Pilatus Photo Corner

cosmiccyclist8 said:okay, just ignore that 👍

but the reality is that during the Nineties, Porsche was nowhere near repeating that massive success they had back in the Eighties in F1 👍

cosmiccyclist8 said:

Two engines bolted together? Honestly, such a brain-dead concept. But hey, our buddy Ale is still obsessed with it.

ruggedhawk20 said:Two engines bolted together? Honestly, such a brain-dead concept. But hey, our buddy Ale is still obsessed with it.

If you take three of those 4-cylinder boxer engines from an Alfasud or an Alfa 33 and mash them together, you basically end up with a Ferrari-style 12-cylinder flat boxer engine.☕

ruggedhawk20 said:Two engines bolted together? Honestly, such a brain-dead concept. But hey, our buddy Ale is still obsessed with it.

I'll give you that, 👍 but honestly, who would actually think it makes sense to take existing ex-F1 engines, strip the turbos, and just bolt them together? 😁 By the way, people have been whispering about a Porsche V12 and Footwork for basically a decade now.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4ObX5NWAAISZgh.jpg 🙏

Dana Perez6 said:If you take three of those 4-cylinder boxer engines from an Alfasud or an Alfa 33 and mash them together, you basically end up with a Ferrari-style 12-cylinder flat boxer engine.☕

If you mash three Alfa engines together, all you're getting is a bigger pile of junk.👍

cosmiccyclist8 said:If you mash three Alfa engines together, all you're getting is a bigger pile of junk.👍

But seriously, this isn't a joke—if you take a Ferrari flat-12 boxer and split it into three 4-cylinder sections, you basically have three 4-cylinder boxers ready for an "Alfasud." I actually had one under my hood once. Those engines were products of Alfa Romeo anyway, and let's face it, the whole Ferrari legacy grew out of Alfa Romeo—along with Enzo himself.
The way that boxer revs, man... holy crap. And that sound? Pure Luciano Pavarotti...

stormybadger8 said:

Why saw doesn't like the mustache 🤷

Pila = hates deception
Keke Rosberg = a deception
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Pila = doesn't like Keke Rosberg

A simple equation with zero unknowns.

Thanks for asking. 😁

Jason Campbell70 said:Pila = hates deception
Keke Rosberg = a deception
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Pila = doesn't like Keke Rosberg

A simple equation with zero unknowns.

Thanks for asking. 😁

If you’ve got a thing for blue-eyed guys with mustaches—and clearly you do—

Go ahead and vote for him in the other thread and give him some love, even if it's just for a second..

What kind of museum is this, where they can't even afford some fresh paint for the walls?

Isn't that the one located near Adamovac?

Classic cars, or something along those lines, though the space looks far too large in the photo.

cosmiccyclist8 said:

What even IS "Kyalami"? I haven't moved an inch past the 1982 "Biturbo." It's smaller, but still a real Maserati... if it had been a Quattroporte, it would've been better, but you'd hear the clinking of dollars leaking out of the exhaust pipe too loudly.

cosmiccyclist8 said:In that case, I'd recommend a Mattig—they’re easily one of the better Opel tuners out there. 👍

By the way, has anyone actually seen the movie *Manta Manta*? Why on earth did Klaus make it like this—does anyone actually speak German?

His boots were pinching him, and the guy in the suit told him he had to sign them before his first wear, then they’d fit him like a glove. 😬 😬

silverviper44 said:His boots were pinching him, and the guy in the suit told him he had to sign them before his first wear, then they’d fit him like a glove. 😬 😬

Oh, Klaus, Klaus... 🤦

this one is top-tier 🙏 reminds me of those black JPS Lotus cars 👍

cosmiccyclist8 said:

What exactly is so special about that motorcycle?

What specifically do you think?

mellowtiger83 said:What exactly is so special about that motorcycle?

Exactly.

Honestly, this entire model was basically a sitting duck for environmentalists and everyone else looking to make trouble.
An animal rights and environmental activist.
To be honest, everything on this particular model was crafted using leather from a humpback whale's tail.
Since that particular model became such a massive hit, I really should have picked up a few more while I had the chance.
Those kits with their matching accessories—this Kawe model was something special.
It’s quite popular with the ladies—and I mean that both as a driver and a passenger.
As soon as the company released the details about what kind of material they used for the leather, the trolls immediately started running wild.
They keep circling back to those supposed qualities—you know, that whole aphrodisiac angle—but they aren't leaning into it quite as hard as you'd think.
It adapts much better to the rhythm of the people sitting on it...
In the end, Kawasaki really had no choice but to scrap their original plans and switch gears.
Like kangaroo hide from the deserts of central Australia.

Tyler Bennett5, you really have quite the imagination 😁👍

Believe me, I’m not just making this up. It isn't my fault that these crazy Japanese engineers come up with
and actually use such exotic materials.
Once you take a look at a photo of Colinov's Subaru, you'll see exactly what kind of stuff they were playing around with back then.

cosmiccyclist8 said:What specifically do you think?

Ale isn't green! You can't go labeling a red Kawasaki as green when that's clearly Honda's color.

Go ahead and label Dean Harrison from 2019 then, if you must.

mellowtiger83 said:Ale isn't green! You can't go labeling a red Kawasaki as green when that's clearly Honda's color.

Go ahead and label Dean Harrison from 2019 then, if you must.

What's this guy doing riding an alien engine?

Look, green is Kawasaki's racing color—why should every single Kawa have to be green now? Or every Yamaha have to be yellow and black like Kenny Roberts'? And as for how green became the official racing color... I wasn't around to tell that story back in the day.👍