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Let's have some pictures.

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Posted : 19/03/2012 8:40 pm
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I bring you some pornography;

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Three of the cars in my dream garage. It's a very big garage.


 
Posted : 19/03/2012 8:42 pm
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480 horsies out of a normally aspirated 2.5l v6...at 11,500rpm! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ
Made a great noise too.

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...and at the end of the 70's they were getting 473 horsies out of a turbocharged 1.8 straight 4. ๐Ÿ˜ฏ and great noise again.
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Group C...kind of like F1 but better

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Obligatory RS200

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Not the sexiest (the Stratos is a lot better looking), but I'd love one of these:

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Posted : 19/03/2012 8:50 pm
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Brabham BT48

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Brabham BT55

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Both lookers... but a bit rubbish when it came to racing.


 
Posted : 19/03/2012 8:51 pm
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The most successful F1 car of all time...

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Inside the cockpit of said car...

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[url= http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6007/6019031232_c15865d234.jp g" target="_blank">http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6007/6019031232_c15865d234.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpjackson70/6019031232/ ]Prescott Speed Hillclimb, Vintage Sports-Car Club Event, Aug 2011[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jpjackson70/ ]Julian Jackson2012[/url], on Flickr

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpjackson70/6335273317/ ]WRC Wales 2011, Sebastian Ogier, Citroen DS3 WRC[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/jpjackson70/ ]Julian Jackson2012[/url], on Flickr


 
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Posted : 19/03/2012 9:28 pm
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Porsche Paris Dakar

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And I use to love watching the trucks plow through the sand dunes.

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Posted : 19/03/2012 9:35 pm
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My mate in his MG pb

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Forget singletrack there's another website we all need in our lives,

http://speedhunters.com/

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Can I post a video?

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and another one
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Posted : 19/03/2012 9:48 pm
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Breadvan!


 
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This is what is going into my garage in a weeks time...not the actual car but one just like it...

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CFH, you may have been thinking of a Ferrari 250GT, nicknamed The Breadvan. That pic above is of course a Cobra GT.
However, this is the world's actual fastest breadvan (mix of 2CV van and F355)
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(not a racing car but I'm sure a pic is allowed on here.)
Nasher, I am [s]quite[/s] very jealous.


 
Posted : 19/03/2012 10:02 pm
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Some antipodean stuff from back when cars wore flares too- Super Sedans/OSCA, not sure whether you had stuff like this ..

Alfetta
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PDL Mustang II

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Can't be sure, but think there was a Vauxhall Viva in there somewhere..
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73 Cologne Capri

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slainte ๐Ÿ˜€ rob


 
Posted : 19/03/2012 10:22 pm
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917/30 - 1500bhp in qualifying, 0-200 in 10 seconds.


 
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1991 Le Mans winning rotary Mazda


 
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[img] [/img] or the earlier 917K. The ultimate Le Mans car.


 
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I had a go in a Juno recently. Although not in the same league as these, it was horrendously fast.
The ferraris and Lamborghinis just got out of the way. Didn't even try!


 
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Pleased to have actually taken this shot - Jaime Alguersuari @ last years Malaysian GP.


 
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Posted : 19/03/2012 11:27 pm
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FW14B

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Are landspeed allowed? A brute, but i love it. Thrust SSC

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Posted : 19/03/2012 11:27 pm
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Not a car but just the engine. Sweet music to ones ears holes.


 
Posted : 19/03/2012 11:33 pm
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Some retro racers.

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Blue Train Bentley
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DB4 Zagato.
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I saw this in the flesh last year, it's about the size a classic mini.

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Volvo- not as boring as you may have been led to believe


 
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one of my mates lives in melbourne for the winter every year, he's a dab hand with a camera,

I have a huge file of these from last year, unfortunately as he's Welsh, he didn't make it on sunday as he was having a 'nana nap' after the rugby.

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Posted : 20/03/2012 8:19 am
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Benetton B1 88

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I'm amazed how small it looks and how exposed the driver is.


 
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A little different.
Much kudos for anyone who knows what it is.


 
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It's a Howmet TX.
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I only know because of the obvious URL.


 
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One of the greatest sounding cars ever:
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hill rally bowler - 5.0 v8 in the front giving it beans !


 
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The Speed 8, Bentley's return to the race coincided with my first trip to "les 24 heures du Mans". Fabulous beast ๐Ÿ™‚

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Thanks for that Flying Ox...Four rotor Mazda, best sounding car ever, it would make your ears bleed if you were close as it went by at full chat.


 
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The fastest milk float in the West?


 
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Posted : 23/03/2012 10:42 am
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Ferrari 458

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Porsche 917

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All my own shots.

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