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Title: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: JJ on March 12, 2017, 08:14:58 AM
A few cars / trucks I liked as yesterday's Classic Car Show in the Verde Valley in historic Clarkdale, AZ  :cool: :thumb:


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Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: giusto on March 12, 2017, 08:53:28 AM
I'd like that little red Porsche 911...I can't see the window sign but it looks like a 65. beautiful car though I prefer something made a bit farther south than Stuttgart

 
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: Steph on March 12, 2017, 09:21:47 AM
A few cars / trucks I liked as yesterday's Classic Car Show in the Verde Valley in historic Clarkdale, AZ  :cool: :thumb:

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That looks cool, what is it

Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: sdcr on March 12, 2017, 09:42:51 AM
Mid 60's Chrysler Imperial. Back then, Mopar actually made well built and stylish cars.

That looks cool, what is it
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: troyhamilton on March 12, 2017, 09:50:14 AM
theres a bunch of classic stuff here needs to be restored, a 28 2 door sedan, 55 ford pickup, a 46 frazer car and its old military, 5 or 6 vws. 4 mustangs. owner will let them rot before they will roll! sad really
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 12, 2017, 10:17:51 AM
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Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: JJ on March 12, 2017, 10:32:15 AM
I'd like that little red Porsche 911...I can't see the window sign but it looks like a 65. beautiful car though I prefer something made a bit farther south than Stuttgart

Not a 911...but a 1965 model 356-SC.  I always liked vintage Porsche's!!  :1: :thumb: :cool:
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: JJ on March 12, 2017, 10:34:22 AM
Mid 60's Chrysler Imperial. Back then, Mopar actually made well built and stylish cars.
 

Yes....1965 Chrysler Imperial. :cool: :thumb: :1:
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: wymple on March 12, 2017, 10:38:05 AM
I'll take the red GMC over any of them.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: ohiorider on March 12, 2017, 11:12:34 AM
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Is this a Triking, or some other Guzzi-powered kit?
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: oldbike54 on March 12, 2017, 11:38:21 AM
I'll take the red GMC over any of them.

 Yeah , same here . The painter/carpenter in me always gravitates towards those types of vehicles .

 Dusty
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 12, 2017, 11:41:43 AM
Is this a Triking, or some other Guzzi-powered kit?

It's a Pembleton.... I think it's better than a Triking, it's based on a Citroen 2 CV. It has front wheel drive with an H gear box and reverse,  the suspension is amazing.  It's much more usable than a Triking,. It can be either 3 or 4 wheels, like the other 2CV based kit the Lomax.   


Lomax

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I have recently bought a Lomax which still has the Citroen 2CV engine.   I will use it as is this summer to try it out, but expect to be installing a Guzzi engine next winter.  :)
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: Penderic on March 12, 2017, 12:24:12 PM
I noticed that all those nice collectable classics have very little plastic body parts.

Modern cars will never become vintage collectable, let alone 'clunkers', until there is a lot of big 3d printers in a lot of home garages, capable of producing those unobtainable critical replacements.

Modern crap or future collectable?
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 :embarrassed: 
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 12, 2017, 12:36:44 PM
I saw one of those Jags not long ago.  It's just a modern run of the mill car with a Jaguar on the bonnet, no comparison to the real thing.   Having said that Jaguar has been producing sub standard cars for a long time now.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: RinkRat II on March 12, 2017, 01:04:06 PM
 Thanks for sharing those JJ, always enjoy seeing the fruits of people's labor. Pretty clever sneaking that Mustang in there :evil:
  Nice car!  Here is my work in progress, been in the family since new, now I'm the caretaker.


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      Paul B :boozing:
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: fossil on March 12, 2017, 01:26:59 PM
I saw one of those Jags not long ago.  It's just a modern run of the mill car with a Jaguar on the bonnet, no comparison to the real thing.   Having said that Jaguar has been producing sub standard cars for a long time now.

Well, have you driven a modern Jag lastly? The cars are regarded at least up to par in driveability, road holding, and so on with our German cars (Mercedes and BMW) even by German magazines. I drove an XJ recently and it behaved beautifully.

And compared to the other modern crap today they look really good.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 12, 2017, 01:28:53 PM
  Here's our yet to be Guzzified 1963 Citroen / Lomax 224.

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All the Guzzi engines will fit, but I would prefer a big block with carbs.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 12, 2017, 01:35:29 PM
Well, have you driven a modern Jag lastly? The cars are regarded at least up to par in driveability, road holding, and so on with our German cars (Mercedes and BMW) even by German magazines. I drove an XJ recently and it behaved beautifully.

And compared to the other modern crap today they look really good.

