August 2024 FuelFed Barrington C&C...Hypercar content!

[Klasse Act]

No doubt one of Scott's buddy's (Sizzle Chest) cars I'm not a supercar guy but I appreciate RARENESS...plus it was overcast and light sprinkles at times...NO WORRIES ️

More to come, just take this in

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[Klasse Act]

MANGUSTA️️

Yeah...like there's no 911's

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[Klasse Act]

Ferarri's

FERRARI FOE

French 911

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[Klasse Act]

Re: August 2024 FuelFed Barrington C&C...Hypercar content!

This 914 woke the dead coming in️

One of the few McLarens I like

Hope you guys enjoy

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[Setec Astronomy]

Wow, that was some cool stuff! Been a long time since I've seen a "cheesebox on a raft", and I'm not going to even pretend to understand that engine in the Cobra.

 

[Klasse Act]

Wow, that was some cool stuff! Been a long time since I've seen a "cheesebox on a raft", and I'm not going to even pretend to understand that engine in the Cobra.

Cheesebox on a raft

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[Big DaveBig Dave is verified member.]

Love the Mangusta, but I like a Pantera more. Interesting that the Cobra has a De Tomaso engine, I'm guessing it's the whole engine and not just the valve covers.

Also the ice blue Porsche with the white wheels is a good look.

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[Klasse Act]

Love the Mangusta, but I like a Pantera more. Interesting that the Cobra has a De Tomaso engine, I'm guessing it's the whole engine and not just the valve covers.

Also the ice blue Porsche with the white wheels is a good look.

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I'm not sure about the De Tomaso engine, I mean, they too used FoMoCo power, this one had a 302, Pantera had a 3 5 1 Cleveland. I'd think an actual DE Tomaso 302 would have a cam giving more power up top seeing it's a supercar, the Cobra would have a cam for low end...if we only had a Ford guru here to set the record straight

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[Setec Astronomy]

Cheesebox on a raft

Apparently this is something only I remember. Probably it was one of the C/D editors referred to the 914 that way, but since it predates the internet, Mr. Google only shows that as a nickname for the USS Monitor. Perhaps in my old age I will go through my old C/D collection and find it to prove I am not crazy...or maybe I am crazy.

 

[Klasse Act]

Apparently this is something only I remember. Probably it was one of the C/D editors referred to the 914 that way, but since it predates the internet, Mr. Google only shows that as a nickname for the USS Monitor. Perhaps in my old age I will go through my old C/D collection and find it to prove I am not crazy...or maybe I am crazy.

I believe you, no doubt and it's a way to learn a new term and possibly use it next time around, learn something every day

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[Big DaveBig Dave is verified member.]

Apparently this is something only I remember. Probably it was one of the C/D editors referred to the 914 that way, but since it predates the internet, Mr. Google only shows that as a nickname for the USS Monitor. Perhaps in my old age I will go through my old C/D collection and find it to prove I am not crazy...or maybe I am crazy.

It probably doesn't compare to your collection, but I have a couple of shelves full of C/D, R&T, MT, and even a few CC, from when I read everything motoring. I threw out most of my Australian motoring magazines when we moved a few years ago, but I couldn't bring myself to dispose of these ones. I now only buy 1 or 2 magazines a year, if it has something of particular interest in it.

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[Setec Astronomy]

I believe you, no doubt and it's a way to learn a new term and possibly use it next time around, learn something every day

Well, you've got me doubting myself. I did write a report on the Monitor and Merrimack in...Jr. High? So I certainly would have learned that name then...I'm not sure why I would associate it with 914 unless someone with more car authority than me used it. Funny how when I was a teenager I didn't really understand that the 914 was the entry-level predecessor to the 924. I don't know what I'm trying to say, just that I didn't perceive how far down the food chain it was from the 911.

