Car Chat

[FoMoJo]

The limiters are set at 45mph

Does the engine have enough torque to let you brake then power through/out of a corner and get up to speed quick?

[BimmerM3]

I like the karts where the brake is only on one wheel, so you can use it to help rotate the kart around really tight hairpins as long as they're going the right way.

[r0tor]

'lectric or gasse?

Feeeeert

[r0tor]

Does the engine have enough torque to let you brake then power through/out of a corner and get up to speed quick?

Depends on technique.  They have centrifugal clutches so if you are good you can spin them coming off the turn, if you are bad it just bogs down

[Eye of the Tiger]

Feeeeert

Friendship is magic

[r0tor]

What a goofy looking Porsche.  Who would pay $20 million for this thing?



Nobody, it seems.

It's really a priceless piece of history
https://youtu.be/HaDWPBco07w

[cawimmer430]

Bought this book about Erotic Swabian Art today at the Audi Museum in Ingolstadt (stay tuned for some detailed snapshots of some cool new cars they had there!!!). 

[MX793]

Were the "pickups" for the Aussie market?

[cawimmer430]

Were the "pickups" for the Aussie market?

Nope. They were exclusively made for the Argentinian market and were locally made in a Mercedes factory there. The only engine available was the 2.2-l 4-cylinder diesel with 60-horsepower.

[cawimmer430]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mao4WyBvKc

[MX793]

Nope. They were exclusively made for the Argentinian market and were locally made in a Mercedes factory there. The only engine available was the 2.2-l 4-cylinder diesel with 60-horsepower.

I could see that, as well.  Smaller, car-based "trucks" had a following in Latin America as well.

[cawimmer430]

I could see that, as well.  Smaller, car-based "trucks" had a following in Latin America as well.

Yep. There's actually a lot of Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicle history from South America that is unknown to me. They had locally-produced versions of the infamous "Kurzhauber" trucks for example, which looked like this in Europe and elsewhere (the model below is an early model).




They produced it locally and turned it into a bus. Kurzhaubers were never used as buses here.

[AutobahnSHO]

hahaha I rode on a few of those buses 1994-1996. Got rare towards the end though.

[cawimmer430]

hahaha I rode on a few of those buses 1994-1996. Got rare towards the end though.

Saw a documentary about older Mercedes' and there's a truck driver in Brazil whose "Kurzhauber" has over 3.8 million kilometers behind it. He still uses it to this day! Incredible.





Now this is funky!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F36nsI6ssM

[cawimmer430]

Really gotta try this sometime. 

[FoMoJo]

Ultimate Sleeper

1963 Ford 300 427 R-code

[Eye of the Tiger]

Ultimate Sleeper

1963 Ford 300 427 R-code

But red is fast. It needs to be beige and a wagon.

[FoMoJo]

But red is fast. It needs to be beige and a wagon.

Does that look fast to you.  Four doors and painted wheels, though I think those tires would last about 1 burnout.

[Eye of the Tiger]

Does that look fast to you.  Four doors and painted wheels, though I think those tires would last about 1 burnout.

Yeah, it looks fast. I bet there is a 427 under that hood.

[FoMoJo]

Yeah, it looks fast. I bet there is a 427 under that hood.

Well, it is a Ford after all, but it looks almost like a Granny car.

Love to have something with a 427 R-code engine.

[Galaxy]

This has to be one of the most hilarious car defect I have seen.

https://youtu.be/2ys3bEvNorQ?t=294

[cawimmer430]

This has to be one of the most hilarious car defect I have seen.

https://youtu.be/2ys3bEvNorQ?t=294

I find Hoovies channel so boring. It's always the same tactic.

"I bought the cheapest __________ in the country! Let's find out what's broken on it!"

Gets old after awhile. 

Also, he needs to stop buying severely abused cars. It's clear to me that the previous second or third or fourth owners bought the cars cheaply, perhaps even modified them and weren't big on maintenance. I'd avoid such cars like the plague.

[cawimmer430]

Priscilla at the Max-Josef-Platz in downtown Munich, 8 PM.

[MexicoCityM3]

I have BMW Mexico's press M850i for the day. Will report later.

[cawimmer430]

I have BMW Mexico's press M850i for the day. Will report later.

Don't crash it. 

[Galaxy]

I find Hoovies channel so boring. It's always the same tactic.

"I bought the cheapest __________ in the country! Let's find out what's broken on it!"

Gets old after awhile. 

Also, he needs to stop buying severely abused cars. It's clear to me that the previous second or third or fourth owners bought the cars cheaply, perhaps even modified them and weren't big on maintenance. I'd avoid such cars like the plague.

Well that is sorta the theme of his channel, even if it is to some extent a facade. Doug Demuro sorta called him out on it on one of their cross overs that he has a $90,000 Denali. Tyler made the distinction that that vehicle is leased through his families Taco Bell empire, which I think is still his day job.

The SL however is his grandmas old vehicle.   

[12,000 RPM]

Well well well well well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3X603u1sw

[shp4man]

Priscilla at the Max-Josef-Platz in downtown Munich, 8 PM.

Wimmer, did you name that car after Priscilla Presley? Just curious. 

[cawimmer430]

Amazing. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cw70cJmOxs

[MX793]

Visited a gem of a classic car museum that's squirreled away in an out-of-the-way little town.  I've known about it for a while and have heard numerous friends and family rave over the place, so it's been on my "to do" list to visit for a while.  Did not disappoint.  Quite a few cars, many of them very rare.  Mostly pre-WWII stuff, but they had a sampling of 1950s, '60s, and '70s stuff.  Almost exclusively American makes (I counted 4 foreign-made cars and a couple of foreign motorcycles).  Also an emphasis on cars tied to the Upstate NY region, which was actually home to several early auto manufacturers as well as a major GM production facility in Buffalo.  There was an entire room/wing dedicated to Franklin Motors, which was a Syracuse-based luxury car maker in the early 1900s that folded in the mid 1930s during the Depression.  They were noteworthy for being on the cutting edge for their day.  Leaders in air-cooled engines.  First to develop a 6-cylinder engine.  First to use an auto-advancing ignition.  Extensive use of aluminum in their cars, which gave them superior power/weight compared to contemporaries like Cadillac.  After they went bust, their engine division continued on for another 40 years, producing aircraft engines.  The flat 6 in the Tucker 48 was actually a Franklin engine, converted to water cooling (Tucker bought Franklin Engine Co in '47).  Also a few rare Pierce-Arrows (Buffalo-based luxury car maker that folded during the Depression).

A few standouts that caught my eye (I've really grown to appreciate the art deco styling of the 1930s and 40s).

1938 Graham Model 97 Supercharged "Sharknose"

The blue car in the background is a Chrysler C-17 Airflow


1936 Pierce-Arrow Roadster, one of only a handful of survivors and one of the last the company produced



This one-of-a-kind custom motorcycle, based on a 1930 Henderson KJ, built in 1936 by a guy who worked in GM's design department.  The bodywork is all metal.




They also had a room with a bunch of WWII aircraft engines, including some cool cutaways.

R-3350 18-cylinder Turbocharged from a B-29


R-1830 14-cylinder cut-away


And a couple of classic Porsches in the same room as the aircraft engines for some reason (some Franklin aircraft engines in the background)