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PETROLHEAD CHALLENGE
Identify the drivers in this brilliant Shell ad. Hint: one is from New Zealand, and another from Belgium.
(Via Attila)
I was thinking Wal from Footrot Flats and Professor Calculus.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 22 at 11:53 PM • permalinkNSW state government put the kybosh on the Sydney street shoot. But there does look like a scene from the Sea Cliff bridge, south of Sydney.
Helen is the one who doesn’t twirl her moustache
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 23 at 12:03 AM • permalink#6 - So basically it was cancelled because Shell wouldn’t pay a bribe? NSW electors, you know what to do. Kick these c—ts to the curb.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 23 at 12:03 AM • permalinkI am going to guess Ascari as the first driver, but otherwise NFI.
Posted by attilathepun on 2007 03 23 at 12:09 AM • permalinkVery, very nice. Love the air the cars got in the pre-aero era. Don’t recognize any drivers, though, even from the more recent era. If they’re going with actual historical drivers, I’ll guess that the Belgian would be Ickx, and the New Zealander Amon.
It’d be great if there was a high-res version of that somewhere, instead of the compressed garbage YouTube dishes up.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 03 23 at 12:13 AM • permalink#12 - Didn’t hear any baroque music.
#10 - It’d be the first one they’ve knocked back.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 23 at 12:16 AM • permalink#12
Sure it wasn’t The Stig?
LMAO!
Alan Jones and Jacky Ickx?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 23 at 12:23 AM • permalinkNZer: Neil Finn
Belgian: Plastic BertrandPosted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 23 at 12:27 AM • permalinkI never knew the great Plastic Bertrand was Belgian.
I learnt something today - time for a nap.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 23 at 12:32 AM • permalinkAah, that was refreshing.
I know:
1. Anna Paquin
2. Edward de SmedtPosted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 23 at 12:42 AM • permalinkWaitaminute!
Jones didn’t drive for Ferrari, so is it Chris Amon and Jacky Ickx?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 23 at 12:46 AM • permalinkAm I the only one here being the dork and taking the challenge seriously?
That’s be a first…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 23 at 12:47 AM • permalinkSurely we’ve mentioned every Kiwi and Belgian by now? What do we win? A chocolate coated sheep?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 23 at 12:55 AM • permalinkOh, and for the non italian speakers out there, the comment by the “pump attendant” at the end translates roughly as “not bad”. It made an italian I showed it to laugh.
Posted by attilathepun on 2007 03 23 at 12:59 AM • permalinkCannot view the ad at work, so I’ll just say if I had the $, this is the car I would get, and here’s why:
According to Jeremy Clarkson, the host of Top Gear, if the McLaren F1 were allowed to reach 120 mph before the Bugatti started, the Bugatti would still be the first to reach 200 mph.
Xena Warrior Princess and Jakalene X-treme
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 23 at 01:04 AM • permalinkI think Amon and Ickx are on the money.
You can also spot the gap in the history where Ferrari hooked up with Agip instead of Shell.
Posted by attilathepun on 2007 03 23 at 01:05 AM • permalinkAllright, enough pissing about- is it a Kiwi Fruit and a Belgian sausage?
#9. That’s Ascari’s car, borrowed from the Donnington museum, but I reckon it’s Phil Hill driving, even though he’s about to turn 80.
The Belgian must be Ickx, who is Poirot’s nephew.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 03 23 at 01:10 AM • permalink@30
“Maintenance will be possible at Bentley dealerships, but repair service will require a flown-in mechanic, whom the company promises will be available 24 hours a day.”
Here is the W16 engine (two narrow V8s stuck together, with four turbo chargers) up close. Amazing vehicle, has 10 radiators too.
#34 attilathepun
You can also spot the gap in the history where Ferrari hooked up with Agip instead of Shell.
Actually, yes. It appears the 1980s and ‘90s disappeared.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 23 at 01:21 AM • permalink#42 - Speaking of Burt Munro - A very underrated fillum is The World’s Fastest Indian. Amazing special effects; They make Kiwi’s and Seppo’s appear like decent people.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 23 at 01:26 AM • permalinkWankel rotary engine.
/obscure john cleese
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 23 at 01:29 AM • permalink#47
The only Wankel design?Oz inventor Ralph Sarich made an ‘orbital engine’ which was a form of rotary engine, but wasn’t developed further; he went on to develop fuel-injected two-strokes for Ford under the name ‘Orbital Engine Company’.
James Taylor and Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 23 at 02:03 AM • permalink#56 Penelope Pitstop HAH! Lady Penelope would kick her ass!
Posted by dean martin on 2007 03 23 at 02:57 AM • permalinkChanging the pace a little…ok, a lot:
Friday Afternoon SchadenfreudePosted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 23 at 03:10 AM • permalinkHint: one is from New Zealand, and another from Belgium.
This could indicate an attempt to join the EU with the south pacific area of operations.
If the Belgian is also Flemish, this really could be a problem that needs to be interdicted immediately.
This is disturbing, alot! (added for the benefit of Jack Lacton<sp?>)
And while we’re on New Zealand:
New Zealand’s #1 Internet Dating Site
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 23 at 03:21 AM • permalink65 - I suppose the old ‘shorn versus shaven’ dispute is still going strong?
