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Polarengineer · #701 Post by **Polarengineer** » Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:27 pm

Maybe a ruse, the smaller one is clearly painting an intermittent black radial stripe on the disk, which the next caliber is wiping off. Soon everyone will want one.

RobertArthur · #702 Post by **RobertArthur** » Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:54 pm

On a simple road car you'll find of course two headlights and two side mirrors. This one is a MCLAREN 570S SPIDER, for one of its brothers, the 600LT, two calipers are not necessary.

RobertArthur · #703 Post by **RobertArthur** » Fri Oct 04, 2024 7:17 pm

Time for classic times, how to feed and oil these thirsty horseless carriages? From a book and a poster I picked up this afternoon at a fleamarket.

Trelawney · #704 Post by **Trelawney** » Sat Oct 05, 2024 11:24 am

Polarengineer wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 5:27 pm Maybe a ruse, the smaller one is clearly painting an intermittent black radial stripe on the disk, which the next caliber is wiping off. Soon everyone will want one.

Is it possible that the small calliper is for the handbrake?

Hotrodder · #705 Post by **Hotrodder** » Sat Oct 05, 2024 5:43 pm

Could be, although there are various alternatives these days. I once saw a T-bucket with a small brake disk and cable operated caliper mounted against a propshaft universal joint.

edit: Maybe the second thing is not a caliper but a sensor that is reading the passing of the little rectangles as the disc turns. Sending the pulses to an ABS sensor. ( https://www.explainthatstuff.com/hall-e ... nsors.html )

RobertArthur · #706 Post by **RobertArthur** » Sat Oct 05, 2024 6:55 pm

Handbrake, parkingbrake, e-brake of the McLaren 570s, go to the rear. Shortcut: start at 13:57 of the video.

RobertArthur · #707 Post by **RobertArthur** » Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:07 pm

Produced from 1965 to 1980, the Peugeot J7. As minibus, police van, ambulance, livestock truck, van and campervan, see below. Not many on the road anymore of the 336,220 that rolled off the assembly line.

Hotrodder · #708 Post by **Hotrodder** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 11:29 am

He must be printing his own C.T. stickers.

Niftyons · #709 Post by **Niftyons** » Sun Oct 06, 2024 8:43 pm

The latest in aerodynamic bodywork.

RobertArthur · #710 Post by **RobertArthur** » Mon Oct 07, 2024 5:01 pm

Aerodynamics? In the seventies, not in Italy, not in France, not in the USA and not in the UK. The forgotten fuel saver, the Rovomobil. In the 1970s, two engineers in the GDR were working on a car (not a Trabant or Wartburg) that would consume as little petrol as possible. Their vehicle not only looked good, it also drove highly efficiently. CW value of 0.23, the same as for the Tesla model Y. The first Rovomobil 1 has a 1100 cc engine with 24.5 hp (18 kW), model1949. Based on a VW Beetle chassis and a mix of a few hundred kilos of synthetic resin and fibreglass. After the restoration of the Rovomobil 2, for about twenty years somewhere in a shed, it has the chassis of a 1962 VW Type 3, with a 1970 1584 cc engine with 54 hp (40 kW).

Only two of them were produced, perhaps a little too frivolous for a worker's paradise. From WiKi the following remarks: ' The Rovomobil was presented in several GDR motor vehicle trade journals and a second vehicle was built. The Rovomobil 1 and the Rovomobil 2 received an operating licence and were therefore approved for use on public roads. A planned presentation with a picture of a Rovomobil on the front page of the GDR motor vehicle trade magazine <Kraftfahrzeugtechnik> was cancelled in order ‘not to arouse any needs among the population’. Not for sale, both now in the VW museum.

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