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This particular T2c version of the "Bulli" or "Microbus" was made in Brazil. As the water cooled version (T2c, note black plastic radiator grille) of the T2 was made in Brazil and Mexico the distinguishing feature is the front bumper, the Brazilian version had the round bumper that can be seen here, while the Mexican version had large edgy plastic bumpers.
Production in Brazil ended in late 2013, because from 2014 on all new vehicles were required to have airbags and ABS, which was not feasible to implement in the T2.
Spotted on the "Shanghai Car Parts Exhibition" 2015. The Chinese writing "平行进口车" on the plate means "parallel import".
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Playing with shallow DoF's....
Also at Paloma gardens at Fordell is a very interesting motorcycle museum which gave some opportunity for some different shots.
© Dominic Scott 2023
Eye-wateringly shiny 750cc watercooled 2 stroke triple from the 70s. I had a go on one of these in the early 80s and found it a tad underpowered and wobbly compared to the Z650 I had. Despite that, this example was in better than showroom condition.
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF
This wider field capture of Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF passing by Mars from Grand Mesa Observatory on the night of 2/11/2023 shows more of the comet's ion tail streaming away from the nucleus to the left in this image.
This roughly 4.33 x 2.93 degree image (the full Moon is about half a degree in width for reference) captures more of the scene around this interesting and transitory event. The comet nucleus shows up surrounded by a green coma and the two tails stream off to the left, the curved off white/yellowish more fanned out tail is the dust tail that is streaming off the comet relative to it's movement through it's orbit while the ion tail shoots out almost in a straight line from the nucleus which is driven by the intense solar wind coming from our Sun. Mars in this image is about 1.3 degrees away from the comet from our perspective here on Earth at the time of this capture. Also to note is the dark nebula Barnard 22 and reflection nebula IC 2087 above Mars in this image, to be sure this nebula is not located in our solar system but is much farther away at about 430 light-years distant.
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Captured on 11th February for a total acquisition time of 66 minutes
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Technical Info:
Captured and Processed by Tom Masterson, Terry Hancock and Kim Quick at Grand Mesa Observatory
Capture date 2/11/2023
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Grand Mesa Observatory System 2c
Camera: QHY 128 Pro C One Shot Color
Optics: Borg 107ED
Image Acquisition software N.I.N.A
Pre Processing in PixInsight Post Processing in Photoshop CC
Iconic mascot on a 1929 Hispano Suiza Dual Cowl Phaeton. The story behind the mascot shape is wonderful. The stork is the official symbol of Alsace-Lorraine the small region that has been German or French depending who won the previous war.
The flying stork (La Cigogne Volante, for you Francophiles) radiator cap was a quiet reminder of the marque’s wartime prowess: it commemorated Group de Combat No. 12, the squadron of Georges Guynemer, a French air ace with 53 credited kills before his disappearance in September, 1917. Guynemer’s SPAD aircraft were Hispano-powered and -armed, and Guynemer was said to be a personal friend of Birkigt.
The company received permission from Guynemer's mother to use the symbol from his plane as the official mascot.
Marc Birkigt was a Swiss engineer who designed the car and engines for a Spanish car company in early 1902, and as the company became more successful, they realized that many more expensive ultra-luxury cars could be sold in France, so the main car manufacturing plant was moved there. Thus, the French "Rolls" was made by a Spanish firm and designed by a Swiss......
Of note was Birkigt’s famed watercooled monobloc SOHC aluminum V8 engine with integral heads and screw-in cylinder liners. By the end of the war this engine had been manufactured in no fewer than 21 plants–fourteen in France alone, and others in England, Italy and the US; more than 50,000 were built, and the Hispano-Suiza name was soon legend across Europe. (It was so successful that the French government later sued the company for war profiteering.)
A nightshoot of this highly modified VW Golf, I wanted to catch passing lightrails to add action to the shot.
LRGB Version of B33 Horsehead Nebula with stars
Winter wouldn’t be complete without capturing an object within the glorious constellation of Orion, and fortunately we have a huge legacy archive at Grand Mesa Observatory and this time around I decided to process The Horsehead and Flame Nebula captured using our system 1 from broadband data (LRGB) collected in November 2020.
As I have done this so many times before I decided to process and present both a regular LRGB and starless versions which in my opinion provides a very surrealistic rendering of the nebulous regions full of detail that are otherwise hidden by the many visible stars.
