Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

[myglaren]

22 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I wonder if she did actually drive it.

Gorgeous woman anyway, no matter if she did or not.

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[martc]

1 hour ago, Dick Longbridge said:

'....and, finaly, this is how not to Woolard.'

[Muniphobia]

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[DavieW]

5 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

She is scarily like a younger version of a woman in our village. 

[155V6]

[J R Hartley]

On 12/4/2022 at 11:56 PM, Metal Guru said:

Very early photoshop. There’s at least 40 people. Given it looks like war years and even if they may have only been 8 st each , that’s still 2 tons, which would have crushed that suspension.

Apparently this was what those crazy folks at Auto Union did to test body strength and "safety " in the 1930s. 

Here they are at it again with an Audi 920.

Germans,  what are they like?

 

[Muniphobia]

1 hour ago, 155V6 said:

He is very well behaved, he's a little Saint

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[Metal Guru]

2 hours ago, J R Hartley said:

Apparently this was what those crazy folks at Auto Union did to test body strength and "safety " in the 1930s. 

Here they are at it again with an Audi 920.

Germans,  what are they like?

 

Looks like  VAG ( I know) were faking tests even back then . That car is standing as if it is empty, no compression of the springs at all. With all that weight on it , it should at least be sitting very low on the suspension even if they took the photo in the 3 seconds before it collapsed completely.

Also presumably it was made with a separate chassis and body and hence the roof would not have been very strong either.

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[MiniMinorMk3]

16 hours ago, J R Hartley said:

Apparently this was what those crazy folks at Auto Union did to test body strength and "safety " in the 1930s. 

Here they are at it again with an Audi 920.

Germans,  what are they like?

 

 

13 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Looks like  VAG ( I know) were faking tests even back then . That car is standing as if it is empty, no compression of the springs at all. With all that weight on it , it should at least be sitting very low on the suspension even if they took the photo in the 3 seconds before it collapsed completely.

Also presumably it was made with a separate chassis and body and hence the roof would not have been very strong either.

Look between the front wheels and you can see they have supported the chassis. Possibly the rear supports are obscured.

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[Muniphobia]

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[Metal Guru]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

Look between the front wheels and you can see they have supported the chassis. Possibly the rear supports are obscured.

As I said, VAG ( or their predecessors) were cheating on tests even back then, but I suppose compared to what else was happening in Germany in the 30s it’s pretty insignificant.

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[J R Hartley]

The great Tazio Nuvolari attempting a Woollard.

 

 

[junkyarddog]

2 minutes ago, J R Hartley said:

The great Tazio Nuvolari attempting a Woollard.

Either that or he has caught his foot behind the brake drum and has now chaffed his bollocks to buggery on the tyre!!

[somewhatfoolish]

On 12/1/2022 at 11:40 PM, Muniphobia said:

Good photographer, shame he airbrushes so much. Why do they do that?

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[Sham]

1 minute ago, uk_senator said:

She looks fun.

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[uk_senator]

3 minutes ago, Sham said:

She looks fun.

A prolific peanut thief aparently.