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Classic car spotting this week.

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I duno about the watch.....but I ask why would enyone wearba seat belt in a beetle?.....If you had to drive one of those horrid things you would want to die....surely

The belt was to keep the body and splatter inside the car in case of an accident probably. Picture is from 1972, the year after seat belts were made mandatory by law in Norway. In 1979 they were made mandatory to use.

And the watch is a Speedmaster, the obvious choice for running about in a 18 hp beetle.
 
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From a ride I took yesterday.

Chevrolet Corvette year?

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Original 70`s Opel Ascona Rally car. 2 l engine, 195 hp and 765 kg Fast!

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Doolie’s buIlder is in his 60s, and an accomplished body man and mechanic. He presently has so many cars that he has had to buy two warehouses in a small town about 100 kms from here. Probably the first car in his collection is one that his late father bought new in 1972.
An AMC Javelin, which he still has. So his influences span the 30 or so years since he started collecting cars. While he favours AMC cars (he has a dozen or so), he has cars from the Big Three, as well. He now owns my former AMC Concord fastback which was my hobby car for over 30 years. I’ve shown it here, before.

This is the car his late father bought, new, in 1972. The Javelin. If it happens that there is a knowledgeable AMC person sees this, he may recognize that this car has an AMX hood on it.

That ‘72 is a beauty. Just before the 5mph bumper requirement.
 
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I have to confess that I’m addicted to ‘Wheeler Dealers’, a tv programme in which the two presenters repair and restore and resell a classic car; one of the guys is a dealer and the other a mechanic. I find it fascinating.
 
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I always quite liked the W123 Benz but not so much the diesels, I drove a client's 300D when they first came out, the first thing I noticed was the gigantic clock....that got me wondering why was it so big? then I dove the car and came to the conclusion that keeping track of the time would be very important to a 300D driver......the car is soooooo slooooow, they'd need to know how late they were!
::stirthepot::😁
I do like the 280E, 280CE & 280TE though, they're built like a brick shithouse!
 
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I always quite liked the W123 Benz but not so much the diesels, I drove a client's 300D when they first came out, the first thing I noticed was the gigantic clock....that got me wondering why was it so big?
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It s a 5 cylinder 😁 but only four screws for the valve cover/hood.
The T-Wagen slows me down, here in southern France the station-waggon version is absolutely rare. And: no redialing or reluming on the body! 😁 all original and no electronic except the BECKER radio.
 
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finally arrived yesterday 🥰

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Lovely S123 estate! 🥰 What is the spec (petrol/diesel) / (auto/manual)? Love the color too. Is it Caledonian green? My Mango Green W123 240D says hi!
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Merci 👍

It s lindgrün original varnish! (interior also) - manual - no turbo

Will not be polished and I will change to steel-15" and 205/70 all-terrain (+3 cm) for the unpaved roads here.
 
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All this Mercedes talk reminded me of the W115 240D 4-speed my track coach in high school had, my god that thing was slow.
 
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max. speed of you car in km/h / divided by 2 is (my) max. blood pressure per day 😁

My life is holiday every day 😜

btw: these oled cars are named Wanderdüne (shifting sand dune)
 
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South Kensington today, James Bond busy looking for Goldfinger... Not on the bus, darn!!!

Of course he's not on the bus, he's in Switzerland at the Pilatus aircraft factory.
 
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Somehow I'm not surprised...

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Did these ever move under thier own power?

PRV motor right?
 
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Did these ever move under thier own power?

PRV motor right?

By PRV motor I take it you mean the Peugeot/Renualt/Volvo V6?
No the Lamborghini Espada had Lambroghini's own V12, most likely the reason it's getting towed is a worn out clutch, as is common for most exotics of this era they don't much like modern urban traffic conditions, something for which they weren't designed to cope with.
As for the popular belief that the PRV V6 was a bad engine, nah not necessarily so I had a Volvo 265GLE whist it did have a problem with head gaskets, I'm not surprised considering he absolute abuse I put that car through! I also Had a Volvo 760GLE which also suffered much cruel and unusual punishment at my hands....both cars remembered fondly.
Whilst nowhere near as tough as the almost unbreakable Volvo 4 inline four cylinder engine of the era, they weren't that bad either.
 
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By PRV motor I take it you mean the Peugeot/Renualt/Volvo V6?
No the Lamborghini Espada had Lambroghini's own V12, most likely the reason it's getting towed is a worn out clutch, as is common for most exotics of this era they don't much like modern urban traffic conditions, something for which they weren't designed to cope with.
As for the popular belief that the PRV V6 was a bad engine, nah not necessarily so I had a Volvo 265GLE whist it did have a problem with head gaskets, I'm not surprised considering he absolute abuse I put that car through! I also Had a Volvo 760GLE which also suffered much cruel and unusual punishment at my hands....both cars remembered fondly.
Whilst nowhere near as tough as the almost unbreakable Volvo 4 inline four cylinder engine of the era, they weren't that bad either.

doh fast glance on my phone and I thought it was Merek.

Which as I just looked oddly did not have a PRV despite its heritage.

in the US we mostly know the PRV from the delorean where it was exactly reliable, my assumption was it was same in the rear engine fed cramped Merek.
 
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doh fast glance on my phone and I thought it was Merek.

Which as I just looked oddly did not have a PRV despite its heritage.

in the US we mostly know the PRV from the delorean where it was exactly reliable, my assumption was it was same in the rear engine fed cramped Merek.
Wrong again, the Maserati Merak had a V6 of their own design, Citroen bought out Maserati, and used the V6 in the Citroen SM before both abandoning the SM and Maserati, selling the latter to Andreas DeTomaso
 
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