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Club Arnage => So You Think You Know About Le Mans => Topic started by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 01:58:55 pm

Title: What is it?
Post by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 01:58:55 pm: Suggestions on a postcard please to the usual address......

(http://www.maisonblanche.co.uk/ca171003.jpg)
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Post by: Gilles on October 17, 2003, 02:09:28 pm: A Smart Roadster for the BTCC championship ??
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 02:27:06 pm: Close, but no banana ... NOT!! This is Le Mans related, honest!
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Post by: Gilles on October 17, 2003, 02:44:40 pm: The Stretton Judd ?? I'm really not sure of that... ???
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 03:10:43 pm: Not quite so modern.
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Post by: Gilles on October 17, 2003, 03:42:43 pm: the front panel looks too short and the dashboard too modern to be a modified Frogeye ...

... quite an hard question BTW !!!
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 03:46:51 pm: OK, not giving too much away but it has raced at Le Mans in the last decade!
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Post by: Andy Zarse on October 17, 2003, 05:34:25 pm: Is it one of those nasty little Peugeot 2 litre things. Might as well have raced a Shrike.
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 17, 2003, 05:39:28 pm: Nope something far more gorgeous and faster!
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Post by: Gilles on October 18, 2003, 09:50:54 am: ??? Did Lotus ran Le Mans in the last decade ???
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 18, 2003, 11:22:42 am: The only Loti in the last decade were Esprits and the gorgeous Elise GT1s ...... keep guessing!
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Post by: BigH on October 18, 2003, 02:49:11 pm: It's Robbo's Focus!!
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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 18, 2003, 03:10:38 pm: ;D After a roof chop!!

A little clue then as this one seems to be proving harder than I had anticipated ... it has a German engine.
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Post by: Fax on October 18, 2003, 05:15:17 pm: Hi Rick,
I looks like the Kremer Porsche that Mr. Bell drove in, hmm...
I think it was '94 or '95 can't remember exactly which year. It was supposed to be the big send off for Derek at Le Mans but obviously he's been pulled back a few times since. If memory serves me right it started life as a 962 and the Kremer bros. simply spyder-ized it. Gonna camp out in front of the TV all afternoon, its PLM day. Like Phil, poverty's left me at home for this one, wouldn't be the same without Dave, Matt & Phil there either.
Fax
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Post by: Kpy on October 18, 2003, 06:44:22 pm: Yeah looks like car no 5 in 1994 - Gulf Oil Racing,
Kremer CK8 Spyder - Porsche - Derek Bell, Robin Donovan,
Jürgen Lässig.
BUT the mirror supports are different. See: http://membres.lycos.fr/wspr/archivelm94.html
Was one photo taken at PQ?
Title: Re:What is it?
Post by: Mr. Rick on October 19, 2003, 02:48:01 pm: Correct chaps!! Well done!! ;D

It is indeed the #5 Kremer car from 1994.

The photo was taken the Monday after the race as the teams prepared to load up and this little beauty was just sitting around begging to be photographed!!

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Post by: Mr. Rick on October 19, 2003, 02:48:35 pm: (http://www.maisonblanche.co.uk/940502.jpg)
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Post by: Robbo SPS on October 20, 2003, 05:38:31 pm: Quote from: BigH on October 18, 2003, 02:49:11 pm
It's Robbo's Focus!!

Hey hey hey, Big H ,

The Focus is one of my work cars , that has sadly been driven by Mr a n other in the concreate fabrication called my place of work, so i am saddened by its demise, but please can we all respect the dead cars that go off to the Bad Cars from Dagenham pile , known as MAX POWER live , or any seafront near you with those little blue stobe lights.
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Post by: BigH on October 20, 2003, 05:54:58 pm: Just joshing Robbo!

I've never owned one of Henrys' pride and joys, although a friend of mine has...

What is it with coastal towns and gallopingly bad automotive taste?? I got caught up with a crowd of these 'erberts in Weston Supermare a couple of years ago. Now, I suppose if I'd been in an underground cavern for about six years then I too would find LED lights on a windscreen washer spleen mashingly exciting. And the spoilers!!! - a quick lesson in aerodynamics followed by a good kicking would seem to be in order here.

This was a very bizarre evening. It seemed Weston was populated by either 99 year old coffin dodgers celebrating every sunrise with a game of bingo, or uninsurable teenage lads doing impressions of Jack The Biscuit in any car park big enough to do a 3 point turn in without knocking over a hot dog and candy floss stand.

Just where is the sperm coming from????

H
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Post by: wishy on October 20, 2003, 06:17:55 pm: Know what you mean H

Back in the summer we stopped at Mc Donalds in Farnborough on the way back from Thorpe Park and ended up in the middle of the unofficial Farnborugh cruise.

These youngsters are in serious need of a frontal labotomy.Driving up the car park at breakneck speeds without any respect for pedestrians....or for that matter other motorists.

There was some real knob showing off on his motocross bike doing endo's and wheelies in the lanes of the car park.....this was a serious accident waiting to happen.

Wishy
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Post by: Robbo SPS on October 20, 2003, 06:33:30 pm: Well of the thread but..

A couple of years ago i was able to help the Thames Valley Police in Slough with an illegal orgainsed MAX POWER cruise on the a4 .

I have never had as much fun peeling silly banners of windscreens , Watching the traffic plod lift the cars and nick the un-insured time bombs , and let them eat some porridge..

HA Ha ha