CLASSIC and important CARS - open thread:
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Hi, on the road :
Lunch break :
Vintage car rallyes are held on public roads. To avoid cars in the other lane, I had to move the camera to a distracting background in picture 1.
For the lunch break, the cars were parked very close together, and I tried to avoid car owners and spectators close to the subject.
Lunch break :
Vintage car rallyes are held on public roads. To avoid cars in the other lane, I had to move the camera to a distracting background in picture 1.
For the lunch break, the cars were parked very close together, and I tried to avoid car owners and spectators close to the subject.
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And outboard wheels. The earlier ones had the rear wheels very close to each other - and didn't need a differential but the later twins set the wheels further apart which improved stability (the prototypes and the British made ones * were 3 wheelers and made the Reliants look stable!) but necessitated a "proper" rear axle.
*The British made ones were dropped down to 3 wheels to take advantage of the vagaries of the British licensing and taxation regulations - the 3 wheelers are motorcycles not cars!
*The British made ones were dropped down to 3 wheels to take advantage of the vagaries of the British licensing and taxation regulations - the 3 wheelers are motorcycles not cars!
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The reason Jaguars are Jaguars! For some reason, the original name of the car became rather unpopular in the late '30s so was dropped and Swallow Sidecars (SS) was renamed in 1945. Mum used to have one in the early '60s - wish she'd kept it!!!
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The Pug's a lefty as well.
I could live with a lefty (again) as long as it was reasonably narrow.
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I can't see why.
They're just BLMC Mini mechanics in a different shell. An episode of the "Wheeler Dealers" TV programme showed how simple they are to work on. There's a Wikipedia entry, here...
