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#1 Rexx Havoc

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 21:29

Berger, Suzuki and Capelli
in the vintage equipment?
Was it a charity race or parade laps?

was Berger always that tight in the McLaren?

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#2 Twin Window

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 21:33

Could you elaborate, please?

And do keep in mind that a lot of folk here on TNF don't watch the GPs any more (if that's what you're referring to)...

:)

#3 bigears

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 21:39

Gerhard Berger, Ivan Capelli and Argui Suzuki did a demo in their old F1 cars around the Suzuka track at the weekend of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Berger with his old McLaren, Capelli with the Leyton March and Suzuki in his Larrousse Venturi car.

Alesi and Nakajima was there too.

#4 Rexx Havoc

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 21:48

Originally posted by Twin Window
Could you elaborate, please?

And do keep in mind that a lot of folk here on TNF don't watch the GPs any more (if that's what you're referring to)...

:)


if your a subscriber you can see photos of the "ole timers" in thier old cars

#5 Rexx Havoc

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 21:49

Originally posted by bigears
Gerhard Berger, Ivan Capelli and Argui Suzuki did a demo in their old F1 cars around the Suzuka track at the weekend of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Berger with his old McLaren, Capelli with the Leyton March and Suzuki in his Larrousse Venturi car.

Alesi and Nakajima was there too.


you didn't answer were they parade laps or a spirited demonstration of equipement?

#6 Twin Window

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 22:08

Originally posted by Rexx Havoc

you didn't answer were they parade laps or a spirited demonstration of equipement?

I doubt if bigears was there in person, RH...

So, having myself now failed in seeing the pics on the AS site you alluded to, I can only conclude from your comments that the aforementioned ex-F1 drivers didn't *kick ass* on their 'demo' laps...

Is that your point?

#7 Vitesse2

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 23:07

Linky? :rolleyes:

#8 Rexx Havoc

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Posted 08 October 2006 - 23:42

Originally posted by Vitesse2
Linky? :rolleyes:


http://gallery.autos...690QXKIYO-1.jpg

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#9 Vitesse2

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 00:20

Originally posted by Rexx Havoc


http://gallery.autos...690QXKIYO-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...SG07MT2WX-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...SG07MT2WX-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...U90AY9Z41-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...5C0PQ5N28-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...750MO8PA8-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...Q90BA7SHT-1.jpg

http://gallery.autos...AP0A32Y2P-1.jpg

All thumbnails - no clicky!

Linky to root directory?

#10 Rexx Havoc

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 01:06

Originally posted by Vitesse2

All thumbnails - no clicky!

Linky to root directory?


me no speaky cybehrese

if you's a suscriber go to the sunday photos and they are past the midway point of the page

otherwise i don't want to repost them and get spanked for publishing copywrited material

#11 Paul Rochdale

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 08:10

You might get 'spanked' for wrecking the English language though... :eek:

your = you're
thier = their
equipement = equipment
you's = you're
suscriber = subscriber
copywrited = copyright

Sorry Rexx, it just jars with me AND it's a Monday morning and it's raining outside. :|

#12 Stephen W

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 09:19

Originally posted by Paul Rochdale
You might get 'spanked' for wrecking the English language though... :eek:

your = you're
thier = their
equipement = equipment
you's = you're
suscriber = subscriber
copywrited = copyright

Sorry Rexx, it just jars with me AND it's a Monday morning and it's raining outside. :|


Thank god it jars with someone else and it isn't even raining!

On the original subject you might find that Herr Berger has put on the odd kilo or three which is why it is a fight tit!

:wave:

#13 LOLE

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 11:06

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#14 D-Type

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 12:32

]Originally posted by Stephen W Berger, Suzuki and Capelli
in the vintage equipment?
Was it a charity race or parade laps?

was Berger always that tight in the McLaren?



Originally posted by Stephen W


Thank god it jars with someone else and it isn't even raining!

On the original subject you might find that Herr Berger has put on the odd kilo or three which is why it is a fight tit!

:wave:

I'm afraid this whole thread jars with me.

