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[EJ3]

Hello EJ3,
yes, a real bullet with 12 cylinders.
It goes over 320 km/H (about 200 mph) although I rarely drive it because it belongs to my son.

Very nice car, but I wouldn't spend that much on a car.

The most expensive car I've driven myself was a BMW 750IL

Since I retired from the business, I drive the "small" BMW with diesel twin turbo.

The next one will probably be a hybrid or a pure electric vehicle.

I don't know yet.

This would hit 155 MPH (250 KPH) but was rarely driven over 100 MPH (160 KPH) but most frequently at around 78 MPH (125 KPH)
As a car/truck derived from a station wagon with a full frame, it suited my truck purposes well. 1979 396 V8 (6.5 Liter) 491 HP Chevy El Camino Small Block, manual transmission 5 sp.

 

[Audionaut]

What pickups are in the USA, station wagons were in Germany for decades, although the ratio has now shifted to SUVs.

You hardly see any pickups here, although that is unlikely to change.

 

[EJ3]

What pickups are in the USA, station wagons were in Germany for decades, although the ratio has now shifted to SUVs.

You hardly see any pickups here, although that is unlikely to change.

It was station wagons here, also in the 60's-the early 70's. And pickup trucks were not so common. And certainly did not handle well or have much comfort.

 

[EJ3]

i do not have car lol uber is my top

H'mm, you did not show us an UBER. (something that I have only used in places that I would not visit if not for friends that live there, as typically I would rent a car).
I presume that you live in a vertically oriented city.
Do you regret not having a car?
Are you jealous of car owners?
Do you wish you had a car?
Are you happy to not have a car?
What is your point?
Just trying to find what motivates you look at or respond to a thread that does not apply to your non-car ownership case?

 

[Oddball]

Some of more recent cars. Probably not great idea to post with license plates, but then don’t really have much to hide .

 

[EJ3]

Yes I want to know more about the Trans Am because frankly I don't believe it. It doesn't add up with the physics of the engine and automobiles.

Been aware of the 85th percentile rule for many years. Wished more places would actually use it to set limits.

The rest I have no idea what it is supposed to be about. The fact you can make a car that goes 200 or 300 mph in no ways makes it a safe speed to go on public highways. My own ideas which are fairly simple are that somewhere around 85 mph is probably about as fast as you normally could consider a reasonably safe speed. Definitions of "reasonably safe" would enter into it of course. Primarily based upon visual acuity, braking ability and reaction times. One could make other interpretations of those facts. There is one simulation from a few years ago where someone estimated the maximum speed at which a car passing modern crash standards could crash with some chance of survivability into a solid object. Like a brick wall. If memory serves it was somewhere around 66 mph. 0% survivability. So picking a single number involves some assumptions which aren't going to be perfect. I don't see any place where it makes sense that would be 200 mph.

As for seeing that stop sign or deer at 9800 ft I doubt it. You might see a reflective stop sign in some sense. If deer is looking the other way you wouldn't. First you have to have a road with that much visibility of nearly 2 miles. It cannot be hazy. And after all of that, you don't have the visual acuity to see what it is (probably not even that it is there) at those distances. 1 moa the approximate visual acuity of healthy eyesight is over 30 inches at that range. With you and/or objects in motion it is more like 3 times that. At night even with very bright lights you are fooling yourself to think you'll see it on a highway driving.

I'm good with 85-100 MPH & some better driver training in the USA. At one time we got some driver training in high school (it was OK for rural roads but not nearly extensive enough [such as actual driving involving a slippery surface or a flat tire]), among other things.
And an upgrade to the tires that are available (getting rid of the traction less, lowest common denominator tires that just barely meet the minimum requirements of being round & holding air) in the USA.
Tires are [on most cars] 4 {sometimes more & sometimes only 3} small points of contact with the lives of others & your life).
The available tires should skew toward the better ones as opposed to the cheapest available.

 

[EJ3]

That 1953 or 54 Studebaker is Outrageous! What an eye grabber!

A few more from the hidden room brought to light:

 

[EJ3]

I drove one (rental car) in 1988 for about 6000 km in the US south west. It was a great car, took about 5 l per 100 km. Much better to drive than the cheap Chevy they gave me first and which I gave back to get a car with stick shift.