As B33 has been selected as one of the GMO targets for January I am also hoping to add more data in narrowband soon “and when the snow clears”
Starless Version
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Total acquisition time 5.5 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
LUM 86 min 43x120
RED 90 min 45x120
GREEN 80 min 40x120
BLUE 76 min 38x120
Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Less than one hundred light years from the Orion Nebula lies the aptly named Horsehead Nebula, another outcropping of the Orion Molecular Cloud and one of the most recognizable assemblies in the heavens. Whereas the Orion Nebula generates enough light to be visible to the unaided eye, the Horsehead has a far lower surface brightness and presents a challenge to visual observers even with large telescopes. But it’s a delight for astrophotographers and arm chair stargazers.
The Horsehead complex lies just south of the brilliant blue supergiant star Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt and just north of the Orion Nebula. The glowing reddish-pink region in the background is cataloged by astronomers as IC 434. Like the Orion Nebula, IC 434 is an emission nebula. It’s powered by the blazing-hot star Sigma Orionis, just south of Alnitak. Much of the nebula is permeated by tenuous streaks caused by magnetic fields in the region. This extract from The Armchair Astronomer by Brian Ventrudo and Terry Hancock
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Winter wouldn’t be complete without capturing an object within the glorious constellation of Orion, and fortunately we have a huge legacy archive at Grand Mesa Observatory and this time around I decided to process The Horsehead and Flame Nebula captured using our system 1 from broadband data (LRGB) collected in November 2020.
I decided to process and present a starless version (using Russell Croman’s Photoshop version of StarXterminator) which in my opinion provides a very surrealistic rendering of the nebulous regions full of detail that are otherwise hidden by the many visible stars.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1 grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals
Total acquisition time 5.5 hours.
View in High Resolution:
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Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
LUM 86 min 43x120
RED 90 min 45x120
GREEN 80 min 40x120
BLUE 76 min 38x120
Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 60, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Image Scale: 1.19 arcsec/pix
Field of View: 3d 7' 41.0" x 2d 3' 5.3 (127.3 x 190.1 arcmin)
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Less than one hundred light years from the Orion Nebula lies the aptly named Horsehead Nebula, another outcropping of the Orion Molecular Cloud and one of the most recognizable assemblies in the heavens. Whereas the Orion Nebula generates enough light to be visible to the unaided eye, the Horsehead has a far lower surface brightness and presents a challenge to visual observers even with large telescopes. But it’s a delight for astrophotographers and arm chair stargazers.
The Horsehead complex lies just south of the brilliant blue supergiant star Alnitak, the easternmost star in Orion’s Belt and just north of the Orion Nebula. The glowing reddish-pink region in the background is cataloged by astronomers as IC 434. Like the Orion Nebula, IC 434 is an emission nebula. It’s powered by the blazing-hot star Sigma Orionis, just south of Alnitak. Much of the nebula is permeated by tenuous streaks caused by magnetic fields in the region. This extract from The Armchair Astronomer by Brian Ventrudo and Terry Hancock
The book is available in multi-media format from Apple’s iBooks store, in high-resolution PDF format, and in standard e-book format from Amazon’s Kindle store. cosmicpursuits.com/astronomy-courses-and-e-books/armchair...
Otherwise known as OU4 and Sh2-129 in the constellation Cepheus lying at a distance of approximately 2300 light years. Both emission Nebulae, the Flying Bat mainly composed mainly of Hydrogen emission and the Squid’s emission composed of double ionized oxygen. An extremely faint object The Squid Nebula was discovered in 2011 by French Astro-imager Nicolas Outters
Captured recently in Narrowband (H-Alpha and OIII) and Broadband using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ, courtesy of QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
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In this Bi Color version (HOO) the H-Alpha is mapped to the red channel and OIII is mapped to the green and blue channel. The raw data was preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were then removed using a tool in Photoshop called "StarXTerminator and the stars were later replaced with the more naturally colored stars from the RGB data.
Taken bin 2x2 over 17 nights between September and October 2021 for a total acquisition time of 51 hours.
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Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
HA 1330 min, 266 x 300 sec
OIII 1430 min, 286 x 300 sec
LUM 88 min, 44 x 120 sec
RED 86 min, 43 x 120 sec
GREEN 78 min, 39 x 120 sec
BLUE 58 min, 29 x 120 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
First Light Image using a new QHY600M Water Cooled photographic version monochrome CMOS camera that we are beta testing for QHYCCD, a review of this awesome new camera is forthcoming soon.
