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Post by beagle on Jul 21, 2012 17:58:31 GMT 12
This is the beast that caused all the heartache  |
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Post by efliernz on Jul 21, 2012 18:53:31 GMT 12
Oh the pain of it! How embarrassing...
Pete
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Post by beagle on Jul 21, 2012 18:59:40 GMT 12
lightweight body, all the RS mods, makes it pretty nimble compared to a normal one.
lead foot doesn't help
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Post by gunny on Jul 21, 2012 19:46:18 GMT 12
shakes head, sheesh Beagle you should have got a ticket in a grown up's car heh heh. Love the plates too few 1(won) 69, guess not but the boys in blue bent ya over (and entered your....wallet)  |
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Post by Luther Moore on Jul 21, 2012 20:14:12 GMT 12
Change the plates to 'FEW RE S'
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Jul 21, 2012 22:29:40 GMT 12
I know the bit of road you mean and it is a speed trap that the feds like to monitor. Everyone gets frustrated on the up hill section in one direction and the windy bit in the other direction, then its go time when people get to the straight. You wont be the last to get done there and I think most people get done during passes.
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Post by Ykato on Jul 21, 2012 22:39:26 GMT 12
So it ended a bit like this guy this morning near Ham Airport - except he got off a bit lighter with a ticket only:  |
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Post by Brett on Jul 22, 2012 8:24:07 GMT 12
Judging by the number plate that cop car has Holden's new Faster Than Light drive.
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Post by mumbles on Jul 22, 2012 21:06:07 GMT 12
I know the bit of road you mean and it is a speed trap that the feds like to monitor. Everyone gets frustrated on the up hill section in one direction and the windy bit in the other direction, then its go time when people get to the straight. You wont be the last to get done there and I think most people get done during passes. Yeah but how many head-on's are caused by frustrated overtaking? C'mon guys, we all know the rules... |
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Post by Tony on Jul 22, 2012 23:55:00 GMT 12
Yeah but how many head-on's are caused by frustrated overtaking? C'mon guys, we all know the rules... RIGHT ON MUMBLES This is the beast that caused all the heartache Nah - the beast was in control of the loud pedal. Mantrol?  My job:  Comms now thankfully. I now don't have to use these:  On these  |
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Post by beagle on Jul 23, 2012 21:20:07 GMT 12
ok ok, yes I see all the speed ad's on tv and signs around the place etc.
There was no fustration, 2 other cars passed the truck in front of us on a clear stretch of road, visibility for oncoming vehicles was very clear, they passed then me and after they pulled back in front, I still had some forward speed which gave me the indication to carry on and pass both the 2 cars as well.
I must have been looking back to check my clearance to move back into my lane when I went passed the hidden cop and didn't get to see him.
there are times when you can go fast and times when you cannot. we know the results of the "cannot"
I have had 30 years of driving and no accidents while sober.
On long trips like this I always have the headlights on, stop for breaks every hour to stretch etc
I was caught fair and square this time.
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Post by Gavin Conroy on Jul 23, 2012 21:44:30 GMT 12
I know the bit of road you mean and it is a speed trap that the feds like to monitor. Everyone gets frustrated on the up hill section in one direction and the windy bit in the other direction, then its go time when people get to the straight. You wont be the last to get done there and I think most people get done during passes. Yeah but how many head-on's are caused by frustrated overtaking? C'mon guys, we all know the rules... I agree with you, it is a dangerous bit of road, I visit customers down there all the time and pull over before I get to that straight as it is go time if their is a que behind you and a couple of times I have had the S+++ scared out of me. My boundary is the Ure Road corner which is half way down the straight and very dangerous when trying to turn right so I stop early now just to avoind any "issues" |
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Post by beagle on Aug 16, 2012 13:41:06 GMT 12
Yippee, licence back
but what a drama.
went to council building this morning to get new one.
Had to use birth cert for ID, sorry you don't have a your surname on it, what the....
Rang birth/death/marriage, will be 8 days to get new one. OMG
Saw there was a office for then here in CHCH by the airport so went up there.
$26 for a new one so mrs got a new one as well.
came back to council after some shopping etc, same woman says sorry but could have issued it on old birth cert. GGGGGRRRRRRR
So anyway, ready to get new photo etc and she said "thats weird" while checking things on the computer.
It came up "licence current"
so she rang someone and I got issued a temporary one and a new one will be posted to me within 3 weeks at no cost.
YIPPEE
so the new rule is, to keep under 140 on the main road
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 16, 2012 15:39:56 GMT 12
Haha, what a day Beagle. Did you get the new birth cert to have "Beagle" added into your name?
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Post by beagle on Aug 16, 2012 18:34:16 GMT 12
I peobably could have. Just talking to the father in law and he had to use his birth cert for something recently and for 70 years he has been living by a different name. His has his first names back to front.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Aug 16, 2012 18:43:02 GMT 12
I have heard that a lot. In fact my Grandad's birth certificate had a typo on it, calling him Ivan when his name was actually Ian, so he was always known to family and friends as Ian as intended but all Government documents including Electoral roles and I guess tax forms, census etc had his name wrong!
