Post a single Car based pub fact

[BTB 500]

Our pool cars in the late '70s were Talbot Alpines and Solaras but there was also a single Avenger (with vinyl roof ), which I always tried my hardest to get!

Back on topic ... the R129 SL was the first car to have a hidden roll bar. Mercedes allegedly spent more on the development and testing of this feature than the rest of the car.

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And the famous high speed autobahn crash showing it in action ... not bad for a 1980s car:

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[markjay]

Why is this scene impossible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtRoiIf2A3s

Because while the engine, gearbox, and driven wheels are all at the front... the fuel tank is at the rear. Unlikely that the car could be driven as far as it did with only the fuel in the carburetor well in reserve.

 

[MarkACLS]

Ducati started making radio components not motorcycles.

Not strictly car based, but since they are owned by Audi...

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[zipdip]

I suppose there must be lots of younger members who wonder what all this lead mashing is about,both the Cortina Corsair and other cars of that era were designed to have the roof overlap the rear quarter panels,this left a gap,and in the body in white there were guys who got bars of lead and using a big blowlamp melted the stuff until it looked like mashed spuds,they then using a trowel filled the gaps in and roughly smoothed it off,the next operation was in a booth where the lead was smoothed down by men in full germ warfare suit with pumped oxygen who used a rotary disk to get a finish on the lead ready for painting,used to watch them as I passed from the toolroom to either the PTA or the engine plant.

 

[Meldrew2]

The Audi Quattro has four wheel drive, but the Fiat Uno does not have one wheel drive *


* except when the transmission breaks

 

[Darrell]

I tried lead loading a few years ago. It's very difficult but being a plumber I took to it rather well.

 

[markjay]

For a while, there was a record breaking Scirocco with two engines - one driving front wheels, one driving the back.
In those days, it was hard to match the engine revs for both engines - making driving tricky. These days, with electronic control - it would be much easier.
The Dual-Engined Volkswagen That Never Was
Cheers
Steve

Also.... the droning noise typical of some German bombers during the Blitz was in fact the Junkers Ju 86 equipped with two Jumo 205 Diesel engines (unusual aircraft design even today) - it was notoriously difficult for pilots to synchronise the revs on the two Diesel engines hence the unique droning noise.

 

[BTB 500]

Also.... the droning noise typical of some German bombers during the Blitz was in fact the Junkers Ju 86 equipped with two Jumo 205 Diesel engines (unusual aircraft design even today) - it was notoriously difficult for pilots to synchronise the revs on the two Diesel engines hence the unique droning noise.

The Luftwaffe intentionally de-synchronised the engines on all their bombers - IIRC this was done to disrupt the audio locators that were commonly used inland.

 

[kid-jensen]

I had a Mini Ogle in the 70's. It was a Ogle factory re-bodied version of the Cooper and was designed to have 2 engines with 4WD for improved traction and Power-to-weight.

It was a nicely styled little thing with an enormous perspex rear window, to get access to the rear engine that (apart form the prototype) never actually happened.

Rumor has it that after the designer David Ogle was killed in one at brands, the imputus went out of the 2-engined project and all production versions (about 55 or so) were Front wheel drive, more's the pity.

 

[WDB124066]

Mercedes-Benz runout tolerance for tires on a 124 is 1.0 mm on diameter and 1.5 mm lateral movement.

 

[Benzowner]

One side of the Austin Princess was longer than the other side producing a car that wasn't rectangular in design.

That would then be trapezoidal

 

[markjay]

Mercedes-Benz runout tolerance for tires on a 124 is 1.0 mm on diameter and 1.5 mm lateral movement.

You'll won't make a lot of friends at your local with this kind of talk

 

[WDB124066]

I've told them all to go away because they are dysfunctional, unfortunately I have to walk past my local on the way to the shops and they keep asking me in for a drink. If they can't handle this, aren't people of precision and prefer to play politics then go away is the message.

Why burn a bridge when you can blow it clean off its foundations...

 

[Ted]

That would then be trapezoidal

Which was the shape of the headlamps.

 

[brucemillar]

The W203 - C55 AMG Wagon (I dont know about the coupe) is longer than the W203 Wagon, that looks the same length.

This is to accommodate the C55's v8 engine and gearbox.

 

[jotter22]

The pool table in my local was delivered by a guy in a van... FACT!

Tony.

 

[baxlin]

You'll won't make a lot of friends at your local with this kind of talk

How's about this for a boring fact then,

The 1937 Morris 8 Tourer (my first car) had a dipstick in the diff housing, accessed by removing the rear seat, and one of three wooden planks forming the floor...........

 

[brucemillar]

How's about this for a boring fact then,

The 1937 Morris 8 Tourer (my first car) had a dipstick in the diff housing, accessed by removing the rear seat, and one of three wooden planks forming the floor...........

Now your talking....

 

[WDB124066]

Bugatti builds yacht to match Chiron supercar | Stuff.co.nz

 

[Ted]

The Yamaha logo is three tuning forks.