Quote from QHYCCD: The water cooled version provides an additional 10C ambient over the standard version and an important feature is the water cooled version has zero vibration because there is no fan inside the camera.
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In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel.
Captured bin 2x2 over 3 nights in December 2012 for a total acquisition time of 16.25 hours.
Here is an earlier image of IC443 for comparison using the QHY367C Pro www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/49625298658/in/datepos...
The Supernova Remnant IC443 otherwise known as the Jellyfish Nebula and Sharpless 248, lying at a distance of approximately 5000 light years from us in the constellation Gemini, visible towards the top left in this image is the Jellyfish, the remains of a supernova that occurred between 3000-30000 years ago, lower right in this image is the diffuse and reflection Nebula IC444 otherwise known as Sharpless 249.
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Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture December 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2021
HA 330 min, 66 x 300 sec
OIII 325 min, 65 x 300 sec
SII 320 min, 64 x 300 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Sh2-115 from the Sharpless catalogue is a region of Emission Nebula located in the constellation Cepheus at a distance of 7500 light-years from Earth. Also Of interest in this area is the Planetary Nebula Sh2-116, close to the famous North America Nebula.
Captured recently in Narrowband and Broadband using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ, courtesy of QHYCCD.
This setup is available immediately for people wanting to subscribe to Grand Mesa Observatory's system 1.
grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment-rentals.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. The raw data was preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were removed using a tool called Starxterminator and the stars were later replaced during Post Processing in Photoshop CC with the more naturally colored stars from the RGB data.
Captured bin 2x2 over 4 nights in October 2022 for a total acquisition time of 13.73 hours.
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture October 13, 15, 17, 18 2022
HA 175 min, 35 x 300 sec
OIII 220 min, 44 x 300 sec
SII 165 min, 33 x 300 sec
RED 88 min, 44 x 120 sec
GREEN 88 min, 44 x 120 sec
BLUE 88 min, 44 x 120 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing Pixinsight and Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Romans 7:11 “For sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, beguiled and completely deceived me, and using it as a weapon killed me [separating me from God].”
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After dodging clouds for well over a month and despite some bad seeing conditions we were finally able to image Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF on 1/22/2023 this past weekend from Grand Mesa Observatory.
The Comet is heading towards its closest approach to Earth on February 1st, 2023 and should increase in brightness up to this point. It is currently faintly visible to the naked eye from a dark non-light polluted location. The Moon does complicate things a bit and will be bright in the sky and up most of the night in the coming days until it's at it reaches full Moon on Feb 6th. After the 6th the Moon will rise later in the evening giving the opportunity to see the Comet clearer the second week of February in the early evening hours. It will also be located high up in the night sky close to zenith which will also make it easier to observe and photograph.
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF will head past some interesting celestial objects in the night sky making a close pass by the bright star Capella on Feb 6; then moves through the Constellation Auriga Feb 7-9th; it also makes a close approach to Mars on Feb 10th where it will be a bit over 1 degree or about two full moon widths away from Mars in the night sky. Some very interesting photo and observing opportunities to look forward to, I hope at Grand Mesa Observatory and everyone else will have clear skies for some of them!
The appearance of this comet is interesting as well with its tails splayed out in opposite directions caused by its orientation in the solar system relative to our vantage point here on Earth. A very good explanation for this comes from Ian Whittaker a senior physics lecturer in physics at Nottingham Trent University in the U.K. who had this to say in a Newsweek article recently released:
"The neutral particles come off in a cone behind the comet as it moves—a bit like being behind a big truck on the motorway while it's raining, all the excess water hits whatever is directly behind it."
"The charged particles will do the same unless there are any electric or magnetic fields nearby. The sun itself has a magnetic dipole (like the Earth) and has a magnetic field flowing out into the solar system. So the charged particles coming off of the comet are picked up by this magnetic field and sent directly away from the sun (anti-sunward)."
This forms the traditional backward-facing tail streaming out from behind a comet.
"The third comet tail is made up of the neutral particles but is not actually traveling towards the sun, it is just the relative position of the comet, Earth, and sun," Whittaker said.
