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CAR AND BIKE LOVERS THREAD - MARK V

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,663
    edited August 2021
    I understand the Charleston in the UK had a couple of bits of trim not seen in Charleston's elsewhere, and the headlights were round rather than rectangular as in the rest of Europe. May be wrong, but not sure. There were so many national variations over such a period of time that I doubt if a definitive history can be written.
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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Nice one!

    yep.. I can remember seeing the Charleston in Quebc as well..

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited August 2021

    Seeing as we are doing French cars .. Have a Peugeot 504. Brother-in-law had one of these - really nice car!

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  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902
    edited August 2021

    hacsart said:

    Thanks!

     

     

    As a fellow Canadian, I would love to know where you got those from?

     

     

    Free at Cubebrush today: https://www.cubebrush.co/hossein3d/products/q0womg/fenyr-supersport

    Car is 1.1m polys and not rigged but it is textured and has an interior.  If you plan on converting this for yourself, you may want to consider looking at the higher poly items for a way to reduce their poly count as other parts of the car could use some SubD

     

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Thanks!

    Snowbird models are from  MS Flight Sim 2004, reskinned.

  • MattymanxMattymanx Posts: 6,902

    ok, thanks

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited August 2021

    1965 Shelby Cobra Daytona

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    '52 Harley revisited..

     

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335

    hacsart said:

    1920 Ford pickup... bit of a real kitbash here, at least 4 different source models..

     


    Thats a Model A, its a 28 or 29, not 1920!

     

  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2021

     

    FREEDOM! 32 Ford Roadster Retro Hotrod!

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  • GLWoodardGLWoodard Posts: 3,335
    edited September 2021

     

    FREEDOM With the Top Down!

     

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208

    Nice!

    Dana

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    yeah.. butr the 9 is next to the 0 on the keyboard, and my typng is legebdary!  angel  (arthritic fingers get in the way most days.)

    Thats a Model A, its a 28 or 29, not 1920!

     

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    1977 Trans Am

     

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Nice! - great atmosphere!

    GLWoodard said:

     

     

    FREEDOM With the Top Down!

     

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    good one!

    GLWoodard said:

     

    FREEDOM! 32 Ford Roadster Retro Hotrod!

  • Robert FreiseRobert Freise Posts: 4,441

    Nice work as usual

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    Thanks!

  • ZateticZatetic Posts: 286

    1953 Buick Skylark

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208

    Nice work!

    Dana

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    yep.. that's nice.. old Buicks are neat cars..

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    do you like small cars? 1865 BMW Isetta 300:

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208

    Is that the car Steve Irkel drove?  laugh

    Dana

  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025

    yep... that;s the Urkel-mobile...

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,208

    Ah, I see I spelled it wrong.  Thanks!

    Dana

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,663
    I love bubble cars. Always love the efficient use of resources used to move people. The size and lack of fuel use is wonderful. It was a shame they didn't have a reverse gear.
  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    The later Isetta 300 version with the two rear wheels (the early single rear wheeled ones tipped over pretty easily) had a 4 speed transmissoin with reverse  (albeit with a chain drive to the rear wheels). Its a bit of a myth that the internet propagates that all bubble cars had no reverse gears. The Messerschmidt KR175 had no reverse, but the KR200 did (sort of), "the engine had two sets of contact breaker points and, to reverse, the engine was stopped and then restarted, going backwards. This was effected by pushing the key further in the ignition switch than normal, whether intentionally or not. One result of this was that the KR200's sequential, positive-stop transmission provided the car with the same four gear ratios available in reverse as in forward movement."

    never got to drive a bubble car, but a mate of mine had an NSU Prinz...

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    Messerschmidt Kr200

     

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  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,025
    edited September 2021

    and by way of a bit of fun with the kr200 (seeing as how it was a Messerschmidt)

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  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 5,663
    hacsart said:

    The later Isetta 300 version with the two rear wheels (the early single rear wheeled ones tipped over pretty easily) had a 4 speed transmissoin with reverse  (albeit with a chain drive to the rear wheels). Its a bit of a myth that the internet propagates that all bubble cars had no reverse gears. The Messerschmidt KR175 had no reverse, but the KR200 did (sort of), "the engine had two sets of contact breaker points and, to reverse, the engine was stopped and then restarted, going backwards. This was effected by pushing the key further in the ignition switch than normal, whether intentionally or not. One result of this was that the KR200's sequential, positive-stop transmission provided the car with the same four gear ratios available in reverse as in forward movement."

    never got to drive a bubble car, but a mate of mine had an NSU Prinz...

    I wasn't aware of those later ones, thinking all were 3 wheelers with the chance of tipping. Live and learn.

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