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PostPosted: Sun Dec 07, 2014 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dang -- foiled again LOL -- -- But this is the third show in a row I've seen cars I've never even heard of before --

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasspar_G2
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 4:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Dang, one could run over one's own arm in that thing! Shocked
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 08, 2014 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

^^^^^^^^
Or get sprayed by water flung off the rear wheel.

A famous dancer, Isadora Duncan, died in 1927 when her long silk scarf became entangled around the open-spoked wheel and rear axle of the car in which she was a passenger, hurling her from the open car and breaking her neck.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have no idea!

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think it's a MUTT. Has a little bit of everything.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

custom bodied bread van, built on an ex-Army Bedford truck chassis, using some vintage American car parts in the process

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/the-amazing-maltese-bread-van/

Currently garaged.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 11:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I think it's a MUTT. Has a little bit of everything.


Looks like Christine was a cheerleader back in the day below, and above is what she looked like after popping out a couple of kids and drinking too much Colt 45...

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Lol this was in the comments
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 11:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

thats so funny,poped out tomany kids!!!! soccor mom!!!!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That's a VOLVO "Laplander" or "Valpen" (Swedish for puppy) built for the Army and Fire brigades 1959-81
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http://www.volvotrucks.com/trucks/sweden-market/sv...ander.aspx
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yup!
A few more pics:
http://bringatrailer.com/2010/06/19/bat-exclusive-1970-volvo-c202-vht-4x4/

Cool site too!
This was on pg 1

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 9:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Yup!
A few more pics:
http://bringatrailer.com/2010/06/19/bat-exclusive-1970-volvo-c202-vht-4x4/

Cool site too!
This was on pg 1

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Looks like a Lotus 11 to me.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 20, 2015 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes it is a Lotus---and the carrier is for sale in the ad.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Ahh now this was a VW Pimpmobile used at Hamburg Airport to guide disembarking GIs to the Reeperbahn for an evenings familiarisation tour. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Now for a six-volt car that's one heck of an electrical load. I wonder how they beefed up the power output.
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Now for a six-volt car that's one heck of an electrical load. I wonder how they beefed up the power output.


Here is a newer version of how it's done.

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There was an option for the early cast in place stand engines.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow. Learned something new today. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Ahh now this was a VW Pimpmobile used at Hamburg Airport to guide disembarking GIs to the Reeperbahn for an evenings familiarisation tour. Very Happy


More likely to guide them to the Pigalle in Paris, considering the Air France DC4 hangered in the background.
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