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Old 02-14-2014, 12:27 PM
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Lol I had to look that car up. Old ones look pretty good!

http://worldcarslist.com/images/wart...urg-311-09.jpg

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Old 02-14-2014, 12:31 PM
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Lol I had to look that car up. Old ones look pretty good!

http://worldcarslist.com/images/wart...urg-311-09.jpg

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Old 02-14-2014, 12:36 PM
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LOL that's killing me! The very heights of automotive engineering

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Old 02-14-2014, 12:53 PM
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LOL that's killing me! The very heights of automotive engineering

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There are now Trabant and Wartburg clubs in Germany dedicated to somehow keeping these buckets-of-bolts on the road.
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Old 02-14-2014, 01:36 PM
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Suddenly I feel a lot better about my cars!

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Give me one of these, with its 6 cylinder 4.5l I would not take it out much.

Oh yeah 1936 Lagonda.
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Old 02-14-2014, 02:37 PM
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Beautiful car! The stone wall in the second picture suits it to a T.

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Old 02-17-2014, 10:07 AM
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Supras' back, runs great. Install is beautiful too, you'd never know that engine was touched.

$2300 all in, $720 engine, $1100 install, $4-500 parts. Hope the kid learned his lesson.

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Old 02-17-2014, 01:20 PM
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There are now Trabant and Wartburg clubs in Germany dedicated to somehow keeping these buckets-of-bolts on the road.

There are now Pinto and Corvair car clubs in the USA dedicated to somehow keeping these buckets of bolts on the road.

Reckon if either the Trabant or the Wartburg was an incendiary death trap like the Ford Pinto?
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There are now Pinto and Corvair car clubs in the USA dedicated to somehow keeping these buckets of bolts on the road.

Reckon if either the Trabant or the Wartburg was an incendiary death trap like the Ford Pinto?
I would imagine with the Pinto it would be the car ramming it that would be sitting over the pool of flaming gasoline. Give me hydrogen any day one big poof and its all gone.
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