By Robert Emslie
I checked, and (thankfully) it wasn’t.
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Jeff Glucker
Where’s the ///M badge?
That’s right, and the only acceptable turbo badge is a copy of one off of a 996 turbo.
No CSE, no nuthin.
OK – thread hijack. I visited my parents last weekend (1200 mile round trip in my BRZ) and found these photos of my grandparents on a motorcycle and in their first car. The bike photo is dated 1922 and the car 1924. Anybody have a clue as to the make/models of these vehicles?
Is this in Germany?
Because a 1924 Opel 4/12 PS looks close…
https://opelpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Laubfrosch.jpg
Yes – Germany. It probably is an Opel – Thanx.
The motorcycle looks to be some sort of Wanderer, perhaps a 4PS.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c2/58/de/c258de86a73bc4bd85fac93fafc0ff7c.jpg
Thanx – good lead.
Welcome to the BMW 0.30 series.
Slightly on-topic…
My dad has an unusually large collection of small ’50’s-’60’s British cars compared to the average South Dakota farmer, at 5:
-a green Mk1 Sprite (where the paint hasn’t been sanded off to do bodywork), no powertrain currently installed
-a
graygrey Morris Minor 1000 2-doorsedansaloon, ~1959, 948cc-a red Mk2 Sprite, 1098cc, adapted to a Borg-Warner T-50 w/ ‘dogleg’ shift pattern from a small ’70’s GM car [sidebar: I never understood why the dogleg pattern is supposed to be confusing, since it’s identical to a US-conventional 3-speed till the 3-4 shift… then again, it was Captain Slow that had the dogleg-pattern Mercedes in that one Top Gear UK cheap sporty sedan episode…]
-a red Mk4 Sprite, 1275cc
-a yellow rubber-bumper Midget, 1500cc
I was at the farm over Easter weekend and helped my dad with a few things on the Minor to bring it out of a quarter-century of hibernation. I know the Mini is hailed as Issigonis’ masterwork, but the Minor is rather clever for a conventional FR-layout car. (It felt weird to find the brake master cylinder under the driver floorboard, though…)