He continued: "If we go back to the analogy of the truck traveling on a lot of surface water, the spray comes out and mostly goes behind, but in a slight cone shape. If we were now in front and looked backward, we would not see the main spray hitting the car behind but a slight amount either side of the truck where the edge of the cone is. The apparent third comet tail is the same thing, we are seeing neutral particles flowing away from the comet in a cone and from where we are on the Earth we just see both edges of this cone so it looks like two tails when it is really one."
Credit Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/comet-ztf-green-tail-antitail-towards-su...
Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2022_E3_(ZTF)
Technical Info:
Captured by Terry Hancock, and Kim Quick at Grand Mesa Observatory, Processed by Tom Masterson
Capture date 1/22/2023
Integration
5 x 180 sec images stacked. Total time 15 Minutes.
Location: Grand Mesa Observatory www.grandmesaobservatory.com
Grand Mesa Observatory System 5
Camera: QHY 128 Pro C One Shot Color
Optics: Borg 107ED
Image Acquisition software N.I.N.A
The Seagull Nebula, also referred to as IC2177 and NGC 2327 The Seagull’s Head in the constellations of Monoceros and Canis Major, lying at a distance of 3,600 light-years from Earth. Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory in Narrowband using a QHY600 60 Megapixel Full Frame Monochrome CMOS camera mounted on a Takahashi 130 FSQ.
In this Hubble Palette version (SHO) the H-Alpha is mapped to green channel, SII is mapped to red channel and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. The raw data was
preprocessed using Pixinsight, the stars were removed in Photoshop using StarXTerminator and then later replaced.Captured over 4 nights in February 2022 for a total acquisition time of 14.6 hours.
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Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Dates of Capture February 9, 11, 12, 13 2022
HA 315 min, 63 x 300 sec
OIII 260 min, 52 x 300 sec
SII 305 min, 61 x 300 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma
Camera: QHY600 Monochrome CMOS Photographic version, water cooled
Gain 26, Offset 76 in Read Mode Photographic 16 bit, bin 2x2
Calibrated with Dark, Dark/Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:2.39 arcsec/pix
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6, Pre Processing in Pixinsight Post Processed in Photoshop CC
Captured on August 22, September 23 at Grand Mesa Observatory using QHYCCD’s QHY600PH Back Illuminated Full Frame Monochrome camera that we have the honor of testing for QHYCCD.
IC 1396 is a large, faintly bright, star-forming region that is about 100 light-years across and lies toward the constellation Cepheus at a distance of about 2,400 light-years from the Solar System. In this nebula, cometary globules and long columns of dense dark dust are abundant, potential sites for the generation of new stars. One of these columns is the popular Elephant Trunk Nebula, better known by its name in English Elephant Trunk Nebula, named by astronomers for its amazing resemblance to an elephant's trunk, is cataloged as IC 1396A and shown by contrast against the bluish cavity that fills the center of IC 1396. This dense column of star births is more than 20 light-years long and is eroded by ultraviolet radiation from the star HD 206267, which is part of the open star cluster cataloged as Collinder 439 and Trumpler 37, which is located in the center of the nebula.
Infrared observations, capable of passing through the dust, indicate that this dense column of dust contains more than 250 very young stars in and around this cloud, some of them are baby stars that are not older than 100,000 years, in addition to 2 stars young of two million years of age, residing in a circular cavity located in the head of the globule. This cavity may have been carved out by radiation and winds from stars in the process of being born. The combined action of the light from the massive star that ionizes and compresses the edge of the cloud, and the wind from the young stars that displaces gas from the center outward, leads to very high compression in the Elephant Trunk Nebula, this pressure has unleashed the current generation of protostars. The star mu Cephei, 38,000 times brighter than the Sun, is a red supergiant with a diameter greater than the orbit of Saturn, some 2,536 times the diameter of the Sun, making it one of the largest known stars. mu Cephei is a variable whose brightness oscillates between magnitudes 3.4 and 5.1 in periods that approximate 730 days. Mouse over the image or click on touch screens to identify the objects mentioned. In this image north is 36º to the right of the vertical. Explanation and Publication by Juan Carlos "universo magico" www.universomagico.net/2022/11/ic-1396-por-terry-hancock....
