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#81 Post by suffolkpete »

Keep up at the back there :D The clues say it's American and 1916. No Terry, it's not a steam car, it had a leaking radiator when I took that picture last year, but it had been fixed when I saw it again last Saturday.
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#82 Post by mr rusty »

Are we looking at a LaFrance Speedster?
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#83 Post by suffolkpete »

We are indeed! Your turn.
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#84 Post by mr rusty »

we've had a Jowett.....here's something else from up North......clue, the motorcycle it's based on was pretty sophisticated in it's day, elegant too, but this attempt to turn it into a light car doesn't really work aesthetically, despite the early spaceframe you can see a glimpse of below the door, and one of these ended up killing it's creator, but not in an accident!



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#85 Post by TerryG »

I am sure I have seen that so now I am going to be scratching my head all evening trying to remember where.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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#86 Post by arceye »

oooooohhhh

A Scott Sociable

If I'm right, and I believe I am, someone else take my turn please or you'll probably get a photo of a clutch pedal clevis pin from something in the garage cos I don't get out enough :oops:
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#87 Post by arceye »

Just had to look up what killed him, just goes to show tha shudn't gon't moor baht 'at :o
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#88 Post by mr rusty »

Correct! If o won the lottery, which will never happen as I don't buy a ticket, a Scott would be on the list, or if I was really lucky a 70's Silk reinterpretation of the flying squirrel......soooooo coooool 8-) interesting that Alfred Scott invented the kickstarter...shame he rode around in his sociable in wet clothes!
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#89 Post by arceye »

Well if that hadn't killed him the dodgy steering capability probably would have, daft Yorkshire man riding round in his potholing clothes, could only happen on't wrong side of't Penines ;)

well I would say that being from Lancashire :lol:
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#90 Post by zipgun »

TerryG wrote:I am sure I have seen that so now I am going to be scratching my head all evening trying to remember where.
Either on here, Autoshite or RR , coz i saw it in green too , and nicked the picture ...and they're the only places i frequent . :thumbs:
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