Station wagon dashcam snaps

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  1. Grizz

    Grizz Are we there yet???

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    There goes my dyslexia again. 416,500$ is a lot a dough. But still a great looking car! So only 478 were made and it looks like this jack wagon has TWO?! Check out the white convertible. Wonder if jay Leno has one?Check out the placement of the distributor. Seems very convenient, I guess even back then they were cleverly designed. Unlike the present day Toyota where everything is an over engineered mind puzzle. I can probably do a Rubik's cube in less time than it would take to remove an intake manifold
     
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    Let's ask Uncle Jay to buy one, if he already hasn't one. I suppose, if he had one, he'd have shown it off by now. Maybe, replica production wouldn't be a bad idea. They did it with the A.C. Cobra and Morgan. So, why not? The underpinnings can't be that complicated and the engines are the same used in the passenger car:

    http://www.autobild.de/klassik/marken/bmw/barockengel/

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    A rare 2-door coupe. Most were 4-door types:

    http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/bmw/502/207814

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    This one has the dual carburetor option. Most might have had the single carb engine?

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    The following site states that only 139 convertibles were built and that they were mainly sold to the Hoi Palloi:

    http://www.classic-car.tv/portrait/60-jahre-bmw-503-cabrio/

    I take it back, when I wrote that the underpinnings couldn't be that complicated. It had torsionbar suspension and a column-shifted rear transaxle. The control arms weren't connected to the chassis with rubber bushings. They used needle bearings, instead.

     
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    Taken a couple weeks ago. Notice the season change:

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    Sorry to disappoint youse with this off-topic 65 Impala:

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Oh, no distraction. Where were you headed again?:watching:
     
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    That was on the B34 travelling westward, just before entering Lauchringen, near the Swiss border. The first 3 were taken between Löffingen and the B34
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Aha

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    Here're a couple more off-topics. This is where I fotographed that tri-five Apache. He's had a what looks to be a '64 Polara, on his lot:

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    ...and now, the Apache:

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    I caught one of them, also:

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    This is where I purchased the cameras:

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    How common is it now, in Germany, to use an Anglicized name on a business, rather than a Germanic one? That "Pearl Factory Outlet" is an interesting case-in-point.
     
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    Not as common as Anglicized stop signs. But, too common, all the same. They might suppose, giving businesses a foreign "flair" probably appeals to the younger computer crowd. Especially, Millenials. What I didn't catch were all the Starbucks and fast food joints in urban areas.
    What they disregard is that that PEARL outfit could only be a factory outlet in China
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    Eye see these, then.
    No anglicized signs to be seen. The one close up reads, "Allowed (only) for agriculturally-based traffic". The yellow one shows directions, at a crossing. Turning right, leads to the Swiss border. Keeping straight leads eastward from where that cold front is coming from:

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    I'll post the rest of yesterday's scenic bicycle tour images, as links, since they're mainly off-topic. The following are images taken of Küssaberg of which a medieval fortress can be seen at the peak. Somewhere behind that mountain, is the Swiss border crossing:

    https://s1.postimg.org/181w90z3in/Fortress_Seen.jpg
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    It wasn't a bike tour solely to take photographs. I was heading to a store of which I could probably get gearbox oil. This is the preceeding village where there's a welding shop specializing in doing aluminum. I need some work to get done there:

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    A southwest peek at the scenery, just before entering the village:

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    Just some countryside image on an agricultural road:

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    Winter and Summer suck. Give me Spring and Fall, anyday:

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    A pile of Help-Yourself-To sugar beets. Before you ask, yes, that's the mountain or hill (for that matter) with the fortress peaked:

    https://s1.postimg.org/1nbw47y98v/Sugar_Beet_And_Fort.jpg
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    That area is gorgeous, and looks a lot like the areas where Steve McQueen was filmed riding a stolen "German" motorcycle in "The Great Escape."
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    Love the scenery photos. The sky looked that way here yesterday. Farmers around here sometimes rent their fields to the big canning companies. The public was free to take what was left in the fields after the big equipment picked. Several people ruined it. They picked up vegitables and sold them at their own small stands. This was years ago. I'm sure nothing is free now.

    So, which side of the road do you drive on there? Looks like on the right like USA.:character0182:
     
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    When I'm not busy playing chicken, I mostly drive on the correct side. Just because Steve McQueen rode a stolen Brit motorcycle (Germany hung a trade embargo against Britain, early on) through the countryside doesn't mean that we drive on the wrong side of the road
    Funny, that you've mentioned it. On that very trip, I gathered around 20 or so ears of corn left by sloppy machine picking. The farmers don't bother going back to gather them. I know, you're going to ask me about those government subsidized beets of which much of their sugar gets unwantedly disguised into our foodstuffs, here, contributing to obesity, diabetics and all the the other diseases resulting. As to how many of them or if gathered at all, I'll answer with "No comment", Sir

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    IIRC, McQueen's motorcycle was a Triumph. Factoid: even though McQueen was a semi-professional motorcross rider, and could've done the last set of stunts for the movie (jumping the concertina wire fence on the Swiss frontier), the studio steadfastly refused to allow him to do them, instead using a stunt double, which, of course, didn't sit well with Mr. McQueen. And the rest, as they say, is history.
     
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