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Offline BDA

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #1 on: Monday,August 12, 2019, 04:25:57 PM »
I knew I should have paid better attention in my Japanese classes. Even more, I should have taken Japanese classes!

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 04:25:57 AM »
Makes for an interesting read........

It goes something like this;

Page 1 - Europa Road Test
Page 2 - Where you sit to drive it, what it looks like from the front and rear 3/4 (so you can find it in the car park)
Page 3 - Proof that it's much better looking than anything else on the road in Japan
Page 4 - It's low so you can take a picture of the top easily
Page 5 - What it looks like if one drives over you  :o and obligatory picture of the engine
Page 6 - Yadda yadda....its a Lotus so it handles fantastically because....
Page 7 - of the brakes and suspension....
Page 8 - and the chassis (we've done a drawing because we couldn't get a photo of it, see page 5!)
Page 9 - the body is made of Fibre Glass but it would look like this if it was made of Glass
Page 10 - Dimensions so you can make a nice model of it

Think that about sums it up?!! - Should i include the standard comment about not having great rear visibility, seems to be mentioned in every article..........

*someone might be able to add a little more detail as i've only skimmed over it quickly. ;)

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 04:30:59 AM »
Here is Google Translate's raw barf-back on the scanned pages. The captions are all mixed-up with the body of the text and I can't guarantee I haven't got the pages out of order. I think the gist gets through however.
Tom


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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 07:05:23 AM »
I think I now understand Finnegan's Wake...

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 07:27:31 AM »
I think I now understand Finnegan's Wake...
  :FUNNY:

"Colin Chapman, an amateur friend of light-pockets..."

"...there are no adjectives that have been jacked up and rubbed."

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"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 07:32:52 AM »
I think I now understand Finnegan's Wake...
  :FUNNY:

"Colin Chapman, an amateur friend of light-pockets..."

"...there are no adjectives that have been jacked up and rubbed."

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Finnegans Wake makes for easy reading in comparison!

I was just in the process of quoting the exact same line Surf!!! :FUNNY:

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 01:51:35 PM »
Very interesting article with lots of detailed S1 pictures, many thanks for sharing :)
The Google translation isn't too bad and reveals some interesting facts (chassis 460167, imported from France).

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Re: Japanese Car S1 road test Feb 1968
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday,August 13, 2019, 03:16:39 PM »
JB , your a hit on Instagram!

I posted it to a bunch of followers I have from Japan. They loved it . One has an S1 ind gold leaf livery!
 I asked one of them if he knew how many Europas’ are in Japan.
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