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

[ilikewaffles11]

I was at a hot rod show today. I'm not to into hot rods so I didn't get many pictures but it's nice to go and look at em all.













On the way home I saw a bunch of Lotuses at a resturant so we stopped. Turns out it was a Lotus club meet up.

 

[Madertus]

^ That Lotus shots are fantastic 👍

So nicely preserved Europa and Elan!

Edit: THESE, silly me

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Never mind. Stupid iPad isn't letting me post the pictures, will try again, I guess.

 

[ilikewaffles11]

^ That Lotus shots are fantastic 👍

So nicely preserved Europa and Elan!

Thanks! That's the first Europa i've ever seen actually, was very nice as was the Elan.

 

[Tyger]

The Europa shared its headlights and other parts (possibly door handles) with this:

...and a couple of other cars IIRC, early Lotuses were total spare parts bin cars but that somehow adds to their charm

 

[Madertus]

^there are lots of such examples.

McLaren F1 has its taillights taken from a coach bus.
Volkswagen W12 Nardo took its from a Passat (B4 or 5, can't remember) - places swapped and rotated 90 degrees.
The first Lamborghini Murcielago has blinkers taken from 2000-ish (the second newest generation) Ford Mondeo.
Finally, in Ford GT's interior there are switches (I mean these lever thingies) near the steering wheel taken from either a Focus or Mondeo

 

[ilikewaffles11]

^ The Ford GT40s headlights were taken from a Chevy Corvair.

 

[iSpotCars]

iSpotCars on YouTube. Watch the videos, and you'll know what I see

 

[Tyger]

^there are lots of such examples.

McLaren F1 has its taillights taken from a coach bus.
Volkswagen W12 Nardo took its from a Passat (B4 or 5, can't remember) - places swapped and rotated 90 degrees.
The first Lamborghini Murcielago has blinkers taken from 2000-ish (the second newest generation) Ford Mondeo.
Finally, in Ford GT's interior there are switches (I mean these lever thingies) near the steering wheel taken from either a Focus or Mondeo

Hey I never said they were the only spare parts bins cars, they were just renowned for doing it a lot, along with early TVRs, some of which used the distinctive tail lights from the Mk 1 Ford Cortina.

It's also common in concept cars (hence the Nardo), to save manufacturing all bespoke parts.

I was once told the steering column in an Aston Martin Vanquish (I might have the model slightly wrong) was almost identical to that of the Ford Transit van around at the time, but the replacement part for the Aston cost several times more, and came in nicer packaging

 

[Madertus]

^I didn't say that either, I just wanted to give a bit more examples

Well it's surely easier to actually BUILD a concept car that way than from scratch.

Vanquish fact is quite likely true, a few of my petrolhead colleagues mentioned a thing or two about that as well

 

[ilikewaffles11]

I went to that Jaguar dealer again today, the owner had his Gallardo Trofeo there today.



Then I went to a Porsche/Mercedes/Audi dealer after that.





The rest of the pictures are customers cars in for service, including this GT3. The guy washing it was nice and let us come into the garage and look at it.

 

[Takumi Fujiwara]

Finally published, so I can post some pics here. This was from the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca and the Pebble Beach Concours, Aug 17-19.


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Ferrari 250 California Prototype


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Infiniti EMERG-E


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Lambo Sesto Elemento


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Viper GT-S


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Aston Vanquish


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Ferrari 250 GT LWB Scaglietti Berlinetta


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Soooooo many Cobras. (Literally hundreds, and they were all real!)


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See what I mean? There were 45 Cobras, all original race cars, in this class alone!


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I love 935s.


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Jag XK120


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This 3.0 CSL is being driven by BMW North America's chairman.


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This thing's so awesome... especially when you see the driver! (below)

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"Just" a 911 Turbo


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GT40


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Can-Am and LM cars!


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AC ACECA




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250 LWB


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Top of the Corkscrew


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Porsche 956

I've got so much more from this weekend...

 

[poolhaas]

Great stuff man, it's a dream to see all of that together

 

[Madertus]

Wow Takumi, just WOW. Quite a day you had in there, huh?

Some of the most stunning cars all in one place, why things like that don't happen in Poland?

 

[MarcoM]

Takumi, just awesome. Nice cars and matching skills.

 

[Tyger]

Great post Takumi, awesome cars, superb photography

 

[Icy J]

Lost by - Icy J -, on Flickr

McLaren gives you WIINGSSS by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Porsche 911 Turbo Convertible (996) by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Volkswagen Beetle by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Lotus Elise by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Porsche 911 Carrera S (997) by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Ferrari California by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Ferrari 458 Italia by - Icy J -, on Flickr

McLaren MP4-12C by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Ferrari 458 Italia by - Icy J -, on Flickr

Audi RS4 by - Icy J -, on Flickr

 

[commodoreben]

Here are some of the pics I promised from the Lindsay Fox Car Collection.


