Cars, Lasses and Lads - A Photo Sharing Thread

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One of Bowie's moments that doesn't get replayed too often...!

[MiniMinorMk3]

7 hours ago, 62 Austin said:

Driver of Maserati GP car. Would have liked to have had a cup of Expresso with her.
Perhaps my Dad had the pleasure when he lived in Italy!
If someone found a car like this and wanted to swan into a Motor Racing Legends event and compete, would it cost you Bugatti money, or more? 

The car is an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza, the driver is Mariette Hélène Delangle, aka Hellé Nice. The event is the Grand Prix de Comminges in 1934.

Alfa Romeo celebrates its amazing female racing drivers | Life (news24.com)

Hellé Nice - Wikipedia

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[martc]

Lucky girl, this would have been quite an exotic little car back then.

[High Jetter]

I suspect, erotic too!

[62 Austin]

16 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

The car is an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza, the driver is Mariette Hélène Delangle, aka Hellé Nice. The event is the Grand Prix de Comminges in 1934.

Alfa Romeo celebrates its amazing female racing drivers | Life (news24.com)

Hellé Nice - Wikipedia

Thanks for the correction on the Alfa Romeo.

[meggersdog]

15 hours ago, egg said:

Pleasant street ?   ( Tim Buckley )

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Just now, meggersdog said:

Pleasant street ?   ( Tim Buckley )

yes, 1968 in Germany apparently.

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1 hour ago, egg said:

Tea break at The School for Woolarding.

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Where Bezos started

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Is the BM' ready yet?

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A Triumph doing what comes naturally.

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[DavieW]

Dot Robinson is known as the "First Lady of Motorcycling" and was instrumental in the acceptance of women as motorcycle drivers, not just passengers. Born in Australia in 1912, she was influenced by her motorcycle-loving father as she grew up. Her father was a sidecar racer, mechanic and motorcycle designer, and dealership owner. After her family move to the U.S. in 1918, Dot helped her father around the dealership as she grew up. It was here that her love for and skills with motorcycles grew, along with meeting her future husband, a frequent customer named Earl Robinson, while she was in high school.

Earl and Dot married in 1931, bought their father's motorcycle dealership and moved it to Detroit. Throughout the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, 5'2" Dot competed in lots of races, particularly endurance races, on her own motorcycle. Although she encountered stiff resistance at times, she persevered and won several tough endurance runs.

In a time where it wasn't considered proper for a woman to ride a motorcycle, much less drive one, Dot set out to change the perceptions of women motorcyclists, showing that one can still be an upright lady and drive a motorcycle. She won endurance runs, worked as a motorcycle courier during WWII, and Co-Founded The Motor Maids Of America group. The Motor Maids traveled and encouraged women to own and ride their own motorcycles.

 

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Yuri Gagarin with his daughter Lena. Photo by Valentin Cheredintsev, 1966.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

8 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

A Triumph doing what comes naturally.

Stag on turbines? Oof. I wonder what they were fitted on originally? 

[martc]

Orson Welles getting out of a taxi at the premiere of his film 'Citizen Kane' at the RKO Palace Theatre on Broadway in Noo Yoik City on the 1 May 1941.