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seant says:
Batty said: seant said: Here's a forgotten car ... in so far as I never knew it existed. Which one is it?
seant said: Here's a forgotten car ... in so far as I never knew it existed.
Here's a forgotten car ... in so far as I never knew it existed.
Which one is it?
In fact, the 'DB9 Volante' shown above is built on a 1995 Celica convertible. Original Aston panels were used throughout. Assuming this was a professional job (by which I mean that a punter paid commercial rates, rather than a professional doing it as a bit of homework) this cannot have been cheap and I'd have thought that you could pick up a reasonable used one for the cost. But I suppose this way you get Toyota reliability as well as the sound of that sporty 4 cylinder.
I do admit that maybe this entry belongs more under a thread entitled 'Answers to questions that never should have been asked'
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lokinen says:
lokinen said: lokinen said: What about tyhe SuzukiSc100 Whizz. Noel Edmunds( British radio and TV personality and petrolhead) had one whilst at radio 1 and always wanted to put a big wind-up key on the back Er, no he didn't actually.Its been bugging me all day and i've just discovered a real gem of a forgotten car ...Can you tell what it is yet?
lokinen said: What about tyhe SuzukiSc100 Whizz. Noel Edmunds( British radio and TV personality and petrolhead) had one whilst at radio 1 and always wanted to put a big wind-up key on the back
What about tyhe SuzukiSc100 Whizz. Noel Edmunds( British radio and TV personality and petrolhead) had one whilst at radio 1 and always wanted to put a big wind-up key on the back
Er, no he didn't actually.Its been bugging me all day and i've just discovered a real gem of a forgotten car ...Can you tell what it is yet?
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Mar 08
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Batty says:
Its that little Honda, was it called the 600? Had the enormous rubber around the rear screen that made it look like a telly.
Ha,ha,ha,ha,ha.
seant said: Batty said: seant said: Here's a forgotten car ... in so far as I never knew it existed. Which one is it? In fact, the 'DB9 Volante' shown above is built on a 1995 Celica convertible. Original Aston panels were used throughout. Assuming this was a professional job (by which I mean that a punter paid commercial rates, rather than a professional doing it as a bit of homework) this cannot have been cheap and I'd have thought that you could pick up a reasonable used one for the cost. But I suppose this way you get Toyota reliability as well as the sound of that sporty 4 cylinder. I do admit that maybe this entry belongs more under a thread entitled 'Answers to questions that never should have been asked'
Why would you do that? I mean, convertible Celicas are pretty rare, imagine ruining it like that!
I suppose it presages the Cygnet: maybe Aston did it as an exercise for their apprentices and Dr Bez got so inspired he thought he'd do it as a comercial exercise?
Batty said: Its that little Honda, was it called the 600? Had the enormous rubber around the rear screen that made it look like a telly.
yep, thats the one. Going by the pics on the net, very popular in the states.
I don't know how many Maximas there has been, nor do I seem to recall when a new one is launched. Yet every time I see one I wonder whether it is a new one, an old one and I have to check the badge to make sure it is one.
I think his is the current one.
I really like that Maxima.....By the way, are those them Gents Veg Enhancement Undercrackers in your avatar there Bud?
Yes, I like this Maxima as well. In truth when I went looking for the photo' for the curent model I was rtaher surprised that this good looking creature was it. But then I forgot what it was I was looking at. Again.
And yes, they are those type of supporting briefs. I wasn't aware of them until I found the pic, but know that I am I find them hilarious. It is more of a front page folly to make the super macho types unsettled, but since you can't have two avatars for front and back, it'll have to do.
Feb 07
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bertandnairobi says:
The analogy with supporting bras is not complete, is it?. The ladies´ supporting bra lifts what´s there. They help where gravity hinders. Do supporting briefs do the same thing or fake it or what? Or are they designed to make well endowed blokes look even more so?
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Goatboy says:
The Maxima is indeed a handsome machine, however I detect a very strong whiff of Jag XF in the DLO outline, particular at the D-window. (If it is called such a thing?) I can also see why our American friends can lose said Jag in a sea of similarly proportioned domestic and Far-Eastern sedans. I wonder if Mr.Callum realised this? Re: support pants, I would imagine those of generous endowment would have no need for them, being fairly sure of themselves in that department at least. I imagine these fancy-pants appeal to a similar (deeply insecure) market that keep the market for tough-looking 4x4's and crossovers so fertile. There's a thesis in here somewhere: the sociology of insecurity pants. Discuss...
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