Automotive Exceptionalism

Vercingetorix · Jun 9, 2023

Have more, but many of my screenshots are too big to upload, being raw format. Maybe red cars take up less space👍.

vbrad26 · Jun 9, 2023

BLOW UP
I'm struggling to see how this turns left or right, maybe it's an optical illusion but surely the tires are gonna hit the arch with the slightest turn of the steering wheel?
Yeah, they're really nice and as you say surprisingly affordable, if you do decide to take the plunge, only go for one with a full up-to-date Aston Martin service history, as they can be really serious money pits, I've been down this road before.. more than once🙁

I don't think I would ever buy one. Too many other cars on the list that come before it.
I'd also be interested in knowing if that one rubs a bit. It is a pretty meaty tire setup.
From someone who was once part of the "slammed car scene" you'd be surprised what you could get away with...

Vercingetorix · Jun 9, 2023

Still trying different methods.

Vercingetorix · Jun 9, 2023

vbrad26 · Jun 9, 2023

Vercingetorix
Still trying different methods.

You can always do a RAW to JPEG convert.

Vercingetorix · Jun 9, 2023

vbrad26
You can always do a RAW to JPEG convert.

Not on a computer, not using any additional battery or storage on my phone to upload. I will have 24 hours to fill 1.25 terabytes of data maybe, or kill several batteries. Issue is somehow even when texted or emailed back to myself in jpeg form, the iPad will try to upload the raw file even when the jpg is selected.

BLOW UP · Jun 10, 2023

Vercingetorix
Have more, but many of my screenshots are too big to upload, being raw format. Maybe red cars take up less space👍.

Daytona for me, the last great front-engine V12 Ferrari.. I used to live around the corner to Victoria Station, and every weekday morning a blood-red Daytona (not convertible, my preference, although I've never driven one) would rocket full throttle past the house (you could actually hear him coming from about half a mile away), then chuck a left on the corner with screeching rears..
It was like having the perfect alarm clock😀

Pastorbottle · Jun 11, 2023

Dad had a Daytona, what a car both beautiful and brutal at the same time.
Absolutely magnificent, a car for real drivers, not a car for posers.
Just starting it up was a memorable event

dsio · Jun 11, 2023

Pastorbottle
Dad had a Daytona, what a car both beautiful and brutal at the same time.
Absolutely magnificent, a car for real drivers, not a car for posers.
Just starting it up was a memorable event

Don’t suppose it was a blue coupe by any chance? There’s one I ended up coming across that has an interesting story attached that came from down south.

Pastorbottle · Jun 11, 2023

Nah it was light metallic green, it now lives in QLD and has been painted in resale red, I do remember the blue one another (dark) green one, which I believe left to country and became a NART clone and has possibly since returned and also a black one that also had the Dulux overhaul into resale red.

X350 XJR · Jun 11, 2023

1989 Sauber/Mercedes C11

Video with sound on Instagram.

Vercingetorix · Jun 12, 2023

Last corner, last lap. Still amazed Toyota didn’t just walk away with this race. I think they got complacent. Best part for me was the JOTA Porsche leading at the roughly 5 hour mark. I’m going out on a limb and guessing 1995 was the last time a privateer team had snowballs chance of even leading this race. Hoping more privateer teams join the ranks and win WEC races.

abrod520 · Jun 12, 2023

Vercingetorix
Still amazed Toyota didn’t just walk away with this race. I think they got complacent.

Well for all of their 'wins' in the last 5 years, they were more or less running unopposed. Without any real competition it's hard to tell what would happen if one did show up

Vercingetorix · Jun 12, 2023

abrod520
Well for all of their 'wins' in the last 5 years, they were more or less running unopposed. Without any real competition it's hard to tell what would happen if one did show up

I was trying to be nice to Toyota. After WRC they are forever branded cheaters in my world.

abrod520 · Jun 12, 2023

Vercingetorix
I was trying to be nice to Toyota. After WRC they are forever branded cheaters in my world.

Boy do you hold a grudge! 😁

MRC · Jun 12, 2023

Vercingetorix
I was trying to be nice to Toyota. After WRC they are forever branded cheaters in my world.

Be careful now, you're on the last thread of opening the lid of a very large can-o-worms.

abrod520 · Jun 12, 2023

MRC
Be careful now, you're on the last thread of opening the lid of a very large can-o-worms.

Eh I think it's similar to BMW running a V8 in the E46 M3 GTR. Yeah it was 'creative interpretation of the rules', and subsequently banned, but decades on the result is still memorable!

MRC · Jun 12, 2023

Well how about 3.3 litre DFVs when F1 was 3.0 litres? "Production" cars with fewer than the required number made? Lots of instances of that. And then we have software: so hard to figure out what is going on.

And we also have -- refillable water cooling tanks for the brakes, and extra-heavy wings that could be substituted before car weighing. Mechanics sitting on the rear wing "in celebration of a win" to get it down to a legal height. Acid-dipping for "stock" cars. Even, I understand, 90% scale bodies. All your heroes have feet of clay.

abrod520 · Jun 13, 2023

Good points all - after all "if you're not cheating you're not trying hard enough".

MRC
"Production" cars with fewer than the required number made?

This was particularly funny, watching the Saleen S7-R race for a whole decade before they had built any street cars in any sort of numbers. Again though, the result is memorable and I'm not too mad 😁

Aroxx · Jun 15, 2023

Picked the right night to take the kids to Friendly’s. Every Thursday night from May to September. Maybe I’ll have to put my car in on import week. There was exactly one Porsche and a whole lot of American muscle. Took a few pics of my favorites. Lots more there.