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Manufacturer: Triumph Motor Company / Standard Motor Company, Coventry - UK
Type: 1600 Roadster
Engine: 1776cc straight-4
Power: 65 bhp / 4.400 rpm
Speed: 121 km/h
Production time: 1946 - 1948
Production outlet: 2,501
Curb weight: 1140 kg
* Photo taken at the Elfstedentocht Oldtimer Rally (Eleven City Trip Oldtimer Rally) in Franeker - The Netherlands, over (235km☺☺☺!!) unfortunately bad weather.
Special:
- It's designed by Frank Callaby and Arthur Ballard.
- The design of the rolling chassis was by Ray Turner.
- The 1800 Roadster is based on the "1800 Saloon", the first Triumph model after World War II.
- The name "Roadster" is misleading. Actually it is a "Drophead Coupe".
- It has a four-speed manual gearbox (column lever), a Solex carburettor and rear wheel drive.
- The aluminium anachronistic body work (pre-war steel shortages) on a tubular steel ladder type chassis had large separate headlights and the radiator was well back from the front between large "coal scuttle" wings.
- The doors were hinged at the rear and opened in the classic "suicide" form.
- The windshield had three screen wipers because of its unusual width. Three passengers could sit on the front bench☺☺!
- It has transverse leaf sprung independent suspension at the front, a live axle with half elliptic springs at the rear and hydraulic drum brakes all around.
- At the rear is a dickey seat with its own folding windscreen: this was outside the hood that could be erected to cover the front seat.
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Camera: Canon EOS 50D
Lens: Canon EF-S 70-200mm f2.8 IS USM
Manual, Handheld, whatever...
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 200 mm
ISO Speed: 250
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Manufacturer: Sociéte Industrielle de Mécanique et de Carrosserie Automobile, Nanterre - France
Type: 8 Sport Decapotable
Engine: 1221cc straight-4
Power: 51 bhp / 4.800 rpm
Speed: 135 km/h
Production time: 1949 - 1951
Production outlet: 4,822 (all 8 Sport (1949-1951) and 9 Sport (1952-1954) models)
Curb weight: 1000 kg
Special:
- The “sport body” of the “Huit” was designed by Jean Daninos (Stabilimenti Industriali Giovanni Farina S.A., Turin – Italy, an older brother of the famous Battista 'Pinin' Farina) in 1948 based on the Fiat 1100 S, but production started only late 1949 by Facel Métallon SA, Dreux – France.
- This 2-door 2-seater convertible/cabriolet has a four-speed manual gearbox (all synchromesh), chrome plated column shifter, a Solex 32 BIC one-barrel carburettor, a 12-Volts electric system, special clutch, a 50 liter fuel tank (filler cap behind in the luggage compartment), leather upholstery and rear wheel drive.
- The sturdy separate chassis (with four side members and cross members) with steel ribbed light aluminum unibody (doors, hood and trunk lid of steel) has a 95 inch wheelbase, independent coil spring front suspension, semi-elliptic leaf spring suspension at the rear , rigid rear axle (ratio 9/42), reinforced 5.25x15 tires and hydraulic aluminum drum brakes all around (ventilated front brakes).
- In 1950 to 1952 its brothers, the Simca 8 Sport Coupé and 9 Sport Coupé, took rather successfully part in the Rallye of Monte Carlo with famous Formula One drivers like Maurice Trintignant and Jean Behra.
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Mont Blanc (French) or Monte Bianco (Italian), meaning "White Mountain", is the highest mountain in the Alps, Western Europe and the European Union. It rises 4,810.45 m (15,782 ft)[2] above sea level and is ranked 11th in the world in topographic prominence. It is also sometimes known as La Dame blanche (French for "the White Lady") or Il Bianco (Italian for "the White One").
The mountain lies between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Haute-Savoie, France and the location of the summit is on the watershed line between the valleys of Ferret and Veny in Italy and the Arve Valley in France.
The two most famous towns near Mont Blanc are Courmayeur in Aosta Valley, Italy, and Chamonix in Haute-Savoie, France—the site of the first Winter Olympics. A cable car ascends and crosses the mountain from Courmayeur to Chamonix.
