Flemke - Is this your McLaren? (Vol 5)

Flemke - Is this your McLaren? (Vol 5)

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flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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epom said:
Henry is my favorite writer. His voice somehow sounds like how he writes.
Are you familiar with his bicycle reviews?

bolidemichael

13,717 posts

200 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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flemke said:
epom said:
Henry is my favorite writer. His voice somehow sounds like how he writes.
Are you familiar with his bicycle reviews?
I am not... I must say that his artful review of the AM Vantage N430 is my favourite car review. What a class act this man is.

flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm tempted to view it differently. You appear to be literate and nuanced in your posts - the chap was probably indulging in the transparent manner of your communication, perhaps briefly forgetting that you hadn't elaborated on all of the details for your reason to sell.

From an impartial view, I quite enjoy the 'Where's Wally?' or, 'Where's Waldo?' in this instance, nature of this thread!
I wish to invoke the challenge of custard smile

flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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bolidemichael said:
flemke said:
epom said:
Henry is my favorite writer. His voice somehow sounds like how he writes.
Are you familiar with his bicycle reviews?
I am not... I must say that his artful review of the AM Vantage N430 is my favourite car review. What a class act this man is.

flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm tempted to view it differently. You appear to be literate and nuanced in your posts - the chap was probably indulging in the transparent manner of your communication, perhaps briefly forgetting that you hadn't elaborated on all of the details for your reason to sell.

From an impartial view, I quite enjoy the 'Where's Wally?' or, 'Where's Waldo?' in this instance, nature of this thread!
I wish to invoke the challenge of custard smile
I do not possess that foodstuff.
Ask for another pose - such as with the latest Cyclist mag with (IIRC) an article by Henry, or perhaps tonight's Evening Standard?

bolidemichael

13,717 posts

200 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
flemke said:
epom said:
Henry is my favorite writer. His voice somehow sounds like how he writes.
Are you familiar with his bicycle reviews?
I am not... I must say that his artful review of the AM Vantage N430 is my favourite car review. What a class act this man is.

flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm tempted to view it differently. You appear to be literate and nuanced in your posts - the chap was probably indulging in the transparent manner of your communication, perhaps briefly forgetting that you hadn't elaborated on all of the details for your reason to sell.

From an impartial view, I quite enjoy the 'Where's Wally?' or, 'Where's Waldo?' in this instance, nature of this thread!
I wish to invoke the challenge of custard smile
I do not possess that foodstuff.
Ask for another pose - such as with the latest Cyclist mag with (IIRC) an article by Henry, or perhaps tonight's Evening Standard?
With the Rocket emblem that you prototyped smile

flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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Not really fair. I said it was "somewhere" in my desk, so I'll have to look at see what I can find. If I can't find that, maybe I can find a sketch of it.
Also, I said it was a "mock-up", which is different from a prototype. We did not do a prototype.

bolidemichael

13,717 posts

200 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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flemke said:
Not really fair. I said it was "somewhere" in my desk, so I'll have to look at see what I can find. If I can't find that, maybe I can find a sketch of it.
Also, I said it was a "mock-up", which is different from a prototype. We did not do a prototype.
Very well, the keys to your F1 smile

flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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bolidemichael said:
flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
flemke said:
epom said:
Henry is my favorite writer. His voice somehow sounds like how he writes.
Are you familiar with his bicycle reviews?
I am not... I must say that his artful review of the AM Vantage N430 is my favourite car review. What a class act this man is.

flemke said:
bolidemichael said:
I'm tempted to view it differently. You appear to be literate and nuanced in your posts - the chap was probably indulging in the transparent manner of your communication, perhaps briefly forgetting that you hadn't elaborated on all of the details for your reason to sell.

From an impartial view, I quite enjoy the 'Where's Wally?' or, 'Where's Waldo?' in this instance, nature of this thread!
I wish to invoke the challenge of custard smile
I do not possess that foodstuff.
Ask for another pose - such as with the latest Cyclist mag with (IIRC) an article by Henry, or perhaps tonight's Evening Standard?
With the Rocket emblem that you prototyped smile
Couldn't find the mock-up (and, no offence, but I'm not about to go through the entire contents of my desk for this), but without too much bother I did find one of the components I made but didn't have to use for the mock-up. It's a marker rendition of the badge on cardboard. readit


flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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Guess I stuck it on upside-down, but I'm not doing it again. wink

bolidemichael

13,717 posts

200 months

Monday 9th December 2019
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Haha that's class. Well done that man!

bowtie

Ali2202

3,815 posts

203 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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I'm going with 'Bathtub'

A special Bathtub nonetheless. getmecoat

hurstg01

2,909 posts

242 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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flemke said:
I believe I may have one of those, as well as one with more green to it - let me try to find it later and I'll pop pictures up

vincegail

2,456 posts

154 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Autoworld Museum in Brussels organises an exhibition "So British" with only British cars and motorcycles, starting December 13th
https://www.autoworld.be/expos-en-93-major-exposit...

I already intended on visiting, as I do with most of their major expositions, but I definitely will go after seeing this on their facebook page:


Rocket.

1,510 posts

248 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Sway said:
I adore the Rocket, was very lucky a few years ago when a PHer drove his a couple of hundred miles in stty drizzle to one of the Goodwood Breakfast Clubs and allowed me to pore over it for an hour.

Just lovely detailing everywhere. So pared back and minimal, yet such obvious quality.
wink




Sway

26,070 posts

193 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Rocket. said:
Sway said:
I adore the Rocket, was very lucky a few years ago when a PHer drove his a couple of hundred miles in stty drizzle to one of the Goodwood Breakfast Clubs and allowed me to pore over it for an hour.

Just lovely detailing everywhere. So pared back and minimal, yet such obvious quality.
wink



And there's the lovely chap!

Hope things are well with you. Do you still have the Rocket? For some reason I seem to recall you'd moved on?

Rocket.

1,510 posts

248 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Sway said:
And there's the lovely chap!

Hope things are well with you. Do you still have the Rocket? For some reason I seem to recall you'd moved on?
All good thanks and you?

Sadly not anymore as there are more important things to spend the money on apparently... but it's not gone far and I do have 1st dibs should it ever come up for sale.

Now trying to recreate a small bit of the Rocket vibe in a slower, heavier, less expensive package using a modified 1991 Honda Beat.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

bolidemichael

13,717 posts

200 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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That's you? I love that thread - as my comments attest.

trackdemon

12,149 posts

260 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Afternoon Flemke, sure you've probably already seen this in some form or another but now it's in the public domain - penny for your thoughts?


TyrannosauRoss Lex

34,943 posts

211 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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trackdemon said:
Afternoon Flemke, sure you've probably already seen this in some form or another but now it's in the public domain - penny for your thoughts?

What car is that?

vincegail

2,456 posts

154 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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The Brabham-esque sucker fan leads me to believe it is the new Gordon Murray Design car? Or is it just a rendering of a McLaren F1? The windows are (pretty much) identical.

flemke

22,863 posts

236 months

Tuesday 10th December 2019
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trackdemon said:
Afternoon Flemke, sure you've probably already seen this in some form or another but now it's in the public domain - penny for your thoughts?

Yes, that is Gordon's forthcoming T.50, as revealed to the public today on the Autocar website.
https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/gordon...
My thoughts are that it should be a great car from a great designer.
I have a few concerns, which I shall not elaborate here. scratchchin