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[HRoi]

The day I started to hear people refer to things from the 90's as "vintage" I started to feel old.

Well this was a great post to follow up my previous one with

 

[Dino944]

Definitely an engine from a period of F1 where the engines didn’t sound like a handful of bolts inside a blender, but a sound that could’ve easily been created by God then man

Something about the sound of those engines from Maranello....and to further illustrate your point ...

 

[DubbyThaFerrgamoCZAR]

I Love 19Bozzy92 and Gumbal the same. Both great channels for motorsport content.

 

[Dino944]

I have an idea...someone should run a “Legends” F1 season where they race the same tracks with the old cars. McLaren, Ferrari and Williams still have their old ones, so we just need to find all the crusty collectors who are hoarding the Tyrells and Benettons and Lotuses.

it would be prohibitively expensive and I wouldn’t want to do it ifit couldn’t be done with acceptable safety for the drivers, but I would enjoy this most of all.

Actually I bet someone already tried to do this and lost their shirts

They already do it...it's called the Monaco Historic Grand Prix. They run various classes, cars of depending on the decade of production. I've seen it on one of the car channels, either the old Speed Network or Motor Trend TV several about 5 to 6 years ago. They do fewer laps than a real F1 race, but it is fun to watch. However, its a sport for kings...IIRC, my wife and I were watching when I 1970s Lotus and Ferrari collided and I think they said that's about $ 3-4 million dollars of wreckage.

 

[imatlas]

Around 1979 I saw Phil Hill win the Monterey Historic at Laguna Seca driving his 1931 4 1/2 litre “Blower” Bentley.

This one, I think:

 

[DubbyThaFerrgamoCZAR]

On the topic of race machines...



Favorite F1 Car since a little boy. And always loved the guy that drove it. Dale JR too. Didnt find out about Senna til i was 17 playing Gran Turismo

 

[A Y]

Then there's Can-Am with a BMW V12 thrown in there ... Can-Am lives in a totally different sonic universe than F1.

 

[patrick_b]

Then there's Can-Am with a BMW V12 thrown in there ... Can-Am lives in a totally different sonic universe than F1.

That sounds amazing!

 

[Texasmade]

I have an idea...someone should run a “Legends” F1 season where they race the same tracks with the old cars. McLaren, Ferrari and Williams still have their old ones, so we just need to find all the crusty collectors who are hoarding the Tyrells and Benettons and Lotuses.

it would be prohibitively expensive and I wouldn’t want to do it ifit couldn’t be done with acceptable safety for the drivers, but I would enjoy this most of all.

Actually I bet someone already tried to do this and lost their shirts

They do this at CoTA for the US GP using cars that ran with the Cosworth DFV V8. Those cars are so ******* loud I had to buy ear plugs sitting in the main grandstand.

 

[Texasmade]

 

[DubbyThaFerrgamoCZAR]

Looks like something we already have.

 

[A Y]

all right, who's going to light one of these on fire to make sure it's natural fibers?

https://www.autoblog.com/2020/09/25/plant-based-porsche-body-kit/

 

[Piobaire]

Lulz @ Subaru. They are firm at $675 a month, taxes in (8%.) This is for a 43k car with 1.4k of dealer adds that has a 63% residual and a .0014 MF. At full list the math says $601. I thanked him for his time and told him to let his sales manager know he just blew me off the lot and I'd make sure to let other folks know the dealership tries to get over MSRP. He apologized and "will get back to me."

**** them.

 

[Jmm722]

If it makes you feel better, today Porsche offered me $32,000 for my M2 as a trade-in. I told him to have a great weekend and walked away.

The cheapest one for sale in the US with my mileage and packages is $45,000 right now.

 

[clee1982]

what kind depreciation do you expect from BMW though