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Greetings from Spain

Postby ebguitars » Mon 19.02.2018, 15:16

A few pics from a couple of days ago with nice weather

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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby simonbuk » Mon 19.02.2018, 17:37

You must have some adjustable dampers on that ??!!
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby clemo » Mon 19.02.2018, 18:08

very nice indeed
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby HJ2 » Mon 19.02.2018, 18:20

Ola!

Nice wheels!
Almost looks like a Photoshop :-D
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby lotusflasherman » Mon 19.02.2018, 23:36

HJ2 wrote:Ola!

Nice wheels!
Almost looks like a Photoshop :-D


:agree: but was thinking in the last picture it looks like 'bad photoshopping' as the front wheel looks too far back in the wheel arch... I hope that just a wide angle lens screwing up the perspective... if not a geo' check is needed..
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby marvic » Tue 20.02.2018, 00:40

Looks like the steering is turned slightly to the left which makes it look like the alignment is off.

If I’d Photoshopped this I’d have found wheels with bigger brake disks! I love those wheels with that color car. Nice!
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby Fredjohn » Tue 20.02.2018, 00:45

:agree:
If you look at the first picture you can see the steering wheel turned to the left and not centred, so the wheels are pointing slightly left too. Giving the false impression that the wheels are set back
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby lotusflasherman » Tue 20.02.2018, 01:25

marvic wrote:Looks like the steering is turned slightly to the left which makes it look like the alignment is off.

If I’d Photoshopped this I’d have found wheels with bigger brake disks! I love those wheels with that color car. Nice!

:agree: Fitted 17" wheels on mine and the OE discs looked so silly that I went to HiSpec calipers with 295mm front discs & 236mm rear - brakes are phenomenal ! Arrived in the rain at my local supermarket after 3 miles of fun today and somebody said ' your cars on fire' but was only steam from the brakes coming out of the wheel-arches ... :lol:

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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby Giniw » Tue 20.02.2018, 01:30

lol :lol:
Brace yourselves, fast grocery delivery up ahead!!

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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby lotusflasherman » Tue 20.02.2018, 01:41

Giniw wrote:lol :lol:
Brace yourselves, fast grocery delivery up ahead!!

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:lol: Where can I get one? used to see those on the back of Jaguars when everybody else had drum brakes...
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby Saltire » Tue 20.02.2018, 08:19

Phil

This is what you need :D
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby tigerdog » Tue 20.02.2018, 16:55

Saltire wrote:Phil

This is what you need :D


It's from GM, too, so it's OK to use. :D
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby Giniw » Tue 20.02.2018, 17:35

:-D

lotusflasherman > yes I am not sure what bumper is on the photo I shared but it looks very much like the one found on the rear of the mk2 jaguars, that is what I had in mind indeed ^^ (maybe the xk150 has it too, I don't know)
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby roy666 » Tue 20.02.2018, 20:37

Eb... Mucho Gusto.. que tal? Whereabouts in Spain.. I drive there every summer and have yet to see a Spanish Elan.. Looks greta.. MB
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby Chris_K » Wed 21.02.2018, 07:10

Nice Elan under fabluous weather!! :bowdown:
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby ebguitars » Tue 27.02.2018, 14:27

Hey, thanks for your comments! These pics have no Photoshop. The front wheel looks like that because of the angle of the picture. I really like these big-ass rims, it looks cute and aggressive at the same time. Not the fastest car, but definitely fun to drive!
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby ebguitars » Tue 27.02.2018, 14:29

Its not Photoshop :) Next time I will put the steering wheel straight for the pic

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HJ2 wrote:Ola!

Nice wheels!
Almost looks like a Photoshop :-D


:agree: but was thinking in the last picture it looks like 'bad photoshopping' as the front wheel looks too far back in the wheel arch... I hope that just a wide angle lens screwing up the perspective... if not a geo' check is needed..
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby ebguitars » Tue 27.02.2018, 14:32

Thanks mate. I am in sunny Madrid

roy666 wrote:Eb... Mucho Gusto.. que tal? Whereabouts in Spain.. I drive there every summer and have yet to see a Spanish Elan.. Looks greta.. MB
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby GeoffSmith » Tue 27.02.2018, 15:23

ebguitars wrote:Thanks mate. I am in sunny Madrid

Not today you aren't… and only 4°C! From a similarly cloudy, wet Moraira but at least the temperature is in double figures. 8)
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Re: Greetings from Spain

Postby ebguitars » Wed 28.02.2018, 20:29

I have a house in Moraira! Go there often, one of the nicests coast towns in Spain

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ebguitars wrote:Thanks mate. I am in sunny Madrid

Not today you aren't… and only 4°C! From a similarly cloudy, wet Moraira but at least the temperature is in double figures. 8)
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