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Marque and model please .... and its 'year' ('ish' will suffice fo the year)  

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51 minutes ago, wlaidlaw said:

Pre-war Rover 14? 

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26 minutes ago, Indeepthought said:

Circa 1939 P12 Rover

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Wilson and IDT, You're both almost right. It's actually a 1939 year, 1496cc Rover P2 12 Six Light – as distinct from the Sports Saloon.  

Photographed at this year's Stilton Cheese Classic Car Run, 21 April 2024. 

InDeepThought's P12 is nearer to Rover P2 12 than Wilson's Rover 14 ... but the 12 and 14 both shared the same body? 

An honourable draw? 

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Dunk, 

I thought all the pre war cars had bolt on wire wheels. I very briefly, had a 1939 Rover 16 sports saloon. It used almost as much oil as petrol. I could not get the alloy head off. It had welded itself to the steel studs. I left it hanging from the head for three days with no success. It went to the scrap yard. I really liked the freewheel. Give it to IDT as I have nothing to post. 

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Let's try this one, but please be warned- if you think it's too easy & obvious......it's not.

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21 hours ago, wlaidlaw said:

Hennessy Venom? 

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Sorry for the delay, but you've nailed it. It is a Hennessey Venom GT Spyder. It wasn't until after I congratulated myself on posting this car that surely no one could possibly guess, that I recalled you mentioning a test drive in a Hennessey which seems to have left a sour taste due to some unpredictable and dangerous handling quirks. No wonder, when one takes a Lotus Exige and burdens it with a GM 7-liter V8 making well over 1000 hp, all for the sake of being able to call it the world's fastest car. It did set a top speed approx. 2 miles an hour faster than a Bugati Veyron, but obviously lacks pretty much every characteristic of an even remotely usable & practical road car. The Hennessey people at the venue where I photographed this beast were awfully proud that they had orders and deposits for 29 of the things.

I guess it's anyone's turn.

M240-P / 35 Summilux FLE

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Another view.

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The placard accompanying this automobile sums it up far better that I ever could.

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I drove a supercharged 2 litre Toyota Lotus Elise from St Tropez to the Nurburgring and did some laps in it. Compared with the car I was driving at the time, a Porsche 997 Turbo S Exclusive Edition (Monaco Motorshow car) with 550 BHP engine and special colour of metallic burgundy and tan Italian leather interior, I thought the Lotus was horrible. It had over a half inch gap between the tops of the windows and the clip in reinforcing bars that support the roof, so that at high speed the wind noise level was deafening and in the rain, you got soaked. At anything over 140MPH on the Autobahns, it became aerodynamically unstable and was very twitchy. It was far too soggy for circuit use and wallowed all over the place. You never knew which end was going to slide first. Colin Chapman would never have signed off on a car that handled like that. Anyone who drove it that day, disliked it. We ended up using our race car, a Porsche 904/6 GT (Originally one of the 2 factory 904/8 GT cars) to do the re-familiarisation laps of the Nurburgring, as we felt we were learning nothing in the Lotus, which was the purpose of taking it up to the Ring. 

Open to all as usual. 

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3 hours ago, dkCambridgeshire said:

On February 14 2024, at Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, this Hennessey Venom achieved 270.49mph

https://www.venomgt.com/achievements/worlds-fastest-270-49-mph-hennessey-venom-gt/

dunk 

Driver must have been a whole lot braver than me. 

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