Sir Sidney Ruffdiamond
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Cars and bikes I’ve come across in my travels
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Alzero
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The Opel GT has always been one of my favorites. It’s too bad they never really had a great engine to complement those fabulous looks.
If you have more pictures, please post them up!
If you have more pictures, please post them up!
Alzero
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An MGB, but it somehow looks smoother, more modern. Is it just the replacement of the black rubber bumpers?
I'm more interested in the H Type in the back ground.
I'm a big van of these great little vans.
I can see it's a late model and a food van but they are still lovely to my eyes.
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piranha-bro2
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Pretty sure they're the same car as our venerable late 70's Holden Commodores (GM), which were available with big 6-cyl or massive V8s. in race trim they cleaned up Production car racing (not production at all!). Race pic is the late, fast, famous and very odd Peter Brock at Mt Panorama circuit, Bathurst, NSW. Holden released a 'Bathurst' road version with all the fancy bodywork, uprated suspension and massively powerful V8s.
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Alzero
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You mean this one:
Alzero
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The GT was only available with an anemic 4-cylinder. If only there was room for a proper motor.
Saw one of those go up my quiet country street this afternoon.
Looks like the Chinese are making fun cars.
Paul
GregT
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I think you'll find it's an MGB RV8. Revival of the V8 in a tidied up shell. Not made in huge numbers but there's a few about.
Laverda1000.de
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I thinks it's only infamous in Germany due to the jokes and that stupid movie.Suprised nobody has mentioned the infamous Manta
Laverda1000.de
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The four circles symbolize the 4 marques of Auto Union: Wanderer, Horch, DKW and Audi (which is 2nd person imperative of "to hear" in Latin). Which was August Horchs play on his name being 2nd person imperative of "to hear" in German.
Alzero
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Another MG:
Laverda1000.de
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The Type B Manta had at some point gained a reputation as the car of choice for people with low IQ and their hairdesser girlfriends. Then they did a now unwatchable comedy about it. Lately they have made a cringeworthy sequel to that.
dothebeat
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Those MG F's are nice but quite common cars. I hope you will post some pics of the little green BMW Z3 that was standing right behind. This is quite a rare and special car with some interesting features. Slide down doors anybody?
Alzero
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The MG owners are the parents of the BMW owner, there is so little room in the Z1 that they carry his luggage for him!
The owner has had it for 30+ years, says it’s an easy car to own. It’s all 3-series under the skin.
The owner has had it for 30+ years, says it’s an easy car to own. It’s all 3-series under the skin.
SkinnyPinny
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Hmm doesn’t bode well for me then, I must be TAPS, I had a manta A 1.9 then a manta B GTE, both were really good cars and dead easy to work on, loads of room around the engine and parts were cheap as, the A had a spectacular amount of rust but all non structural, I kept them both running from scrapyards, try buying anything half decent for under £10k!