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  1. 20th September 2013, 06:21 PM #21
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    On a second look there's at least two steam cars there. A later Stanley (red, next to the dark blue Cadillac).

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  2. 20th September 2013, 06:43 PM #22
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    Branch risers when they were pioneers

    A few even have branch risers

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    Quote Originally Posted by MR LR jnr. View Post
    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...

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by MR LR jnr. View Post
    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...

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    Will
    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.
    At any given point in time, somewhere in the world someone is working on a Land-Rover.
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  5. 20th September 2013, 08:32 PM #25
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    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.

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    So you are a Benz man? or De Dion ? Or is it Mercer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by UncleHo View Post
    So you are a Benz man? or De Dion ? Or is it Mercer.
    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!
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