Andy
Hero member
- Location
- Auckland, roughly
Book it in Andy, one of the major sponsors is a freight company, offering free bike shipping for overseas entrants
Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels
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chrisk
Hero member
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
Jeez…. that’s generous!Book it in Andy, one of the major sponsors is a freight company, offering free bike shipping for overseas entrants
Makes me wonder if there’s a class for a couple of Laverdas from Europe….. that won’t start for the races, so have to be shipped to Australia to be worked on?
piranha-bro2
Hero member
- Location
- Melbourne
What a fukn crazy circuit! Speed diff to the lapped riders!!!!!!!!!! 
gpzkat
Full member
- Location
- Mission Viejo, California
I saw this a while back. In my driveway, sigh. Long gone but not forgotten.
78jotadave
Hero member
Nice ride, that goes a long way back. At Swanbourne High School, we had a PE teacher who would take us boys for a ride in hers...too bad they fired her, I was really into Italian at an early age View attachment 101544
SRK189W
Junior member
- Location
- Shropshire
Fiat 124 Sport Coupe. Lovely cars. Especially the first ones (Series AC), with the thin Ferrari type radiator grille, and 1.4 'screamer' twink engine.
I served my auto apprenticeship at a Renault dealership, late 70s, early 80s. They made some nice cars around that time, such as: R15/17, R18/Fuego Turbo, R30, R16, R5 Gordini (a.k.a Alpine outside of UK).
However, among the non-Renaults that used to come in for Service & MoT, were not one, but two 124 Sp Coupes.
Both in excellent nick, and both in yellow. Great colour for them, they wore it well.
Used to love working on them. And the road tests of course... Ahem.
I served my auto apprenticeship at a Renault dealership, late 70s, early 80s. They made some nice cars around that time, such as: R15/17, R18/Fuego Turbo, R30, R16, R5 Gordini (a.k.a Alpine outside of UK).
However, among the non-Renaults that used to come in for Service & MoT, were not one, but two 124 Sp Coupes.
Both in excellent nick, and both in yellow. Great colour for them, they wore it well.
Used to love working on them. And the road tests of course... Ahem.
gpzkat
Full member
- Location
- Mission Viejo, California
I had 4 of them, all BC, my favorite. I have read that the AC's are sharper handling, and have the torque tube vs the more conventional 4 link/Panhard rod setup that they used in the BC/CC. My yellow '71 and green '72 were rust-free. Here's the '71. I drove it accross country, and about 300 miles from my destination in Maryland, the rubber donut 'spider' coupling behind the transmission disintegrated. I made a hammock from a towel, screwed it into the transmission tunnel, and greased it up. Pretty hard to find Fiat parts in West Virginia. It was pretty sketchy watching that thing spin. Drove back roads at about 40MPH the rest of the way.
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tian647
New member
- Location
- Midwest USA
Ernesto
Hero member
- Location
- Hamburg, Germany
78jotadave
Hero member
chrisk
Hero member
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
That’s 1pla plate that’s appropriate.
78jotadave
Hero member
Like the guy or not, he is a genius. The Tesla truck.
piranha-bro2
Hero member
- Location
- Melbourne
Champagne, Mrs Peel?Here’s one for Julian that we spotted nearly at the top of Mt Hothamin the Victorian high country recently
Shajota
Hero member
- Location
- Whitsundays Qld
Came across 3 old fellas taking their pride and joys for a drive this morning. A couple of old MG's ('49 & '56 I think) and a more recent Morgan. The Italian Stallion insisted on photo bombing the Pommie roadsters
chrisk
Hero member
- Location
- Brisbane, Australia
Came across 3 old fellas taking their pride and joys for a drive this morning. A couple of old MG's ('49 & '56 I think) and a more recent Morgan. The Italian Stallion insisted on photo bombing the Pommie roadsters
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If you stopped Sunday driving you could be having a beer with ya mate at the Met in Prossie
Shajota
Hero member
- Location
- Whitsundays Qld
Well I was there for the arvo session, I guess truckies need an early tuck inIf you stopped Sunday driving you could be having a beer with ya mate at the Met in Prossie
(Better planning next time perhaps....)
Andy
Hero member
- Location
- Auckland, roughly
Some of the fruit parked up at Round 1 of the NZ Superbike Series at Ruapuna:
(Note Simon Crafar’s YZR behind the Britten
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(Note Simon Crafar’s YZR behind the Britten
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Andy
Hero member
- Location
- Auckland, roughly
Currently at NZSBK Round 2 at the Burt Munro Challenge, more stuff to follow 
(no Lavs yet…
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(no Lavs yet…
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