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    Long Ranger,
    Can’t tell you how much your reporting on these great trips is appreciated these days. Feels like years since I’ve been anywhere worth talking about. So anyway, thanks to you, sir.
    Just a note, much of Europe was drive on the left until sometime in the 50’s. Not sure of the date or the. Pun tries but it was getting to be a mess at country borders, so one night they all switched to drive on the right. Except you know who, right?
    Cheers.
    Bill Conway, Early S Registry member #254
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    Thank you, Mr Conway . . .

    Quote Originally Posted by silverc4s View Post
    . . . Can’t tell you how much your reporting on these great trips is appreciated these days. Feels like years since I’ve been anywhere worth talking about . . .
    . . . I know how you feel

    I've been cooped-up for a while, now/too, so it's been fun --- and a bit exhausting, sometimes . . . to get out + about + see stuff, again

    Got a lot more pics to pass along, too, so . . .


    . . . glad you're enjoying 'em!



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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . Fiat somethin'-or-t'other --- '59 (going from the plate)?

    Not-exactly a styling tour-de-force, maybe . . .

    . . . but the details on this little jewel?


    Delicate fragile-looking polished hubcaps (!) w/spinners (!!)

    Even has a vintage plate-cum-reg tab + dealer frame


    Noyce!







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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . Lotus Elite

    Another little jewel. Compared to almost anything contemporary in 1960, this comes off as a total spaceship. Park this next to a 356 --- or 300SL . . . and you'll see what I mean. Completely different approach + mind-set + ethos to any carmaker . . . even today. Door pulls, turn-lights, rear-views, wipers, even the gas cap --- + minimal everything = just enough . . . + still those wheels!

    But. Read somewhere that the original Chapman design had the suspension attached directly into the un-reinforced FG body shell?

    So, reading that? --- even if I could fit? . . .



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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . and/again . . .

    . . . looks like something I would expect to find under a Christmas tree

    Not as elegant or well-drawn as the Lotus, maybe, but? . . .


    . . . Zagato + Abarth


    With a nick-name that's as catchy as the car is . . . cute


    And/again --- the silly little details . . . the door-pulls, the hubcaps (again w/ the spinners!), that 'kink' in the back glass @the C-pillar . . . + those thresholds!

    Who does stuff like this, now? Zonda? Gimme a break!





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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . SAAB --- 96, maybe? . . . well, 90-something, anyway, prolly


    Kinda like Porsche and Citroen, these Guys just had a different approach to how to design a car. Never understood these growing up --- but liking them more and more, as time passes, appreciating their aero. Wagons are surreal. Wonder what they're like to drive + live-with? Anyway, enjoyed seeing this, here. Appreciated the placement, too . . .

    . . . looks like a grown-up double-bubble, huh?



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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . good ol' Land Rover


    Seein' those door-pulls + side-widows + ventilation flaps? . . . makes me remember/miss mine . . .
    https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...l=1#post544615


    Sniff!






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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . super-duper Cooper!

    1275?S . . .


    . . . w/twin-tanks ---- yuuuuuuum . . .






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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . now we're talkin'

    Talk about a blast-from-the-past. 426 cubic inches of super-charged, fuel-injected, nitro-methane powered, fiber-glass-clad quarter-mile warrior. >5000 hp. Zero-to-60 < a second

    So. Have seat. Top-off the tank. Have someone shove in/fire the starter. Anything blow-up? No? Good. Watch out for the exhaust. Now --- drop the shell . . . sloooooowly. Then putter on over to the staging area/burn-out pit + light 'em up --- a time-or-three . . . get them big ol' meats nice-and-sticky

    Now . . . toddle on over to the start line, creepy-creepy . . . watch for the staging light . . . easy, eeasy, eeeeasy --- blink, there it is!

    Now? Just RELAX. Breathe. Watch the Christmas tree. Lights counting down, yet . . . ahp! --- there they go

    Now? . . . when the one on the bottom lights? . . .



    . . . hang-the-f*ck on



    Oh-yeah . . . how's that flame-suit fitting?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKwoU9cQ_o





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    More LeMay . . .

    . . . Dodge Charger Daytona . . .

    Back when stock cars were really built from stock cars. Kinda kooky/clumsy as a street-car, maybe . . . but pretty fearsome as a racer. Laugh if you want --- but this is 4000 lbs of steel-bodied, steel-caged, steel-wheeled, pop-riveted, hemi-powered malevolence

    So fast, even NASCAR said 'uh-uh --- nope' . . . but only after Buddy Baker took one to >200 mph at Talladega

    Wearing only a lap-belt

    Half-a-century, ago

    Wish I could hear it run. Oh, well . . .
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMFE1zBT720


    Ferrari, huh?


    Wuzzat?



    Love that vinyl wood stuff on the dash




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