Author Topic: Alembics and their cars revisited! (Read 283 times)

elwoodblue · « **Reply #15 on:** November 12, 2008, 12:50:47 AM »

here's a fun bunch!

crobbins · « **Reply #16 on:** November 12, 2008, 09:40:40 AM »

My 1989 Saab 900 turbo

alembic76407 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 12, 2008, 10:02:59 AM »

The Cayenne has been photoshoped, looks pretty cool however, and I'm jonesing for a Cayenne real bad, just not a Cayenne Turbo, I drove a Cayenne Turbo and it was STUPID FAST and I would loose my driver license and I don't need that

jacko · « **Reply #18 on:** November 13, 2008, 05:46:02 AM »

Here's one of my 1972 MG midget that I've had since around 1983..

The photo was taken after I'd cut out most of the rotten metal. Since then I've welded in new inner and outer sills, rear spring hangers and a new floor. New inner front wheel arches and footwell panels. The car is now waiting for rear wings and a rear panel then it'll be just about ready for painting. I'm hoping I'll have it back on the road by next summer but I'm not holding my breath.

Graeme

crgaston · « **Reply #19 on:** November 19, 2008, 03:23:07 PM »

Here's my 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis. It's got a cop motor, cop suspension, cop exhaust... :-) Seriously, it's got 160,000 miles on it (all by me) and still runs like a top. Just in the last month, the windsheild wipers have decided that they like being up instead of down when I turn them off, and the trunk spring broke, so I have to hold it open. Other than that It's given me no trouble. It hauls all my gear plus the family. The trunk is large enough to procreate in, if you were so inclined. Gets 25mpg on the highway fully loaded with stuff.

One of my favorite features is the glow-in-the-dark inside-the-trunk emergency manual release... In any language it clearly says, "Pull this, jump out, and RUN!"

I have always wondered if sombody at Alembic has a thing for Lotus automobiles, seeing as how Europa and Elan are also both names of Lotus cars.

lbpesq · « **Reply #20 on:** November 19, 2008, 03:39:01 PM »

I believe Ron and Susan had a Europa in the early daze, and the names of Alembics were based on Lotus names, or at least began with an E like Lotus does. (Essence, Epic, Excel).

Bill, tgo

briant · « **Reply #21 on:** November 19, 2008, 08:57:47 PM »

My rotary powered hotness. 2008 RX-8 GT.

(Message edited by briant on November 20, 2008)

elwoodblue · « **Reply #22 on:** November 19, 2008, 11:02:03 PM »

...still looking for a '74 dodge Monaco...(4-door).

Bradley Young · « **Reply #23 on:** November 21, 2008, 08:30:23 AM »

Ron and Susan had...

A Citroen! It's true.

As my Dad put it, a hydraulic nightmare.

yggdrasil · « **Reply #24 on:** December 20, 2008, 01:23:54 PM »

I always wanted one of those Citroen lemon-shaped DS 60s convertibles - they had some sort of pneumatic suspension & lights that turned with the steering wheel.
Here's one from 1967, a great year in SF by all accounts!