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http://porhomme.com/2014/11/bentley-grand-convertible/Yes, please
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)When it does I'll make sure to get pictures. Damn, that's a beautiful car.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)a bit too Footballer's Wife.
This is more my style:
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Then there's always the British take on style and speed:
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)Because I have basic transportation that doesn't cost a fortune--a riceburner.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Ferrari 458 Italia (top) and an Aston Martin DB9 Special Edition.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)But, I love the design that goes into high-end cars, motorcycles, and guitars.
DFW
(54,057 posts)A friend made these for me almost 15 years ago.
He's a Serb in his 80s now, been in the States since the fifties, and his English still sucks. His guitars make up for it.
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)There's an old sitar maker my mother in law knows who also makes really good guitars.
DFW
(54,057 posts)My Serbian friend, Boo, was a violin maker in Novi Sad. He doesn't even play guitar. Someone asked him to make one over 50 years ago, and it sounded so good that others started asking him, and suddenly his 12 string guitars became legendary in some circles. His ornate, Eastern-style inlays are wonder to behold, and the sound is unique. I wouldn't surprised if your Indian guitar turned out to be something special, too.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)This sitar maker started literally in the 1950s. He knew Shankar (and even made him a sitar). His dad knew Tagore.
His son was born in the mid 1960's, and he wanted to have his son follow him into sitar and harmonium making. Instead, his son got into rock & roll after he studied in the US.
Rather than letting this be a problem, the sitar-maker decided to learn about his son's medium's instruments so he could make them too. Now they work together, making sitars and harmonia for the older generation and guitars and basses for the younger. Kolkata is a great city. I'll definitely link some pictures once I get it. It's going to be beautiful.
DFW
(54,057 posts)Be sure to post a pic when you get it!
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Tripper11
(4,338 posts)but that statement should be reversed. The Chrysler 300 resembles the Bentley. Rolls have had that look for several years now. And dare I say, long before Chrysler.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)I'll pass on this one.
UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)order, thank you very much
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)you and your keen eye and excellent BS detector, foiled again!!!!
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Does anyone else think the front end of this just a bit too reminiscent of a Kenworth truck?
DFW
(54,057 posts)But I have no idea why I would ever want one. After 10 years and close to 60,000 kilometers, I gave my old car to my daughter and bought a new one last year. It has post-its all over reminding me to bring it in after the first 26,000 kilometers. I picked it up in August 2013. I've got close to 2000 kilometers on it. I live near the airport and the train station, and German drivers terrify me, not that they get to do much mayhem these days when so many of the Autobahns resemble Wilshire Boulevard at rush hour.
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)If I had that kind of money to piss away on a car, I'd rather have a Tesla Model S, instead of that butt-ugly thing.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)but I'm not crazy about the front end - too boxy, or something.
Old Bentleys are cool, though.
(1939 Bentley Embiricos)
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The Art Deco and "aerodynamic" designs of the 1930s were spectacular.
The Bugatti Type 57SC Atalanta
1939 Delahaye 165 with Figoni & Falaschi coachwork
1938 Hispano-Suiza Dubonnet Xenia
1937 Talbot-Lago T150SS
Even more at: http://www.complex.com/sports/2012/08/25-stunning-art-deco-cars/
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I hope I'm a multi-billionaire in a future life, so I can get me one o' those!