my non-Porsche picture of the day
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Shed engineering
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Ref DSS on other page:
Rubber band front suspension on the front, and sliding pillar on the rear.
A contraption design for the sake of it being very unique?
Good imagination mind!
Rubber band front suspension on the front, and sliding pillar on the rear.
A contraption design for the sake of it being very unique?
Good imagination mind!
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
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Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
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This bike was built by an old guy in Plymouth who is, basically, an inventor. He built a follow-up model, which had revised front and rear suspension. The frame was made from scratch, too.911hillclimber wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 8:46 am Ref DSS on other page:
Rubber band front suspension on the front, and sliding pillar on the rear.
A contraption design for the sake of it being very unique?
Good imagination mind!
The bike was hung upside down in his garage, so I inverted the photos, hence the 'anti-gravity' items on the shelf behind!
Oh, and he also built his own saloon car from scratch, using a Ford engine and box, with everything including the body and interior, suspension etc made in his shed at home. And, yes, it's all legally registered, with a 'Q' plate...
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“Adding power makes you faster on the straights;
- subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere”
“Adding power makes you faster on the straights;
- subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere”
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
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Oh what I’d give to be back in 95 - I was there, with a lady, at the bar drinking JD all day. Not a worry in the world. My 66 Ghia was on display. 27 years ago! Crazy.
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LOTS of great memories doing hot rod shows all over the place, and Rod Runs in the 70's, just the best.
Live n Let Live, what happened?
Live n Let Live, what happened?
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That is terrible for such a lovely vehicle.
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That’s presumably KS’s chopped yellow car peeping in the side.
I was there too. Not old enough to drive yet, but I had my 66 Beetle, all in bits.
Not a worry in the world is right.
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It is The Goss chop top Beetle - love that car
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Indeed. It was the subject of the first ever magazine feature I had published back in 1976, and little did I know that I'd end up tracking it down and buying it about 17 years later, following it being laid up since 1984. First street-legal VW in the UK to run '12s'. I used to race anything I could find - Subaru Imprezas and Cosworth Sierras were my favourite victims!
my non-Porsche picture of the day
My fav car of yours tooKS wrote:Indeed. It was the subject of the first ever magazine feature I had published back in 1976, and little did I know that I'd end up tracking it down and buying it about 17 years later, following it being laid up since 1984. First street-legal VW in the UK to run '12s'. I used to race anything I could find - Subaru Imprezas and Cosworth Sierras were my favourite victims!
Think I was at the show as well … probably all walked past each other little knowing we’d be getting shite faced in a field in France together many years later
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1973 911 2.4S
1993 964 C2
2010 987 Spyder
1973 MGB Roadster
Its not how fast you go, but how you go fast