Pic of the day

[MAF260]

What’s the ridiculous rear wheel intake?

Appropriately-sized fuel filler?...

Wtf V16?

Rad in the boot I guess.

Bizarrely quite cool

More info here:

BMW's V16 autobahn king that never made the fast lane | Hagerty UK

Discover the story of the all-conquering V16 engine that BMW's engineers built in secret, only for it to end up as a museum piece.

www.hagerty.co.uk

 

[Oneball]

There’s not many cars I regret not buying (unless you count their rise in value) but an e32 750il Highline was one. It was £1700 and I thought it’d be too uneconomic so bought an e34 instead. But that 750 was such a lovely thing, V12, brown metallic, full brown Nappa leather, including dash, headlining, door cards, even the fridge box in the rear, 4 seater with picnic tables. It was a monumental thing. Probably ended up as snotter limo around Heathrow before being scrapped

Interior shot from google.

 

[philw696]

Wow what a fascinating story and imagine being able to tell that story just brilliant and far more interesting than any EV ever will be.

 

[Nayf]

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One of the amusing side stories from this car is that Mercedes-Benz caught wind of this car happening – which was, after all, an engineer's plaything to keep minds active, and a long way from production. Only the Three-Pointed Star missed the second part of that sentence.
Mercedes-Benz built its own equivalent – that much is known and admitted. But one engineer told me that such was the corporate gentleman chap swinging in the German cars that a repeat of BMW taking Mercedes-Benz by surprise with a V12 simply could not happen again, so around 40 pre-production cars were built at enormous cost before they realised what the project was actually for. Sadly I couldn't get the engineer to go on record, so sadly it could be a drunk engineer or fact, who knows...

There are lots of great little stories like this, particularly with Mercedes-Benz of the 80s and early 90s. The story of the W140 is almost like a Greek tragedy, only with mullets and moustaches.

 

[P5Nij]

I was down in London with some mates in our various classics back in 2014, I was following these two gems...

 

[CatmanV2]

Did anyone else hear the music from The Sweeney?

C

 

[philw696]

Did anyone else hear the music from The Sweeney?

C

That or Minder

 

[P5Nij]

My mate's Mk1 Grannie in Colet Gardens Hammersmith a few years ago, where the famous blue tinted title sequence was shot back in 1974...

 

[philw696]

Actually owned a Consul GT V6 Coupe a few years ago drove it to the South of France in about 1982.

 

[Scaf]

I have no idea why, but I quite fancy bidding on this for my garage / man cave.

It could replace my ctech and maintain the Strad through the winter

 

[CatmanV2]

I have no idea why, but I quite fancy bidding on this for my garage / man cave.

It could replace my ctech and maintain the Strad through the winter

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Do you have many rays that need charging?

C

 

[lifes2short]

giocattolo chassis 4

 

[Oneball]

giocattolo chassis 4

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This weekend is the last time we’ll see a Holden badge in top flight motorsport.

 

[lifes2short]

This weekend is the last time we’ll see a Holden badge in top flight motorsport.

how come?

 

[Oneball]

how come?

Its the last race of the season in V8 Supercars and the last race with the current spec cars.

Holden ceased to exist last year. No more Commodores. Next year’s Bathurst 1000 will be Ford vs Chevrolet!! End of possibly the longest grudge match in motorsport

 

[MAF260]

 

[philw696]

When we bought our house here in France what was to become my workshop was full of wood and I sold some to a guy and he has made this staircase.

 

[CatmanV2]

Cropped up on my Facespace feed



C

 

[drellis]

Cropped up on my Facespace feed

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C

Way more fun at manageble speeds, rather than mega grip at mega speeds and a big off

 

[Lozzer]

I despair, I really do.