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This is a one off custom Volkswagen Beetle that has been chopped into a ute or trayback, and has a Holden (GM) ( Buick) 3.8 Litre V6 engine, everywhere you looked at this vehicle it screamed custom.
Taken at Kaniva Car & Bike Show, Victoria in 2012.
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The Alfa Romeo 6C name was used on road, race, and sports cars that were made between 1925 and 1954 by Alfa Romeo. 6C refers to a straight 6 engine. Bodies for these cars were made by coachbuilders such as James Young, Zagato, Touring, Castagna, and Pininfarina. Starting from 1933 there was also a 6C version with a factory Alfa body, built in Portello. In the early 1920s Vittorio Jano got a task to create a lightweight, high performance vehicle to replace the Giuseppe Merosi designed RL and RM models. The car was introduced in April 1925 at the Salone dell’ Automobile di Milano as the 6C 1500. It was based on the P2 racing car, using single overhead cam 1,487 cc inline six-cylinder motor producing 44 horsepower, in the 1928 was presented the 1500 Sport which was the first Alfa Romeo road car with double overhead camshafts.
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The BNSF Gold Bar Turn continuing south through Edmonds. It was heading to Richmond Beach to pick up some chemical cars.
Bus Éireann (Cork) Volvo B10B / Alexander Setanta VA 1 (96-D-2001) in Lotabeg, Cork 15th October 2007. VA 1 was new to Dublin Bus, based at Conyngham Road garage.
CA: Una unitat 3600 està llesta per sortir cap a Balmaseda fent un servei de rodalies.
ES: Una unidad 3600 está lista para salir hacia Valmaseda con un servicio de cercanías.
EN: A class 3600 is ready to leave towards Balmaseda with a local service.
Voted by many as the best tank of WW2, the Soviet T-34 was based on the US-designed Christie suspension which was also used by the British Crusader and Cromwell tanks. However the Soviets sloped the tank's armour for better protection and widened the tracks for better grip. The early T-34 armed with a 76 mm gun was almost invulnerable to small German anti-tank guns. Later versions (including this one) had a larger three-man turret and carried a larger 85mm gun. It continued in production in Warsaw Pact countries into the 1950s and some are still in use in Third World countries. Cuba is believed to have a few still working.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34
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More images from my October 2011 visit to the Imperial War Museum Duxford site. The Land Warfare Hall contains many vehicles and guns from WW1, WW2 and the Cold War. Unfortunately the building has very poor lighting and it is a pig to take photographs in the LWH.
A snow covered Duffield station plays host to 153383 and an unidentified classmate working a Matlock bound service
23 January 2013
NS 916 departs Bremen, eastbound, with NS SD40-2 3514, Ex. BN Cascade Green, and NS SD40-2 3505, Ex. HLCX Redbird.
Budd Rail Deisel Car ex Boston & Maine Railroad and latterly running for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in the Boston area has had a bash at some time and is now stored at Lincoln NH, 12th September 2010.
FS ETR500 24 (latoA) in livrea HDI in transito nei pressi di Arena Po come ES9413 TO-LE il 7 dicembre 2007
FS ETR500 train 24 (side A) running as ES9413 just after Arena Po on the 7th of December in 2007
Warrington Borough Transport 23. Dennis Dart SLF/Marshall Capital. Pictured at the Wilderspool Causeway garage,Warrington - 18.8.12.
MOU 747R was new to NBC Bristol in 1976 for Bristol City services. This photo was taken by my nephew at Lawrence Hill depot in 1977. She was one of the last VRs in City Line service.
U.S. Army Stryker infantry carrier vehicles convoy across the flightline during operations in support of Steadfast Javelin II on Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sept. 3, 2014. The exercise features a number of dynamic events designed to challenge the multi-national forces in airborne operations, conventional warfare scenarios as well as stability and defensive operations, and support of civil authorities operations. . (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jordan Castelan)
British Aerospace Fire and Rescue Service, ex Dunsfold Range Rover/Gloster Saro, 6x6 Fire Tender, LDF 681P. Taken at the Brooklands Museum Emergency Services day on Bank Holiday Monday 2013. DSCF7908
Top speed
German inspection officials recorded an average top speed of the original version of 408.47 km/h (253.81 mph) during test sessions on the Ehra-Lessien test track on 19 April 2005.
This top speed was verified by James May on Top Gear in November 2006, again at Volkswagen Group's private Ehra-Lessien test track. Jeremy Clarkson, driving a Veyron from Italy to London, noted that at top speed the engine consumes 45,000 litres (9,900 imp gal) of air per minute (as much as a human breathes in four days). The Veyron has the highest top speed of any street legal production car. Once back in the Top Gear studio, James was asked by co-presenter Jeremy Clarkson what the Veyron felt like to drive at 407 km/h (253 mph), May replied that it was "totally undramatic", and very stable at speed. It only wobbled slightly as the air brake moved in the vertical position to slow the car down at lower speeds.
On 4 July 2010, Bugatti's official test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel piloted the Super Sport edition and was clocked at an average of 431.072 km/h (267.856 mph) on the same track, taking back the title from the SSC Ultimate Aero TT as the fastest production vehicle of all time. The 431.072 km/h mark was reached by averaging the Super Sport's two test runs, the first topping out at 427.93 km/h (265.90 mph) and the second at 434.20 km/h (269.80 mph). The record run was certified by the German government and the Guinness Book of World Records.
The car's everyday top speed is listed at 350 km/h (220 mph). When the car reaches 220 km/h (140 mph), hydraulics lower the car until it has a ground clearance of about 9 cm (3.5 in). At the same time, the wing and spoiler deploy. In this handling mode the wing provides 3,425 newtons (770 lbf) of downforce, holding the car to the road.
For top speed mode the driver must, while at rest, toggle a special top speed key to the left of the driver's seat. A checklist then establishes whether the car and its driver are ready to attempt to reach 407 km/h (253 mph). If so, the rear spoiler retracts, the front air diffusers shut, and normal 12.5 cm (4.9 in) ground clearance drops to 6.5 cm (2.6 in).
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