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Recently ive been converting an EFE London DMS into this Park Royal bodied Daimler fleetline seen in the disguise of SYPTEs driver training vehicle M111
A fiaker is a form of hackney coach, a horse-drawn four-wheeled carriage for hire. In Vienna such cabs are called Fiaker.
Wild Card seemed like a good driver for the AWE Striker. I tried to pick a helmet and weapon that matched Crankcase.
While I was shooting photographs at the racetrack yesterday, one car stood out from the pack. It was a pink Bandolero with peace signs, hearts and "Love" stickered all over it. "Girls Rule" was painted across the rear spoiler. The driver had no fear. Bandolero cars reach speeds of 90MPH and as the tire marks on the side of the pink 03 car testify, they can get quite close together.
I spotted Erin in the pits. At the time, she was raising dust cutting donuts on her 4 wheeler. Her father and grandfather were dialing in the two Late Model cars they were racing that day. I asked them if I could speak to Erin. They were enthusiastic about it, even inviting me to take in some of the air conditioning inside the huge trailer/shop they traveled with from Houston Texas. Erin's grandfather called for her, and the dust settled as she shut down her four wheeler.
Erin had been knocked around quite a bit in her last race. She had been spun out twice, each time while attempting to pass the leader. Bandolero cars are kept very much the same. They use sealed engines and have little room in the regulations for tweaking the vehicles for more speed. They use an entire complement of racing safety gear from the helmet and firesuit to the HANS device. The idea is to keep the machines equal so young drivers develop skills.
I asked Erin about her last race. She told me the back turn was kind of choppy. I had noticed her shooting sparks from underneath her car as she hit the high spots of the slightly uneven pavement. Banoleros travel less than an inch off the pavement. Drivers are allowed to adjust their tire pressure to compensate for this, but there is an optimum tire pressure that varies from track to track, between different areas of the same track, and even with the ambient temperature.
I asked Erin about being the only girl on the track, if she thought it made her a target. She agreed that no boy wants to be passed by the girl in the pink peace car. Not surprisingly, Erin told me her hero is Danica Patrick. We talked some more, and while she never verbalized it, one could detect that Erin was bothered by being spun out twice and not winning her last race. During the day's qualifying runs, she had secured pole position and wasn't using it effectively. She ended our conversation by telling me to be sure and watch the featured race later in the evening, and then she was off to a compulsory driver's meeting.
Erin had lost her coveted pole position in the featured Bandolero race. As the cars entered the first turn after the green flag, Erin attempted to pass the leader from inside. He tried to knock her into the grass. As a result he was flung headfirst into the concrete barrier at 70-80 MPH. Erin was stopped with the remaining racers on the back turn as paramedics made certain the driver was uninjured. His car was hauled off the track by the wrecker, while the driver rode off in a golf cart waving to the cheers of the crowd. While the wreckage was being cleared Erin's father ran out on the track to check on Erin, his own firesuit tied around his waist. After making certain his daughter was OK, Erin's father pulled her rear bumper out and quickly resecured the bodywork on the back of her car as best he could. As he exited the track, he passed me and I asked him about Erin. "She's shaken, but she's OK," he smiled.
Once the track was cleared, the pace car got the drivers started again. I watched with trepidation as Erin's rear bodywork seemed to become more insecure with every lap. Finally, on her last lap Erin's rear bumper became unfastened, spraying sparks behind her as it contacted the concrete at speed. Erin finished the race, placing third with a message. Girls Rule.
Erin Kelley is the 168th stranger in my 100 Strangers project. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the flickr group page.
West Coast Railways driver Dave Hewson looks back for the the guard's 'right away' at Bournemouth.
'Britannia' no. 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' on the return leg of a London-Swanage charter.
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Vlad really wanted to be on Flickr - and he really wanted his Peugeot (which is for sale) on Flickr. Having had two Peugeot 405s, a 1989 S and a 1991 Mi16, I'm very attached to that car, so here they are together.
In 1984, the year that Peugeot sold the largest number of cars in one year in the U.S.A. that it would ever sell, rumors began to circulate that the 205 would be sold in America starting in 1986, perhaps heralding an expanded range of Peugeot cars for stateside consumption.
That did not happen - in part because product planners couldn't agree on what configurations to sell the 205 in here, or consensus that Americans would want a car as small as the 205 at all. In the end, Americans never got the 205 and many enthusiasts pined for the 205 GTi for decades. It was one of many miscalculations on Peugeot's part with regards to the American market.
Peugeot's lineup in America had consisted solely of the 504, 505, and 604 since the early seventies and by 1985 all that was left was the 505 sedan and wagon. Even if the 205 wouldn't come over, the company did realize that additional models had to be provided or the make would never grow beyond the 20,000 annual unit mark.
