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Can I have a go as reward for getting one half-right? This is an easy one, but it sure surprised the hell out of me! Without cheating & Googling it I have no idea of model. It's a Stanley (you can see part of the name on the pic), so probably a steam car. In the early days of automobiles, when the internal combustion engine was still being refined, steam technology was already well understood & well refined so it was easy to scale down into cars, steam cars were usually much quicker & more reliable than their 4-stroke counterparts.
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Last Edit: Aug 8, 2016 20:22:49 GMT by MkX
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luckyseven
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Yeah, it's a Stanley Steamer and yeah, I said it was easy, having the name in the pic! The couple who'd driven it to the Goodwood Softop Sunday breakfast club were really informative about it. Apparently it's an mid-period model, so it's got a "modern" oil-fired boiler that builds steam very quickly (none of this having to fire it two hours before you want to drive it nonsense of the older ones) but it dates from before they had a reclamation condensor made to look like a conventional car radiator in the front in an attempt to make steamers look "normal" (for the day) and tempt away buyers of those newfangled petrol-driven things. The owner said it chugs up to speed very quickly and can easily keep up with modern traffic but the brakes leave a little to be desired. In period most cars had rear wheel brakes and a transmission brake which did most of the work... but a steamer doesn't have a transmission to brake so it's rear-wheel only. The driver did imply you'd be better off wearing thick gloves and dragging your hands along the road when you want to slow down. It's also comletely silent when running, which makes it a very easy thing to get run over by, as one inattentive punter almost proved at Goodwood
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Seth
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I forgot about this one and it was only earlier this year!
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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Ah the lovely Ghia as modelled by Corgi Toys back in the day! Chrysler V8 powered and very lovely indeed.
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South Cerney show this weekend (this wasn't on display but parked around the back) - model's written on the boot but i certainly haven't seen this spec before
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Last Edit: Aug 8, 2016 22:38:42 GMT by scimjim
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Pembrey about a month ago. I was at that show too. Couldn't tell you what either was though. Were you in a DAF? We followed a DAF out when we left mid afternoon.
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Last Edit: Aug 9, 2016 0:29:56 GMT by MkX
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Yeah, it's a Stanley Steamer and yeah, I said it was easy, having the name in the pic! The couple who'd driven it to the Goodwood Softop Sunday breakfast club were really informative about it. Apparently it's an mid-period model, so it's got a "modern" oil-fired boiler that builds steam very quickly (none of this having to fire it two hours before you want to drive it nonsense of the older ones) but it dates from before they had a reclamation condensor made to look like a conventional car radiator in the front in an attempt to make steamers look "normal" (for the day) and tempt away buyers of those newfangled petrol-driven things. The owner said it chugs up to speed very quickly and can easily keep up with modern traffic but the brakes leave a little to be desired. In period most cars had rear wheel brakes and a transmission brake which did most of the work... but a steamer doesn't have a transmission to brake so it's rear-wheel only. The driver did imply you'd be better off wearing thick gloves and dragging your hands along the road when you want to slow down. It's also comletely silent when running, which makes it a very easy thing to get run over by, as one inattentive punter almost proved at Goodwood I don't think a lot of people realise how very far advanced steam was over internal combustion in that era, (apart from the getting up steam bit). 1905. A fledgling Rolls Royce brought out their V-8, it had a top speed of 26 mph, (the universal maximum speed in GB was 20 mph anyway). 1905. The most colossal internal combustion engined car, the Daracq 200hp with it's 25 litre engine, set a new land speed record of just under 110 mph. 1905. A White's Steam car nicknamed Whistling Billy was built, (you may have seen a fantastic replica of this car which turns out at some of the bigger shows), it went on to set a speed record of nearly 130 mph!
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I was at that show too. Couldn't tell you what either was though. Were you in a DAF? We followed a DAF out when we left mid afternoon. Yep that was me
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Current fleet.
1967 DAF 44 1974 VW Beetle 1303s 1975 Triumph Spitfire MkIV 1988 VW LT45 Beavertail 1998 Volvo V70 2.5 1959 Fordson Dexta
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I took swmbo to her first classic car show many moons ago, it was at a special school in kent. usual sort of stuff, MG's and the like and then this rocked up. And he did like everyone else, out came the deck chair etc and he enthusiastically chatted to anyone who asked.
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Were you in a DAF? We followed a DAF out when we left mid afternoon. Yep that was me I was with my Dad in his Gilbern Genie, (hence the reason I know a Genie from a GT). I might be misremembering but did you have a For Sale sign in the back screen?
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1980 Triumph TR7.
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Spotted at Lichfield cars in the park in July. I was amazed to see this out of a museum. Think I saw it in gaydon once before?!
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Lancia Lambda. Sort of the first monocoque and lots of clever structural details. I helped with welding one up some years ago. Body is basically double skinned very thick metal. Dash and bulkhead are cast aluminium.
The JET1 Rover is presumably the replica that Jools Holland had built as the original is permanently fixed in the Science Museum, London.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable.
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The JET1 Rover is presumably the replica that Jools Holland had built as the original is permanently fixed in the Science Museum, London. Ah that probably makes more sense. Excellent quality authentic finish for a replica then.
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A very local show, Teignmouth, Devon. Ok I know that the make is clear but anyone know the model? Loved this, proper patina. Were they still running through the Greek alphabet? Gamma, Theta or something along those lines?
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Spotted at Lichfield cars in the park in July. I was amazed to see this out of a museum. Think I saw it in gaydon once before?! JET 1 came to test at a track in or around Cardiff in the early 1950's ?Pengam Airfield? My grandfather was involved with the policing & managed to blag a drive.
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Last Edit: Aug 11, 2016 18:19:46 GMT by MkX
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Two I can't back up with pics but certainly interesting:-
Cardiff Castle grounds in the late 1980's. I was having a wander around what was quite a large show with my Dad, the most impressive end of the scale at this show was usually an E-Type Jag or a Rolls Royce 20/25 hp. Away from the bulk of the classics I spotted a Bugatti Type 35 replica, we went over to look, the bonnet was propped open, after poring over every detail of the car, the engine-turned finish under the bonnet, the polished pipes, the general patina, etc. we concluded it was the real McCoy, (in today's money that's somewhere between £800K to £2M+ !)
Bridgend show Circa 1990. A guy turned up with a Lambourghini Countach, he was just visiting the show & left his Lambo in the outside car park. I went across to look at the car & got chatting with him, while we were talking a crowd of boys around 15-16 years old had gathered around to drool over this poster car. The owner tossed one of the lads the keys & told him he could "Take it for a burn, but only around the car park!" I'm sure it made that lad's entire year.
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Last Edit: Aug 9, 2016 19:42:36 GMT by MkX
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