Did You See Anything Good Today? 'Event and Showroom Edition'

[Stigsblkcousin]

What a beautiful back side. Everything is in the right place, perfect color, so elegant.







The GTR is nice too!

 

[R1ch85]

The following pictures were taken at the car dealership just down the road from my house. They specialise in sports cars, classic cars, and American cars, and do restorations too

I took these pictures a little earlier, but I'll be keeping an eye out there for some proper daylight photo opportunities. They seem to have a number of valuable cars there.

Hudson Eight, 1935

Ford Lotus Escort, 1968. I'll have to go back to try and get some better pics of this one. It's for sale at £65000!

MG TC, 1949

Aston Martin V8, 1978.. at the back

Buick Roadmaster 16c Convertible

Triumph GT6 Mk3, 1973

Pontiac Firebird V6 Convertible, 1996

They have plenty more cars that are rare/interesting, so I'll go back for more pictures another day and post them here if anyone is interested!

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

Firebreather by NISM0_SKYLINE, on Flickr

 

[Rue]

^ Great photo! 👍

 

[Joey D]

Went to Autorama down at Cobo today and I found a Focus RS. It was really the only thing that that interested me outside a couple mini trucks and one race prepped S-10 sitting on some BBS's. Everything else was just replicas or piss-poor restoration jobs.

Oh and it was shot with my phone, the lighting it Cobo is such crap I didn't even bother with my T1i.

 

[Rue]

Not really an 'event' so to speak but a bunch of blokes meeting up for breakfast with their motors, so I'll leave it in here. These from 'Sunday Morning Drive' out in the New Territories on the weekend. I think there's something here for everyone...

 

[exigeracer]

348 on white Speedlines...

 

[Rue]

348 on white Speedlines...

I concur.

 

[motortrend]

That 365 GTB... so perfect...

 

[Rue]

That 365 GTB... so perfect...

Owner has good taste. Amongst others he has a red F40 and a 288 GTO too. 👍

The owner of the Zonda has an Enzo and (I think) another Zonda. Well, why not...?

 

[Vince_Fiero]

Love the 348, will post a picture of the one that made me doubt if it was time to buy one a few weeks ago. Again the bank account was against it.

Ready for a Red Bull Special:

F1 2010:

WRC 2010

DTM 07

Prototype X2010 (where did I see this one before):

 

[Joey D]

Morgan Aero SuperSports & Porsche 356

 

[Cale]

The Purple on that E36 is amazing.

 

[Serge.D]

New Touareg.

 

[McLaren]

From Cars & Bikes, last Saturday.

 

[Vince_Fiero]

Benarrow on the Luxembourg International Motor Show:

 

[Crash]

This is going to be a big post, so please forgive me if it gets long. Here we go:

Yesterday, my Formula SAE team along with NW Auto Salon, Cats Exotics and Sigma Phi Epsilon held a charity and fundraising car show on the UW campus. I snapped a bunch of pictures of the cars there. It was going sprinkling on and off, and the clouds came and gone, so there are some weird differences between pictures in lighting. I only had a crappy point and shoot, so I'm sorry that the lighting is uneven and a lot of the pictures are not of the best quality. Without further ado, here are some of the pictures:

Audi TT-S and Audi A3

Ford Mustang Boss with a Volvo S60R in the background

Saleen S281

Old Mercedes 220 S in matte gray wrap

Mini Cooper

Ford F350 used to tow non-street legal cars around. I loled at the license plate:

BMW M3

Mercedes Benz CLS55 AMG

Audi RS4 Convertible

Audi R8

Maserati Coupe

Porsche 928

Porsche 911 GT2 and Porsche 911 Turbo with Ruf wheels (996)

Porsche 911 GTS (997)

Porsche 911 GT3 (997)

Porsche 911 Turbo S (993)

Rolls Royce Phantom

Mercedes Benz CLK DTM

3 Acura NSX

2 Ferrari 430 Scuderia

Ferrari 458 Italia

Ferrari 599

Lamborghini Gallardo

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder

Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale

Ferrari 430 Scuderia Spyder 16M

Shelby Mustang GT500

Aston Martin DBS

Dodge Viper

Porsche Carrera GT

A couple of our UW Formula cars. 2008 is on the left. 2010 is on the right.

