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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #546 on: June 10, 2020, 03:26:18 PM »
Quote from: CWSooner on June 10, 2020, 03:06:18 PM
I haven't seen "Vauxhall" mentioned in a long time.
I was unaware that it is still a going concern.
https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/

I used to get them as a rental, along with Peugot and Renault.  The last rental was a Toyota Yaris, which to me was a shockingly bad car overall.  I don't know if our Yaris is the same.  Maybe the transmission and clutch were worn out.  I used Europcar this time because of proximity to where I was staying.  They may be the Thrifty of France.
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« Reply #547 on: June 20, 2020, 07:34:58 PM »
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« Reply #548 on: June 20, 2020, 09:41:44 PM »
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #549 on: June 21, 2020, 08:29:05 AM »
The Mazda Miata or whatever they call it now is a great "sporty car" but I don't fit in it.  At all.

It has enough engine to be fun I think without being anywhere near "super fast".  I see a lot of Mustang convertible about town and start to think ....  then I see a BMW convertible and think about the 240i.  The weather here is a lot more conducive for top down.

The neighbor has a Mercedes 380SL convertible which he says we can take out any time once he gets the hard top off it.  I bet that is fun in a different way.
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« Reply #550 on: June 21, 2020, 08:30:48 AM »

[img width=500 height=331.992]https://i.imgur.com/8xoFLqP.jpg[/img]

Can anyone ID this car?  This used to be parked in our building garage.  It's an interesting story (the car company).

It's probably slow as molasses in winter time.
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« Reply #551 on: June 21, 2020, 08:32:00 AM »
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« Reply #552 on: June 21, 2020, 12:48:57 PM »
No idea, CD.  Looks like it's rear-engined, as there's nothing in the way of cooling shown on the front.
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« Reply #554 on: June 21, 2020, 01:37:08 PM »
Heh!  I never connected Crosley Field with Crosley Cars.

I remember reading Roger Maris at Bat ca. 1964, and remember that that the Yanks played the Reds in the '61 WS.

Was it Crosley Field that had the rise in deep left, or was that Forbes Field in Pittsburgh?
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« Reply #555 on: June 21, 2020, 03:41:49 PM »
http://www.andrewclem.com/Baseball/CrosleyField.html

Crosley Field was a cozy little ballpark with a number of quaint and amusing features. It was most famed for the outfield slope that served the purpose of a warning track, but often gave visiting team left fielders the fits. Babe Ruth once tripped out there during his final season, and left the field in disgust. (This was the inspiration for the slope in center field at Minute Maid Park, removed after the 2016 season.) In 1935 that slope was extended along the center field fence all the way to the right field corner, thereby reducing the effective height of the fence on that side of the field. Crosley Field stood out from all the rest in two other ways: it was the first major league ballpark to install lights for night games; this was done in 1935. On the other hand, it was the last of the classical era ballparks (early 20th Century) in which the upper deck was extended from the infield down to the foul lines; this was done in 1939.

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« Reply #556 on: June 21, 2020, 04:10:25 PM »
Crosley Water Park in that picture.
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« Reply #557 on: June 21, 2020, 04:18:14 PM »
Yeah, that area used to flood pretty often apparently, the Mill Creek Valley.  They built DIKES of course and when the Ohio gets to flood stage, they pump the Mill Creek over the dikes.

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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #558 on: June 29, 2020, 05:29:45 PM »
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a32935590/inside-the-edelbrock-carburetor-factory/?src=socialflowFBCAD&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowFBCD&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2NHXgaJ_9SgDEznCQZ1yB0DN6r6ezmgnoBQXn0gpKesA-H5vfsrX3L20g

Wow.

The carburetor is an archaic device. The analog precursor to electronic fuel injection had a good run, but by the early 1990s carburetors were mostly extinct from new cars. It would follow, you'd think, that the factories that make carburetors would go extinct as well, right along with the ones that made cassette tapes, camera film, and typewriters. But every weekday in Sanford, North Carolina, about 100 employees punch in at the big white building on Clyde Rhyne Drive and set to work building four-barrel Edelbrocks. If the carburetor is extinct, nobody told Edelbrock, which makes about 450 of them per day.
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Re: Sporty Cars
« Reply #559 on: June 29, 2020, 05:31:16 PM »
for classic cars I assume
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