No I have not driven a modern one, and don't really have the inclination. The last Jag I drove was 3.8 E type about 35 years ago.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: Two Checks on March 12, 2017, 01:38:39 PM
 

Yes....1965 Chrysler Imperial. :cool: :thumb: :1:
Nope. 65 Imperial. Not a Chrysler. Separate car line. Imperial BY Chrysler. Imperials at that time still had full frames. Te rest of the MoPars were unibody.
We dont call an Acura a Honda Acura, do we?
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: ohiorider on March 12, 2017, 04:51:15 PM
I first encountered a Lomax in 2006.  We were riding our Triumph Bonnevilles (790cc) from the Cleveland area out West.  We encountered 3-4 Lomax at a gas station close to the Four Corners area.  They were from G Britain, and seemed to be having the time of their lives cruising our southwest desert roads in their Citroen-powered cars.

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BTW SaskMick ..... that Lomax in BRG color is beautiful!

Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: LowRyter on March 12, 2017, 04:55:57 PM
the red-white cove single headlight C1 with Cragers pretty well lights the fire.

the red 356 is pretty nice too
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: sdcr on March 12, 2017, 06:40:09 PM
the red-white cove single headlight C1 with Cragers pretty well lights the fire.

'56 perhaps?
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: RinkRat II on March 12, 2017, 06:55:06 PM
 56 or 57, without seeing the interior and how the top attaches their identical bodies and still beautiful.
     
     Paul B :boozing:
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 13, 2017, 02:01:09 AM
I first encountered a Lomax in 2006.  We were riding our Triumph Bonnevilles (790cc) from the Cleveland area out West.  We encountered 3-4 Lomax at a gas station close to the Four Corners area.  They were from G Britain, and seemed to be having the time of their lives cruising our southwest desert roads in their Citroen-powered cars.

(http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n284/bcgilligan/Riding%20Out%20West%202006/IMG_6618.jpg) (http://s115.photobucket.com/user/bcgilligan/media/Riding%20Out%20West%202006/IMG_6618.jpg.html)

BTW SaskMick ..... that Lomax in BRG color is beautiful!

Thanks Ohiorider, I like the a lot colour too............ Do you know if they took their cars back home again ?  The reason I ask is that it costs a bloody fortune to ship them across the Atlantic. I shipped mine from Holland that's how I know. 
  I don't think there's many Lomax's in the US, those I have seen pictures of have all been right hand drive which tells me they were all imported from the UK.   I think mine's the only one in Canada.  It's supposed to be a 1963 2CV,but everything has been replaced. The only original part is the vin plate. :grin:

PS, The Citroen engines are supposed to go on forever but they are only 600cc, my lawnmower engine is bigger. Looks just like a bike engine to me.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: SaskMick on March 13, 2017, 03:04:26 AM
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Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: Lannis on March 13, 2017, 08:39:17 AM
Mid 60's Chrysler Imperial. Back then, Mopar actually made well built and stylish cars.

That's true.   Some time between the days of the Imperial, and the days of the rise of the K-cars and the Cordobas with "Fine Corinthian Leather" interiors (and Montalban always said he could barely keep a straight face when he said that), Chryslers went from cars with a good reputation ("Sinatra drives an Imperial") to cars that we bought and found out they were generally cheap junk.

Lannis
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: screamday on March 13, 2017, 08:46:43 AM
A few cars / trucks I liked as yesterday's Classic Car Show in the Verde Valley in historic Clarkdale, AZ  :cool: :thumb:


I want this.  :drool:

(http://thumb.ibb.co/gar7Dv/DSC_0012.jpg) (http://ibb.co/gar7Dv)



Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: JJ on March 13, 2017, 11:19:18 AM
That's true.   Some time between the days of the Imperial, and the days of the rise of the K-cars and the Cordobas with "Fine Corinthian Leather" interiors (and Montalban always said he could barely keep a straight face when he said that), Chryslers went from cars with a good reputation ("Sinatra drives an Imperial") to cars that we bought and found out they were generally cheap junk.

Lannis

Indeed...my high school buddy was always a tried-and-true MOPAR guy...and he had a blue / white vinyl top Charger similar to this one, with a 383 cu. in.  / 4-barrel with a Hurst 4-speed shifter.   :thumb: :cool:


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Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: jbell on March 13, 2017, 01:52:35 PM
Never heard of the Lomax before, will check them out. Thanks.
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: twowings on March 13, 2017, 03:40:30 PM
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This will probably still be running when all the others have rusted away and the planet is ruled by cockroaches... :cool:
Title: Re: For all you classic car lovers...
Post by: JJ on March 13, 2017, 05:14:51 PM
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This will probably still be running when all the others have rusted away and the planet is ruled by cockroaches... :cool:

They say after a nuclear disaster...only two things will survive...spiders and cockroaches...and now...maybe VW bugs!! (LOL)