Classic car photos

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Richard230

Discussion Starter · Mar 10, 2013

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So this morning I was at Alice's Restaurant in Woodside, CA, and after a while various interesting classic cars, motorcycles and sport cars started showing up. I took a lot of photos so I will divide them up into three threads. Here are the classic cars. The first one is a Stuz 32. I had heard of their Bearcat, but I had no idea they made this huge touring sedan. I sure wouldn't want to try to turn the engine over with a crank. [:0]

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Sprint-Man

· #421 · May 18, 2022

Gerry, Sir,
I'd wager that anyone who's ridden a KH at speed on anything other than a dead straight road; had the "crap scared outa them" plus you were pillion?
Still, they were a bike from from my younger day's and seem so timeless and beautiful - the smell of Castrol R :rockon:

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Richard230

Discussion Starter · #422 · May 18, 2022

I never rode a KH500, but I did try out a 1966 Suzuki X-6 once and the acceleration of that bike really impressed me, especially as I was riding a 120cc Suzuki B-100P at the time. [

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continentalsey

· #423 · May 20, 2022

All these cars are amazing, is there something beautiful in old cars.

TheMeteor

· #424 · Jun 1, 2022

Spotted my first Rivian in the wild yesterday.

Prof

· #425 · 12 mo ago (Edited)

Richard230 said:
I never rode a KH500, but I did try out a 1966 Suzuki X-6 once and the acceleration of that bike really impressed me, especially as I was riding a 120cc Suzuki B-100P at the time. []

A bit of random history: The Suzuki X6 "Hustler" was a 2-stroke 250 with, for its time, startling 0-60 acceleration. I am told that in the late '60s the police department in San Antonio, TX changed their policy with regard to motorcycle patrols. They budgeted an amount for a motorcycle, and let MC patrol people choose their own. Several abandoned the standard H-D and chose instead the X6. I am told, although I don't know it to be true, that the reasons were (1) the X6 would catch anything they were likely to catch and (2) they got to keep the change. It's a very "markets are efficient" way to go, if the story is true. If you are a motorcycle patrol person, what would you buy today if the department gave you the cash to buy a H-D, but you could buy any motorcycle you wanted as your patrol bike and keep any leftover cash?

Richard230

Discussion Starter · #426 · 12 mo ago

One issue with the X-6 is that it really wasn't very reliable. As I recall the two owners of the new bikes, purchased in Panama City, were always working on them in their shop. (At the time I was based at Howard AFB in the Panama Canal Zone and the fellows who owned the Hustlers serviced and operated the base's large emergency generators, which rarely ran, so they had plenty of time on their hands to keep the bikes running well.)

Richard230

Discussion Starter · #427 · 11 mo ago

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[SUP]Here we have a 2017 Aero Cycle Car, powered by a Moto Guzzi V-twin and built by the owner from a kit. The owner was getting gas at the Sky Londa gas station across from Alice's Restaurant. And a not-built-from-a-kit, 1972 Ginetta sports car.[/SUP]

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Rev Ken

· #428 · 11 mo ago

A Morgan take-off, but it looks fun.

Richard230

Discussion Starter · #429 · 11 mo ago

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Perhaps this car that I saw today at Alice's Restaurant should be in the "Worst Jokes Ever" thread. [uhoh]

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ccwatchmaker

· #430 · 11 mo ago

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or at least in this case the eye of the owner. In addition to the anime cartoons, we get a picture of Richard hisself reflected in the window. Thanks for making me smile.

Prof

· #431 · 11 mo ago

Old cars and art

Some of the photos of older cars on this thread, such as the first one in the set of Stutz photos by Richard, make me think we have taken much of the art out of cars and replaced it with technological gadgetry. I once owned a 1948 DeSoto Club Coupe Custom. Teal blue, gorgeous thing. The hood ornament was a chrome-plated art nouveau statue of a naked lady. The ornament was about a foot and a half long, maybe longer, and probably weighed about 10 pounds. The next year or so, the abstract but lovely naked lady was replaced by a remarkably ugly bust of Hernando DeSoto that would light up at night, a clear case of "because we can" pushing art to its knees and shooting it in the head. The Mercedes three-pointed star and Jaguar's cat are nice exceptions, but otherwise, it's unusual to find a car with a bit of chrome-plated artwork on the hood.

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Gunther

· #432 · 11 mo ago

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Old racing car meeting in the city centre, a couple of months ago

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Sorry guys, I don't know manufacturer of the first ones, only the 500 in the last pics. In any case, all of them remind me Disney's uncle Scrooge car

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and I love those car body profiles [

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Richard230

Discussion Starter · #433 · 11 mo ago

Thanks, Gunther. Those are really nice looking race cars (well maybe not the Fiat). Very classic! [

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Gunther

· #434 · 11 mo ago

You must be jocking [lol] My cousin used to road race on a modified 500 like that one. I've never asked him how powerful it was though, not much, I suppose, but those cars looked bloody fast among hairpins.
By the way, the red car in the 3rd pic is a OSCA MT4 "Siluro" (torpedo), so called... guess why [

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Richard230

Discussion Starter · #435 · 11 mo ago

Gunther said:
You must be jocking [lol] My cousin used to road race on a modified 500 like that one. I've never asked him how powerful it was though, not much, I suppose, but those cars looked bloody fast among hairpins.
By the way, the red car in the 3rd pic is a OSCA MT4 "Siluro" (torpedo), so called... guess why []

I was thinking of its styling compared with the other cars that you photographed.

Pompey

· #436 · 10 mo ago

Just my MG.
A midget 1275cc, much fun without losing licence.

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Richard230

Discussion Starter · #437 · 9 mo ago

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Here are a couple of neat old orange and red cars that I saw at Alice's Restaurant today. Unfortunately, I don't know what years they are. Maybe sometime during the 1950's? That Datsun Fairlady 2000 is really something and both were in mint condition. I don't think I have ever seen a bright orange first-generation Corvette before.

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Pompey

· #438 · 9 mo ago

Just got back from France, my MG is still there as it had some engine issues, electric or fuel, there were approximately 15 other MG owners each with a different solution, cant wait till the car gets back to the UK and I can get under the bonnet.
As for IanA what a lovely memory re: Healy, I had a Austin Healy Sprite, looking to get another, hopefully a 1967

Richard230

Discussion Starter · #439 · 9 mo ago

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Here are photos of an interesting home-built kit car which looks ready to race that I saw today at Alice's Restaurant.

The doors swing upward. That thing is so low to the ground that I have no idea how he manages to navigate bumps in the road.

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Pompey

· #440 · 9 mo ago

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Before lost in France

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