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Manufacturer: Adam Opel AG, Rüsselsheim - Germany / General Motors Company, Detroit - USA
Type: Admiral Limousine B Series
Production time: March 1969 - July 1976
Production outlet: 35,622
Engine: 2784cc straight-6 GM Opel CIH (Cam-in-head) SOHC 2.8
Power: 132 bhp / 5.200 rpm
Torque: 206 Nm / 3.000 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 176 km/h
Curb weight: 1448 kg
Wheelbase: 112.2 inch
Chassis: self-supporting body
Steering: powered ball circulation steering with safety steering column
Gearbox: four-speed manual / all synchromesh / steering column shift
Clutch: hydraulic single dry plate disc with disc spring
Carburettor: Zenith 34/40 INAT
Fuel tank: 80 liter
Electric system: 12 Volts 44 Ah
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: hydraulic 10.7 inch ventilated discs
Brakes rear: hydraulic 10 inch ventilated drums
Suspension front: independent trapezoidal cross-link, cross bars, rotary bar stabilizer, helical springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: trailing arms, double joint with two homokinetic (De-Dion type) on two drawn longitudinal links at the bottom and a pushed triangle-link at the top, sway bar, helical springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live De-Dion type
Differential: hypoid 3.889:1
Wheels: 6 J x 14 steel discs
Tires: 7.00 H 14
Options: GM Opel three-speed "Strasburg" Automatic transmission (THM180), floor shift, S Model with twin 2x Zenith 35/40 INAT carbs (power 145bhp/5.200rpm, torque 223Nm/3.600rpm), Bosch D-Jetronic electronic injection system (power 165bhp/5.600rpm, torque 229Nm/4.100rpm), pneumatic level control, air conditioning, electric sunroof, leather interior, power windows, power mirrors adjustable from the inside, halogen headlights, radio with windshield antenna, alloy wheels, tinted glass, headlight wiper system
Special:
- The Admiral was part of Opels “Big Three” or the “K.A.D. Series (Kapitän B: 1969-1970; 4,976 units built, Admiral B, Diplomat B: 1969-1977; 21,021 units built), all shared the same body shape, with only little adjustments, like horizontal headlights on the Kapitän and Admiral, vertical headlights on the Diplomat, smaller rear lights of the Diplomats were arranged vertically, trim and engine modification differences.
- The K.A.D. B series was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1969.
- The K.A.D. Series was intended to compete with Mercedes-Benz.
- Karosseriebetrieb Vogt, Bad Neuenahr - Germany built some fastback sedans with tilt tailgate, combi-conversions and burial wagons based on the K.A.D. Series.
- Karosserieaufbau Mießen in Bonn - Germany built K.A.D. based ambulances.
- The K.A.D. B Series was replaced by the Opel Senator in 1977.
Today is 101010 and too bad this sketch was not done at 1010 hour. This is the junction of East Coast Road and Sea Ave. Weather was really hot outside so I did this in the comfort of the air conditioned car. The road was narrow and traffic was heavy. I also did it with my sun glasses on as I could not stand the outdoor glare.
The shophouses along this stretch of road are still very attractive although some shophouses have been renovated with big signs on the facade covering the beautiful second storey french windows. Some roofs are also not properly done with just a layer of bitumen felt roofing laid with timber battens over to weigh it down. The church in this sketch is Church of the Holy Family.
Lenticular clouds like these generally precede storm systems. As I write this the Midwest is preparing for a significant winter weather system on the heels of this atmospheric condition. With the downward slope into the high plains Lafeyette, and Broomfield are situated close enough to the foot of the front range to catch that open notch of sun when it comes through the open edge of the clouds over the mountains. What is left is this intense spotlight for 30 minutes to an hour in this case close as we are to the solstice after 3:45 when the light becomes that warm gold and its intensity just like a summer thunderstorm darkens the sky behind. Great stage light for our actors to display their act, up next the drop after dark. These lenticular shelf’s will hang out all day, a signal to go find a subject. I really enjoy the Buck Wheat, it’s at the heart of the whole play, without these short lines and branches mainline action simply would not exist.
I don't remember ever playing with her...she was the pretty doll..you just sat on your bed..Probably why her dress is still in perfect condition
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see”
- Rene Magritte
My tribute to the famous painting by Rene Magritte ( 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) with the title “The Human Condition” oil on canvas, painted in 1933
The Rietveld Pavilion in the sculpture garden of the the Kröller-Müller Museum in Park Hoge Veluwe with sculptures by Hepworth, Couzijn & De Vries.
The famous Sculpture Garden of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Park Hoge Veluwe is one of the largest in Europe. The magnificent collection of sculptures is exhibited in an innovative way, surrounded by nature. Various artists, from the late 19th century to today, are represented: Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Richard Serra, Mario Merz, Jean Dubuffet and Claes Oldenburg.