2010 UW Formula SAE car

Lamborghini Diablo 30th Anniversary Special Edition

KTM X-Bow

This is legally titled in the US. Notice the license plate, it of course, has Montana plates. According to the exotics car company, this is currently the only X-Bow in the US.

Koenigsegg CCX

SSC Ultimate Aero

Look at the speedo of that thing! It goes all the way up to 270mph and 60mph is only about 1/4 of the way through the speedo's range!

Sir Mix-a-Lot!

There were also 2 Lamborghini Murcielagos, a couple of BMWs, another Viper and a couple more Porsche and Ferraris that I didn't get any pictures of. But in my opinion, this was the coolest car and the star of the show:

Ford RS200 Evolution. 1 of 200 in the world. 1 of 24 Evolutions. Chassis #168.

Engine compartment of the RS200. Notice the top mounted intercooler.

Engine block of the RS200

Look at the size of that turbo!

Rear shock absorbers and springs

Gas cap. Right to the left of the gas cap, there's a little clock meter that shows how long the engine has run since last rebuilt.

Cold start warm up procedure. It says: "It is essential not to exceed 1500 RPM for the first (90?) seconds after starting. Do not drive with oil pressure above 6 Bar. Allow water temperature to reach normal before using maximum power. Failure to observe correct procedure may result in expensive engine damage."

 

[Heldenzeit]

I've just wet myself.

 

[Brett]

Awesome post, especially with the RS200 Evolution. 👍

 

[motortrend]

I went to the mall yesterday and saw this VW and Porsche exhibition
Flickr is acting up so Ill put the rest when I can
944

993 turbo

944 again

Beetle

Type 2 and Westfalia

GT2 and GT3 RS

GT2 look carrera 4S i think

997 GT3 RS and 996 GT3

993 turbo, not sure about the red ones

I think both of these were 4S models

Thats it for now

 

[Rue]

Sunday Morning Drive. Pretty solid turnout... O_O




























Authentic Cobra

 

[TheCracker]

Epic 959 and 993 GT2 👍

 

[Rue]

Unofrtunately the 993 has a sunroof so I don't think it's a GT2. I was gutted when I noticed earlier today.

 

[Vince_Fiero]

I have to find some local

Sunday Morning Drive

great stuff Rue.

I stated before I was tempted with a 348, well here it is (cheap but only compared to other Ferraris):

I really like this bit:

Coming soon:

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Here it is:
So yes I found a Gumpert Apollo:

I could even see the inside, did not see this a lot in pictures:

I kind off messed up the pictures though:

This one was standing just next to it:

But even more interesting was this one:

You could notice is was a style study:

But quite nice as a car

 

[xSTIG_JUNIORx]

Lovely thread, awesome pictures !

 

[MarcoM]

Vincent, the Ferrari 348 is difficult to drive in everyday life. It is pretty hardcore. The clutch is quite difficult. Shifting gears is a real workout. I have driven one for one hour.

Pro: rock solid handling, your buns on the tarmac The feeling that you can drive under trucks.

 

[Rue]

I have been uploading some of my snaps from last years Le Mans Classic. Here are a couple of examples, but there are HUNDREDS of pics on my Flickr with hundreds more to come soon. Click here to go and check them out. There are some cars there which I need help IDing too - mainly the US cars and the more obscure racing cars. If you want to leave a note that would be very helpful!


lm_268 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_267 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_265 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_204 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_181 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_158 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_141 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_137 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_115 by R-W-P, on Flickr


lm_87 by R-W-P, on Flickr

 

[Icy J]

lol Rue I completely forgot about the link you sent me
rarest cars I've seen at SMD's in HK. (not from one day, just in total)
F40

CLK Black

M1

AC Cobra

XJ220

X-Bow

911 RS

SLS

Zonda Absolute (1 of 1)

F Roadster

GT2RS

SV

959

 

[Alex.]

Holy christ. Zonda Absolute.

 

[Icy J]

Holy christ. Zonda Absolute.

sorry for the large photos but I don't have the flickr links to get the small versions any more..