MikeHynes
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Lets see...View attachment 17075 In my garage of misfit toys an X19 isn’t that tiny
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Lets see...View attachment 17075 In my garage of misfit toys an X19 isn’t that tiny
The P1800 is my brothers, it is a beautiful car. I forget what a great design they were.Ed Lord - I LOVE what you've done to the Volvo. That is a sweet ride.
Trick photography, similar to why I didn't use my photo of my X next to the orange ix35 (see second post) as the wide angle lens on cameras is shocking. Try another photo from the same distance by from the opposite end of your garage and the X will miraculously shrink!In my garage of misfit toys an X19 isn’t that tiny
Same pic from the other end, same iPhone. The Bugeye Sprite and Mini still look smaller than the X, and the Volvo and Porsche still look biggerTrick photography, similar to why I didn't use my photo of my X next to the orange ix35 (see second post) as the wide angle lens on cameras is shocking. Try another photo from the same distance by from the opposite end of your garage and the X will miraculously shrink!
Here they are side by side, and where the X looked bigger than the 914, even looking wider of all things, it's dwarfed in the second angle. Ah, the ol' wide angle lens, the Realty Agents number 1 marketing weapon, can make a broom closest look like a banquet hall.Same pic from the other end
Like the LED driving lights under the front bumper!
The reason it baffles me that so many are in a rush to remove the bumpers on the 79 - 89 X's. Along with the strengthened body (why such a small car weights so much), it was all done to meet the extremely high US crash standards at the time, which the X passed with flying colours making it one of the safest vehicles on the road.listen for tires screeching to avoid getting rear ended
Unfortunately in our neck of the woods its a philosophy abandoned by probably 80% of motorcyclists on our roads, as they view the markings between lanes as a motorcycle lane, and like to treat cars as cones in high speed chicane manoeuvres.And the biggest point is to assume you are invisible and drive accordingly.
When I bought my X in 1974, my other car was a 64 Sedan de Ville. I used to get a lot of jokes about whether or not the X was parked in the trunk.It would have been tiny in 1966 as well.
Went to a car show Sunday 8/24/14 and as I was pulling into the show area to park, a friend waved me over to park next to the car he is selling for a customer.
Immediately seeing the contrast, I made sure to park so that our front bumpers were lined up.
Here's the result:
BTW, the other car is a 1966 Cadillac DeVille Convertible. The owner was asking $20,000 for it.