The 405, upcoming for 1988, proved to be the perfect supplement to the aging 505. Modern, front-drive, good looking, and lower in cost than the bigger, older companion. Again, however, during the product planning phase things got quirky over a seeming lack of willingness to adapt products for North America, such as an argument about power windows. Some at Peugeot France felt that power windows up front and manual windows in back, a configuration common in Europe, didn't need to be changed for North America, where such a thing would be deeply weird to the average consumer. Ultimately American-side product planners had their way on that question.
Regardless of the product planning issues, the 405 was a great car through and through. By the time it bowed in North America in the fall of 1988, Peugeot's American fortunes were on the wane thanks to increased costs (a result of the Plaza Accord), the stock market crash of 1987, and the decline of Diesel popularity in the states, among other reasons.
The 405 launch was a big affair, and the stateside Automotive Press greeted the car with rave reviews ("The best Peugeot ever," said Car & Driver). But the public, who barely knew Peugeot was alive with its tiny dealer network clustered on the coasts, mostly stayed cool on the car.
In part, that was down to the lack of marketing, but the price didn't help either. The base model 405 DL, with it's wind-up windows, cost almost as much as a fully-optioned Honda Accord, and the 150-hp Mi16 was verging on BMW 3-series territory. There was no way a quirky French brand was going to expand with that working against it no matter how good the car was, and the prices only went up throughout the run.
When the recession of 1991 hit, Peugeot called it quits on North America just a month before the planned introduction of the 1992 cars, having sold just about 10,000 405s over three years. For the 1992 model year, the 605 would have bowed, and possibly the 306 following for 1993 or 1994 - those two debuts, and the later 406, might have hugely helped Peugeot's fortunes in America, but it was not to be.
Vlad's car is a 1991 405 DL, with an automatic. Both of my cars were manuals, so I can't entirely vouch for how the Automatic drives, but the 405 was a good handling car that was easily superior to some of the competition when it was a used car and prices were super low. What had once sold for more than a Honda Accord could, in the late 90s, be bought for less than the price of a contemporaneous VW Jetta 8-valve, and the 405 was lots more fun to drive and be seen in.
If you're interested in procuring Vlad's car (located near Seattle), send me a private message and I'll pass it on. It has some issues and it's cheap. When the car's gone, this part of the posting will be deleted.
©2016 A. Kwanten
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Roadworks in Hertford
The silly arrangement here is that the road is one way coming round the bend and anybody walking round the hazard is potentially in danger. The blue sign used normally for road traffic is encouraging pedestrians to walk into the road. Not a great arrangement if you ask me.
Cicero, NY. March 2016.
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Cicero, NY. March 2016.
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The annual 1940s weekend at Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway.
Some re-enactors and some characters turn out to celebrate everything that is 1940s
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A rather nice and well laid out drivers cab layout for Shetlands oldest but best ever bus! Can see how a typical B10BLE layout like this makes a B10BLE a nice, smooth and comfortable drive for all drivers and passengers.
Note the 2 red open door button combination in between the heating button and heating system. Not sure if it this is a common feature on Volvo B10BLEs but if you press one of them then it opens only one door separately with the other one being shut where passengers only get on the bus by going through just one door. It is sometimes used depending on the driver's choice, however drivers (who don't get to drive the bus often or who have never driven it before) find it confusing to work with some drivers or passengers even thinking the doors are defective. If you press both buttons at the same time then both the doors will open at the same time but some drivers also tend to press either one of the buttons first then the next. However the usual one green and one red button combination can be seen near the heating system controls and the broms brake which operates the normal controls of both opening & closing the doors but most drivers use the 2 red buttons instead as the red button to open both of the doors takes about 5 seconds for the doors to open however both doors will close if you press the green button that closes the doors. Pictures of the bus open with only one door can be found through my photostream but here is one:
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Greenlight Collectibles
Dually Drivers Series 9
1:64 Scale Die-Cast
Found recently at our local Hobby Lobby.
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A scan of an old photo taken in 1989.
Car: Vauxhall Astra GTE no. 117.
Driver: Tony Lanfranchi (London).
Race: Uniroyal Tyres Production Saloon Car Championship Race (Classes C & D).
Date taken: 1st July 1989.
Location: Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire, UK.
Album: Photo Scans
This DAF XF from Portugal was travelling down the A1(M) motorway. The truck was operated by Patinter Transport, based in the municipality of Mangualde, situated in north-central Portugal. I often see/spot Patinter trucks travelling up and down the A1(M) motorway in Yorkshire, generally destined for automotive manufacturing plants such as NMUK (Nissan) in Sunderland. The driver of this one is a fan of FC Shakhtar Donetsk, one of Ukraine's most popular football clubs. The Ukrainian flag on the dashboard, also gives us a huge clue as to where the driver of this truck is originally from.
A1(M), West Yorkshire, United Kingdom