Begun in 1957 and completed in 1965, the 11.6 km (7¼ mi) Mont Blanc Tunnel runs beneath the mountain between these two countries and is one of the major trans-Alpine transport routes.
The Mont Blanc massif is popular for mountaineering, hiking, skiing and snowboarding.
The summit of Mont Blanc is a thick, perennial ice and snow dome whose thickness varies, so no exact and permanent summit elevation can be determined. But accurate measurements have been made. For a long time its official elevation was 4,807 m (15,771 ft). Then in 2002, the IGN and expert surveyors, with the aid of GPS technology, measured it to be 4,810.40 m (15,782 ft 2 in).
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The Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.
The cable car to the summit, the Téléphérique de l'Aiguille du Midi, was built in 1955 and held the title of the world's highest cable car for about two decades. It still holds the record as the highest vertical ascent cable car in the world, from 1,035 m to 3,842 m. There are two sections: from Chamonix to Plan de l'Aiguille at 2,317 m and then directly, without any support pillar, to the upper station at 3,777 m (the building contains an elevator to the summit). The span of the second section is 2,867 m measured directly, but only 2,500 m measured horizontally. It thus still is the second longest span width, measured directly.
This wasn't an accident. Three chaps who really knew what they were doing were having fun off Poole beach.
Ferrari Corse Clienti 2012,
Circuit de Spa Francorchamps, Bruxelles
"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions." -Michel de Montaigne
#1, Porsche 919 Hybrid, Porsche Team, driven by Timo Bernhard , Mark Webber , Brendon Hartley during WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone
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Voy por mi camino sin preocupación,
pasa la gente y me miran mal,
pero no me importa, a mí me da lo mismo,
hoy estoy alegre y tengo ganas de saltar.
Manufacturer: Standard Motor Company / Triumph Motor Company (Leyland Motors Ltd), Leyland, England, UK
Type: Spitfire 4 or Spitfire Mark I
Engine: 1147cc straight-4
Power: 63 bhp / 5.750 rpm
Speed: 147 km/h
Production time: 1962 – 1964
Production outlet: 45,753
Curb weight: 740 kg
Special:
- Designed by Giovanni Michelotti, technically led by Chief Engineer of Triumph, Harry Webster, based on the Herald (shortened chassis, tuned engine and many more mechanical Herald parts), called Spitfire 4 (referencing its four-cylinder engine) or Spitfire Mark I. and at first shown at the 1961 Earls Court in Londen.
- The name Spitfire was given after a successful fighter aircraft used during World War II, but it was often nicknamed "the poor man's Jaguar E-type".
- Construction of a prototype began in September 1960, codenamed “Bomb”.
- When the Spitfire was ready to go into production, unfortunately, Triumph could not produce the vehicle because of a financial crisis. Leyland Motors took over and by April of 1961 Triumph could again produce automobiles.
- It has a four-speed manual gearbox, twin SU carburettors, a 12-Volts electric system, rubber mats, only a door lock at the drivers side, a rev counter, a 41 liter fuel tank and rear wheel drive.
- The steel body on steel X-frame has coil-and-wishbone configuration (two unequal length wishbones) and stabilizer bar at the front, independent, longitudinal thrust struts, a single transverse-leaf swing-axle at the rear, disc brakes at the front, drum brakes at the back, rack-and-pinion steering (with a large plastic steering wheel), wind-up windows and the front end was a single-piece, tilted forward to provided access to the engine compartment.
- A heater, wire wheels, a factory tuning set (a cylinderhead with more compression, another inlet and exhaust manifold, twin Weber 40DCOE carburettors and another crankshaft) and from 1963 an overdrive on top and third gear and a factory-manufactured hardtop were optional.
- In 18 years “Spitfire” production (October 1962-August 1980 and all 315,332 units manufactured at the Standard-Triumph works at Canley, in Coventry, but also as complete knock-down kit (CKD) assembled in, inter alia, South-Africa and Belgium) the export rate was seldom less than 65 percent, usually more than 75 percent.