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troutrunner
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Thanks for the link  it is a very interesting car that I never new even existed, they must have been a very expensive car to buy when new, have you any idea how much one would have cost.
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Rick
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alanb
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Sorry richytanimal I didn't recognise it, I don't think I've seen one with that front before, I've seen the earlier ones like the one in the garage on your foto page.
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richytanimal
Joined: 15 Jul 2010
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Location: Bristol
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badhuis
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Location: Netherlands
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Interesting cars, the blue one looks pretty good.
Not so keen on the VW rear lamps though.
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richytanimal
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| badhuis wrote: | Interesting cars, the blue one looks pretty good.
Not so keen on the VW rear lamps though. |
I know but when I was running it with the original tiny red stop / tail indicators I had several people "not realize" that I was braking or indicating.
It gets expensive & time consuming repairing the rear platform after a while plus with it being so rare I'd rather have ugly big lights that people can see than have it written off by someone not noticing. |
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badhuis
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| Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 10:38 am Post subject: |
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| richytanimal wrote: | I know but when I was running it with the original tiny red stop / tail indicators I had several people "not realize" that I was braking or indicating.
It gets expensive & time consuming repairing the rear platform after a while plus with it being so rare I'd rather have ugly big lights that people can see than have it written off by someone not noticing. |
Each to their own of course, this is an area which affects all older car designs. For this reason I have mounted an ugly brake LED light behind the rear window of my Jaguar 420 - I use the car fairly often on busy motorways (morning traffic jams) where there are many sleepy eyed motorists around.
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lowdrag
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Location: Le Mans
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Many times, but I only admit to doing so on the track, but then that is what she was made for really. This one was taken at Woodcote at Goodwood:-
 Goodwood 2004 014 by Tony Brown, on Flickr
We did unleash her on an old aerodrome where they had a radar trap just so people could verify their top speed and we topped out at just over 150mpg. A bit scary at that speed on skinny crossplies, and not something I'd probably do again! |
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Riley Blue
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I've done my best....
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peter scott
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Well I'm not admitting to any more than this...
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