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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFI have an 06 997 C2S, and have had it for 20 years (this November). I have really enjoyed the car, and I trust you will like yours!
Classic car spotting this week.
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vbrad26
·No one asked, but I think the #1 spot for OEM 997 wheels would be the Carrera Sport wheels for me...
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AG77
·Being a teenager in the 90s I'll forever have a soft spot for these wheels.
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kfranzk
·Hallo friends of Oldtimers,
I remember in the 80s the car dealer Michael Fröhlich in Düsseldorf city allways offering extraordinary gems of automobiles. Then he disapeared...
Now I read his later story.
In the year 2000 he got 50, so born in 1950. He decided to take classic cars of his birth year (even a Lagonda, Porsche 356 or a Queens Bentley) and, completely crazy, he decided to put 50 of these cars of age 50 like him in his private wood in the Neandertal (yes the famous valley nearby) to let the time and nature do their work.
Konrad
Here a Lloyd Alexander of the then Borgward Co., this type of car was my first in the early 1960s (this one has a British number plate???)
My friend Helge had the Borgward Hansa (this came from Rio de Janeiro):
I remember in the 80s the car dealer Michael Fröhlich in Düsseldorf city allways offering extraordinary gems of automobiles. Then he disapeared...
Now I read his later story.
In the year 2000 he got 50, so born in 1950. He decided to take classic cars of his birth year (even a Lagonda, Porsche 356 or a Queens Bentley) and, completely crazy, he decided to put 50 of these cars of age 50 like him in his private wood in the Neandertal (yes the famous valley nearby) to let the time and nature do their work.
Konrad
Here a Lloyd Alexander of the then Borgward Co., this type of car was my first in the early 1960s (this one has a British number plate???)
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arturo7
·He should be taken out back and shot.
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Pastorbottle
·Wow, and all these vehicles have the steering wheel on the wrong side!! Bizarre!
(I know, why they built the channel tunnel only for trains: for cars they could not handle the turmoil in the middle...)
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Pastorbottle
·He should be taken out back and shot.
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Paedipod
·for September 14.....
well it kind of followed me home......
well it kind of followed me home......
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Paedipod
·Unfortunately both lights come up at the same time (and they work!). It’s a1.8L four. Once I get some of the mechanicals (brakes and suspension) sorted will get some local professional help with the bus power plant.
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hen
·Hallo friends of Oldtimers,
I remember in the 80s the car dealer Michael Fröhlich in Düsseldorf city allways offering extraordinary gems of automobiles. Then he disapeared...
Now I read his later story.
In the year 2000 he got 50, so born in 1950. He decided to take classic cars of his birth year (even a Lagonda, Porsche or a Queens Bentley) and, completely crazy, he decided to put 50 of these cars of age 50 like him in his private wood in the Neandertal (yes the famous valley nearby) to let the time and nature do their work.
Konrad
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kfranzk
·Youc an always tell a four cylinder (or at least one which started life as a 4) as they have four stud wheels, 6 cylinder cars have 5 stud wheels.
So I dont know what a stud is, my car has 4 wheels, each attached with 5 bolts, and it has two repolcators at front and at minimum one contrameduse to turn it upside down.
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MRC
·Oh boy, as a non-English native I try and try and let it translate even by AI, I dont come up with this joke, or is it a hidden humor?
So I dont know what a stud is, my car has 4 wheels, each attached with 5 screws, and it has two repolcators at front and at minimum one contrameduse to turn it upside down.
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Tayne
·Oh boy, as a non-English native I try and try and let it translate even by AI, I dont come up with this joke, or is it a hidden humor?
So I dont know what a stud is, my car has 4 wheels, each attached with 5 screws, and it has two repolcators at front and at minimum one contrameduse to turn it upside down.
914 (4cylinder)
914-6 (6cylinder)
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kfranzk
·Ok and thanks, I learned (no inherent humor....):
- My VW Golf 6-cyl. 4WD bolt wheel:
(The wheel bearing is mounted with 4 bolts flange, while on 4-cyl. Golfs with 3 bolts only.)
- An American cars stud wheel:
- My VW Golf 6-cyl. 4WD bolt wheel:
(The wheel bearing is mounted with 4 bolts flange, while on 4-cyl. Golfs with 3 bolts only.)
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kfranzk
·In my hometown Düsseldorf we have a location 'Classic Remise', a former Lokomotive Shed, where now you can rent a space for your classic car and where some oldtimer dealers have their showcase. Sometimes I go there for a coffee and a look for those Mercedes 300SL, the Maseratis, Packard, Lagondas, or Hispano-Suiza aso. the best and rarest you can get. Recently they got two Russian or better Soviet Zil (type 111 and 117) government limousines.
And there are some service shops, so I let my VW Golf 6-cyl. been polished.
I got my VW Golf R32 in 2007 from Volkswagen and did drive it for 18 years, my only car, a small but very powerfull car. My whife said, I am another human sitting in this car. But thats wrong, the car beheaves completely different in comparison to her standard VW Golf.
But last year I decided to be a senior, not so speedy, more decent and changed to a VW Touareg V8, the natural upgrade and I can enter upright.
Both these cars were and are least of their kind, Volkswagen offers no 6-cylinder Golf since then and now no more V8 diesel cars.
Here my Golf R32 in the Classic Remise:
And there are some service shops, so I let my VW Golf 6-cyl. been polished.
I got my VW Golf R32 in 2007 from Volkswagen and did drive it for 18 years, my only car, a small but very powerfull car. My whife said, I am another human sitting in this car. But thats wrong, the car beheaves completely different in comparison to her standard VW Golf.
But last year I decided to be a senior, not so speedy, more decent and changed to a VW Touareg V8, the natural upgrade and I can enter upright.
Both these cars were and are least of their kind, Volkswagen offers no 6-cylinder Golf since then and now no more V8 diesel cars.
Here my Golf R32 in the Classic Remise:
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaBut thats wrong, the car beheaves completely different in comparison to her standard VW Golf.
I used to think my TDI was a bit of a beast, but every time we swapped cars, I regretted handing the R32 back.
Here's my TDI, nickname "Brutal".
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