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 23 at 03:24 AM • permalinkOT - Murdered Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer was a blogger.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 03 23 at 05:21 AM • permalink#65 Looks like a lot of mutton dressed up as lamb.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 23 at 06:08 AM • permalink#28. Habib.
Though I have never been into Ovine molesting, or removed a car to get to the dole office, I am, probably to use your parlance, an ‘Ovine Molester of Kraut parentage”, but it did give me a good laugh, the fact that some ‘Waloon’ bureaucrat getting shitfaced and eating chocolate, could still panic at the sound of Deutsche being uttered.SSC Ultimate Aero set to go after “world’s fastest car” title
Now producing 1,183 bhp, the Turbo becomes the most powerful emissions-legal production automobile in the world ... and its top end has risen to a projected 273 mph.
Mmmm ... like.
Time to repeat someone else’s bon mot, re racing cars of the 1950s:
“When drivers were fat, and tires were skinny”
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2007 03 23 at 11:23 AM • permalinkWhat… no “Professional Driver on a closed course / Do not attempt” disclaimers? Why… that’s UN-AMERICAN!
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 03 23 at 02:07 PM • permalinkNAH this car is the ultimate adrenalin rush in five STAR LUXURY!
Wow when i think about driving at an awesome 250kms thirty years ago at 6 AM on a Sunday morn, on the Guildford by pass in a Boxer flat twelve.No low profiles those days.
ABsolutely mind boggling only a brit could seem so cool about the whole experience.
Winding her up#83
Catches a lil’ of the thing’s aggressive exhaust note, too.Mosler beats Ducati on 5th Gear.
During an Oz GT, was sad to see the poor ol’ Lambo couldn’t hold onto the back of the Mosler whilst drafting down Conrod Straight ...
Slightly O/T but I sense a disturbance in the force…. Im gettine Malcom Turnbulls newsletter and had a look when I saw this
V8 Supercars Race to a Greener Future
As the mind wanders to greenhouse friendly activities, V8 Supercars are not normally the first thing you think of.
But this year I was delighted to launch V8 Supercars Australia’s ‘V8 Racing Green’ program which will involve the planting of thousands of trees to offset emissions as well as undertaking climate change awareness initiatives with their fans.
“V8 Supercars Australia, in partnership with Telstra BigPond, has recognized the effect the sport has on the environment and the organizers aim to become completely carbon neutral by working with the Australian Government’s Greenhouse Friendly programme, an initiative that aims to help the environment while improving businesses’ bottom line. Read more here.”
Expect tickets to any events to increase by how much???
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 23 at 10:32 PM • permalink#89
Sickening: what about the Yartz patrons’ (luxury) car emissions?
[Note Dame Kiri Te Kanawa speeding off in her chauffered 7 series Beemer after getting her knickers in a knot about Farnsy getting knickers thrown at him on stage.]Isn’t Mal Turncoat an ALP reject, ex-Australian Republican Movement?
2 flying Kiwis, both chauffeur driven:
1. Helen Clarke, NZ PM (late for a Rugby match)
2. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Opera singer (knickers in a knot)#40
From the General, who was the first to put a 16-cylinder engine into a passenger car:13.6 litre V-16 1000 hp (750 kW) and 1000 ft·lbf (1350 N·m) of torque, normally aspirated.
Now, all we need is for Jay Leno to bolt a few turbos onto her, like he did to his Blastolene Special (tank engined sports car) ...
Speaking of cars with wings, and since F1 racing cars were mentioned in the Top Gear video, at 253 mph, that Bugatti would be passed by this wing with a car attached. Although it’s stated top speed is “only” 245 mph, at Riverside in 1973, Mark Donohue reached just shy of 300 mph on the mile-long back straight (unofficially, as there were no “official, FIA-approved” speed measurements).
I can only imagine what he could’ve done with 5 miles…
I was there, on the back straight, near the pedestrian bridge. I had never seen anything so fast in all my life… that didn’t actually fly. It was frightening, to be honest.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 24 at 03:21 AM • permalink#97
An EU econo-diesel replica (with a mere 700 bhp)#98
Plenty of great Le Mans Porsche videos on YouTube.Top Gear had their hands on it a bit ... AFAIK Le Mans main straight was shortened in the late 70s to prevent cars continually topping 400km/h every lap, for safety reasons, and IndyCars are reportedly geared sufficiently to achieve 400-odd km/h on some high speed oval tracks.
#100
That’s not a Le Mans Porsche, that’s the Penske Can-Am car, a entirely different beast. 1,500 freaking horsepower. 500 kph.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 24 at 04:14 AM • permalink#101
Turbo-charged Porsche 917 for CanAm ... quite a beast.O/T:
Phatty blatantly plugs missus’ party on election day.Looks like Joe Public told Group F to ‘get F’ed’ anyway ...
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Notice the informal vote outpolled the greens.
Does that give the greens a mandate to block everything?Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 24 at 06:43 AM • permalinkHow much longer can we ignore the elephant in the room
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 24 at 07:01 AM • permalink#107
The Greens always claim a huge victory regardless of the actual result, and you can bet on this once again.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 24 at 07:03 AM • permalinkNew Beemer M3 high revving lil V8
4.0L 309kW (414bhp) @ 8,300rpm
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Don’t know who the drivers are, but I could handle that commute.
And was that a black Porsche sitting there as the Ferrari whizzed by? Classic.