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From: Adrian on 15 Apr 2010 05:11 bod43 <Bod43(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying: > I suppose that's why there were no Triumph Heralds shown - or maybe > there was another reason for that? Nobody in Germany was daft enough to buy a Herald?
From: Eiron on 15 Apr 2010 05:13 On 15/04/2010 09:33, bod43 wrote: > On 14 Apr, 21:02, "Speedgazebo MOTP #1"<nicka...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 14 Apr, 18:51, "Hog"<sm911S...(a)CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Lifted from a Flook post on Facebook but too good not to post herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwc54G2Ur8 >>> Nurburgring Nordschleife Crashes 1970 at Adenauer Forst >> >> It's worth noting that the vast majority of the cars crashing in that >> clip are rear engined, it's no wonder they roll over, given when it >> was filmed. > > Zactly, although it's not the engine location that's the > critical factor but the use of nice 'n' cheap swing axle > rear suspension. Beetle, rear engine Fiats, NSU. > Of course having the jacking at the heavy end > may well make it even worse. I suppose that's > why there were no Triumph Heralds shown - or > maybe there was another reason for that? It wasn't the first corner? -- Eiron.
From: TOG on 15 Apr 2010 08:18 On 15 Apr, 12:34, "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMME...(a)unixconsult.co.uk> wrote: > Adrian wrote: > > bod43 <Bo...(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they > > were saying: > > > > I suppose that's why there were no Triumph Heralds shown - or maybe > > > there was another reason for that? > > > Nobody in Germany was daft enough to buy a Herald? > > They put the engines into Amphicars instead. > Seriously? Wow :-)
From: 'Hog on 15 Apr 2010 09:24 TOG(a)Toil wrote: > On 15 Apr, 12:34, "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMME...(a)unixconsult.co.uk> > wrote: >> Adrian wrote: >>> bod43 <Bo...(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they >>> were saying: >> >>>> I suppose that's why there were no Triumph Heralds shown - or maybe >>>> there was another reason for that? >> >>> Nobody in Germany was daft enough to buy a Herald? >> >> They put the engines into Amphicars instead. >> > Seriously? Wow :-) Similar from the rear www.amphicar.com/AmphiPl8tes.htm -- Hog
From: Grimly Curmudgeon on 15 Apr 2010 11:09
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian <toomany2cvs(a)gmail.com> saying something like: >bod43 <Bod43(a)hotmail.co.uk> gurgled happily, sounding much like they were >saying: > >> I suppose that's why there were no Triumph Heralds shown - or maybe >> there was another reason for that? > >Nobody in Germany was daft enough to buy a Herald? The chassis rusted off on the Channel crossing. |