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Lindsay Fox's First ever truck. A 1957 Ford F-500. He now has somewhere around 5,000 or more trucks.


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An old Bentley that Lindsay Fox still drives.


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A 1968 Mercedes Benz 600 Pullman 6 Door Limousine that was once owned by Ringo Starr


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A Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren Sterling Moss


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This is a 1937 Mercedes Benz 540K Cabriolet B and it was reportedly owned by a German Ambassador to Britain prior to WW2. It also won its class at the 1989 Pebble Beach Concourse D’Elegance


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A Mercedes Benz SLR McLaren 722 GT


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A Mercedes Benz 600 Landaulet Limousine


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A Mercedes Benz 190 Evolution 2 that was once owned by Victor Chang.


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A Mercedes Benz 220SL


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A Mercedes Benz 230SL


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A Mercedes Benz 300SL Gullwing


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A 1960 Mercedes Benz 190SL. I have some more pics of what I saw at the collection that I will upload later.

 

[poolhaas]

Some goodies from Concours d'Elegance in Antwerp.


Mercedes 300 SLS by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Lamborghini 400 GT by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Lamborghini 400 GT by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Bugatti Type 101 C by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Rolls Royce Phantom I by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Bentley S1 Continental by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Alfa Romeo SZ - BMW M3 CSL by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Porsche 911 Sport Classic by poolhaas1, on Flickr

De Tomaso Guarà by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Ferrari 308 GTB by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Bugatti Veyron - Ferrari 458 by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Lotus 2 Eleven by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Ferrari FF - Ferrari 456 by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Ferrari 356 GTB 4 Daytona (3) by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Ferrari 575M Maranello by poolhaas1, on Flickr

Ferrari Testarossa by poolhaas1, on Flickr

 

[Tyger]

Great pics, it's funny, the Testarossa was one of my "poster cars" when I was a kid, along with the Countach and one or two others, then I got kinda meh about it, but now I love it again. I guess i've grown kinda fond of 80s styling

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

I guess Lindsay Fox likes Mercs.

Oh and you're lucky for seeing the Veyron. There's some for sale north of here in Chicago. I so badly want to see one. That and an Enzo and Koenigsegg Agera R.

 

[ilikewaffles11]

I saw this at the local Lexus dealer. Even better in silver than in yelllow.





Unfortunetly, I couldn't get any good pictures because of where it's parked.

 

[Theace37]

There is an aventador in orange at the Chicago gold coast lambo dealer...


looks freakin awsome in that color

 

[McLaren]

I saw this at the local Lexus dealer. Even better in silver than in yelllow.



Unfortunetly, I couldn't get any good pictures because of where it's parked.

Wow, that's a pretty big way of keeping people from touching it. Is that a permanent display or just setup for the LFA?

 

[ilikewaffles11]

Wow, that's a pretty big way of keeping people from touching it. Is that a permanent display or just setup for the LFA?

It's strange, I've never seen it at ANY other dealer but what it is is actually a lift. They usually just have a GS or something on it but I guess they wanted to show the LFA off. But anyways, the lift raises about 20/30 feet (it's about 40/50 feet to the ceiling) and its all glass so you can see it from the highway. It's pretty neat. Then around the lift is a coy pond with fish in it.

 

[W3H5]

I was in a shopping centre a few days ago buying some bread and came across this bad boy on display:

 

[ilikewaffles11]

I wish they put Aston Martins on display in the local mall. All they have is Chrysler Town & Countries.

 

[McLaren]

It's strange, I've never seen it at ANY other dealer but what it is is actually a lift. They usually just have a GS or something on it but I guess they wanted to show the LFA off. But anyways, the lift raises about 20/30 feet (it's about 40/50 feet to the ceiling) and its all glass so you can see it from the highway. It's pretty neat. Then around the lift is a coy pond with fish in it.

Wait, what? That is pretty cool. 👍

 

[W3H5]

Last week I heard the had a Lamborghini there but it was upstairs so I missed it. It's my colleague who goes hunting for them.

 

[Carlos]

It's strange, I've never seen it at ANY other dealer but what it is is actually a lift. They usually just have a GS or something on it but I guess they wanted to show the LFA off. But anyways, the lift raises about 20/30 feet (it's about 40/50 feet to the ceiling) and its all glass so you can see it from the highway. It's pretty neat. Then around the lift is a coy pond with fish in it.

That's worth posting a photo!