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Stabby DEADwards 🔪🩸🩸🩸👻 @mtdrift.bsky.social · 11h

Makadikgadi Pans, Botswana

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 12h

Haha poster on the wall is a great point!

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 12h

The S1 I’m torn, but possibly based on styling? I don’t think their performance was much better than a twincam Europa.

The various turbos I could go either way. The V8 one I think was close.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 13h

Lotus is an interesting example. The Europa is in no way, shape, or form a supercar. But I think some variants of its direct descendant, the Esprit, might be, or might nearly be.

mid-engined, extremely low, kind of/kind of not exotic, absolutely 0% supercar

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 14h

It’s kind of like the French version of a Jaguar XJS.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 17h

Huge in person

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, this is old stuff, I don’t think it’s normal for a lot of people to see these.

Anyway, thanks!

Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 1d

Those are the carbs (intake). Two Weber DCOE 40’s.

It runs a normal 4-2-1 header into muffler.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I wonder. Or got dropped or hit in one of its several rebuilds.

But yeah that’s a long pipe and I could see it hitting a harmonic of some kind, or who knows.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently a first-ever seen issue for my Lotus engine: cracked oil pickup tube. Shown repaired here (hopefully 🙂).

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 3d

Perfect weather for old cars today

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 4d

I could see that. I’m not tall so I tend to fit these pretty well.

My dad’s Healy was an example where I really didn’t like driving it the first time but it grew on me quite a bit. Amazing car but maybe to your point it also drove a lot more truck like than even an MGB for example.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 4d

For me, older cars like this, especially as you get into the 50’s, take some adjusting to for what they are and what they aren’t. They ultimately end up making most modern cars feel less engaging to drive for me.

That said, I really really do not like front drum brakes.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 11d

It all comes down to what you’re trying to do and what your expectations are.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 11d

Not a cat but here you go anyway

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 11d

It’s hard to pick this stuff - between places that do bad work, can’t get things done, or are absurdly expensive it can feel like there isn’t a good decision.

I will say is there seems to be this misconception online that good paint jobs are cheap and/or easy to get done- they really are neither.

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 11d

These guys in California do a lot of Jaguar concours stuff, did my MG as well. Not cheap to say the least but they do good higher-end work. I would assume Texas has at least a few good shops, though?

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Jeff @jeffbatt.bsky.social · 11d

Are they trying to make it like, a nice driver, or go all-out with a really good paint job?

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Nial @vintageracer.bsky.social · 11d

Me and my old buddies did a 1000 mile "Mille Miglia" over the last few days through the High Peaks area of the Adirondak Mountains. Our host led us through some of the best roads in the US. We had a Boxter, 3 Caymans, a '61 Jaguar E-type and a Subi WRX-STI. Climbed the Whiteface trail + a fire tower