RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 55 minutes ago, Enterprisingwestern said: Didn't some chassis' have concrete blocks suitably placed? Mike. Only for testing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 22, 2021 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: Only for testing. Outside the fleet workshop door was a small mountain of tonne blocks, home to many spiders, mice and resident cat! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 22, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 22, 2021 11 hours ago, MrWolf said: Shades of Brooklands Bentley I imagine. "The world's fastest lorry" as they became known. At least to Ettore Bugatti, I think? 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 It's amazing what an overnight soak in 'Mr.Muscle' cleaner can do for dirty old chrome badges.... 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2021 13 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: It's amazing what an overnight soak in 'Mr.Muscle' cleaner can do for dirty old chrome badges.... You’ll need a bigger jam jar for the rest of the car….. 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 At least he won't have to sweep up after it, every time he parks? [Unlike my 4Trak!!] 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2021 21 minutes ago, alastairq said: At least he won't have to sweep up after it, every time he parks? [Unlike my 4Trak!!] You need a chassis net….like a hair net only underbeneath 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 Back in about 85 or 86 I watched a heavily laden, then 10ish year old Mini Clubman reverse vigorously out of a parking space and collide, equally vigorously, with a bollard. Once the driver had inspected the large, V-shaped indentation in the back of his car, and sworn a bit, he drove off, leaving a humorously Mini shaped deposit consisting of an astonishingly large quantity of filler and crumbly rust, which had been dislodged by the impact. Honestly, you could have filled a dustbin with it. I'm amazed there was any car left to hold the subframes together. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, PatB said: Back in about 85 or 86 I watched a heavily laden, then 10ish year old Mini Clubman reverse vigorously out of a parking space and collide, equally vigorously, with a bollard. Once the driver had inspected the large, V-shaped indentation in the back of his car, and sworn a bit, he drove off, leaving a humorously Mini shaped deposit consisting of an astonishingly large quantity of filler and crumbly rust, which had been dislodged by the impact. Honestly, you could have filled a dustbin with it. I'm amazed there was any car left to hold the subframes together. Seeing as it was a Mini that probably was the subframe. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 2 hours ago, boxbrownie said: You’ll need a bigger jam jar for the rest of the car….. I'll say! I was in the garage fettling it some more earlier and casually asked her indoors ''do you think they do Mr.Muscle in handy ten gallon drums...?''. I've started removing the light lenses and the front air dam grilles to give them a clean up, the grille parts will get a coat of satin black paint before going back on. I can't decide if I should paint the twin headlamp surrounds or leave them as they are in 'Swan White', apparently some white 430s left the factory with them painted in 'Anthracite' silvery grey, but I've also seen photos of a few with them painted black. Oh, and I've reset the clock in the dash, it now tells Greenwhich Mean Time, not Modena time! 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Rugd1022 said: it now tells Greenwhich Mean Time, not Modena time! Don't worry! It'll revert back once you're not looking... 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 A gratuitous bit of nostalgia before I nip off to work.... 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 23, 2021 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: A gratuitous bit of nostalgia before I nip off to work.... Remember the ford picture well. But the really special picture is number 224. Nino Vacarella, the Sicilian schoolteacher, who was also rather good in a Ferrari Sports Prototype nraced 330 P4 number 224, the sole Ferrari works entry to the 1967 Targa Floria. He was over a minute ahead when he sadly crashed. What a car and what a race! Nino is thankfully still with us. Kind regards, Richard B 3 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 23, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 23, 2021 In the first copy of Motor Sport I bought, September 1965, there was a pic in Collesano of the 1965 Targa Florio, with Nino in a 275P2. On the road someone had painted 'Forza Nino'. Nino's profession was as you say, a schoolmaster - but he was represented in other media as being all sorts of other things, including Professor of Law at Palermo Uni! 5 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted June 23, 2021 Share Posted June 23, 2021 9 hours ago, 30368 said: Remember the ford picture well. But the really special picture is number 224. Nino Vacarella, the Sicilian schoolteacher, who was also rather good in a Ferrari Sports Prototype nraced 330 P4 number 224, the sole Ferrari works entry to the 1967 Targa Floria. He was over a minute ahead when he sadly crashed. What a car and what a race! Nino is thankfully still with us. Kind regards, Richard B In itself something of an achievement for a racing driver of the era. 1 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2021 20 hours ago, alastairq said: At least he won't have to sweep up after it, every time he parks? [Unlike my 4Trak!!] 20 hours ago, boxbrownie said: You need a chassis net….like a hair net only underbeneath I thought that was why older Italian cars are called collectors cars, you have to go back and collect the bits that disintegrate and fall off in a carrier bag or two? Mike. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugd1022 Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Some more Targa Florio oldies.... 8 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2021 28 minutes ago, Rugd1022 said: Some more Targa Florio oldies.... 1965. Toppetti and Grana, Chassis 5995. Crashed out after 4 laps (of 10) 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 24, 2021 Why do many Italian sports/racing cars have right hand drive? 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gr.king Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Conformity with the naturally correct way of driving. 2 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlambert Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 33 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: Why do many Italian sports/racing cars have right hand drive? To give the driver the best view around predominantly clockwise racing circuits, I believe. Plus it's the proper place to sit. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 Helps them avoid the lorries, which always seem to drive on the wrong side of the road? 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Enterprisingwestern Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 24, 2021 2 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Some more Targa Florio oldies He must have been well in the lead if he's got time to park up under the shade of a tree for a picnic? Mike. 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted June 24, 2021 Share Posted June 24, 2021 (edited) Some times there are deliveys I enjoy and this was one of them dropping of a service kit for thus a caterham 1700 super sport .sounded glorious morning break well spent Edited June 24, 2021 by peanuts 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 30368 Posted June 24, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 24, 2021 10 hours ago, Rugd1022 said: Some more Targa Florio oldies.... Thanks some really good images. It seems odd that these really historical pictures are of my era! Good that I still feel about 28 or so and, fortunately, have not lost much of my 28 year old capabilities. Kind regards, Richard B 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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