A 'period' classics pictures thread (Mk III)
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spot on!
P5BNij said:
Yes, as per Nom du Jour, it looks like a 1953-56 250 Europa GT, 3-litre V12. It's difficult to be 100% sure as we can't see the whole car, but the bits I can see match a photo in a Pininfarina book I have. Supposedly, 27 made with that body.
TarquinMX5 said:
P5BNij said:
Yes, as per Nom du Jour, it looks like a 1953-56 250 Europa GT, 3-litre V12. It's difficult to be 100% sure as we can't see the whole car, but the bits I can see match a photo in a Pininfarina book I have. Supposedly, 27 made with that body.
Meanwhile, fellow Byrd Roger McGuinn made do with a motorbike (supplied by Steve McQueen's chum Bed Ekins) and a 911...
Milkyway said:
I was reading about this the other day https://www.aronline.co.uk/concepts-and-prototypes...This made me smile.
'The car was also equipped with a novel system designed to prevent tired, inebriated or otherwise incapacitated drivers from taking the wheel. Do you remember the electronic game called Simon, where players had to replicate a sequence of coloured lights by pressing buttons in the correct order? Well, that was precisely what the SSV1 driver would have to do in order to start the car.
Get the (randomly-generated) sequence wrong three times in a row, and he would have to wait an hour before being allowed to try again. While designed primarily as a safety device, this feature also doubled as pretty effective immobiliser.'
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