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Technical Info:
Total Integration time 13.8 hours
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of capture: August 22, September 23
HA 275 min, 55 x 300 sec
OIII 345 min, 69 x 300 sec
SII 210 min, 42 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY600M Back Illuminated Full Frame Color CMOS
Gain 26 Offset 76
Read Mode: Photographic 16 bit
Calibrated with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Takahashi E-180 F2.8 Astrograph
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Mount: Paramount ME
Image Scale:1.55 arcsec/pix
Pre Processed in Pixinsight
Pre Processed Pixinsight and Post Processed in Photoshop
Event: Trentham Gardens Classic & Retro Show
Location: Trentham, Staffordshire
Camera: Canon EOS IX7 (APS)
Lens(s): EF Converted Canon EF-S 10-18mm f/4.5-5.6 IS STM
Film: Jessops Diamond Everyday - expired 2006
Shot ISO: 50
Light Meter: Camera
Exposure: f/5.6 (wide open)
Lighting: Raining - mostly heavily
Mounting: Hand-held
Firing: Shutter Button
Developer: Bellini C-41 Kit
Scanner: Epson V800
Post: Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (dust removal)
Volkswagen Transporter Type 2 (T3) Kombi (1979-90) Engine 1600 S4 Watercooled
Registration Number B 598UNA (Manchester)
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The third generation of the Volkswagen Transporter, and was marketed under various nameplates worldwide – including the Transporter or Caravelle in Europe, Microbus in South Africa, and Vanagon in North and South America. It was larger, heavier, and more brick-like in its styling than its predecessor the T2. Following the Type 2 T2, the Type 2 T3 initially featured air-cooled engines;
Volkswagen marketed the Westfalia camper variant throughout the T3 production, with features including a pop-up roof, refrigerator, sink, and stove.
Examples built between 1979 and 1985 featured round headlights and chrome-plated steel bumpers with plastic end-caps. Air-cooled models (1979 to mid-1983) lack the lower grill above the radiator of the water-cooled models, except on models with factory air conditioning.
Updated for 1986, changes included rectangular headlights (on selected models) and different paint options. Alloy wheels, larger and squarer plastic bumpers with trim along the rocker panels were optional
This is an Autohomes Kameo Motorhome SWB / medium hi-top roof / 2-berth / traditional layout The hightop roof had extra storage cupboards built in.
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Shot 17.04.2022 Weston Park (Classic Car Show), Weston-under-Lizard, Salop 157-406
200 "Super Pursuit" Six:
Capacity: 200 cubic inches (3.28 litres)
Type: Conventional, watercooled four stroke, reciprocating piston type with 6 cylinders
Configuration: Front mounted, longitudinal, inline
Head: Pushrod and rocker actuated ohv with two valves per cylinder
Fuel System: Single throat downdraft type carburettor
Bore and Stroke: 3.60 x 3.13 inches (91 x 79mm)
Power: 121bhp (90kw) at 4400rpm
Torque: 175lb-ft (237Nm) at 2400rpm
Compression Ratio: 8.7:1
Ignition and Electrical:
12 volt
Coil and generator, alternator optional
Exhaust:
Single tail-pipe, zinc annealed type muffler
Suspension:
Front: Independent type with coil springs and hydraulic double acting shock absorbers, stabiliser bar
Rear: Semi-elliptic springs with hydraulic double acting shock absorbers
Steering:
Recirculating ball, ratio 27:1
Brakes:
Front: Hydraulic 9 inch (229mm) drums
Note: Power assisted 10.75 inch Girling disc brakes standard on Fairmont from August 1965
Rear: Hydraulic 9 inch (229mm) drums
Wheels:
Pressed steel disc wheels with safety rims
Tyres:
All except Fairmont: 6.50 x 13 four-ply
Fairmont: 6.50 x 14 four-ply
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Southward Car Museum, Paraparaumu, New Zealand
1969 Steyr Typ 586 / 5976cc straight-6 Diesel / 132 bhp / 95 km/h / curb weight 5,500 kg / load capacity 7,500 kg
- The 586 Series was the last built so called "Hauber LKW" from Steyr-Werke AG in Steyr, Austria.
- It has the new WD609 engine: a water-cooled, fast-rotating six-cylinder in-line diesel engine.
- This engine was very light and weights only 560 kg.
- It could be delivered with all-wheel-drive.
- In the 1980s, the 586 Series was also manufactured in Nigeria.
