One For Classic Car Fans.....

[Drago]

That's the same colour as mine, albeit a previous owner had bestowed mine with a hand painted chocolate brown Starskey and Hutch style speed stripe.

 

[biggs682]

That's the same colour as mine, albeit a previous owner had bestowed mine with a hand painted chocolate brown Starskey and Hutch style speed stripe.

Harvest gold

 

[Drago]

Rampant Diarrhea didnt have the same ring to it.

 

[Fastpedaller]

Many years ago I visited the Rolls Royce assembly plant in Goodwood. Walking around the production floor I noticed that the RR logos on the wheels were all upright. I commented to our host what an amazing feat of attention to detail this was, that all cars were arranged with their logos upright. That was the day I learnt about the weighted logos.

They must be very free-running bearings! If the wheel centre cap stopped rotating at high speed (ie went round with the rest of the wheel) it could, in theory, put the wheel out of balance. I guess because it is a very small difference in weight at its bottom and is a very small radius from the centre (compared to the size/weight of the rest of the wheel/tyre that it may not be significant.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I always lusted over teh

They must be very free-running bearings! If the wheel centre cap stopped rotating at high speed (ie went round with the rest of the wheel) it could, in theory, put the wheel out of balance. I guess because it is a very small difference in weight at its bottom and is a very small radius from the centre (compared to the size/weight of the rest of the wheel/tyre that it may not be significant.

It's doubtless attached to the wheel centre, not the wheel

 

[figbat]

I always lusted over teh

It's doubtless attached to the wheel centre, not the wheel

It’s a floating, weighted emblem in a fluid-filled chamber. They do move a little and I’d imagine at speed they spin with the wheel.

 

[tyred]

Carlisle today walking the dog. Decades since I've seen one.

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I preferred the Opel version. It looked nicer to my eyes.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

It’s a floating, weighted emblem in a fluid-filled chamber. They do move a little and I’d imagine at speed they spin with the wheel.

I did some reading on it, and the consensus is that it's a very carefully balanced and counterweighted disc on a bearing behind a perspex cover. Fluid surely wouldn't work up to the 3-figure speeds RR has tested it to, it'd spin?

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wednesday 1st

Off Queen Street
Horbury
Wakefield

 

[Ian H]

A Triumph Stag burbled past at commuting time this morning. B&W plates, hood up.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Thursday 2nd

Scirocco
BP petrol station
Junction of Whistler Drive & Cutsyke Road
Cutsyke
(between Featherstone & Castleford)

Geograph hasn’t caught up with its OS mapping yet, but ‘WD’ & the garage are to the right of the image, between the 2 cars
(Jct 31/M62 is to the west of here)

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2268491

 

[Drago]

That looks like a Scirroco Storm, but the Storm wasn't available in white. Wrong wheels and lights for a Scala.

The wheels suggest a GT, a 1.6 carb model, but tarted up with body kit parts from possibly a Scala.

 

[Profpointy]

Wandering round that there London yesterday and came across perhaps my favourite car (on the somewhat realistic shopping list at any rate)

A lovely TR3A albeit broken down

TR3A

And also a very nice Merc SL

But a whilst later spotted this. A true bit of exotica, a Citroen SM, which is essentially a DS, itself a very interesting and impressive car but with a Maserati engine. I've only ever seen the one previously in the wild. It was the same colour but not the same one

And further down the same street was an estate car version of the DS, evidently a daily user as it was full of junk for the dump but nevertheless in fine condition

And to cap it all yet another Citroen, perhaps the coolest car ever

Let's see what I spot today

 

[biggs682]

Some interesting stuff today on my ride this morning. All available at https://www.newmanandreidy.co.uk/used-cars-for-sale/

First up and MGB RV8 if I remember rightly?

A Ferrari 599 GTB

And then my favourite would be the Datsun Sunny samurai sukati

And the rear end of a Mercedes 170s and a side glimpse of a TVR chimaera

 

[Drago]

Blimey Martin, thats a good haul. Are you sure you have gone back in time somehow?