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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 09/01/2020 at 19:18 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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doodon2whls > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 19:23

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Super cool!

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 19:35

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And a moment of silence for Freddie Laker— the Airplane-Car-Ferry was an idea that should have flown. Well, it did, briefly.

Although I still contend that loading Goldfingers’ solid gold Rolls into the nose last should have really fucked up weight-and-balance.

“V1.... V2.... Rotate!..... Er, I said ROTATE!.... Er, WTF???”

ttyymmnn > doodon2whls 09/01/2020 at 19:48

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Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 20:07

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ttyymmnn > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/01/2020 at 20:26

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The seats were in the back half, so maybe they rolled it over the wing. That would have been okay.

Taylor Martin > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 20:59

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OH OH OH! That wagon is a VW Squareback! I love the Squareback! It’s my dream car, with perfect proportions and practicality. I can only assume the other cars are VWs too, though they look too small. Regardless, cool pic.

ranwhenparked > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 09/01/2020 at 21:07

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Yeah, that should be about the weight of an X6 and a BRZ combined. 

ttyymmnn > Taylor Martin 09/01/2020 at 21:25

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I used to own the modern square back. The first car I ever owned. I loved it. I put everything I owned into it when I left for grad school. This is not mine, though. Mine was blue. I put 175k miles on it before I donated it to a women’s shelter. It probably ended up somewhere in Mexico, closer to where it was born. 

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Taylor Martin 09/01/2020 at 22:24

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Pretty sure that one behind it is an Austin America. If you have to ask how I knew that, I saw one once. They’re mindbogglingly uncommon. Their predecessor was called the Landcrab and you can see a bit of the proportions that earned it the nickname in the later model pictured below.

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They also had a Borgward Isabella which is even less common. So much so it took me forever to figure out Isabella wasn’t the make but the model.

Only Vespas... > ttyymmnn 09/01/2020 at 22:25

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What a lovely photo! The row of Bristols, the stewardess, the squareback, which looks like a giant compared to the Austin[ ?] and other two door [ DAF ? ].That Bristol, built for comfort, not for speed, cruising at a blistering 164 mph.  Nice!

RooseveltDad > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/01/2020 at 23:32

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It’s NOT an Austin America. The rear side glass is significantly longer than on the America.

My mom owned an Austin America. Bought it new. Eight-year-old me loved that car. As I recall, the transmission packed it in and that was the end of that.

I would be interested to learn what BMC model IS being loaded into the plane.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RooseveltDad 09/02/2020 at 00:46

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You’re right. The rear glass extends past the wheel arch while the America had it terminate just before. I don’t know what model i t is then.

I also wrongly assumed it was in the US.

Taylor Martin > ttyymmnn 09/02/2020 at 17:25

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The modern one is cool, seeing that it’s a shooting brake and all, but I can’t help but dig those classic, round headlamps and rear engined configuration .

Wagons are the best for lugging stuff around, while being practical, stylish, and handling like a dream.

Taylor Martin > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/02/2020 at 17:28

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Those are obscure, but cool nonetheless. I can see a car once but I’ll never remember it’s name, only that I’d seen it before, so what’s really impressive is that you retained the name of such an oddball automobile from the depths of your mind.

Also cool that the model name is Isabella. Not too many cars that are named after a person. Do you know the story behind why it was called the Isabella (and why she was apparently important enough to live on in a car?)

RooseveltDad > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/02/2020 at 22:21

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It’s the three-door estate variant of the BMC ADO16, an older sibling of the Austin America.

RooseveltDad > RooseveltDad 09/02/2020 at 22:22

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1967 Austin 1100 Mk 1 Countryman

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > RooseveltDad 09/02/2020 at 23:25

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Oh, that makes sense as the front looks nearly identical from that angle. Those early BMC fwds all looked pretty similar. They also really let that platform live on as long as possible. It’s funny how little difference there is between the hatch and three door wagon.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Taylor Martin 09/02/2020 at 23:31

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Per Wikipedia:

The Isabella was to have been marketed as the Borgward Hansa 1500 but the Isabella name was used on test vehicles and proved popular with engineering staff and media. [8] The production car was subsequently renamed and only the first few hundred examples were built without Isabella badging. [8] Hansa badging was also used through to 1957. [9]

And I didn’t know this but they made a pickup version. I’ll have to make a post about these cars as they have fascinated me ever since I saw that poor abandoned Isabella coupe. The cars had small economical engines but were marketed on their upscale styling and interior. Kind of weird for a German company not to occupy the extreme high end (MB) or the extreme low end (NSU) of the American market as the Big Three crowded out most of the small players from the middle.

You would basically have to have seen one to have known they existed before the internet. Even in the age of the internet it took a random FP comment for me to realize the name of the model was Isabella, not the company.

Strangely enough, I’m absolutely terrible with names and faces except if they are a car. I’ve developed a very selectively fantastic memory for car names. I have been trying to branch out into dating them to a few years but it’s hard.

Taylor Martin > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/03/2020 at 14:25

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I’d read the hell out of an article on these, it’s a stylish little car, even in truck form. I like the name Isabelle more than Hansa too, so I can understand why the engineering staff liked it more.

The the name Borgward isn’t exactly... pleasant ... Isabelle did a half decent job covering up the automotive makers name... Borg ward... it’s funnier each time I say it.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Taylor Martin 09/03/2020 at 16:07

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Isabella, not Isabelle. It definitely is an odd combination of names. I wonder if Borgward sounds better in German?

I also thought the Austin America was the name of the American division of Austin because it says the whole thing in one badge on the front when America is the model name. Names are weird. Also weird: the word weird. Weird weird weird weird querty weird weird.

Taylor Martin > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 09/03/2020 at 21:17

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My next mug.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Taylor Martin 09/03/2020 at 23:00

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Hahahaha weird is such a weird word.