Nick Mason's Car Collection and Did Senna Want To Leave F1 For CART?

"DasWauto" (DasWauto)
03/24/2014 at 18:00 • Filed to: Best of Oppositelock

Assembled here are the best Oppositelock posts from Friday through Sunday. Today we've got a car collection too big for two warehouses, Senna's CART test, the Lancia Fulvia HF and more.

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When someone said "one of these recently sold for about $46,000,000, but this one hasn't sold for a while", you knew we weren't in a normal garage. This was one belonging to Nick Mason, the man behind the sticks in Pink Floyd, and Carwitter are here due to our friends at Zircotec.

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Saying today that e.g. Sebastian Vettel would join IndyCar from 2015 - for being dissatisfied with the Red Bull car - would be quite senseless for a number of reasons, particularly because F1 is a Wolrd Championship, on a global level IndyCar is invisible and really, why? Ayrton Senna was, though, in a very similar situation in 1992.

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When I think, and I mean really think about all of the cars I've been fortunate enough to see at the motor shows, events, and festivals I've attended, it really is rather incredible. I've been up close to some of the most desirable cars ever produced. Out of all of those cars it's hard to pick one out and say 'that was my favourite', but I can say which ones suprised me or kept me around longer than I thought they would. This is one of those cars; the Lancia Fulvia HF.

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Close your eyes and imagine that you're at a car rental place in 2008. What do you see? Camrys, Sebrings, Taurii, maybe a few Yukons and a shitload of Impalas, right? Right. Now imagine you actually want to rent one. Which one would you choke down your masculinity for? Probably a Chrysler 300, if we're completely honest. But what about plan B?

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Someone tweeted an old print ad for the Citroën 2CV that was kinda smart-assed, so I decided to make a modern-day one for the cool new C4 Cactus. Original below.

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Yes, the second round of the Formula Oppo Season is upon us. With the Foster's GP providing and exciting race and some unpredictable results that some predicted, points were scored. This weeks racing should throw yet another wrench at the monkey, as rain is always a factor at Skull Island.

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The Aquila Gullwing is a forgotten kit car made in the 1980s by American Fibre Craft that has recently created a lot of noise for a 40-horsepower, VW-based kit car. This exact car, number 137 of 150, sold for $9,500 at Mecum in late January, and a similar one sold in June for $9,995.

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So I've owned my 1991 Audi Coupe for almost a year now, and plan on selling it soon (yeah, I've said that for 6 months and probably will for 6 more, but whatever). What better time to do a review than now? I'll try to make this as entertaining as possible.

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So you like Mazda MX5's…no you love Mazda MX5's. Well, we have something a little bit special! Jota, renowned Le Mans and GT motorsport company came up with the Jota MX5 GT Concept in 2012. A year later and it saw the light of day, along the way it lost its turbo and some of the beefy styling but its here nonetheless.

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The Infiniti I35 was advertised as a luxury performance sedan back when it was new in the early 2000's. When it came out it was the most powerful car in its class, which included the Acura TL and the Lexus ES. It comes with a 3.5 liter V6 with a strong 255 hp and 246 lb-ft, which is still respectable today. What isn't good are the front wheel drive and the 4 speed slushbox.

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The other week, someone posted the Cadillac "Test Drive a Car and Get a $100 Gift Card" event. I looked it up, and entered my information to test drive a 2014 ATS 4 Performance 2.0T. I was sick that week, and I missed the call from the local dealership. I called back a few days ago, and said I'd try to make it there today.

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The Best of the Rest

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As always, If I've missed something and you would like me to include it, let me know.

Discussions

There were several posts that asked questions and sparked some good conversation between Friday and Sunday. Take a peek and chime in on some of those listed below:

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What is the best tuner/modified version of an otherwise mediocre car?

Coolest Car In A Random Ass Town: Helsinki (Findland), request

Discuss: The Most Absurd Speed Limits

How to Fix Understeer

Fantasy Build

Are there any weird versions of regular cars that you want?

What Does Your Banner Say About You?

Tell Me About Dashcams!

Show Us Your Favorite 2015 Mazda MX-5/Alfa Romeo Spyder Render

What would you buy: 41k Edition

What is the worst factory installed wing?

Show me your customized Mustang

I Really Do Not Understand The Stance Hate

What's the best car for a pornstar?

what is the best vehicle for hunting?

What Is The Best 30k Sports Car?

MotoGP Grand Prix of Qatar

Which Would You Rather? Cheap Speed Edition

WTF Is Your Avatar??

Just the #tips

Niki Lauda - On Finding Money and A Drive

Autobahn 27: Seven Autobahn Fables from the 80s

Now you can choose what kind of headlights go on your Alfa 4C

Is This The 2015 Ford Mustang 50th Anniversary Edition?

Inverted Flat Spin World Record

Kamui Kobayashi drives a Caterham 620R

New Ayrton Senna Photographic Exhibition

Ferrari Experimental/Test Cars

A Beginner's Guide to Driving Stick Shift

First CTS-V to break 200MPH in the Standing Mile

Minivan vs protruck burnout contest

Hillclimbers are crazy

Watch Scott Goodyear on max attack in a 944 Turbo...

Building It - Military Aircraft Assembly Lines

"Test Drive" The New Lamborghini Huracan on this Fun Flashgame

Orange oil tires?

Resurrecting a B-2 after a fire

These posts have already been shared with Jalopnik directly but deserve to be mentioned again because they were first posted on Oppositelock:

BMW 318ti: its Launch, Failure, and Legacy in the U.S.

Cars that time forgot - Geo Storm GSi

Could The Loss of Long Beach Mean The End of IndyCar?

Mazda's saving dino juice engines by going beyond petrol and diesel

How To Make IndyCar A Great Racing Series Again

Let's Stop F1 + IMSA Screwing Up Racing

Long Lost Hot Hatches - The MG Metro Turbo

My Day at Road Atlanta

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DISCUSSION (13)

Tim (Fractal Footwork) > DasWauto
03/24/2014 at 18:04

251 views and I only made "fun discussions?"

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oh well... thats probably fair.

DasWauto > Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/24/2014 at 18:19

Number of views doesn't matter in my selection.

NoahthePorscheGuy > DasWauto
03/24/2014 at 18:44

My dad started scanning some old photos and found some slides of Senna at a F3 race in 1983

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/whoah-15490966…

Big Bubba Ray > DasWauto
03/24/2014 at 19:06

Thanks for the mention!

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > DasWauto
03/24/2014 at 19:08

Do you mind if I do a once a day bump for the Formula Oppo posts?

DasWauto > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
03/24/2014 at 19:31

I don't mind, no, I just won't include it more than once. If you want to throw a link the comment of these Best of Oppo posts when I make them though, feel free.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > DasWauto
03/24/2014 at 19:33

Wasn't even meaning to get them in the best of Oppo, but thanks for including it!

DasWauto > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
03/24/2014 at 19:38

Same as Fantasy WRC, I'll include them because it's fun game and I'd like to encourage participation and make sure it's not missed.