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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    I did not know that you can restore an old 2 CV 4 to something like this:

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    Courtesy of Burton Sportscar company.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 14,983
    There were all sort of 2CV Specials. Just type that into Google in fact! Lots of three wheelers and things.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    mtm wrote: »
    There were all sort of 2CV Specials. Just type that into Google in fact! Lots of three wheelers and things.

    Yes, but this is something else. They just take the chassis of a 2cv (and keeping that registration) and build a completely new coach work on it. Nice little cars, and quite fast for the engine (also original)
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    Sounds kind of like those dune buggies that were basically a VW Beetle chassis with a plastic body.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    CommanderRoss wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    There were all sort of 2CV Specials. Just type that into Google in fact! Lots of three wheelers and things.

    Yes, but this is something else. They just take the chassis of a 2cv (and keeping that registration) and build a completely new coach work on it. Nice little cars, and quite fast for the engine (also original)

    That's what most of the specials are, aren't they? I think they even build a lot of hillclimb cars based on them.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,312
    Talking of cars with a bubble roof, as a kid I was in love with this toy car:

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    Only later I realized what it was and that it played a role in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
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  • OctopussyOctopussy Piz Gloria, Schilthorn, Switzerland.
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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Make your own underwater Lotus :)

  • UnivexUnivex
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    zebrafish wrote: »
    Talking of cars with a bubble roof, as a kid I was in love with this toy car:

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    Only later I realized what it was and that it played a role in Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange.
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    Gorgeous. Did you read the Valiant books? Plenty of bubble roofed cars there ;)
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    Posts: 4,312
    Valiant books? Don't know them, unless it is Prince Valiant in Mad Max?
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    Gotta go now and cut out Wet Nellie...
  • UnivexUnivex
    edited April 2020 Posts: 6,677
    I meant Vaillant ;) My bad.
    zebrafish wrote: »
    Valiant books? Don't know them, unless it is Prince Valiant in Mad Max?

    https://www.michelvaillant.com

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  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
    Posts: 8,700
    As I understand it from far, far away, Michel Vaillant (a few of whose stories I read in the 60s) has nothing to do with the Chrysler Valiant (as in Prince Valiant) aka Plymouth Valiant sold in Australia. That's probably what the Mad Max reference is about.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    mtm wrote: »
    Make your own underwater Lotus :)

    It's been done before:






  • UnivexUnivex
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    As I understand it from far, far away, Michel Vaillant (a few of whose stories I read in the 60s) has nothing to do with the Chrysler Valiant (as in Prince Valiant) aka Plymouth Valiant sold in Australia. That's probably what the Mad Max reference is about.

    I know. But the initial reference to Vaillant was mine, I was the one who misspelt it as Valiant, hence the later clever Mad Max reference by @zebrafish :)
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 2020 Posts: 14,983
    Revelator wrote: »
    mtm wrote: »
    Make your own underwater Lotus :)

    It's been done before:

    I liked the guy who made a boat out of a Lotus bodyshell a few years ago, He called it the Flotus! :D

    Hard to find photos of it.

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    Ah here we go:
    http://www.lotusespritworld.com/EOtherstuff/Esprit4theSea.html
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    This guy built a fully convertible Esprit/Wet Nellie using 1,599 LEGO bricks and won a competition with it.

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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited May 2020 Posts: 14,983
    Very impressive. Those are renders though aren't they? I wonder why he doesn't build it for real if he's worked it out like that. I guess there must be quite a lot of bespoke pieces. Very clever though.

    I wonder what that flap at the front is?
  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
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    Yes, it is a rendered model and there is free software that lets you assemble the parts, complete with a databank of available LEGO bricks. I think it would be pretty expensive to obtain the pieces required, which might be a reason why this is not yet for sale.

    I find this Esprit much more attractive and closer to the real thing than the recently released DB5.

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  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    edited May 2020 Posts: 4,312
    Frank Stephenson is thought to be one of the most influential car designers right now. He has launched a number of Videos explaining his design process, starting with the new Mini and here with the Ferrari F430.

    His other credentials are the Ford Escort RS Cosworth, the BMW X5, the re-imagined Fiat 500 as well as McLaren and Alfa Romeo cars.


  • zebrafishzebrafish <°)))< in Octopussy's garden in the shade
    edited May 2020 Posts: 4,312
    It is not looking good for Aston Martin, and those figures are from before the lockdown. AM owe money 16 times their usual annual income.

    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/13/aston-martin-119m-loss-first-quarter-of-2020-cars-coronavirus
  • GerardGerard
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    Yesterday, I went to Paris, and saw some interesting cars there. The first one was a brown Peugeot 504 :

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    Then, passing me by while I was walking on the Boulevard Saint Michel, I saw a blue AC Cobra, with a lot of decals :

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    And following it was a black Chevrolet Camaro :

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    All cars from last century, all classy as hell.
  • UnivexUnivex
    edited May 2020 Posts: 6,677
    I know that blue cobra, I've seen it in that very same place many times since 2014! :)

    That peugeot is rather nice. Have you see the one they use in that Stana Katic B&W film, For Lovers Only? Lovely car.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    I have a French friend whose dad has a Cobra in those colours, I wonder! Still, I guess there's a few about! My dad has one too, although his is red :)
  • UnivexUnivex
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    mtm wrote: »
    I have a French friend whose dad has a Cobra in those colours, I wonder! Still, I guess there's a few about! My dad has one too, although his is red :)

    Lovely car. Any pics from your dad's?
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Heh! I'll try and dig some out :)
  • OctopussyOctopussy Piz Gloria, Schilthorn, Switzerland.
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    As a Mark 7 GTI owner, I've got to say that they've completely ruined the looks of the new Golf and the GTI is no exception.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
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    Looks like a Golf to me.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou. I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'.
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    I wouldn't worry about the looks of Golf VIII if they managed to get it working without technical faults. They don't, so far. Same with its siblings from Audi and Skoda (and probably SEAT).
  • UnivexUnivex
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    I had a bullet grey Golf VII, it was far more pretty than that aberration. I once had a dark blue MarkII GTI with tartan seats, now that was a beauty.

    But I'm now very much off hatchbacks and C-segment cars. Give me my little rear wheel drive roadster everyday. I wanna have fun, you only live once.
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