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[porsche930dude]

260hp 3cyl turbo 4 wheel drive. Sounds not bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aun18dM8N2o

[URY914]

[JJ 911SC]

My new DD. Sub 5, just a wee bit faster than DasBabe...

[kach22i]

Lots of old car racing photos and information in this link.

Posts Tagged ‘1965 Targa Florio’
Alan Hamilton, Australian Champion: His Porsche 904/8 and two 906s…
https://primotipo.com/tag/1965-targa-florio/

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[Won]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

260hp 3cyl turbo 4 wheel drive. Sounds not bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aun18dM8N2o

A proper homologation special! When was the last time we saw one?

A friend of mine just put his order in. Strangely, the "comfort" pack had HUD whereas the "track" pack with better diff and dampers didn't. He went for the track pack with a view to retrofit the HUD later on.

TGR has already built the 2021 WRC car based on this model and has been testing it. My friends at Hyundai should be very worried Edit: Just read that they're not using the GR Yaris as base and keeping the old car. That's a shame!!

Speaking of homologation specials: A few years back, Volkswagen sold this Polo R. It looked like a standard Polo with some stickers and a slightly bigger engine, seemingly a pure marketing exercise. But their brilliance (and the might/willingness of an OEM to go that far to win) was to modify the regulation reference areas of the chassis ever so slightly, so that the rest of the WRC components can be better optimised. For an OEM to assemble a car with a different body-in-white structure, might as well have been a completely new model. They certainly weren't dicking around and the results are there to prove it. But I think the GR Yaris is cooler

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[porsche930dude]

In a 2013 interview, Australian sports car champion Alan Hamilton spoke of his involvement with the series – turning over his Noble Park facility to the competing teams. Hamilton states that the Rothmans Porsche team simply started the trio of 956s up, left the workshop and drove the five or so kilometres down Princes Highway to the track, along with a Volkswagen Kombi support car which is photographed blocking traffic in order to let the race cars make a U-turn.
As for the actual race: One of the 956s piloted by Stefan Bellof took pole position with a qualifying time of 1:31.6 – shattering the previous lap record held by our own John Bowe, who set a 1:36.9 at the wheel of a Ralt RT4/85 Formula Mondial earlier that year during the final round of the Australian Driver’s Championship. One of the other Rothman team 956s qualified second with a time of 1:32.3 helmed by Jochen Mass.
The three Rothman team Porsches came first, second and eighth respectively.

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Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

That looks like Iceman.

[kach22i]

https://www.checkmateflex.com/products/hovercraft-skirts/

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[kach22i]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hms-queen-elizabeth-latest-updates-leak-aircraft-carrier-billions-royal-navy-mod-a8117861.html



https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/a-complex-autumn-programme-for-the-royal-navy-begins/

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https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/why-does-hms-queen-elizabeth-have-two-islands/



https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/the-reasons-hms-queen-elizabeth-has-two-islands/

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

'57 Dodge. Chrysler was anticipating a DOT rule change for 1957 allowing quad 5 3/4" headlights and styled their cars for them, but the final ruling came down too late for the start of production. Some manufacturers changed to quad headlights in the middle of the '57 model year. Dodge started quad headlights in '58 with a car that looked pretty much like this - except for having 4 headlights.

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That's interesting. Never knew it. Completely screwed up
the Chevy lineup in both cars and trucks. The cars recovered by 59 but not the trucks.

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

'57 Dodge. Chrysler was anticipating a DOT rule change for 1957 allowing quad 5 3/4" headlights and styled their cars for them, but the final ruling came down too late for the start of production. Some manufacturers changed to quad headlights in the middle of the '57 model year. Dodge started quad headlights in '58 with a car that looked pretty much like this - except for having 4 headlights.

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