Looks so delicate

[rikker]

that it would move if you breathed on it, but what a beauty.

 

 

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[timax]

Just cant fault it at any angle. Very Sweet car.

I think i'd want it kept in my lounge room rather than the garage.

[turboeric]

One of my favourite vintage racing memories was back in the 80s at the now defunct Westwood Circuit near Vancouver, B.C. It was bucketing down with rain (as Vancouver is wont to do) and a Shelby GT350 and an Elite were going at it hammer and tongs. The Shelby would pull away going uphill out of the hairpin, but the Elite would be in front by the time they returned from the twisty bits. Lap after lap. They might as well have been from different planets - the Shelby all shouty and blustery, with huge tires and the Elite shrieking and delicate, with tires smaller than those on my wheelbarrow. Amazing demonstration of Chapmanism.