The Rietveld Pavilion in the sculpture garden of the museum was restored in 2010. Gerrit Rietveld (1884-1964) designed the pavilion for the display of small sculptures at the Third International Sculpture Exhibition in Arnhem’s Sonsbeek Park in 1955. This ‘Sonsbeek Pavilion’ was intended as a temporary structure, and it was dismantled when the exhibition was over. On the initiative of several Dutch architects, the building found a permanent home in the Kröller-Müller Museum’s sculpture garden, under a new name: the ‘Rietveld Pavilion’. The second Rietveld Pavilion in the sculpture garden of the museum was built in 1965.
From the very outset, the maintenance of the Rietveld Pavilion was a constant source of concern. Every conceivable method was considered and tried, from conservation and restoration to copying and replacing parts of the building, but it eventually became clear that the structure was beyond saving. The 1965 pavilion has been disassembled. In 2010, the museum has rebuild the structure with new materials, while adhering as closely as possible to Gerrit Rietveld’s original design. Wherever possible, parts of the 1965 pavilion that were still in adequate condition have been reused. Construction work began in January and finished in September 2010. The new, third version of the pavilion now stands in the museum’s sculpture garden, preserving Rietveld’s world-famous design for the future. The pavilion is the property of the Government Buildings Agency (GBA) of the State of the Netherlands, which, as its owner, is responsible for its maintenance. The GBA was also overseeing the restoration project on behalf of the Kröller-Müller Museum
A couple more circa 1870 houses on 3rd Street in Newburgh, New York. The unpainted brick building was described as in good condition in 1980.
The hard part is not to achieve something, is free from the condition in which it - Marguerite Duras
Il difficile non è raggiungere qualcosa, è liberarsi dalla condizione in cui si è - Marguerite Duras
Seen on a local cycle ride, rare to see now otuside of shows, but looked in very good condition, taxed to Apr 2024 and MOT'd to Sep 2024.
1956 Pontiac Chieftain
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Petoskey, Michigan.
Sunday, September 2, 2012.
The 11 km of walls, most of them in good condition, delimit the perimeter of the city's historic district.
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The Cartagena de Indias Wall was built for the defense of the city, it began at the end of the 16th century after the attack of the legendary Sir Francis Drake. The fortification is the most complete on the South American continent and one of the best and well-preserved walls of the walled cities in the world and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
Since the founding of Cartagena de Indias in 1533, and throughout the Spanish colonial era, it was one of the most important ports in America. From there came the greatest riches that the Spanish Crown sent to its ports in Spain, for this reason it was necessary to build a wall with all the forts such as El Castillo de San Felipe and Bocachica to prevent them from being invaded by the English or French or saqueros by the pirates, thus the port of Cartagena was gaining importance thanks to its bay protected by the Spanish military, the construction of forts and walls and its proximity to the city of Panama, another important Spanish port.
The city of Cartagena was attacked numerous times by pirates and English, French and Dutch troops. For this reason, King Felipe II entrusted the mission to field marshal Luis de Tejada and the Italian engineer Bautista Antonelli to build 11 km of walls and forts that would serve as a defense to the city.
The construction was carried out in stages. The first of them began in 1586 by Bautista Antonelli, who was an Italian engineer who was at the service of the Spanish crown, later in 1609 Cristóbal Roda would come to intervene in the construction, achieving the fortification of the entire part of the city that faces the open sea.
Francisco de Murga strengthened the entire part of the Getsemaní neighborhood from 1631 to 1633, later Juan Betín repaired the walls destroyed by the sea in 1669. After serious damage by the sea and the attack on the city by Baron de Pointis , Juan de Herrera y Sotomayor restarted the repairs of the walls. At this time, the viceroy of Villalonga ordered Herrera to build underwater caissons in order to form a breakwater in front of the walls destroyed in 1721.
It was necessary to build another breakwater on the way between Punta Icacos (near the current Hotel Caribe) and Tierrabomba by Antonio de Arévalo, who was the most important engineer in the city. In the year 1796 the works in the center of the city would be finished.
The enclosures of the wall also had the function of separating rich people and poor people who could only enter to come to work in the city. The walls are complemented by fortresses on the coast such as the San Sebastian del Pastelillo Fort and the San Fernando de Bocachica Fort.
Visit this wonder especially at sunset where you can watch the sunset and take a pleasant romantic walk along the wall. The people of Cartagena usually visit it in the afternoons and with their partners they watch the sunset and fall in love!
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"The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition."
Hannah Arendt
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Berlin, November 2014
The tide was flat, perfect condition for windsurfing on this long empty beach. I stopped racing this sail when my speedometer hit 30mph. We estimated a speed of 35mph. Amazing skill.
The weather has been perfect the last few days! A great opportunity to get Stolas out and work on our shoulder movements. It only takes a few passes before any stiffness is worked out. His reach and motion always look so good. We’re hopeful to compete a little this year; get an opportunity at some feedback and grow our skills.
See everyone in the show arena soon!
Some very nice condition this morning ! It was snow storm all night and quite magical this morning. So I had a 3rd round this year !
Front View. From 1974.
All pieces in my collection work and are in excellent to mint condition. Please do not use photos without permission. If you ask I'll most likely let you use them with a link back to my site. But, please don't steal.
