[quote author=johnny5 link=topic=3573.msg36524#msg36524 date=1189630485]
thats beautiful greenwagon
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- but only for a minute ...
Thanks johnny5, yes that's what I thought when I first saw one. It's a classic Bertone design built from 1963 to 1977, and (Italian racing) red is absolutely the only colour for them! My heart still skips a beat when I see a rare example these days (there's one around Tralee the odd time). If you'd like to see and hear one in action, check out this on-board clip from YouTube:
http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsb3ZXVHPZg where it's defeating a Lotus Cortina (the old foe!) in the rain.
I've seen them described as having "long legs and a beautiful body", and even my girlfriend compared mine to a tempestuous Italian actress when she named the car "Gina" after Gina Lollobrigida - some say the most beautiful and most glamorous actress of all time.
After my MGB it was great fun to have a car that actually stood a chance of beating a 3-litre Capri or a Lotus Cortina back in the '70s
, and most drivers didn't have a clue what it was, or of its potential (especially after I transplanted a 2-litre into it
) ... :lol:
Sadly all I have left of it now is the
GT1600Junior badge off the boot lid and the Driver's Handbook
, but that was the best £600 I ever spent!
... normal service will now be resumed: