DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Somehow I was drawn to the fact that there are a lot of balloons in that picture (I count 7, but I'm not sure about a possible red one, which would make it 8 )...

I got the impression that it's staged, but if that's the fact it took a huge effort.

Hate to burst your balloons but it's a scene from a Jacques Tati film called Playtime.

Monsieur Hulot!

Mr Bean but 50 years earlier.....and better

The Peugeot 403 - especially in pick-up form - is a rare bird.

Lovely scene.

Arfor.

Here's the scene in glorious technicolour at 2 minutes thirty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO3SIkso0QQ

For the eyes, the spirit and the heart.

Ralph wrote:

orkneydave wrote:Love that the ice cream lady has stayed in the trailer!

When we were kids my dad used to let us sit in the box trailer towed by his beetle whilst driving round the country lanes!

you'd make the daily mail headlines these days

coincidentally Tati's 1971 film Trafic was on local tv a half an hour ago
talk about a car spotters dream with all those dead makes and models
oh for the day again when cars look different as well as being different under the skin !
you also forget how good Tati was
a Franco version of a cross between Eric Sykes and Mr Bean

cheers
Dennis

So nearly done now, trying to keep moving forward with the French folly, but she just keeps on pushing me one step back, but still making progress.
Expect to have it running tomorrow, but can't ride it due to a stripped rear wheel axle nut which is M12 x 1mm pitch (weird French stuff).

Older Alfas use a lot of metric fine fasteners - I'm in the process of overhauling/uprating the brakes & suspension on my '69 Spider & have had to buy many new metric fine nuts (plain & nyloc).

Most sizes are readily available via ebay - eg:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/M12-X-1-00MM ... xytQl5-rLg


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A friend visited today with the car his father bought new in 1965. I’ve known it all that time, so whoever said that they were owned by seventy year olds who couldn’t get in them was right, but we can and we’re off to the VSCC Prescott in it tomorrow.

It was a toss up between it and my 356C which came home Friday and is driving nicely too, it’s goes pretty well too, but an E Type is lighter than my Healey and more powerful, so it goes extremely well. This one has a 3 to 1 rear axle too and pulls it easily, so a great cruiser.

@EAD616C



beautiful

It was in Classic Car a month or two ago being compared with one of his Marcoses. Also when his father had owned it for forty years.

Youngest wanted a classic mini as a project car. What have I done



There was some advice from others DDK “avoid a car needing welding”, clearly didn’t listen to that

Now, where’s the kettle

We’ll be here to support you on your journey of discovery

If it’s not been welded too much that will be a better place to start. More than half the fun is unpicking 20 years of abusive MOT plating.