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    Quote Originally Posted by RANDLOVER View Post
    On trivia involving the name Dorothea, in the TV show "Endeavour" the actor who played Morse, John Thaw's daughter Abigail Thaw appears in every episode IIRC, as the journalist Dorothea Frazil.
    And her name is also a play on words by one of the show's creators. She gets called Dee, short for Dorothea. And Frazil is a type of ice. "Dee Frazil (de-frazil)" would then mean to thaw.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saitch View Post
    Stripes must have a purpose.

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    An interesting site that l imagine Mr. T and a few others may enjoy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    An interesting site that l imagine Mr. T and a few others may enjoy.

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    Hmm. I get a "Malware Warning" on this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by V8Ian View Post
    An interesting site that l imagine Mr. T and a few others may enjoy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Saitch View Post
    Hmm. I get a "Malware Warning" on this.
    I don't.

    It is an interesting site, Ian got that right... many, many more obscure vehicles exist than I imagined.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RHS58 View Post
    Some are black with white stripes, others are white with black stripes.
    The colour difference creates little air vortexes all over their their bodies which keeps them a bit cooler.

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    Was discussing cars the other day with a mate and it came up about acceleration that a modern car compared to an older car

    When I was younger was very keen on a Torana SLR5000. So we are talking mid seventies. Had a claimed 0 to 60 time of 6.5 seconds. A more standard family Kingswood was 13 seconds. The only diesel we could think of for the time was the VW Golf which was looking at a 20 second time

    My diesel 4.4 L322 Range Rover does the same in 7.2 seconds or if you can afford to feed it the petrol version 5.0 seconds

    Down side would be attempting to keep up with the Torana in the corner at the end of Conrod straight

    The average age of a sports car buyer has been getting a year older each year for the last 20 years. Perhaps there is no longer enough difference in performance between a sports car and a more run of the mill car to make it exciting enough to be bothered?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post

    Down side would be attempting to keep up with the Torana in the corner at the end of Conrod straight
    Probably wouldn't have too much difficulty if the Torana was a stockie rather than the highly modified race version. The brakes are light years ahead for one thing.

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    The average age of a sports car buyer has been getting a year older each year for the last 20 years. Perhaps there is no longer enough difference in performance between a sports car and a more run of the mill car to make it exciting enough to be bothered?
    BMW M5 saw to that a couple of decades ago.

    The purpose of sports cars, such as Ferraris, is not to be driven, but to be spat on by the "enlightened" generation.
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