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14th July 2012, 21:05
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Lots of inspiration here!
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14th July 2012, 21:54
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Wonderful site. Lots of very nice looking cars and lots of interesting details to copy...
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15th July 2012, 09:18
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Inspiration and also warnings from the past ...
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15th July 2012, 20:47
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Thanks for the link - lots of ideas.
Love the (Cesare) Isotta and (Vincenzo) Fraschini vehicle.
Reminded me of a (Giuseppe) Figona & (Ovidio) Falaschi ('Phoney & Flashy' - as they used to be known) vehicle...
Great names...
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16th July 2012, 13:18
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Anyone buying a racing suit???
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16th July 2012, 13:39
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Inspiration and also warnings from the past ...
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It looks like the car that packed its trunk and said goodbye to the circus. |
16th July 2012, 21:50
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[QUOTE=Mister Towed;33052]Not quite, but I'm going for a sort of 'vintage stig' look -
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...not quite Steve McQueen is it?  |
17th July 2012, 07:35
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More like Crazy Frog...
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17th July 2012, 10:32
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Ring ding ding ding ding ding... etc.
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17th July 2012, 10:41
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Steve McQueen is usually pictured in racewear from the wrong era for a Spyder anyway. The fifties racing suits look just like bog standard overalls while the helmets were ususally basic TT pudding basins. Take a look at this site and you'll see what I mean.
http://www.historicaracewear.com/clo...-race-overalls |
17th July 2012, 15:51
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I know what you meant - absolutely agree with McQueen being more 60's than 50's - what I meant was that he looked 'cool' - in respect of whatever he wore.
The same way that Mike Hawthorn's bow tie got away with it but Peter Collins tea cosy didn't.
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17th July 2012, 16:37
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17th July 2012, 18:08
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I know what you meant - absolutely agree with McQueen being more 60's than 50's - what I meant was that he looked 'cool' - in respect of whatever he wore.
The same way that Mike Hawthorn's bow tie got away with it but Peter Collins tea cosy didn't.
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Yeah, Collins sure looks uncool in that ridiculous lid while Hawthorn looks uber cool in his bow tie. Or does he?
Both would have benefitted from some kevlar body armour, a full face helmet and a nomex suit as it happens...  |
17th July 2012, 18:27
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17th July 2012, 21:14
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Yeah, Collins sure looks uncool in that ridiculous lid while Hawthorn looks uber cool in his bow tie. Or does he?
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Yep - he was a 'chap'. Loved the shots of him with Jack Hawkins. Don't make 'em like that any more.
When your number comes up it comes up. Whether its on the Guildford By Pass or in a hospital surgical ward which was where Mike was shortly heading.
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17th July 2012, 21:16
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Great images..
Unfortunately (IMHO) there is nothing cool about Sir Stirling Moss. |
18th July 2012, 10:13
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I sat next to Stirling Moss in the restaurant at Silverstone during the lunch break of a test session 20-odd years ago. He would have been about 60. He was with two very attractive women who were less than half his age. That was quite cool.
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18th July 2012, 10:49
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Yes, I met Moss at Lydden Hill during the Pirelli classic marathon in about 1990. He was in the paddock with his leg in plaster from ankle to above the knee and was helping a competitor to adjust the carbs on a lightweight e-type. I commented that I'd been hoping to see him race and he replied 'What makes you think I won't be?' He was really friendly and chatty - he didn't treat me like a nobody - and he went on to set the second fastest lap time of the day in an MGB, only beaten by Paddy Hopkirk in a works Mini Cooper S. I thought that was pretty cool 
But we all form our opinions of others from our own experience so I guess Nike has his reasons to find him uncool. |
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