If it takes until post Number ten for the original poster to explain what he is talking about then clearly someone is failing to communicate!

Rexx Havoc, Does it really take that much effort to say "In the photos of the Japanese GP there are pictures of ..." or something like that?

#15 Arjan de Roos

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 13:10

As this is a thread coming from nowhere and going back in that direction, may I give it a useful twist:

"TWINNY WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR AVATAR???!!!"

#16 Stoatspeed

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 15:13

Originally posted by Arjan de Roos
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"TWINNY WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR AVATAR???!!!" [/B]


Looks like Twinny has been abducted by Bjorn's Transporter thread!! :lol:
... unless that's another derivative of a Morris Isis ... oh, no ... everyone keeps insisting the C-series is NOT a truck engine!
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#17 bill moffat

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Posted 09 October 2006 - 15:31

Truck or not it still keeps up the "Twin Windows" theme, personally I prefer the original and hope that Stuart's helmet can be restored (if you see what I mean).

#18 man

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 04:54

On youtube.



Interviews with Capelli, Berger, Alesi and Suzuki.



#19 2F-001

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 08:06

re: Stuart's transmogrified avatar - it's the rear-end of a twin-window Beetle (rather than a truck), isn't it?
(Or is that name preferred for the models with the split windscreens?)

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#20 Mallory Dan

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 13:23

I'm afraid I see the Ku Klux Klan, when TW's avatar comes up...

#21 David Beard

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 13:28

Originally posted by 2F-001
re: Stuart's transmogrified avatar - it's the rear-end of a twin-window Beetle (rather than a truck), isn't it?
(Or is that name preferred for the models with the split windscreens?)


It's not a Beetle, surely? Some old American sedan?
I thought it was quite a nice subtle alternative to his usual one, actually...

#22 David Beard

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 13:31

This is a split window Beetle.
It is more rounded at the bottom...

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#23 Vitesse2

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 14:01

Jowett?

#24 David Beard

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 14:56

The Javelin didn't have a split rear window :p

(I think this thread should be renamed "Disconnected jottings"....)

#25 David Beard

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 14:58

and the Tatra rear window, while being split, I think was large and curved...

#26 Stoatspeed

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 16:32

Originally posted by 2F-001
re: Stuart's transmogrified avatar - it's the rear-end of a twin-window Beetle (rather than a truck), isn't it?
(Or is that name preferred for the models with the split windscreens?)

Tony
You must have blinked and missed the avatar I mentioned ... for a brief time, Twinny had the split front windscreen of some 1930s or 40s commercial vehicle ... probably Morris Commercial .... then switched to the present rear window .. still unidentified, but I'd go with a 30s American of some sort? :confused:

In response to DAB's idea about a name change, I think it should become "sticky" and be called "A place to say something about Twinny's Avatar du Jour" :lol:

#27 2F-001

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 16:39

Yes, I guess I blinked! And didn't look too closely at the current one... (Never trust Stuart with his Photoshop though...!)
However, I did see the brief dalliance he had with Jacky Ick's blue twin-window Bell after the original one.

#28 D-Type

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 16:48

Originally posted by David Beard
and the Tatra rear window, while being split, I think was large and curved...

In case people are confused, I put up 'Tatra?' and then realised that you would always see the 'spine' and deleted the post. In the meantime David answered.

Sorry :blush:

#29 D-Type

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 16:49

Originally posted by Stoatspeed

~In response to DAB's idea about a name change, I think it should become "sticky" and be called "A place to say something about Twinny's Avatar du Jour" :lol:

How about 'The confusing thread'

#30 macoran

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 17:01

Originally posted by Arjan de Roos
"TWINNY WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO YOUR AVATAR???!!!"


I think it's a '47 Packard or Chrysler rear window...............I won't guess Airflow......cos I don't what it really looked like.

..............about wrecking the English language :
cos = is modern English for "because"
..............I really don't know where us furriners pick the stuff up.

#31 Twin Window

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 19:49

Blimey - I'd not read this thread for a while... :rotfl:

This is the lorry I dallied with for a while;

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Then I used the [correctly-identified] Ickx pic, followed by the white/cream saloon which, I believe, is an Austin...

