my non-Porsche picture of the day

[KS]

So do I!

[Mike]

^^ Coincidentally I’ve just today had an email from Vision Express saying they are offering an emergency service, might be worth giving them a call Keith.......

[Lightweight_911]

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Some early Daytona Spider 'replicas' did use a Rover SD1 windscreen & surround ...

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[Tony]

"Reliability is the enemy of adventure"

Says it all about the picture Keith, had 3 of those at one time or another. An ex-police one with manual steering, (felt like 400 turns lock to lock), two Vitesse, including one of the last twin-plenum ones which eat its starter motor, the replacement was 4 times the price of a non Vitesse one, sold it to a garage owner who only had it a couple of weeks before the diff blew apart leaving an island on the Lincoln bypass!

Tony

[wildtexas]

Exploding diff! I had an experience of that once.

Coming up the M3 into Sunbury in my vw bus. I'd recently done a top end rebuild due to an overheating issue. Then I hear a whine from the back end that is steadily getting louder.

Oh crap I think. This is going to cost.

Then a brand new Mitsubishi barbarian pickup blasts by, and the whine goes with it.

It got about 20m past and the very visible differential detonated, sending metal and oil across 3 lanes and oil all over my windscreen.

I was strangely, very pleased with this outcome!

[KS]

^^ Coincidentally I’ve just today had an email from Vision Express saying they are offering an emergency service, might be worth giving them a call Keith.......

[richkaz]

[911hillclimber]

Marcos:
Drove a V6 3 years ago, not a good experience. Slow, noisy and wobbled a lot.
Previous owner bought a Mustang (new one) V8/convertible after.

I lusted after a Marcos as a school boy.

[gridgway]

A friend races one in the HSCC Guards Trophy and loves it. Very playful if a bit fragile!

[911hillclimber]

Wood or steel chassis. I think the V6 I drove was a wood chassis.

[gridgway]

wood I think

[hot66]

Ferrari 250 GT / E 2 + 2 Panther Mobile Team Police Marshal Spataphora chase Staircase Trinity of the mountains 1964

It's a March night of 1964. "Armandino" is on patrol with a young colleague. These are chilling nights, made of robberies and house robberies. There are two " blackbirds " to catch: one is called " the lame ", the other " the Brush ". For years they have been the cross and delight of all Capitotti: they are two car thieves, especially sports; but they are also the most requested pilots of crime when there is a quick and clean "hit" to be done. Whoever tried to put salt on their tail ended up against a wall or - at best - inside a ditch. Armando knows his "chickens": he knows that they prefer the historic center of Rome because they manage to drive through those alleys at 100 per hour without a shot wounded and without car crawl. Colosseum, the Fori, Piazza Venezia, then up to the synagogue and from there to Pantheon. The city is deserted, the colleague yawns.... Then suddenly, here's an Alfa 2500 red "cut" cannon towards Piazza Navona. The chase between tire stridor, counter-sterces, handbrakes, dripping. The scoundrel knows his thing, Armandino recognizes the unmistakable " touch " of the " lame ". But even the lame understands he doesn't have to deal with any cop: he doesn't quit a millimetre. He tries them all, the lame: tries to get hampered, tries to do the door, at Ponte Milvio he climbs even on a sidewalk. But the other one is always there, with that siren tearing the air and getting closer and closer. Up to Trinity of the Mountains. Here, it is said that both cars passed on two wheels over a paracon that obstructed the road. True or not, it's actually that right on the stairs the lame plays it: down the steps with cars and everything, let's see if you follow me here! And Armandino? Down too, with a Ferrari that even in a lifetime could never buy himself! They make the whole staircase of Trinity dei Monti and in the end, while the Alpha is located with 3 split rims, the oil cup cracked and smoke coming out from all parts, the Ferrari pure scalcagnata is on it. In a jiffy the lame is found with strains on his wrists: " Brigadiè, kill how you run!"

[Mike]

[KS]

Not a thing of beauty.

[Lightweight_911]

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I quite like it - but would be better without the bumper (or with quarter bumpers) ...

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