1937hd45
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I spend a lot of time looking for misplaced things, fortunately I find things I wasn't looking for that once in a while fit in with something current. This is the 1899 coverage of a car event in Newport. Looks like the weather was fine that day and the flower decorations hide the ID of the cars.
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7 hours ago, Terry Harper said:
I had heard about the Sizaire et Naudin's interesting differential. Amazing, creative engineering.. Love it!
All this time I've thought the front suspension was the unique feature.
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Neat addition to any collection, it is pot metal so its days of use on a car are over, great shelf piece now.
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3 minutes ago, alsancle said:
Bob, that is funny because for some reason I specifically thought of you when I saw this car. Weird.
Good memories with that Type 44, It was under a tarp outside the day I started at the shop and visually never changed in the 13 years I was there. The owner at the time really liked to drive it, it was a long drawn out engine rebuild, nothing broken, nothing fancy, just took time and money. I'm happy it is on the floor with the new displaymates.
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Glad that Type 44 Bugatti is getting some attention body wise. It spent years outside under a tarp n the 1970's. The engine got a full rebuilt and the owner enjoyed driving it. He would drive is from the edge of the Hudson River to a shop in Connecticut for inspection every year after the rebuild. Hope it gets the fenders it has deserved all these years.
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Great photos, makes me laugh when I read about the guys that won't use a hose to wash their 1970 and newer cars.
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10 hours ago, alsancle said:
Not a bad video from last year except he hasn't learned to hold his phone horizontally. Took me a year to teach Ed to do that.
I don't own a cellphone and wonder why those that do only use the center screen. Have fun!
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9 hours ago, Steve Moskowitz said:
Besides it being an Olds, besides I have followed this car every since I was in my 20's, besides its 43 X 5 tires, besides, it's great colors is that it was a very generous gift to us by Cal and Janet High. AACA owns this car and I hope it is here for generations to come. Driving a Limited is an experience. It is great going down the highway but not so great in tight turning at car shows and concours. Got to be strong!
That is a very impressive automobile, and gift, as a 50 year member of AACA I'd like to say thank you to Cal and Janet High. Steve can you provide the history on the car, I always find it interesting to know who owned a car from the showroom to the present and the tales the car could tell if it could speak.
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Unless a lot of things changed in recent years, the show was shot with a three person crew, Wayne, the camera guy, and the third with a clipboard. I enjoyed seeing the cars, people, and places Wayne got to go, hope the new show works out well for him.
Bob
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45 minutes ago, auburnseeker said:
It was the thread titled Bill to protect antique gas - run cars?
I agree with your original thought, but the thread in question looked like a BS Party from the get go I NEVER OPENED IT. Thinking some suits in DC want to protect gas powered cars is a fantasy, most can't tell you what day it is or what door is an exit.
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Thanks for the second photo Steve! Another feature that compliments the car are the painted to match wheel nuts & lugs. Some cars from that era have them plated and it sometimes acts as a distraction, somewhat like whitewalls on a Classic.
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Post lots of photos of the cars, enjoy the tour!
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A sheet of black construction paper and a roll of electrical tape is a handy fix on rental cars with the television in the dash.
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We'll be there, always a good time and a few parts always come home with us. About an hour and fifteen minute ride up the Totonac
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THANK YOU! That has THE LOOK! Color combination is really nice, wonder what it looks like from the spare tireless side?
Bob
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44 minutes ago, Steve Moskowitz said:
So from Wayne, CCC is defunct. He just called me. There is a story why but it has nothing to do with the popularity of the show or Wayne's interest in doing it. In the meantime he has several new shows on streaming services and is in discussion with another network. He has a podcast and a magazine. There is a LOT going on in "Wayne's World" and it is all positive.
Thanks for the update Steve. One thing that really bothers me is the Live streaming and Podcasting stuff. If it is a service that is available to everyone why KEEP IT A SECRET? Tell the viewer where to go, who to call, and how much to pay for it? A 10 year old with a lemonade stand in the front yard has more business sense.
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3 hours ago, rocketraider said:
This morning it gave me an "expand article" option which it didn't give last night.
I still had to navigate a touchscreen on my phone! 🤪
When the powerplant switched from analog control with buttons, switches and gages to digital control with touchscreens, I realized then that touchscreens were going to make life more difficult. We had to navigate our way thru HUNDREDS of screens (some obscure and very well hidden) to get to the one we needed in that moment, and by the time we'd found it we usually ended up having to write an event report for equipment failure/damage, unit scram or forced offline, on and on. Conditions that could have been corrected in a couple of seconds with analog took minutes with the touchscreens, and believe me a lot can go to hell in minutes while you're trying to find the screen that controls what's rapidly going downhill.
Nope. No fan of touchscreens here.
Never mind the car controls I need a dictionary to understand what you just wrote. Analog, unit scram, event report are terms I just don't use in my daily use of the English language. Still haven't owned a car manufactured in this century.
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That is great news. I'll never buy a new car, but hope to be able to still drive a rental car without all the whistles and bells that I'm clueless to operate. Still know how to open and neatly fold a road map.
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Starting the lawn mower for the first time in 2023?
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Thanks for the photos Billy. A drivers license stopped my model building in early 1967, but I still have all the unfinished builds, along with the unfinished real car builds.
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36 minutes ago, George K said:
I think the original ones were made from red rubber baby bumpers. Very hard to find today. What do you want from a 7-8 figure automobile?
Think this is a fair comparison of exotic fruit vs exotic fruit.
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8 minutes ago, alsancle said:
The shift pattern is the tiniest thing you will ever see. You move the shifter about 2 inches in any direction for any gear. They probably could have bent it the lever a bit more but you are butting up against the front seat.
Thank you, it is just an honest observation I've had for 50 years now. What about the parking brake lever is it sometimes use the slow the beast?
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Does this prove that J shift levers are the wrong shape and need rubber bumper to protect the dash?
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Audrain Veteran Car Tour 2023 April 30th Newport RI
in General Discussion
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I did some research, Mrs. Belmont was the first wife of William K. Vanderbilt Jr., their daughter Consuelo lived here in Ridgefield and passed in 2011 at the age of 107. Her estate was a mile up the road from outside storage of the Type 44 Bugatti features in this thread.