A Wonderful Sound

[Reynard]

View: https://youtu.be/kzsb1_l9Shc

I'll see your Metro and I'll raise you one of these...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c71jDPRVyRU


But as much as I love this car, I'd quite happily top the numpties who thought it would be an absolutely brilliant idea to have the driver and co-driver sitting directly on top of the fuel tanks.

Italian idiocy by committee, I guess...

 

[colly]

View: https://youtu.be/dXVRdSbKDT8

I was expecting a bloke with a trombone to come belting around the corner.

 

[Reynard]

I was expecting a bloke with a trombone to come belting around the corner.

Love that. Best description of that, ever!

 

[colly]

Love that. Best description of that, ever!

As much as I would like to I can't claim any credit.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5IKthNYhVY

 

[Venod]

Some strange sounding and looking motorcycles.

 

[raleighnut]

I was expecting a bloke with a trombone to come belting around the corner.

I worked at a SAAB dealership in the late 70s and clearly remember the 1st time one of those drove into the forecourt, now I'd worked on loads of the V4 versions but that 2 stroke triple engine sounded like it was doing 90 at tickover.

 

[Drago]

There's little that sounds more spine tingling than a big Kwak at full chat. The mournful howl as it rolls into the over run at the end of the strip is enough to reduce real men to tears.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5_GQ78wM8

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

I certainly remember those, & a far better sound than a 2-stroke m/bike


Then, of course, there's the V8 engine car I've wanted, from its announcement in 1992, to this very day
I have driven a couple
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkqu3wawA80

Once followed one of them all the way up a multi storey car park. Glorious noise!

 

[Drago]

My old Rover P6 V8 was a masterclass at turning copious quantities of fuel into noise, with little in the way of anything else as a by product

 

[Profpointy]

How 'bout this fella ?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7--cEe-sOs

EDIT - we saw this bike in the Isle of Man last year. He'd ridden it up from Reading or wherever and was on the same ferry as us from Liverpool. Saw it on the roads on the Island a few times too, so it's no mere showpiece.

He'd previously built a V12 Kawasaki out of two Kawasaki straight 6 1300cc engines, as you do !

 

[Drago]

I saw that bike at a local bike show a few years back. The builder is a genius/nutter who plans and designs all the builds in his head. He's famous in bike circles for his 5 cylinder conversions on Kwak 2 stroke triples.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

My old Rover P6 V8 was a masterclass at turning copious quantities of fuel into noise, with little in the way of anything else as a by product

I had a Land-Rover 90, with a factory fitted V8
It was the later 134BHP (on SU carbs) & that sounded great

However, to my mind, the best Solihull useage of the venerable (ex Buick) V8 was in the 101FC
I've driven a couple, they're fun beasties, but make a hell of a row, at 60+MPH, & as for the position of the gear-lever......



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXUgsGRXuk


Almost a 'Muscle Car' sound in the first few seconds, over the humps


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFPAHbsBrk8

 

[NorthernDave]

Or, if we have to stick to something automotive(ish)...

 

[Glow worm]

Clearly this thread refers to a definition of the word 'wonderful' I'd not previously encountered!

 

[raleighnut]

Clearly this thread refers to a definition of the word 'wonderful' I'd not previously encountered!