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Title: BMW ad--now this is advertising!
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Published: Jan 7, 2013
Author: BMW
Post Date: 2013-01-07 16:54:42 by James Deffenbach
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#1. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
James! post the video!
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Jim, that little girl needs braces.
Girls with over-bites are just better.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Well, I didn't see that specific ad on video but maybe this one will be a good start. Good start - thanks. So, how's the back seat? “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken Man, what do they call a woman in your hood? Sorry, I can't revulge that information. ahaha. (But the truth is I wouldn't know--not my car, my video or anything else).
"Rare" !
BMW can be modified into a badass hillclimber:
#2. To: James Deffenbach (#0)
#3. To: noone222 (#2)
#4. To: Lod (#1)
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
#6. To: noone222 (#2)
Jim, that little girl needs braces.
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#7. To: Lod (#5)
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#8. To: James Deffenbach (#6)
Man, what do they call a woman in your hood?
#9. To: Lod, James Deffenbach (#1)
-Alex Kurtagic
#10. To: X-15 (#9)
A BMW can be modified to do a good many things I imagine. They're nice cars. I have never owned one but I have driven them and they're first rate.
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#11. To: James Deffenbach (#10) (Edited)
Messerschmitt made better looking micro-cars BMW made funny looking, Isetta based micro cars: Which one would you rather own? 
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#12. To: Lod (#3)
Not touching that in so many ways. Girls with over-bites are just better.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#13. To: noone222, James Deffenbach (#2)
And a training bra. Jim, that little girl needs braces.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#14. To: Dakmar, christine, Lod, range (#13)
That movie cracks me up. It also was a very accurate portrayal of some of the shenanigans going on in the mid to late 1970's.
-Alex Kurtagic
#15. To: randge (#14)
spelling correction
-Alex Kurtagic
#16. To: X-15 (#15)
Drove one of these once. German doctor's car. A friend of mine got in exchange for a house renovation project. Drove like a Swiss watch but was seriously underpowered by today's standards. It came with a tool box mounted on a bracket in the engine compartment and a can of aluminum polish to keep the window trim up to snuff. Don't believe that I'll ever get my hands on one of those again. Here's a project car up for auction for a man with dough and spare time on his hands. 
BMW 501, 1954 
1949 BMW Veritas
#17. To: randge (#16) (Edited)
Lord, randge that second car is ugly. Veritas? I used to work for a company that called themselves that for a couple months. 1949 BMW Veritas looks like a '53 Eldorado that got run over by a street sweeper. A big street sweeper. [edit]: The 501 is gorgeous, thank you for sharing all that
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#18. To: Dakmar (#17)
Ugly, but it fetched $170K at auction. It was a one-off. We need to do a thread on weird cars.
#19. To: randge (#18)
It's finally happened, I just smoked too much marijuana, didn't I? We need to do a thread on weird cars.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#20. To: randge (#18)
Stone/Woods/Cook Willys Gasser Not many cars get featured in HOT ROD multiple times over the span of more than four decades. But the Stone, Woods & Cook Willys is no ordinary car. To many, it's the most famous drag race car in history, even now, nearly 40 years since the last time it ran down a dragstrip in heads-up competition. To understand why the S-W-C Willys holds such a revered place in hot rodding history, one needs to look at the events that swirled around the sport back in the early part of the '60s, when drag racing and the NHRA were just beginning to gain a national following beyond their roots on the dry lakes of Southern California. The pages of magazines like HOT ROD, Car Craft, and Super Stock, along with weekly tabloid newspapers like Drag News and Drag World, were overflowing with extensive coverage of the men (for the most part) and machines doing regular battle on the match-racing circuit at dragstrips from coast to coast. Their antics were a soap opera followed by hundreds of thousands of racing fans in the days long before ESPN and the Internet. Barnstorming match-racers like Stone, Woods & Cook, Big John Mazmanian, Junior Thompson, Ohio George Montgomery, the Mallicoat Brothers, and K.S. Pittman entertained thousand of fans at dragstrips all across the country and waged a public relations war in the pages of the tabloid racing press, running ads with pointed headlines, name-calling, and all manner of allegations about on- and off-track racing conspiracies. "When are Pebble, Pulp, and Chef going to stop crying and start racing?" exclaimed one ad in Drag News signed by Junior Thompson. "Big June all shook up over losing the big one to Stone, Woods & Cook," declared another signed by Fred Stone and referring to S-W-C's victory over Big John Mazmanian. Competing camshaft manufacturers joined the fray too, carrying the advertising-driven Cam Wars between companies like Isky and Engle to even higher levels than during the late '50s. One of the folks at the center of this firestorm was Doug Cook. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1932, Cook moved to Los Angeles with his family in the late '40s and was soon swept up into the burgeoning post-war hot rodding scene. By the mid '50s, he was driving a '37 Chevy coupe with a supercharged Chevy 265, and later he drove a Willys for Howard Johansen of Howard's Cams. When K.S. Pittman split with the Fred Stone and Tim Woods' team prior to the '61 Indy Nationals, they signed up "Cookie" to drive and wrench on their Swindler II '41 Willys coupe. There were actually several Swindlers during the period from 1961 to 1966 that Stone, Woods & Cook raced-the original Swindler was Tim Woods' 41 Studebaker with a blown Olds V-8. Swindler II, the first Willys, was initially built to run in the A/Gas class with a bored, stroked, and blown 448ci Olds V-8. It was a show-quality car with blue-and-white tuck-and-roll '58 Thunderbird seats with matching door panels and headliner and a chromed rollbar. The first Swindler II was destroyed in a towing accident returning from the '61 Nationals at Indy and replaced with another virtually identical Willys body. With its familiar light-blue paint, this is the version that gained S-W-C's initial fame, and in 1963, Revell immortalized it by creating a plastic model kit in the Swindler's image. After an NHRA weight-break change in the A/Gas class, the team built a second, lighter Willys in 1964 with a fiberglass front end to take advantage of the new rules. They continued to run the Swindler II in B/Gas, at which time the cars were renamed Swindler A and Swindler B. At first, Swindler A was painted black; both cars were later resprayed in a darker candy blue. After a narrow victory against Big John Mazmanian at the '64 Winternationals, both cars' blown Olds engines were switched to blown Hemis. Swindler B was later traded to fiberglass manufacturer Tex Collins of Cal Automotive for a load of lightweight parts, and the car eventually found its way into the hands of an East Coast street rodder. That car still exists and is currently being restored, according to Doug Cook's son, Mike Cook Sr. The Swindler A was nearly 1,000 pounds lighter than the Swindler II, with a Spartan black naugahyde interior, a single fiberglass bucket seat, Plexiglas windows, and a bigger 467ci blown Olds. After it was wrecked in a racing accident in 1966, S-W-C built a second Swindler A and continued to run it in A/Gas until 1967, by which time the Gasser Wars were nearing their end. Newer, more aerodynamic body styles were replacing the archaic Gassers, and after a brief effort with an A/Gas '67 Shelby GT350, S-W-C built a '66 Mustang dubbed Dark Horse 2 (the original Dark Horse was the lesser-known '33 Willys campaigned by S-W-C as a third car in the early '60s). Late-model factory experimentals had begun to evolve into early Funny Cars, and Stone, Woods & Cook decided to move on. In 1967, the blown Hemi, Hydro transmission, and all four wheels and tires were removed from the rebuilt Swindler A Willys and transferred to Dark Horse 2 Mustang. Doug Cook was nearly killed driving this car at a race in Alton, Illinois, in September 1967 when it flipped at the top end doing about 180 mph. That crash led to Cookie's retirement from racing. After it was gutted to build the Mustang, the second Swindler A Willys was ready to be hauled off to the junkyard, according to Mike Cook, who was about 14 at the time. "It was just an old race car, and it was literally on its way to the crusher when I asked if I could have it." The younger Cook, who was too young to drive at the time, had to get permission from his mother to bring the car home. Once he was old enough to drive, Mike drag-raced the Willys with a blown big-block Chevy for several years before he restored it to its Gasser-era configuration in the late '70s. Following his retirement from driving, Doug Cook split up with Stone and Woods, who campaigned a few Funny Cars with other drivers without much success until about 1974, when they quit racing altogether. Fred Stone passed away in the late '70s and Tim Woods is now retired from his construction business. Ironically, Doug, who died in 1999, later worked on Big John Mazmanian's Barracuda Funny Car, proving that the tabloid-fueled antics were mostly constructed to entertain fans. In his later years, he wrenched on his son Mike's record-holding Bonneville and dry-lakes racers. Today, Stone, Woods & Cook's legendary Swindler A resides on loan from Mike Cook in the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum, just a few hundred yards from the famous Pomona dragstrip where it earned so much glory in the heyday of the Gasser Wars. And with T-shirts, die-casts, posters, and other memorabilia still popular among fans young and old, the Swindler's next 40 years could be as successful as its first. 