It is fascinating to hear what some people have been up to, before and during the lockdown.👂👂
An example of this were the actions of Mrs Trebogus, her sister Trixie Trebillcock and Betty Beswetherick, shall we say these three ladies are of mature years but nobodies fool.👵👵👵
At the beginning of March following their instincts the three ladies decided to move in together. They had several articulated lorry loads of beer delivered by Sharps Brewery, plus quite a consignment from Camel Valley Vineyard. 🚛🚛🚛🍺🍺🍺🍷🍷🍷
Mrs Trebogus always kept much food in her freezer, plus she had a large vegetable garden and of course the ladies culinary skills were legendary, they were well prepared. 🍖🍖🍖🍎🍏🍋🍊
The ladies felt they would be good company for each other, sure enough their hunch was proved correct as three weeks later the whole country went into lock down, which the ladies had no problem with as they were the type of people in common with so many others that did as they were told. The ladies were able to follow instruction, had respect and complied, plus these ladies all came from special forces backgrounds which required them working in some hostile environments, Trixie worked as a bouncer at Mothercare for many years, yes these ladies are tough.👹👹👹
As the lockdown progressed many on line fitness videos sprang up, the ladies were very keen to keep themselves in peak condition so they followed along with many of these workouts, however none of the videos were of such intensity in order to keep the ladies bodies in absolute peak condition, it just did not stretch the ladies enough, Mrs Trebogus had an idea.💃💃💃
She owns a Mercedes ML63 AMG, so the three ladies went into the garage, Mrs Trebogus got hold of the front bumper and lifted the Mercedes up and down in order to tone her arm muscles.
The other two ladies also carried out this manoeuvre, as mentioned they are tough.
Trixie suggested to Betty that she got underneath the Mercedes, put her feet under the bumper and lifted it up and down with her legs in order to strengthen the thighs.💪💪💪
Everything was going swimmingly then Mrs Trebogus had a go as she likes to keep her thighs in special peak condition, there was an enormous crack, Mrs Trebogus’s left leg fell off. Nothing to do with the vacuum cleaner incident I must add.
Like you do, Mrs Trebogus dusted herself off and said this is not a problem as my car is an automatic (You still have to be there) but when the time comes and we are allowed out I still have my right leg in order to be able to drive. So she picked up her leg, hopped over and placed it in the big chest freezer she had in the garage.🏡
Trixie said “you should seek medical help”, no responded Mrs Trebogus we know the rules, we have been instructed to stay home, not to go out, we will wait until the lockdown is eased, I can still walk on the one good leg, do cart wheels with a slight shimmy, so I have nothing to complain about. Anyway like so many people, if we were really desperate there is always someone locally that can help out, that is human instinct. 🏃♀️💪
The weeks went by, sure enough, some of the lockdown measures were eased and in May people were allowed to drive for over an hour, but return on the same day. Not wishing to trouble the medical profession, Mrs Trebogus went onto the internet to look for alternative medical assistance, one name caught her eye, Mystic Peg, who specialised in limb reattachment services.👩💻
As Mrs Trebogus herself had worked with some of our special forces, she respected the anonymity of Mystic Peg who would only provide her post code, and a time to meet.👩💼
Like most of us long car journeys need to be planned, first you need a full tank of petrol, how many people keep a full tank of fuel just in case they need to go off at a minutes notice. Mrs Trebogus went and filled her Mercedes with fuel so that they could go off to the secret location.⛽️🚘
The sat nav coordinates were plumbed in and after quite some journey the three ladies reached their destination. Sure enough as our ladies got out of the car a fairy was waiting dressed in a Knights of the round table uniform, yes this was Mystic Peg, she said “come with me”, so Mrs Trebogus, with her leg under her arm, Trixie and Betty followed, they all set off into a park, keeping two meters away from Mystic Peg
Mystic Peg instructed Mrs Trebogus to sit on a special little stool, with a bit of her left hip hanging over the edge of the stool. Mystic Peg asked Mrs Trebogus to align the detached leg against her hip. Mystic Peg closed her eyes, muttered a couple of words and within moments, hey presto Mrs Trebogus’s leg was reattached and working like a new one.
As you can imagine (I can) Mrs Trebogus was so grateful to Mystic Peg for her services and asked what she owed her. Mystic Peg said "it is my pleasure to help good people like you and really it was such a simple job".😇👛👜💷💷💷
Mystic Peg went on to say, “as I have not seen many people for a while could I share a confidence with you Mrs Trebogus. Well don’t tell anyone but during the lockdown we had been made aware of a bloke who drove to this very location who could not see his hand in front of his face.
As none of us were on duty during lockdown he allegedly sat over there on a park bench, he gazed up towards the Magic Castle, bingo his eyesight came back, a miracle and he was able to drive all the way home to London”.🏰🙈😱
Mrs Trebogus responded to the fairy “you just cannot make that up”.😉
Thank you so much for looking at my photographs, the comments and banter you leave are so appreciated.
Have a good weekend
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