Car Thread

[rogruth]

Murph,

I am not going to speculate on what that might mean but somebody will.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's what they call junk in the trunk. The Kardashian of cars. Famous for a large backside

Perfect. You're a clever man.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,

I am not going to speculate on what that might mean but somebody will.

awheckyeah.

[Big Jim]

The second one reminds me of somebody who is pregnant and wearing too-tight Spandex pants that were meant for a younger and slimmer gal.

Nice glass!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Glass? The headlights?

[webenda]

The grill doesn't determine the marque?

[Big Jim]

Glass? The headlights?

The Grill. Those are plates of glass.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Glass? The headlights?

The Grill. Those are plates of glass.

Plates of glass as a bumper/grill. That's an interesting concept. Beauty with no function!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Glass? The headlights?

The Grill. Those are plates of glass.

Plates of glass as a bumper/grill. That's an interesting concept. Beauty with no function!

Vast majority of vehicles have not had real protruding metal bumpers for many years and just plastic with the only function of costing you more money when they fall apart at teh slightest impact.

I drove a 450SE for 14 years that was a European model with the real metal bumpers front and real. Got rear ended at stop signs twice. Both cars hitting me were totaled. I had a scratch on my exhaust pipe from the one and nothing from the other.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I must be too-far-gone or just outright KooKoo, but this rear-end reminds me of one posted on MTJ, a bit ago, of a hot-babe in black vinyl too-tight pants.

Just for Murph........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Precisely.

[healey36]

That reminds me - I have a vinyl seat-cover that has split on a seam...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Jean Bugatti with the 1932 Bugatti Royale 'Edsers' roadster:



A massive automobile packing a 12.7L straight-eight, 3-speed manual. Check out the size of the rims as compared to Bugatti himself...wow...

Healey

Something else just occurred to me regarding a gentleman's clothing for cars like that. Perhaps the pants legs were abbreviated like that and included those socks to accommodate a man moving his feet quickly from peddle to peddle - brake, clutch, and gasoline. Regular pants cuffs were big and bulky in those days, if I recall correctly from seeing movies, like Fred Astaire dancing all over the place. I think the peddles were big and high-up, too (?) Also, there was a big gear shift "shaft" sticking up in the same general area, all of which may have required less pants cuffs flopping about in the way of feet moving efficiently in a relatively small area in such a car.

Don't race-car drivers in contemporary sport competitions wear pants with "pegged" legs, narrow and kind of "fastened" at the ankles? That might support my theory.

What do you guys think of my theory?

[sarge]

Murph, mate

I like it; be careful or it will find its way on Wikipedia and become "fact"!

Plus-fours were young toffs way of annoying old monied proper gents (Wodehouse used the plus-four as an indicator of the good feelings of acceptance between generations of the club-set.)

They are a combination of a practical trouser for golfists out for a walk in the dew with their bats (a game I always considered akin to standing out in the noonday sun attempting to thread a needle with howitzer), and perhaps a vestige of the appearance of spats. Carrying the spat a bit further, the Edwardian generation considered the exposure of one's stockings as socially borish, in the same vein as one's shirtsleeves (a shirt was considered an undergarment).

Much as we find the backwards ball-cap and trousers-at-half-mast annoying, a sweater-vest, shirt-sleeves and matching socks prominently displayed was a 1920s rich-kid generation's fashion "up-your's" to their pre-WWI generation.

As far as the cars, I never found a car from the '20's hard to manage with the pedals (at least one with the standard arrangements). If anything, my uncle's 1919 Buick as an example had more space for feet encumbered by boots, a full-length Mac, &c; no heat.

Modern racing suits are fire-resistant and have closures to keep the fire out.

It was a good theory, though!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Well, I tried, but it is better to have learned the facts. My original version of that message included addressing you and Mitch at its closing, but I decided that was too exclusive and left it wide open.