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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:06 am

Peter Grossetti wrote:all that ... and STANDARD transmission?!??!?!? That's not "driving."


Peter

You read it wrong, Automatic is standard. You pay extra for standard transmission, and standard
transmission is driving.

Right?


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Peter Grossetti » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:34 am

true dat ... my bad ... suffering from heat stroke (methinks).

Stay cool everyone. (may I suggest Sobe Lifewater hydration drinks with coconut water)


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:22 am

A couple plates...
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Who doesn't?

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Yeow, talk about making a statement!

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My next plate art!

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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Sun Aug 19, 2012 6:22 pm

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A Bentley Continental GT - Manufacturer Suggested Price, $191,400 - $212,600, Top Speed 194mph, 11.1MPG in the city.


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Betsy Voinovich » Tue Aug 21, 2012 9:06 am

Jim O'Bryan wrote:Image
A Bentley Continental GT - Manufacturer Suggested Price, $191,400 - $212,600, Top Speed 194mph, 11.1MPG in the city.


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If I have to look at that, then I feel obligated to post this.

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I'm assuming that not only does this Volkswagen not cost as much as the Bentley but that the person driving it is
actually getting paid to have pictures of perogies all over it. Hoping anyway.
I could do that job.

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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Thu Jul 18, 2013 7:59 am

It has been awhile since there was a newsworthy car moving in and around Lakewood. But last night around 8pm
I got a call from Mike from Mike Hornsby that one of the rarest most sought out cars in the world was in Metro Park.
Well Mike's dad owned Parma Sports Cars, and grew up in the business and now works with Ganley so I had to
believe that he knew his stuff. So I grabbed Deb and the camera and headed down.

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Can you name this car? Look at the hood, the grill, and the fender it might help.

This 1964 version of this car was in perfect shape, having gone through a complete restoration. Jim The owner of the car
told me, you would never believe it, it came in boxes. "THEN, I had to learn German, because all of the manuals and shop
material was in German." I asked was it hard to find pieces, and he mentioned he did have some problems, but it was
more just trying to make something out of nothing.

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Jim drives it up on the trailer to head back to Medina.

Have you guessed it yet?

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Maybe the inside will help? Hmm seems normal, but the key chain seems out of place.

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Figure it out yet? Look under the back.

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The engine bay reminds me of the NSU Wankel Spyder, but perhaps that is just a German thing.

Guess it yet?

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That's right one of the most infamous cars in the world, and Amphicar!

From Wikipedia...
The Amphicar is an amphibious automobile, the first such vehicle mass-produced for sale to the public starting in 1961. The German vehicle was designed by Hanns Trippel and manufactured by the Quandt Group at Lübeck and at Berlin-Borsigwalde. Its name is a portmanteau of "amphibious" and "car". The Amphicar was designed to be marketed and sold in the USA. Compared to most boats or cars, its performance was modest, and only 4000 were produced by 1965. Nevertheless, it is still among the most successful amphibious civilian autos of all time, and still often prized and preserved as novelty collectible automobiles today.

Chassis/body Overall length: 14.250 ft (4.343 m)
Overall width: 5.083 ft (1.549 m)
Height: 5.000 ft (1.524 m)
Turning circle: 36.833 ft (9.398 m)
Wheelbase: 7.000 ft (2.134 m)
Front track: 4.000 ft (1.219 m)
Rear track: 4.083 ft (1.245 m)
Fuel tank capacity: 10.5 imperial gallons (13.125 U.S. gallons; 49.7 liters)
Empty weight: 2,315 lb (1050 kg) (includes fuel and oil)

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As the sun sets off it goes, but it will be back. Both Mike and I are promised rides, and Jim said he would bring it
back to the Lakewood Car Kulture Show.

Stay tuned.

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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Sun Aug 25, 2013 7:28 am

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Triumph (British Leyland) TR8. The 3.5 Liter, V8 version of the TR7. You could by these at MG Motors
16000 Madison Avenue, current home of Imperial Kitchens.


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Sun Jul 27, 2014 10:00 am

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2010 Lamborghini Gallardo. About $221,000 new, 4 years old, only worth about $189,000.

Nice!


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:06 pm

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Today on the streets of Lakewood, the 2015 Bentley Speed.

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It has a top speed of 204 mph, with 626 hp and 695 lb-ft of torque car using an 8-speed transmission.

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Don't like the rims? You can upgrade starting at $6,500 each!

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WiFi available for another $1,300

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But bentley is a name that means quality and high prices. Just this past year they took a couple Speeds to
LeMans and raced them.

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or a Manufacturers’ Base Price of $230,000 most leave the factory at $254,000 and higher.

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Or, about the same price you can get the used fire truck going by for on the Internet.


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Wed Aug 26, 2015 1:36 pm

Stan Austin wrote:Bentley is to Rolls as is Peterbilt to Kenworth



Stan,


While that was very true in the old days, these days Bentley is owned by VW and Rolls Royce is owned by BMW.

I am sure they still both use the Roll Royce engine, but probably not much else.

Think of it as a quarter-million-dollar Beetle.


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Stan Austin » Wed Aug 26, 2015 3:08 pm

Jim-- true. But remember OJ had a Bentley. It was just the right amount of understatement. In fact , I think it cost only $1000 less than the Rolls so you could really make the outrageous understatement.
I, myself, owned a 1962 Mercury Meteor at one time. $100 out the door.
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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:17 pm

I heard it before I saw it, and then it appeared about two blocks away, the sound was very recognizable, the car not so much, but could that be an Alfa Romeo badge?

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I have owned many Alfa Romeos over the years, from A plain GTV to a very nasty and fast GTA, and even raced a Guiletta Spider in SCCA. The sound was familiar, so I drove around traffic and caught up with the red car, and got a very nice surprise.

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2015 Alfa Romeo 4C Launch Edition. Only 500 of these versions have been created for Alfa Romeo's return to the American market. At $70,000 it is an affordable super car.

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The car is much bigger than it appears in these photos, nearly the size of a Honda Accord, but so much faster.

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It has a single carbon fiber chassis weighs in at under 265 lbs. the assembled car weighs just a hair over 1,900 lbs.

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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Sun Aug 28, 2016 8:17 pm

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On Clifton Blvd. at Belle Ave. we see the 2015 Ferrari California. List price $214,000.

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16 MPG City, 23 MPG Highway, Horsepower 553 @ 7500,

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The 2015 Ferrari California T is powered by a new engine, a turbocharged 3.9-liter V-8 with 553 hp and 557 lb-ft of torque. The turbo V-8 is paired to a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission.


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Re: Baby You Can Drive My Car...

Postby Jim O'Bryan » Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:14 pm

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1966 Shelby Cobra GT500 - not a kit car

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