Car Thread

[MurphOnMillerAve]

... Why doesn't Hot Wheels make the Get Smart cars?

For whom?

[Roy]

Seen the Get Smarter commercial?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5IZRZ_5rE0

[Roy]

... Why doesn't Hot Wheels make the Get Smart cars?

For whom?

Die-cast collectors. Hot Wheels has made a 1:50 George Barris Batmobile. Johnny Lightning has made the Munster Koach and Dragula. It's not outside the realm of possibility.

[Roy]

Name the show, and the car. Extra credit: what's the address?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Name the show, and the car. Extra credit: what's the address?

Prisoner; Lotus (some kit....); don't recall that detail

[Roy]

Name the show, and the car. Extra credit: what's the address?

Prisoner; Lotus (some kit....); don't recall that detail

- Correct;
- Need more specificity;
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Wrong answer.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Name the show, and the car. Extra credit: what's the address?

Prisoner; Lotus (some kit....); don't recall that detail

- Correct;
- Need more specificity;
- BZZZZZZZZZZZZT! Wrong answer.

Guess I'll cheat and just look it up....... Nah. Dinner.

[webenda]

1 Buckingham Place London UK

[webenda]

The car driven by the prisoner is a Lotus Seven, produced by Lotus Cars 1957-1973, with license plate KAR-120C.

The front fenders tended to lift the front of the car at high speeds. Cycle fenders were sometime fitted to keep the nose down and were more fun because you could see the front wheels and fenders bounce up and down and turn going around corners. There is a disadvantage to cycle fenders on a Lotus 7... the front tires throw rocks at your left arm.

[healey36]

The front fenders tended to lift the front of the car at high speeds.

I suspect that is a bit of mythology.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The front fenders tended to lift the front of the car at high speeds.

I suspect that is a bit of mythology.

..more possible mythology...isn't that the type of car that Lawrence of Arabia was killed in/by once he was back in England?

[Roy]

Thank you, Rufus and Wayne. The Lotus Seven was available as a kit, and Number Six(The Prisoner) even said that he built his own. 1 Buckingham Place is something of a pilgrimage spot, for The Prisoner fans.

[healey36]

The front fenders tended to lift the front of the car at high speeds.

I suspect that is a bit of mythology.

..more possible mythology...isn't that the type of car that Lawrence of Arabia was killed in/by once he was back in England?

I think he was killed while riding a motorcycle, a Brough Superior SS10, supposedly given to him by George Bernard Shaw.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I suspect that is a bit of mythology.

..more possible mythology...isn't that the type of car that Lawrence of Arabia was killed in/by once he was back in England?

I think he was killed while riding a motorcycle, a Brough Superior SS10, supposedly given to him by George Bernard Shaw.

Yes; motorcycle.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks.
daMurph