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#21. To: James Deffenbach (#20)
The Good, the Badass, and the Ugly!
#22. To: Dakmar (#19)
If this Cord 912 looks like an AMC Pacer to you, the answer is yes. It's finally happened, I just smoked too much marijuana, didn't I?
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#23. To: James Deffenbach (#20)
I've slways loved the 40/41 Willys Coupe, it looks like such a fun car to cruise around in. Strictly economy cars when they were made, the lightweight bodies were ideal candidates for drag-racing mounts in the late 40's through the early 60's. Just a little two-seater, beautiful lines... Modern cars have sacrificed beauty for meeting bureaucratic mandates. They all look like jelly beans. Hmmmm...all politicians do too. Coincidence?
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#24. To: randge (#21)
And the (very) expensive (if you could get one for any price). The Good, the Badass, and the Ugly!
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#25. To: Esso (#22)
not even... :) If this Cord 912 looks like an AMC Pacer to you, the answer is yes.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#26. To: Dakmar (#23)
Looks like they would make a great race car. Of course almost anything can be made into a fair race car if you have enough money to pour into it.
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
#27. To: Esso (#22)
Looks like something my partner drove back when I was going to schoo'. He smoked too much marijuana BTW. This is weird but kinda kool. 155 mph & 3 adjustable spoilers. Reminiscent of a P-38 Lightning in a way. 1967 OSI Silver Fox Prototype http://www.diseno-art.com/news_content/2012/03/1967-osi-silver-fox-prototype/ 
#28. To: James Deffenbach (#26)
The Willys coupes were pretty. It costs the same amount of money to stamp a graceful curve as an awkward one into a piece of sheet metal with same hardpoints. Willys lines are pure sculpture.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#29. To: randge (#27)
Does that thing float?
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#30. To: Dakmar (#25)
This is kind of cool, not really sure what it is though. It's not an 812, maybe a replica or something.
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner.
Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
#31. To: Esso (#30)
It looks like the right body parts, grafted onto maybe a 75 Toronado frame. Found an article about a farm fresh Cord here, the hardware is all different.
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
#32. To: randge (#27)
Dang! lose the wheels and what a pontoon rig. What powered it?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#33. To: All (#32)
Truth about bucking the ptb.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#34. To: Lod (#32) (Edited)
1.0 liter Renault Alpine four banger, believe it or not. Like a hopped up motorbike on pontoons. 
#35. To: randge (#34)
Way cool! thanks. I can't imagine the time needed to do the frame and bodywork...
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#36. To: randge (#16)
Yes, I can visualize Herr Doktor making his rounds in one of those sedans. Drove one of these once. German doctor's car. A friend of mine got in exchange for a house renovation project. Drove like a Swiss watch but was seriously underpowered by today's standards. It came with a tool box mounted on a bracket in the engine compartment and a can of aluminum polish to keep the window trim up to snuff.
-Alex Kurtagic
#37. To: X-15, randge, Lod (#36)
we used to drive this: BTW that house in the background is where the 300lb naked guy lived. now we drive this: 
The advantage of exercising every day is so when you die, they'll say, 'Well, he looks good doesn't he?'
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