And my uncle in another branch of the family only found out recently that he has spent nearly 70 years spelling his name wrong! He has always been Alan, his birth Cert has him as Allen!
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 16, 2012 22:10:29 GMT 12
Talking about cars.....there're cars, and then there are CARS! 
From the Los Angeles Times....1936 Mercedes may break record at Pebble Beach auctionA 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster will be among those
auctioned after the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance car show.By JERRY HIRSCH and DAVID UNDERCOFFLER | 8:17PM - Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K: Known as the Von Krieger Special Roadster after the German baroness
who owned it, this Mercedes is expected bring at least $10 million and could break the $16.4-million
record for any auto sold at auction when it goes on the block after the Concours d'Elegance car
show at Pebble Beach. Experts have dubbed the car the automotive equivalent of a coveted
Picasso painting. — Photo: Mathieu Heurtault/Gooding & Co./August 15, 2012.WHEN Gisela von Krieger died in 1989, the legal team sorting out her estate found a car hidden in a Connecticut barn.
Untouched for three decades, the vehicle was an automotive time capsule. Old maps of New York and Connecticut filled the door pockets. A woman's driving glove rested in the glove box. Pink lipstick-stained cigarette butts sat in the ashtray.
This wasn't any old car, though. It was a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster, one of perhaps a dozen left in the world, representing the height of prewar German automotive engineering. "Every little detail was over-engineered" to create "a tour de force of technology and quality," said McKeel Hagerty, who heads a company that insures classic and rare cars.
Von Krieger's brother Henning originally paid about $7,000 for the Mercedes. This Sunday, it's likely to fetch at least $10 million and could break the $16.4-million record for any auto sold at auction when it's put up for bid at the splashy Gooding & Co. auction that follows the Pebble BeachConcours d'Elegancecar show. The vehicle is owned by New Hampshire businessman Lee Herrington, who made his money through catalog sales of preppy clothing, shoes and gadgets.
How it got to the auction is the story of a German aristocrat who defied the Nazis and saved a glossy black Mercedes-Benz two-seater that today is rarer than a Stradivarius violin. Experts have dubbed it the automotive equivalent of a coveted Picasso.
"It is one of those cars that exemplify everything that is desirable about a classic automobile," said Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum. "It is gorgeous, it is powerful, it is rare and it was expensive." 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K: The Mercedes had been stored in a Connecticut barn, untouched
for decades. Its current owner is selling the roadster to focus on his Ferrari collection.
— Photo: Mathieu Heurtault/Gooding & Co./August 15, 2012.Known as the Von Krieger Special Roadster, it was the favorite ride of Baroness Gisela von Krieger, a member of the Prussian nobility. She had a prewar romantic dalliance with a mysterious Jewish Englishman and, when the war started, refused orders from the Third Reich to return home from France.
Instead, Von Krieger and her mother fled to Switzerland. But the prized Mercedes was stuck at the Daimler-Benz plant in Germany where it was undergoing repairs after an accident. The baroness settled the bill and had the automaker ship the car by rail to Switzerland.
Von Krieger, who dressed in Chanel, lived an aristocratic lifestyle with her brother Henning and divorced mother, Josephine, while living in Paris in the 1930s, said George Maley, an auto collector and historian. Fast and expensive cars were a big part of that.
Maley met the baroness several times in Switzerland in the late 1970s and early '80s after hiring private detectives on two continents to find her. He had heard tales of her exceptional Mercedes, rumoured to be housed at a Connecticut inn. Maley kept the secret from other collectors to block rivals from trying to buy the vehicle.
But he quickly learned that Von Krieger would not part with the beloved car even though there was little chance she would ever see it again.
At more than 17 feet long and 6 feet wide, the roadster is roughly the dimensions of a new Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle. The front is highlighted by a split grille offset by a pair of large round headlights that top a thin, polished chrome bumper. The long, glossy black hood hides an inline, supercharged eight-cylinder engine.
The car oozes elegance. The interior is brown leather, wood and chrome. Fenders cover the front wheels and then undulate downward under the doors to serve as a footstep. The car's lines then curve upward over the rear wheels and finish in a wide, low tail. A chromed Mercedes star ornament rises from the top of the hood. A tiny Von Krieger family crest is painted on the driver's door. 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K: The car oozes elegance. The interior is brown leather, wood and chrome.
Fenders cover the front wheels and then undulate downward under the doors to serve as a footstep.
A chromed Mercedes star ornament rises from the top of the hood, and a tiny Von Krieger family
crest is painted on the driver's door. — Photo: Mathieu Heurtault/Gooding & Co./August 15, 2012.Maley said Von Krieger refused to sell the car because it was her last link to a carefree era when she socialized with European royalty and film stars.
Today's modern royalty — wealthy entrepreneurs, celebrities and racing legends — will see the Mercedes at the Pebble Beach auction managed by Gooding & Co. of Santa Monica on Sunday. Herrington, the car's owner, is selling the roadster to focus on his Ferrari collection. What he paid for the Mercedes was never made public. He did not return calls seeking comment.
