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Something very appealing about this 911 reworked by Singer

Yeah, like everything!
 
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Hey! My next car!
Saw this amazing looking 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 "Silver Arrow" with the aluminum "Type Monza" streamliner body in a museum in Vienna. Only 4 were built. One W196 was sold at an auction in 2013 for a cool 拢20 million (world record then).

Gotta have it!

 
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Hey! My next car!
Saw this amazing looking 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 "Silver Arrow" with the aluminum "Type Monza" streamliner body in a museum in Vienna. Only 4 were built. One W196 was sold at an auction in 2013 for a cool 拢20 million (world record then).

Gotta have it!

Just saw one of its sisters at the Peterson in LA, stunning car.
 
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Hey! My next car!
Saw this amazing looking 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 "Silver Arrow" with the aluminum "Type Monza" streamliner body in a museum in Vienna. Only 4 were built. One W196 was sold at an auction in 2013 for a cool 拢20 million (world record then).

Gotta have it!

Rats! I didn't get to see this car while in Vienna. Would have enjoyed viewing it.

Did see this one which had a sordid history.
 
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Did see this one which had a sordid history.

I assume that was Franz Ferdinand's?
 
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Something very appealing about this 911 reworked by Singer

Agreed!馃グ


Love the 108/109 chassis MB!馃グ
 
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Yes, ahartfie. You are correct. I had no idea that the auto had survived not one, but two World Wars.

It even has a .32 bullet hole in the coachwork from one of the shots fired from Gavrilo Princip's Browning pistol.
 
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Nothing too exotic here...just some good old American Muscle.
My '69 Camaro SS396 and '15 Stingray Z51.

 
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From a recent visit to the Peterson. Bug, Bentley, and a Rolls.
 
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Nothing too exotic here...just some good old American Muscle.
My '69 Camaro SS396 and '15 Stingray Z51.


Love that Camaro!馃グ
 
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Anyway, this is a bit more interesting. Not great sound and doubt I get above 80 mph but from slow in 2nd through 3rd (about 4500 rpm) in my '63 3.8 E.

Cheers, Chris

More. I want more.
 
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Hmmmm, must get some footage running to the red line but the snow is putting me off.馃槜 I imagine there were more E-Types written off going backwards into hard objects due to loss of control on slippery surfaces than died from rust, and Jaguar hardly had good rust protection as they only painted the bits you could see...

Used to have an exhaust on my 120 affectionately known as "horse frightener" as above 4000, it sounded like the crack of doom. Modern cars just not the same...

Cheers, Chris
 
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Happy 100th B day BMW! Here's a pic I got of my favorite BMW of all time. A nice e9 CSL, with some junk paint job 馃槈
 
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Snapped at the Geneva car show just a few days ago. Most of the good stuff there was actually vintage stuff 馃榾

The Original 718 Spyder 馃榾
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The Original Wagoneer:
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There were a bunch of 60's cars displayed on big brands' s stands, to support the launch of similarly named modern ones... obvious pattern here!