Manufacturer: Volkswagen AG (VAG), Wolfsburg - Germany
Type: Typ 183 Iltis
Engine: 1714cc straight-4 water-cooled
Power: 75 bhp / 5.000 rpm
Speed: 130 km/h
Production time: 1978 - 1990
Production outlet: 9,547 total
Production outlet army forces: 8,800
Production outlet civil: 747
Curb weight: 1274 kg
Special:
- It's designed by Volkswagen AGs subsidiary Audi to replace the DKW Munga.
- Germany, France and Italy had developed a plan to jointly build a road vehicle; the so-called "European Jeep". But that plan failed (1976).
- The Type 183 Iltis (German for Polecat) is a military terrain vehicle, initially built for the German Bundeswehr.
- It is an evolved (in a hurry) type 181 ("Kurierwagen"), witch technology heavily leaned on the Beetle (Typ 1) and the Kübelwagen (Typ 82) with fully galvanized body work, only one Solex carburetor and all wheel drive (front wheel drive is separately switchable).
- The front differential is integrated in the gearbox.
- The gearbox has four forward gears (later models five-speed) and one reverse gear, and an unsynchronized "off road gear" with a large reduction.
- The four-wheel drive system that Audi developed for this car was the base for the later quattro system on civilian cars of that brand.
- Remarkably, the vehicle employed for the Bundeswehr are equipped with a 24 volt system (2x12V series-connected).
- The batteries were placed under the rear seat and an interesting detail is that the cover of the battery as a kind of barrier for the engine compartmen could be used as a kind of barrier for the engine compartment, while driving trough (deep) waters (a cooling grille was mounted in there).
- The Iltis was partly built by Volkswagen and AUDI.
- After ceasing production at Volkswagen's, production was sold to the Canadian Bombardier, with minor changes, increased in production under license to the Canadian Forces. Belgium assembled them using the components of the Canadian Iltis for their armed forces.
- In 1987, the German Bundeswehr demand for a diesel version of Iltis (880 units with a turbodieselmotor 1600cc / 70 bhp), so they ordered them in Belgium.
1926 Hanomag Kommissbrot
1 cilinder 499 cc 10 pk
The Hanomag 2/10 PS is an economy car manufactured by Hanomag from 1924 until 1928. It was one of the first cars with envelope styling.[ It was affectionately referred to as the Kommissbrot ("Army Bread") due to its identical shape with the usual loaf of bread used by the German army at the time. "Kommiss" is German slang for "Army", short for "commissioned."
The 2/10 PS (two taxable / ten brake horsepower) had a single-cylinder half litre engine behind the passengers. The rear axle was chain-driven, with no differential. With a fuel consumption of 4.0 litres per 100 kilometres it was the world's most fuel efficient mass-production car between the two World Wars due to the low-friction one-cylinder engine and its very light weight.[
Manufacturer: Léon Bollée Société des Voiturettes Automobiles, Le Mans - France
Type: Voiturette
Engine: 882cc single-cylinder water-cooled
Power: 3 bhp / 800 rpm
Speed: 43 km/h
Production time: 1896 - 1898
Production outlet: several hundred
Curb weight: 200 kg
Special:
- It was the first automobile ever with the name "Voiturette" and became a "standard name" for a French "small automotive vehicle" used by many facturers.
- The cars were actually produced by Hurtu & Diligeon, in Albert, Somme, France. Only the prototypes were made at the Le Mans factory.
- With a similar car Leon Bollee drove LeMans-Paris in 7 hours, which corresponds to an average speed of 30 km/h.
- The driver sat astride the back seat, controlling the front wheels with the lever on the right (arm and link steering) from the unsprung tubular frame.
- While steering with his right hand, his left operated a versatile lever that changed gears, applied the brake or engaged the driving belt.
- The four-stroke water-cooled and horizontal engine has platinum semi-hot-tube ignition, a belt final-drive transmission (rear wheel) and a tensioning roller, which acted as a clutch and a belt final-drive transmission (rear wheel).
- When the belt's rear wheel slides backward it puts tension on the belt, thus acting as the clutch, and when it slides forward, it jams the back wheel against the brake block.
- The Bollées Tricars were very popular in their day since they were quite simple, reliable and relatively less expensive than a full-size car.
- Léon himself was a pioneer of the gasoline engine, developing lightweight gas powered vehicles when he was still relatively young.
- Nor more than a handful are known to exist.