Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

777 up!

Regards Neil

[Hell Razor5543]

You are

[mickthemaverick]

Sorry Neil!! So gobsmacked at your sleuthing I completely forgot the necessary acknowledgement Corrected now, though that has moved you beyond the landmark as I had to do "hearts" to avoid any further accusations of pedanticism, if such a thing exists !!

[white exec]

888 can't be far away...

[Hell Razor5543]

789 is a LOT closer! In fact it has just been achieved!

[myglaren]

Read down for the description.

Hmm - it was an email so no link

Born on 8 March 1906, we celebrate the memory of Victor Hasselblad on his birthday today. Learn more about who Victor was and his journey to creating the iconic cameras that he introduced to the world here.

[white exec]

. . . and wearing a pair of Sennheiser HD414X headphones!
I have a set here, bought in Boots (of all places) for £9.99, in around 1972.
They still knock the sox off several pairs of very expensive Bose's which have appeared from time to time, priced £200+. The genuine yellow foam pads are still available new!

[myglaren]

Well spotted - hadn't noticed. Only focused (!) on the 500C

[white exec]

A super moon here last night, as it rose...

and the simultaneous sunset in the other direction...

[mickthemaverick]

I took Chris's excellent picture and reminded myself of the old pinhole cameras we used to make from shoe boxes:

Modified Chris' work

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nissan car designer at work on the Nissan IMk and the Longbridge Drawing Office 1980's/1940's

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Regards Neil

[bobins]

Back in the 80s/90s, someone came up with the quote that more energy was used in the design and construction of a modern vehicle than was used during the entire life of an old Series Land Rover. I've no idea if that would stand up to detailed examination, but I like to think it would

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nissan car designer at work on the Nissan IMk and the Longbridge Drawing Office 1980's/1940's

Bit of a link through AR-Online to todays Picture of the Day via a certain Keith Adams. I thought his name was familiar when I reached the end of his little piece for Car magazine on the Budget, and he tagged himself with this...

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Even slips a bit of citroen in on the AR-online site

https://www.aronline.co.uk/our-cars/kei ... -mais-oui/

Regards Neil

[white exec]

And another styling link to this one, this time not Pininfarina but Zagato...

Under the skin, a standard Rover 2000TC, from 1967.
Plenty about it on the web (google 'Rover 2000 TCZ'), but briefly, Rover were road testing a 'disguised' 2000TC in southern Europe (Alps, and all that stuff), and one of the pre-production TC's was parked up outside a cafe. A guy apparently wandered across (so the story goes) and said "That must be the new Rover..." - so much for the secrecy! He flattered the test drivers on its appearance, and introduced himself - a Zagato! What he'd give to be able to style it himself...

The word was passed back to Solihull, and they shipped him a white 2000TC, with compliments. In a matter of weeks, back came the re-bodied and re-trimmed car, some of it in fibreglass, and with some rather nice hand-stitched leather interior. The mechanics remained standard.

The car was in Rover's heritage collection for a long time, but passed into private hands some time in the '80s. Driven, but by an owner without much mechanical ability, a friend of mine in Maidstone offered to give it a complete mechanical overhaul for the owner. This took best part of a year to do. During that time, and after the engine overhaul, we had it on the P6ROC exhibition stand at NEC, and I got to drive it across Warwickshire at the end of the show. A fellow club member was following me in his 3500 down a motorway slip road and onto the carriageway, but fell back into the distance. When we got to our destination, Steve just remarked "Sorry, I couldn't keep up!".

The TCZ was (is) a lovely thing. Rover never took it up, but Zagato did offer something very similar to Volvo in 1970, the 3000GTZ:

[mickthemaverick]

I'm not feeling too good today but when I first saw that picture Chris I thought it was an Alpine Fastback:

borrowed from web

was there any connection do you know?