The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2
Technical Discussion => Ride Reports and Event Reviews => Topic started by: aussie on February 08, 2009, 08:28:12 AM
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Well it's been an interesting couple of weeks on the road. Firstly I was just driving along when I saw this...
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And then today I had to go into work... >:(...
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And another shot
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Rather cool, eh what? (Oh sorry about the quality and the size - camera phone dontcha know?)
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Is it a Jag?
greetings from a clear, cold and moonlit north
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No..it's an Aston Martin - DBR2 - 1959
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Driving a car with no roof is like how it was riding bikes in the '70's - freedom.The guy on the bike has a helmet and is sweating it out in all the protective gear.
I like driving my NX Coupe with the targa roof out in summer....wish I could ride my bike again in the breeze....
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Great phone camera pics, Aussie! Beautiful lines on the AM DBR2. Certain designs will always look good, even after a half century. Not sure I'd want to be stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic during the heat of Summer in one though. Can't be good for the engine.
Here's a shot of the front:
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Oh my - jealousy has set in. And where did you find that little toy? Damn - those curves are just simply female in their appearance. Hard to decide which is better - the AM or the XKSS - and by the way did you know that an English company is making an XKSS lookalike? Branded as a Lynx it has an all synchromesh tranny used on the post '65 Jags. It's based on a standard E-type. Now I'm not sure - but I kinda assume that the AM is influenced by the XKSS. In the whole scheme of things the Lynx is a steal at about £110 000 - the original - if you can get your hands on one is about £500 000.
And you're right - to take a car such as that in city traffic is just asking for trouble in summer.
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I pulled the picture off the net after "Googling" it. And, Yes - very female-ish lines. As long as guys continue to admire the female form, this will always have "curb appeal".
;)
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Ah, '50's race cars! True classics, way more attractive than the angular flying wings of today, but even though they looked aerodynamic, they weren't, at all. Many [smiley=thumbup.gif]of them developed almost as much lift as a bad airplane wing!
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Ed - you tease! I thought you must have gone to a motor show and was going to ask you for a picture of the the black AM - I THINK it's a DB4 or 5. Any AM experts out there?
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Maybe a DB2? I can't seem to modify the previous post
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I'll have to ask Commander Bond, the next time I see him. He was always an AM fan.
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Allred, you are quite right. I couldn't believe how squirrelly my '71 Datsun 240Z, which looked very aerodynamic to me, became at much over 80 mph - it just felt like the front end was floating. :o I had to install a new snout with built in air-dam, then the faster I went the more stable it became.
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Pity you don't still have it Justin - have you seen how much they're going for now days - even as a wreck? Some guy in Ca is starting to do them up and the prices have gone through the roof.
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Yeah, I kinda miss it. I bought it from a guy down the street who had disassembled it and it was a shell with everything else (tagged and bagged, thankfully) in boxes. It was a '71 and was quite fun to drive. I autocrossed it a few times but never won anything...