What are you talking about Wally?..
I don't know how chocolates came in to this conversation?

ask Muck, he brought it up not me Merv

Ok Ok, Check these links out...
This is just one of a series...

http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=24854

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/__121b_RkS...SgG0AW2siFYg==

;-)

Muck

make sure the last 2 == are included in the above link, don't know why that happened, bloody computers, they will never catch on...

Muck

I like Mars Bars the best.. what's your favourite chocolate?

I'm takin'this back on topic & off chocolate, sorry!..

..Q.When was everybody last in Paris?.. I was in Paris in 1973

1998

DH is a European car nut - racing, restoring, etc.. About fifteen years ago I bought him a very good copy of Rendezvous.

We have shown it at various Alfa Romeo car club events and it always gets a great response.

The woman that he runs to at Sacre Cour is/was his wife. Nice touch.

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Nina's DH here ... Robespierre's judgements of "torque control", and "managing adhesion" are a little off. The motor was rev'd extensivey, with a minimum of wheelspin and good acceleration, so torque was applied appropriately.

As for adhesion, try approaching racing speeds on surfaces that vary from cobblestone to tarmac and not spinning out. There were no paint transfers and no excessive wheelspin during the filming, so the limits of adhesion were not exceeded.

Ferraris tend to understeer at slower speeds/sharper corners - front engined V-12. The nose shuddering while the car was understeering is unavoidable when pushing the car's limits within the restriction of city streets.

Ever pressed a vintage Ferrari's clutch pedal while shifting its transmission? It's not easy. The best paid racing drivers in the world still miss shifts ;-)

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Nina again.... ...someday he will leave me for a carburetor. At least I never have to worry about another woman taking him away from me - he is too busy in the garage with his "Italian Mistresses".

Nina

NDH - the topic changed to the Porsche film at Date: 04/24/2006, 08:10 pm. I said as much on 04/26/2006, 09:48 am.

My comments were on the Stockholm bit, not the Paris one. He missed shifts. He didn't apply power smoothly, often adding it tentatively and incrementally when he should have had his foot in it. In turns, he continuously over- or under-compensated for the track he was getting from the set of his front wheels, making the steering jerky.

I stand by my critique.

That's better, we are back on the Paris track!

Was in Paris in 1987 for 4 days....Took some nice pics ...would like to go back and not stay in a hostel next time....

Wally.. did you go up the Eiffel Tower?

No Merv,there were long queues but I took plenty of photos of it from all around paris and at night....

Wally.. that's not good.. i thought I wasnt happy.. when I could only go halfway up The Eifel Tower due to painting up the top!

well merv it must have been an awesome
view anyway...an amazing structure...

is it just me .. or are others also having problems with this thread?

wot's going on.. some of my posts are not showin'????

merv...insert another 20 cents...

lot of pigeons in Paris - loved seeing them get out of the way!

it's amazing no pigeons were killed