The cars and bikes thread!

[tribe125]

I now have a mental picture of an uncooked 911 with an egg on it.

[geoffbot]

but the burger is never going to satisfy the way the tartare does.

Burgers are way more satisfying than tartar!

[Raza]

I now have a mental picture of an uncooked 911 with an egg on it.

Oh yeah, the 996 generation, pre-facelift. I know exactly the one you’re talking about.

[Raza]

Burgers are way more satisfying than tartar!

Chav.

[Raza]

That is a very pretty car, and it’s the kind of ‘gentleman’s express’ that I really like - and like a lot more than overtly sporty cars. It almost looks Italian, or like a Bristol that wasn’t wilfully eccentric.

I’m not familiar with it, so can’t have been paying attention when it was around, or maybe there just weren’t many where I lived.

”Gentleman’s express”—I like that. It utilizes the word “gentleman”, but sounds classy and not code for a mobile strip club. Well, not too much like code for a mobile strip club.

It does have an almost Italian flair about it, which is certainly one of the things that knocked me head over heels. I’ve been perusing BringaTrailer auctions quite a bit lately, just a bit of window shopping, I’m not in the market, but that one pictured went for $80,000, which isn’t crazy for something so beautiful. The lines are reminiscent of some of the less hardcore Maserati and Ferrari models of the long forgotten past, yet still at an attainable price, relatively.

If you’ve seen Knives Out, Chris Evans’s character drives one just like that one. That’s where I fell in love with it. Everyone knows about the batwing 3.0CSL, which I always liked growing up, but it wasn’t until I saw one of the more sedate looking regular models that Cupid’s arrow really struck. I mean, for me, when I look at desirable vintage cars, the 3.0CS sits just behind the Aston Martin V8 Vantage (like the one in The Living Daylights or earlier, that body style), which is my $400 million Powerball jackpot dream car. The 3.0CS might actually happen, conceivably, at some point.

[tribe125]

‘Gentleman’s Express’ was the nickname given to Bristol cars.

A flavour of what Bristol was about can be found here (and many other places, but this was at the top of a Google search) -

https://www.arabnews.com/node/370542

This is what my dream car looked like in the early 70s, when I was 15-20 -

[geoffbot]

Chav.

Tis a fact!

[Raza]

‘Gentleman’s Express’ was the nickname given to Bristol cars.

A flavour of what Bristol was about can be found here (and many other places, but this was at the top of a Google search) -

https://www.arabnews.com/node/370542

This is what my dream car looked like in the early 70s, when I was 15-20 -

Very nice! I don’t know much about Bristol. I remember being a big fan of the Fighter when it first came out, but I believe that barely managed a sizzle. They’ve since shut their doors, haven’t they? Or are they still soldiering along, making a handful of cars a year?

[tribe125]

They’ve since shut their doors, haven’t they? Or are they still soldiering along, making a handful of cars a year?

I don’t know, to be honest, but they only had one door to shut -





and for a long time the company was essentially just one man - Tony Crook.

It’s possible that some wealthy enthusiast is keeping the name going, but I think the original workforce were all laid off and premises sold.

I did once see a sad picture of apparently complete cars mouldering away in an underground London car park.

[Raza]

I don’t know, to be honest, but they only had one door to shut -





and for a long time the company was essentially just one man - Tony Crook.

It’s possible that some wealthy enthusiast is keeping the name going, but I think the original workforce were all laid off and premises sold.

I did once see a sad picture of apparently complete cars mouldering away in an underground London car park.

It’s always sad when a company like Bristol or Saab shutters. The death of someone’s dream and the dreams of many others.