DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

yoda wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 6:13 am Sounds like a successful first drive and definitely a good looking car. Very well done!

Who dares wins, Rodney. Or something. All very smug at the moment, it can't last. I do think it fits the brief, though, so the fundamentals are promising.

hot66 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 11:36 pm Thirsk …. Just down the road from me . I should really organize another north Yorkshire DDK trip,

That interior is stunning, and wow, manual to boot.

Who'd have thought 5 litres gives you plenty of torque.

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RobFrost wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 9:04 am Who'd have thought 5 litres gives you plenty of torque.

Fair point. Torque is sufficient, I would say.

Yip - 25mpg with sensible use ... that can go up to high twenties on a longer run. Then there's the "opposite".....

For Rally use (calculating range - eg fuel needed for a loop of stages) , I used 25 mpg for road sections , and 5 mpg for hard use .... that was 5 !! I reckoned possibly closer to 4.5 when at 10 / 10ths. Depending on what final drive ratio you have , theoretical speed at max revs in 5th , is probably closer to 190 mph than 170 ..... defn an overdrive. I think we saw an indicated 145mph on a downhill section on the Isle of Man one year ..... we reckoned if we had "gone off" , it might have taken about a week for them to find us !

Lovely car(s) - much underrated .... lovely engineering in them , and would you believe, the bare shell is lighter than a SWB 911 ??? (my weighing , have not seen / found official figures)

One on Facebook at the moment

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Cortina wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 10:00 pm and would you believe, the bare shell is lighter than a SWB 911 ??? (my weighing , have not seen / found official figures)

Pretty light body shells

Excellent stuff! Thanks for that, love the shell weight trivia. To add to my growing list of fascinating 928-based conversation starters.

Mine is fitting its brief rather well. End of last week it was out and about in SE1, then on Friday night proved exactly the right car for a little trip to Paris for the Retromobile show.
Early start on Monday morning, Peripherique was suitably fluide at 5am, happy days.
I'm liking it.