I have owned a Civic with the odd CVCC (Compound Vortex Controlled Combustion) that they did for enhanced combustion (it worked great & I did not enhance anything on it [it was just a hooptie beater but worked well for my purposes at the time] {never needing to go over 45 MPH in a 20 mile radius}).
And I had a 2007 Honda Fit that I did modify some (Michelin Defender T&H tires 3 sizes wider & a 1/2 aspect ratio taller, KYB Gas-A-Just struts & exhaust & intake mods (which created better torque and fuel economy).
It was a city/rural car and served it's purpose very well, sold it in 2019 with 54K miles on it.
I set up a 1988 Honda CRX SI like the Jackson Racing one for street duty: with the European DBL OVERHEAD CAM cylinder head, a Jackson Racing exhaust system (with a moderate sounding muffler and tuned it to 128 HP (at the front wheels vs. the original 108 rating at the flywheel), put on Jackson Racing Tokiko 5 way adjustable struts, used Jackson Racing anti sway bars, Yokohama 008 tires. and a Quaife limited slip differential and a Jackson Racing supercharger
It would beat a 5.0 Mustang in the first & second gears (of the CRX), then the Mustang could pull away from it.
It could also outrun a Ferrari 328 in an autocross style slalom. You can look it up (the July 1988 issue of Road & Track Magazine hit the shelves with a Ferrari and a Porsche BEHIND a Honda. The Jackson Racing CRX Si upset the giants in the test).

And, as expected, the fuel economy remained very close to the same (the old 1988 CRX Si: 27 mpg combined on the post-2008 cycle, the modified on does 26 mpg on that cycle).

 

[Timcognito]

53 or 54 Chevy 2 door Bel Air no pillar, NICE EJ. They took a lot of the chrome away in 55 and brought it back in 56

 

[napfkuchen]

The rest I have no idea what it is supposed to be about. The fact you can make a car that goes 200 or 300 mph in no ways makes it a safe speed to go on public highways. ... One could make other interpretations of those facts. There is one simulation from a few years ago where someone estimated the maximum speed at which a car passing modern crash standards could crash with some chance of survivability into a solid object. Like a brick wall. If memory serves it was somewhere around 66 mph. 0% survivability.

If you're driving in the evening with very little traffic, you might want to risk briefly testing your car's top speed. I haven't done that with my current car yet; it's "only" 225 km/h (140 mph) anyway. The only times I've driven faster were in driving school (about 240 km/h, 150 mph) and later in a friend's Alpina B5S (a little faster than 300 km/h, 190 mph). In the Alpina, high speeds felt completely relaxed, which is, of course, deceptive because physics still applies in an accident.
I worked for a company that sold traffic safety products for several years. Warning trailers with LED spotlights and reflective film were regularly destroyed by inattentive drivers. Once, I was on my way on the autobahn to a customer who needed such a "replacement" when a safety trailer was parked in the right lane to secure a road construction zone. Here in Germany, in such a situation, two VMS trailers are always parked on the hard shoulder at some distance from the actual construction site. I briefly flashed my headlights to the truck driver in front of me to signal him to get in line, but crashed into the stationary warning trailer at full speed (80 km/h, 50 mph) - probably asleep at the wheel. The cab was reduced to a height of about 1m high after the accident... Since then, I always drive on the left lane in traffic jams and leave some space in front of my car.
My last total loss was a head-on collision with someone who was trying to turn through oncoming traffic (my car). Although both cars were traveling at a maximum of 25 mph, my car was deformed up to the A-pillar and a front wheel was off.

 

[Timcognito]

Win a 1966 Pontiac GTO Convertible, '70 Chevy Chevelle SS, '67 Corvette Sting Ray, or 2025 Corvette Z06

Ronald McDonald House Central Valley California adds two new restored classics to its annual giveaway, a 66 Pontiac GTO and a 70 Chevelle SS.

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[Dr Morbius]

My sunny day driver……….

 

[pablolie]

My sunny day driver……….View attachment 466592View attachment 466593

I reported this post due to sheer envy.

 

[Dr Morbius]

that’s quite alright!

 

[Ropeburn]

 

[Dr Morbius]

Hey………wait a sec, is that a gun?……………what did I do?

 

[EJ3]

Hey………wait a sec, is that a gun?……………what did I do?

Become envied.

 

[Ken1951]

My sunny day driver……….View attachment 466592View attachment 466593

Beautiful Packard!

 

[fatoldgit]

Strangely don't have many photo's of Vince, my '68 British classic car that I have owned since '83.

All I could find were some shoots taken at a car show I took him to. Was a sunny day so photos might not be the best.

They made around 3200 of them but only 20 or so remain... most we sold in England and winter road salt would have been the killer.. hence the small number of survivors

Mine was imported to Kiwi Land on special order and with no salt needed down here has survived.

Features a slant 4, 2.3L motor with performance mods (no the twin 45mm Dellorto's weren't standard !!!) so the motor is good for 160BHP...which in a car that weighs 900kg gives it good poke.

The gearbox however sucks so with all the torque it has you treat it like a one speed (i.e. get into fourth gear and stay there... pulls fine from 15mph).

Gets a stunning 17 mpg!!!!!

 

[pablolie]

Porsche 356 Speedster... *replica*. Toyota engine. Fiberglass body. $24k back in the early 2000s. Lots of fun and stirs up 10 conversations an hour when parked.