car porn

[Idris2002]

This was something called a 'Javelin', no less:

 

[discokermit]

This was something called a 'Javelin', no less:

when i was seventeen my mate's dad had one of these in his garage. ace.

 

[Chilli.s]

 

[Ponyutd]

Just been given this car badge.

 

[High Voltage]

Two words x 2

Nick Mann

Steve Green

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

1958 Facel Vega HK500. Parisian coachwork with Chrysler hemi power. Sublime.

Nice car.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

If I won a lottery, I'd get one of these:

 

[SpookyFrank]

Cars have been shit since they stopped making them with straight lines. This is my personal car crush:

...a 1978 Lancia Beta. Just gorgeous.

The modern version, by contrast, is foul:

 

[DownwardDog]

1975 Peugeot 504 Coupe. Very handsome proportions from Bertone - he rarely got it wrong.

I really like the combination of quixotic elegance and understated practicality that is so often found in French cars of this period. 504 trivia: it was in continuous production for 38 years.

 

[DownwardDog]

Two words x 2

Nick Mann

Those are fucking horrible. A pointless waste of the Moggie and whatever variation of the (I assume) Rover V8 is crammed into it.

 

[hash tag]

Anyone been watching cars that rock with Brian Johnston. I didn't expect to like it but have been really enjoying it. Brian loves his motors and comes accross extreemly well. I cant say I like it, but this was from the last episode

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sIb70gqRGNY#t=49

 

[dessiato]

Cars have been shit since they stopped making them with straight lines. This is my personal car crush:

...a 1978 Lancia Beta. Just gorgeous.

The modern version, by contrast, is foul:

Further up the thread I refer to the HPE I had. It was a great car and the best fun I've ever had in an estate car. Handling and performance were great. But it rusted from the roof down. It had been undersealed from new, and was perfect underneath, but the rot from the top...

 

[DownwardDog]

1968 AC Frua 428. Basically a Cobra with a far nicer Italian body.

 

[Roadkill]

It's not quite porn, but the Triumph GT6 was a pretty car IMO:

 

[ViolentPanda]

Cars have been shit since they stopped making them with straight lines. This is my personal car crush:

...a 1978 Lancia Beta. Just gorgeous.

Widely maligned when it first came on the scene as being yet another quick-rusting Lancia, despite its' performance and technical innovation.

 

[Roadkill]

This isn't exactly car porn - it's a silly-looking thing - but I've just been watching the Wheeler Dealers episode featuring one of these:

I'd love to have a go in an Amphicar.

 

[steeplejack]

If money were no object, I'd love a Jowett Jupiter:

 

[steeplejack]

...but I'd settle for a Sunbeam Rapier, in time, as, er, money is kind of an object.

 

[DownwardDog]

1971 Citroën SM. Idi Amin had one. I can recall reading a parody of his reaction to it in my father's Private Eye but that was in the 70s before racism was bad.

 

[Ponyutd]

 

[Idris2002]

1971 Citroën SM. Idi Amin had one. I can recall reading a parody of his reaction to it in my father's Private Eye but that was in the 70s before racism was bad.

'twas not only cars the bould Idi was keen on:

At these meetings Foreign Secretary Douglas-Home told Amin that ‘we would help as best we could’ on military and economic aid and with the training of troops, although supplying Harrier jets would be too costly for Uganda. A £2 million contract to supply 26 Saladin and 6 Saracens armoured personnel carriers was signed. The Daily Telegraph wrote in an editorial that General Amin was: ‘a staunch friend of Britain… His request now for the purchase of equipment for the rebuilding of Uganda’s defences deserves the most sympathetic consideration from every point of view’.

These July agreements with the Ugandan military were being signed while hundreds of soldiers were being massacred by Amin’s forces in Uganda. ‘The killings took place at a large number of army camps across Uganda’, a Foreign Office official wrote the following month. ‘A large number of officers and men, in particular from the Acholi and Langi tribes (those associated with Dr Obote) were killed’.

 

[jusali]

BDSM

 

[Idris2002]

The Wartburg sports coupe. What do you reckon?

Spoiler

A product of the same industry that produced the Trabant, amazingly they managed to sell some to the USA.

 

[hash tag]

As someone who drives a Brera, I finnd these pretty neat and saw one on the Wandsworth mean streets earlier today

 

[plurker]

This is a custom, so not sure it qualifies but this is true 'car porn' imho.
Buick straight eight power married to the sleekest curves you'll see on tarmac.

Norman Timbs Special, 1948

 

[Leafster]

Hmmm, I'm thinking he "borrowed" is styling cues from another pair of earlier coachbuilders...

He also nicked the colour!

 

[Leafster]

Here's another figoni et falachi design showing where he got the rear end from.

 

[hash tag]

Jusali; that Fiat has a Lamborgini V12, not just sounds like it. It was shown in car that rocked last night. It took a mad father and son team 3000 hours to put together; the result of a bet with jurno's. Cars that rock; great prog!!!

 

[steeplejack]

The Wartburg sports coupe. What do you reckon?


A product of the same industry that produced the Trabant, amazingly they managed to sell some to the USA.

A lovely car at the beginning of the 60s, but the real East German sports car was the Melkus RS 1000; powered by a Wartburg two stroke engine but capable of over 100 mph; go-kart handling. Made in Leipzig, I think, and only grudgingly tolerated by the state; just over a hundred made.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This is a custom, so not sure it qualifies but this is true 'car porn' imho.
Buick straight eight power married to the sleekest curves you'll see on tarmac.

Norman Timbs Special, 1948

5t3IIa says it looks like the clot from a really heavy period.