 

[Klasse Act]

They (Porsche) wanted and tried to kill of the 911 several times. The 924 and inparticular the 928 were supposed to replace the 911. Yeah, the 924 was the first Porsche with the engine up front AND it had a trans axle (Corvette didn't get this feature for another TWENTY YEARS on the 1997 C5), then the 928 came along in 1978 with a 32v V8 (a feature the Corvette never got on its own, had to have help from a boat motor company for the 1990 ZR1) These 2 cars, full of tech, STILL couldn't kill the 9 1 1...THANK GOD️

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[Setec Astronomy]

It probably doesn't compare to your collection, but I have a couple of shelves full of C/D, R&T, MT, and even a few CC, from when I read everything motoring. I threw out most of my Australian motoring magazines when we moved a few years ago, but I couldn't bring myself to dispose of these ones. I now only buy 1 or 2 magazines a year, if it has something of particular interest in it.

Well, I'm not sure how my buried collection compares, I subscribed to C/D and R&T for a long time, and MT later on once they seemed to gain more substance than just "car of the year". I'm dating myself, but I did subscribe to Automobile for a while after DED Jr. bailed from C/D and convinced Jean Lindamood to come with him. (I think I have mentioned somewhere here that I met Don Sherman and Pat Bedard at a Renault event here in NJ, when the C/D offices were still in NYC before they moved to Michigan) I also used to subscribe to some tabloid car mag, that may have been more of an industry publication, I can't remember the name of that one.

When I was a teenager I would read those magazines cover to cover, as I got older and had less time, it got to where I barely looked at them, so with sadness, stopped subscribing.

 

[Karl_in_Chicago]

They (Porsche) wanted and tried to kill of the 911 several times. The 924 and inparticular the 928 were supposed to replace the 911. Yeah, the 924 was the first Porsche with the engine up front AND it had a trans axle (Corvette didn't get this feature for another TWENTY YEARS on the 1997 C5), then the 928 came along in 1978 with a 32v V8 (a feature the Corvette never got on its own, had to have help from a boat motor company for the 1990 ZR1) These 2 cars, full of tech, STILL couldn't kill the 9 1 1...THANK GOD️

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It's ironic that it's the fugliest vehicles (IMO) in Porsche's lineup that allow the 911 to continue when one considers that the 911 is the single model that pretty much defined the marque and the one that pops into most people's minds when you say "Porsche". I don't know the current numbers but I do know that at one point about 50% of their sales were Cayenne's and ~25% were Panamera's (a vehicle which I find unbelievably hideous). Were it not for all the people buying those two models Porsche would probably look *very* different today. It seems almost unthinkable that there might be a 911 without a manual transmission but the number of models (and there are a LOT of 911 models) offering m/t's continues to dwindle and are now very much the exception rather than the rule. Just as I have little interest in a Corvette with a slushbox (and I DO otherwise love many things about the C8) I could never see myself opting for a 911 without a true stick. I accept that I'm in the minority (I like station wagons, too, so there you go) in the broader market to which car builders have to serve and sell but it's often disappointing nonetheless. Whoa, time for Rockford Files, where'd that darn clicker get to?

 

[Klasse Act]

The 2nd gen Panamera looks MUCH better, plus they've got a wagon version of it That said, the 1st gen....

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[Karl_in_Chicago]

Yes I will concede the 2nd gen Panamera did progress from "I think I'm going to hurl" to merely "Why God, why?" ugly.

 

[Sizzle Chest]

LOL, yep, same buddy/friend of mine that owns the 993 Turbo S has that 918 Sypder! He has quite the collection!

 

[Klasse Act]

LOL, yep, same buddy/friend of mine that owns the 993 Turbo S has that 918 Sypder! He has quite the collection!

Yeah he was holding court with some well to do guys, so I wasn't about to butt in

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[Klasse Act]

LOL, yep, same buddy/friend of mine that owns the 993 Turbo S has that 918 Sypder! He has quite the collection!

Does he own a car condo in Naperville Illinois by chance

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