even Bianchi and Colnago do it to an extent.
miyata610
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Bah, I already have something that goes like stink - the STi. If I wanted something with performance and looks, it would probably be the Jaguar XK220. Not many of them made, unfortunately. I have seen one up close and personal, at the Motor Museum in Beaulieu (UK).
Yeah the STi makes sense if you just want performance, but I still reckon the E Type is the best looking car ever. Personally I'd go for a Series 2 because it had headlights that worked and far better cooling with the bigger air intake in the nose.
For style and performance, the original 1952 Bentley Continental was the fastest four seat car in the world at the time. But the Continentals remained special until the introduction of the Shadow in 1966 and the days of coachbuilt cars came to an end.
lotek
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I'm with ya there Marty. The big problem is when Aluminium came around in the late 80's, instead of looking at it as just another material to master, the vast majority of the French and Italian companies sat on their hands and waited for Cannondale and their ilk to take a lot of their market share, then went sooking off to Taiwan to buy really very shit Aluminium bikes to pad out their product range.
For many of those companies, all they have left is the ability to trade off their name. Even Bianchi and Colnago do it to an extent.
Not just them,
look at Schwinn, been around forever, family kind of ran it into the
ground and they could never really recover. Now Schwinn evokes images
of wal-mart and really bad bikes.
One of the reasons I'm liking small builders more and more, and old bikes
RIH, Jan de Reus and a few others were all built inhouse.
De Rosa has thankfully also kept things local.
Marty
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