Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Blower=derv heater?

This with the commentary, the tight roads, jumps, walls, houses...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRg5Sp1iQMc

The jumps...
...at 175mph

Van or buggered old Lancia?

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^^ Mental that a bike can take +30secs off that.

Its current owner bought it as a project of his own, but with two Land Rover builds on the go, plus a selection of old military vehicles he is currently working on, the Lancia has been set aside

That this guy has given up is a bad sign

The jumps...

...at 175mph

my heart rate gets to the same as his
@Ordinata can't watch the bikes with both eyes open

Comon.

Bit a polish ryte?

U might even top the Forum Maserati. ;oP

Unlikely. It was a factory option for a programmable heater but quite rare. They mainly have a secondary heater to boost heat to the back when the engine is on.

^ Bonus points if you know whats behind the Supra ^

First proper trip in the dad wagon. Filled the thing with people and loads of associated gubbins and headed west. Averaged 45mpg which I thought was fairly decent given the load. Also brilliant fun driving it about on country roads.

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is there anything special about fog lights or are they just bright lights mounted low?

Have you ever driven in heavy fog? Standard headlights decrease your visibility in heavy fog- the suspended water droplets diffuse the light and just reflect a lot of the light back at you. You end up just illuminating the the fog instead of the road. Fog lights are low to illuminate the road surface so you can see where you are going. They are more focused and lower output to increase your visibility. It's counter-intuitive but drive in heavy fog just once and it will all make sense.

No idea but looks hideous

There was some Saab love being expressed a page or six back - any recommendations for a specialist, the closer to SE7 the better?

We've just acquired a 9-3 estate that's overdue for a cambelt, and no doubt we'll find other niggles, though it was fine for a rainy hundred miles last night.

Cromwell in Lower Sydenham are good.

Are you sure your Saab has a cambelt? My last one was chain drive.

R32 still the best shape GTR.

#Changemymind.

Everything I've read says it's timing belt, and that's what the parts kits seem to include ... 1.9 TTID.

Thanks for the pointer to Cromwell's, though my wife's Irish so they may be off the list on name alone

I had one gurgling behind me today, beautiful thing... Probably worth a fortune, being driven by a normal looking dad, massive smile all over his boat... 🙃

Yeah and I'd always assumed there was something special about the beam or light itself.

Then when I was trying to find an answer online something suggested it was their position and the fact that they lit up the road. So it got me wondering.

#CSB the last time I went to France we swung by a supermarket before getting on the road. My after a long debacle with picking the car up me OH got annoyed at me trying to use the rental cars sat nav. But unfortunately my gmaps had the toll road setting off as we'd recently been to to Manchester.

Shortly after being taken off the main route an epic fog descended rolling off the fields. It was scary af not knowing where the lights were in the rental car, not being able to stop, not being able to see, or know where we were going, doing 20km at some points.

What should have been an hour and a half to two hours to get to the house took four.

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so cool. how easy is it to source parts? can't imagine it is that easy.... = £££

Hideous but functional just like lots of modern cars, this one's a Ford Focus ST modified as a camera tracking unit, cock gear car park.

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Show me a 'hot hatch' that doesn't deserve to be chopped up...

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Improvement.

Just watched this thank you.
"I'll just do this bit with the sun in my eyes with one hand on the wheel"