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... and looks like this from the front.

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Originally posted by D-Type

How about 'The confusing thread'

Done!

#32 Doug Nye

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 20:11

Isn't the answer forty-two?

Or did the Wartburg fog?

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#33 Twin Window

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 20:17

Originally posted by Doug Nye

Or did the Wartburg fog?

I dunno!

What was it that the Morris 8...?!

#34 David Beard

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 20:46

People moving out, people moving in...

Thread of confusion, dee dat dah dat.....

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 21:20

Originally posted by Mallory Dan
I'm afraid I see the Ku Klux Klan, when TW's avatar comes up...


Hey, them boys is still active in my neck of the woods. :eek:

Sorry!

And, lets give Twinny a little respect.

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#36 Ray Bell

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 21:39

Isn't that an Austin 10 or something?

Really looks more Morris or Wolesley in the front, but the back is pure ugly Austin.

#37 Twin Window

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 21:50

Originally posted by David Beard

People moving out, people moving in...

Thread of confusion, dee dat dah dat.....

:lol:

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#38 D-Type

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Posted 27 October 2006 - 22:24

Oh dear! What will the colonel say? :mad:

#39 Mallory Dan

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 11:21

Originally posted by Twin Window
:lol:

:up:


V good David, didn't know you were a Temps man!! Was it your recent Motown guest put you onto them?

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#40 HDonaldCapps

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 11:52

Originally posted by D-Type
Oh dear! What will the colonel say? :mad:


"Fluff" is still spelled with with three "effs," with the possibility of a fourth "eff" not being out of the question....

I never did quite grasp the original intent of this thread, by the way, not that it matters.....

#41 James Page

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 12:04

The laps don't look particularly spirited, especially Suzuki's, whose car gives up on the opening tour. Still, nice to see them giving a demo.

And to go back to the question in the first post, Berger never really fitted in any of the McLarens he drove. I recall that his accident in Phoenix in his first race for the team was down to not being able to quickly wind on enough opposite lock.

#42 Twin Window

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 12:08

Originally posted by Ray Bell

Isn't that an Austin 10 or something?

Really looks more Morris or Wolesley in the front, but the back is pure ugly Austin.

Now you mention it, I'm not sure what it is...!

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#43 David Beard

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 12:50

Originally posted by Mallory Dan


V good David, didn't know you were a Temps man!! Was it your recent Motown guest put you onto them?


She is too young to remember them, of course! Sorry, can't bring her to the next gathering :

#44 Stoatspeed

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 15:41

Originally posted by Twin Window
Now you mention it, I'm not sure what it is...!

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Am I too wide of the mark to suggest a Swallow-bodied "something" ... ? Don't have the book to hand, but I recall seeing a very similar style in one of the early secitons of Andrew Whyte's classic "Jaguar" book.

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#45 ian senior

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 16:03

Originally posted by Stoatspeed


Am I too wide of the mark to suggest a Swallow-bodied "something" ... ? Don't have the book to hand, but I recall seeing a very similar style in one of the early secitons of Andrew Whyte's classic "Jaguar" book.

Dave


That's what I though too, but I couldn't work out which car it was based on. Did Swallow body any Swift cars (I'm thinking that as the mascot looks like a bird), or had Swift gone belly-up by the time Swallow got into their stride?

Failing that - Hillman Aero Minx, methinx.

#46 Criceto

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 19:07

At the risk of prolonging the thread...

1934 Standard Twelve Speedline Saloon.

#47 Ray Bell

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 20:22

Thanks, that's going to help Twinny sleep nights...

Until he realises it's not connected with BMC at all!

Hey, when are they going to let me back on Ten Tenths?

#48 Twin Window

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 20:30

Originally posted by Ray Bell

Thanks, that's going to help Twinny sleep nights...

Until he realises it's not connected with BMC at all!

Really? Oh, bugger... :rolleyes:

Never mind, I will find the appropriate vehicle in due course!

#49 Ray Bell

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Posted 30 October 2006 - 21:32

Yeah... there must be plenty of those scrappy old Austins somewhere...