First held in 1950, the Concours d'Elegancehas grown into what many now consider the most prestigious car show in the world, where luxury brands show off their new models, enthusiasts race vintage cars, and the rich and famous ogle one another's fancy rides. The festival includes collector car auctions by Gooding and rival Canadian firm RM Auctions.
The highlight is Sunday, when more than 15,000 spectators wander along the course at Pebble Beach Golf Links, viewing more than 200 entries in a judged collector vehicle show that includes the world's rarest cars and motorcycles.
The day concludes with one overall winner chosen from the class winners and given the prestigious Best of Show award.
"You have to be a millionaire to be in the game," said "Tonight Show" host and avid car collector Jay Leno, who plans to attend the Pebble Beach event this weekend.
Only the best cars make it to the Concours lawn for judging. At the auctions, "people are bidding $4-, $5- and $6 million for these cars," Leno said. "It is pretty crazy — millionaires against billionaires."
He said the Von Krieger Mercedes represents the "best of the best," but he won't bid on Nazi-era German cars.
Indeed, a June 1936 letter from Daimler-Benz confirming the car's delivery concludes with a "Heil Hitler!" salutation. The stationery has the Mercedes star in red and black to reflect the colors of the Third Reich.
Whoever buys the car will get a file of documents, a log book of service appointments as well as the maps, the glove and the lipstick-stained cigarette butts, said David Brynan, a Gooding vehicle specialist.
No doubt there will be plenty of bidders.
"This is arguably the best [540K] ever built," said Hagerty, the rare-car insurer.
While the vehicle's dramatic back story is riveting, Hagerty said, classic car collectors are obsessed with a seemingly arcane detail: that the roadster's engine and chassis numbers match. That's extremely rare in prewar-era Mercedes because the finicky supercharged engines often needed to be replaced, sometimes more than once. Baroness Gisela von Krieger: Shown in an undated photograph,
had owned the 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K until her death in
1989. She had a prewar romantic dalliance with a mysterious
Jewish Englishman and, when World War II started, refused
orders from the Third Reich to return home from France.
Instead, Von Krieger and her mother fled to Switzerland.
The family came to the U.S. after the war, bringing the
car with them. — Photo: Gooding & Co./August 15, 2012.The Mercedes came into the Von Krieger family when the baroness was 23 years old and World War II was rapidly approaching. Maley said this was about the time that the baroness' love affair with the unnamed Englishmen ended. He surmised it was a combination of Von Krieger's indecisiveness, pressure from her mother and the political awkwardness of a German noblewoman being romantically involved with a potential enemy who was also of Jewish descent.
After the war, the family and the car moved to the U.S., where Von Krieger obtained citizenship by claiming that she was stateless. She drove the vehicle in New York and had it serviced in Manhattan before moving to Greenwich, Connecticut.
The family moved back to Switzerland in 1958 so that her brother Henning, who became ill, could be treated by doctors there. She stored the roadster in a barn at the Homestead Inn, in Greenwich, and paid $8.70 a year for $1,500 of insurance. Henning died a year later, and Von Krieger never returned to the U.S. The car sat untouched for years, growing ever more valuable as vintage cars became collectibles. Baroness Gisela von Krieger: After the war, Baroness Gisela von Krieger
obtained U.S. citizenship by claiming that she was stateless. She drove
the 1936 Mercedes in New York and had it serviced in Manhattan before
moving to Greenwich, Connecticut. The family moved back to Switzerland
in 1958 so that her brother Henning, who became ill, could be treated
by doctors there. She never returned to the U.S.
— Photo: Gooding & Co./August 15, 2012.Von Krieger died at age 75 without a will. Her estate — which also included Cartier diamonds and other jewelry as well as the Mercedes — was tied up in litigation until 1994. The vehicle was eventually sold by heirs for an undisclosed sum, ultimately finding its way to its current owner, Herrington.
At last year's Pebble Beach auction, Gooding set a record by selling a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa for $16.4 million. Some think the Mercedes will top that.
"If there is a car out there that would break a record for sale price, this is the one," said the Petersen museum's Kendall.
Mercedes 540Ks have a "mystique" just from their elegance, power and design, Kendall said, but this roadster also "has this connection to this dashing figure of society in the 1930s. She was this pretty noblewoman and very glamorous. This car is just everything."www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-mystery-mercedes-20120816,0,2810208,full.story
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Post by ngatimozart on Aug 19, 2012 16:21:38 GMT 12
Right now all the mongrels have to do is draw out my numbers in the Big Wednesday. ;D ;D
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Aug 19, 2012 21:22:22 GMT 12
Right now all the mongrels have to do is draw out my numbers in the Big Wednesday. ;D ;D All those many millions that automobile will go for will be US dollars, which wouldn't leave many dollars left over from your Big Wednesday win. Then....the insurance company would take you to the cleaners with the mega premium they'd charge you to cover it. |
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Post by flyjoe180 on Aug 22, 2012 10:04:42 GMT 12
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