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Sept 30, 2009 13:56:35 GMT
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As title suggests. one picture per user. can be your fave due to setting, the car itself, what it represents, where it is, when it is, anything as long its your fave show me and tell me why. Ill start heres mine:  Ilove everything about this the setting the cars the retro feel that it could have been taken 50 years ago. Being taken at bonneville makes it that much cooler too  So peeps whats yours? |
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Sept 30, 2009 14:14:01 GMT
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Always tough to narrow it down to just one, but at the moment I'd say this is my favourite.  My first ever lap of the Nurburgring, in an automatic Volvo 240 with three other guys on board and a boot full of camping gear - it wasn't that quick, but I managed to hold a 205 GTi at bay! I was very excited to randomly find this photo online when I got back... I love the fact that there's a 911 cheekily peeking past - it almost looks like I'm beating him! |
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Sept 30, 2009 16:06:33 GMT
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i would love to do the ring maybe one year ill be able to afford to go  theres always something particularly good about finding a picture of your car either on the net in a mag etc. I think its the fact that then i know someone else likes them as much as me  |
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RetroMat
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Column Shifting!
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Sept 30, 2009 18:52:56 GMT
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I always liked the flying Napier-Railton ;D  I got to see the actual car earlier in the year and it is massive ;D |
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Last Edit: Sept 30, 2009 18:57:21 GMT by RetroMat
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Sept 30, 2009 19:14:52 GMT
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got to be this the car I aspire to one day I will have one   |
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Last Edit: Sept 30, 2009 19:16:06 GMT by tonka12
97 volvo 940 turbo wagon
87 fiat strada abarth
78 gs1000
82 katana 1100
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Sept 30, 2009 19:22:50 GMT
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Cannot. Choose. One.
It would have to be something with some meaning /soul/memories behind it though rather than just a nice photo of a nice car.
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Sept 30, 2009 20:07:06 GMT
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It's so hard to pick just one. I saw this a few years ago doing a bit of research and it allways stuck in my mind:  I suppose it was thinking about the shear lunacy of the drivers piloting thse V16 520bhp monsters with tyres that resemble a digestive biscuit, cable operated drum brakes, no seatbelts etc etc etc. I do have this poster on my wall that is one of my faves:  The two TWR XJS's (my fave cars) that wiped the floor with the European Grp A touring car championship. Another example of the brits sticking it to the Germans ;D |
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Sept 30, 2009 21:36:37 GMT
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 this is my fav pic, this is Dennis McCaffrey the original and only owner of the 65 bug we got off him, just after this pic was taken he kissed the roof of the car and said goodbye, it was very emotional, he was not a member of a 'scene' he just loved his car. All he wanted was for someone to restore her, which leads me to my second fav pic, Heidi fully restored.  ok I bent the rules a bit but a touching story. |
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Sept 30, 2009 21:42:06 GMT
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I hope you have taken him for a spin since its been restored? ^^^^
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1986 Panda 4x4.
1990 Metro Sport.
1999 Ford Escort estate.
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Sept 30, 2009 21:50:44 GMT
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As for a pic, its of one of my own cars. I took this pic of my MI16`d 205, which I was in the process of stripping and converting into a trackday toy. It was snapped after a day-long "pointless drive" into the scottish highlands, which is something I used to do pretty regularly when I had time/money for fuel This snap was taken at a layby at the end of the most exciting bit of driving I have ever done on any roads anywhere. It had been a day of smooth tarmac, fast flowing corners and not another soul to be seen on the road. The road layout meant that visibility of the road ahead for a long distance had been perfect for countless miles so I had pushed the car and myself harder than I have ever driven on an open road anywhere. Looking at this photo now just reminds me how much fun it was, and how much I miss that car. Like a fanny, I have snce lost the hi-res original and just have this small effort which I had posted on a forum at the time.  |
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1986 Panda 4x4.
1990 Metro Sport.
1999 Ford Escort estate.
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Mike
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Sept 30, 2009 21:59:36 GMT
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This is my current favourite:  I don't know anything about the car, and I'm not too bothered about finding out specifics, it's just a cool photo. |
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tri
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Sept 30, 2009 22:01:05 GMT
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This is my current favourite: I don't know anything about the car, and I'm not too bothered about finding out specifics, it's just a cool photo. Sex. on. Wheels. |
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I always liked the flying Napier-Railton ;D I got to see the actual car earlier in the year and it is massive ;D What an awsome piture a pure classic I know its hard to try and pic one but thats why I'm asking. I'm saying at a push (life or death situation) what one out of all your pictures would you choose. some wicked ones so far and for different reasons I'm glad the beetle story is way cool and very touching!! The pug one is too i went to the lake district earlier this year in my cavalier and i have some of that and thats the same brings back some very good memories |
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My fav car pic changes on at least a weekly basis, sometimes it the scenery or the subject or the style of pic. My current favourite from my random piccies file is this one, its fairly plain, nothing special but it shows a Rangey doing what Rangies are famous for doing with their suspension, and carries mods you don't normally see on Rangies (at least in this country anyway) i'd like mine to end up something like this one.  Of course if i'd posted an answer tomorrow my answer would probably be a different piccy.  |
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Volvo back as my main squeeze, more boost and some interior goodies on the way.
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I am quite liking this one at the moment, too many to choose from though!  |
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427
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Praise The Lowered
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Awesome movie, epic car.  |
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 There are a couple of Gilles Villeneuve going sideways that pretty much sum up how I'd like to think about motorsport; on the edge and pushing. The picture always makes me think of these two quotes : "My preoccupation was keeping myself alive, but Gilles had to be the fastest on every lap - even in testing. He was the fastest racing driver the world has ever seen." "Why do we bother? He's different from the rest of us" Also I recently read this and it made me think of the difference between then and now, Fangio said of him "Villeneuve did not race to finish, he did not race for points. He raced to win." And that is why that photo is my favourite. |
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If I had to choose it would probably be something like this ;D (sorry it's a bit big)..........  |
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Sierra - here we go again! He has an illness, it's not his fault.
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There's lots of pics that I appreciate from a car and/or photography level, but this thread seems to be going towards the picture/story theme. So here's mine.  Firstly, it's a legendary retro car (Mr.Ishibashi's V8 330 has been an RR fave since the beginning) and secondly because I took the pic on a Japanese freeway hanging out of the back window of a Mazda Cosmo. |
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megzy
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took this at the weekend no retro but i like it  |
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theres always something particularly good about finding a picture of your car either on the net in a mag etc. I think its the fact that then i know someone else likes them as much as me 
