Lost Motorist

On a second look there's at least two steam cars there. A later Stanley (red, next to the dark blue Cadillac).

Will

A few even have branch risers:cool::Rolling::Rolling::Rolling:

Bob

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

I'm assuming it's one of the Locomobile's, not a Stanley (steam obscures too much for me to tell), but they're a pretty slow old thing. That car would probably be happy at about 30 - 40km/h, maybe it could be pushed up to 60 with a full head of steam, but they can't generate enough to maintain this.

As to the A-Ford not doing 100... That sounds a little wrong to me... If its a V8 it should smash that.



They're on club rego anyway, it's up to club scrutiny as to what is road legal, and they only need to meet standards of when they were made...

I've never met someone that bought the cars new though... The newest car would be 95 years old anyway... Making the driver have to be over 112 to have even driven it new...

Cheers
Will

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Pretty much on the ball He told me it was about 35 KPH.

As for the model A, they were all 4 cyl. According to Wiki they did have a top speed of 105 kays, but you certainly couldn't sit on that. I have been in my friends a few times and it is comfortable at 80

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Originally Posted by MR LR jnr.

I'm assuming it's one of the Locomobile's, not a Stanley (steam obscures too much for me to tell), but they're a pretty slow old thing. That car would probably be happy at about 30 - 40km/h, maybe it could be pushed up to 60 with a full head of steam, but they can't generate enough to maintain this.

As to the A-Ford not doing 100... That sounds a little wrong to me... If its a V8 it should smash that.



They're on club rego anyway, it's up to club scrutiny as to what is road legal, and they only need to meet standards of when they were made...

I've never met someone that bought the cars new though... The newest car would be 95 years old anyway... Making the driver have to be over 112 to have even driven it new...

Cheers
Will

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Yes, all strictly tongue-in-cheek. I do like the mental picture of the police going over every car and checking for modifications and bald tyres.

Ah I'm thinking of the V8 model after it...

Our cars are more... exotic (not to sound snobbish, I'm just not up on all the Black Iron (Yankee junk)). All our cars are European.

Will

So you are a Benz man? or De Dion ? Or is it Mercer.

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Originally Posted by UncleHo

So you are a Benz man? or De Dion ? Or is it Mercer.

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Rover, Delahaye, Crossley, Itala, Renault, SCAT and Land Rover... Haha

So you were pretty close actually...

Rover ... De Dion
Crossley ... Benz
Itala and Scat... Mercer

Just different countries interpretations of that kind of motor car!