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the Stirling Moss can still achieve a top speed of 217 mph and can reach 100 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Class or Crass: 2009 Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss
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the Stirling Moss can still achieve a top speed of 217 mph and can reach 100 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
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·LOL above and below!they left out the windshield
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Holy batmobile, batman! :icon_eek: :thumbdown
Looks like a BMW Z4M gone seriously wrong...uke:
Looks like a BMW Z4M gone seriously wrong...
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:hmmm:need a helmet or mask i guess with no windsheild
Nope. You need an open face helmet and goggles, also some leather driving gloves. I like it. First mod would be knock-off wire wheels.:thumbup::hmmm:need a helmet or mask i guess with no windsheild
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I feel like punching babies after seeing that
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definitely not...:thumbdown
Class... I like it and here's why despite what other's don't like about it.
It's a commemorative car of the late Stirling Moss. In his prime, he never raced in a closed cockpit car. He was the consumate Grand Prix racer in the most traditional sense. These cars were all open cockpit cars. And as such of the era, you HAD to wear goggles and the poor excuse for a helmet. Leather caps didn't do much good in football and they certainly didn't do much good for racers (or pilots) other than to keep their grey matter warmer.
When McLaren (good old Bruce), a name also associated in open cockpit racing (CAN-AM), decided to design this car, I could see in the sketches, their attempts to recapture the spirit of Grand Prix racing.
In this sense, I feel they achieved this and quite frankly, I've always wanted to drive a "car" with a helmet on because it was required. Hell, I've toyed with the idea when my Cobra was in the "go-kart" stage. Had I known I was going to go 40mph, I probably would have - it's hard to breath when you have the air hitting you faster than you can exhale! I have to think about the sensation of driving 200+mph with only a wind deflector and a helmet. You'd get a good sense how Indy or F1 race drivers have to deal with.
If I had the dough, I'd buy one.
It's a commemorative car of the late Stirling Moss. In his prime, he never raced in a closed cockpit car. He was the consumate Grand Prix racer in the most traditional sense. These cars were all open cockpit cars. And as such of the era, you HAD to wear goggles and the poor excuse for a helmet. Leather caps didn't do much good in football and they certainly didn't do much good for racers (or pilots) other than to keep their grey matter warmer.
When McLaren (good old Bruce), a name also associated in open cockpit racing (CAN-AM), decided to design this car, I could see in the sketches, their attempts to recapture the spirit of Grand Prix racing.
In this sense, I feel they achieved this and quite frankly, I've always wanted to drive a "car" with a helmet on because it was required. Hell, I've toyed with the idea when my Cobra was in the "go-kart" stage. Had I known I was going to go 40mph, I probably would have - it's hard to breath when you have the air hitting you faster than you can exhale! I have to think about the sensation of driving 200+mph with only a wind deflector and a helmet. You'd get a good sense how Indy or F1 race drivers have to deal with.
If I had the dough, I'd buy one.
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you hit the nail on the head, Herman - I was trying to figure out what I liked about it, other than that I LIKED it - but you said it best. and I'd buy one if I had that much free coinage lying around. :lol:
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I love it reminds me of older lemans cars
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Reminds me a bit of the older font-engine Panoz le mans prototypes, with the driver sitting so far back...
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