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foggydogg wrote: 01 Sep 2024, 18:37 Unforgettable.jpg
Mid-engine
Bertone body
I’m not sure it’s a Ferrari tho..
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Bizzarrini? Raced at Le Mans?
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GeoffPetersen wrote: 01 Sep 2024, 21:07 I already named this one. Her name is Molly.
A Valiant effort, would be way cool if it had the aluminum slant six. I think McCulloch made a blower setup for that.
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Post by foggydogg »

BlackBart wrote: 02 Sep 2024, 09:23
foggydogg wrote: 01 Sep 2024, 18:37 Unforgettable.jpg
Mid-engine
Bertone body
I’m not sure it’s a Ferrari tho..
One or 2 degrees of separation; in 1961 Enzo had a fever dream and fired a couple people, and half the staff walked out with them, forming ...
Automobili Turismo e Sport .
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foggydogg wrote: 02 Sep 2024, 12:48
GeoffPetersen wrote: 01 Sep 2024, 21:07 I already named this one. Her name is Molly.
A Valiant effort, would be way cool if it had the aluminum slant six. I think McCulloch made a blower setup for that.
So close, but look again at the grille.
I think she might have had the aluminum block originally but it was replaced with an iron 225 before I got her.

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Oooof. Just when I thought new cars had reached new lows….

Those wheels…..😂
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Yep, just when you thought they can't get any uglier...One of my neighbors has a new grasshopper green metallic Kona, which I had to look at this morning on my drive to work. Not a good start of the day.
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Just to prove it's not a one-off,
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It’s British!
It’s Kermit green!
It’s ….uhh…..um….

(2nd one might be proper BRG)
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foggydogg wrote: 01 Sep 2024, 18:36
BlackBart wrote: 31 Aug 2024, 16:35
What is the nice grey one in abscate's pic 2?
Hood ornament screams straight-eight Packard.
Maybe 1936 Packard Eight?

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