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My stage race partner is like this, I've had him overtaking motorbikes on the inside of hairpins in the Alps in front of me, terrifies me!

I don't think I'd have the 'nads to do this but it looks pretty damn cool from that view... :)

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Spotted this one at last years Eroica SA. Besides for the Eroica logo, it also sports some Campagnolo and Colnago ones - so, the owner has impeccable taste. :thumbup:  It belongs to a local, but I don't know who he is or where he lives. I intentionally did not try to find out, because I'm not sure I will be able to withstand the temptation to go visit in  the middle of the night with a lock picking kit, hotwire it (I know how to do a Beetle and that should work on  the splittie) and make off with it :blush:

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Spotted this one at last years Eroica SA. Besides for the Eroica logo, it also sports some Campagnolo and Colnago ones - so, the owner has impeccable taste. [emoji106] It belongs to a local, but I don't know who he is or where he lives. I intentionally did not try to find out, because I'm not sure I will be able to withstand the temptation to go visit in the middle of the night with a lock picking kit, hotwire it (I know how to do a Beetle and that should work on the splittie) and make off with it :blush:

Insurance on those must be pretty steep, those old VW buses sell for around R200k these days, maybe even be more. And the engines are still as rubbish/under powered as they always have been..
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Insurance on those must be pretty steep, those old VW buses sell for around R200k these days, maybe even be more. And the engines are still as rubbish/under powered as they always have been..

 

The splittie above probably closer to the 400k mark these days and higher.

 

By modern standards those aircooled motors are under powered sure.

But definitely not rubbish - the original design is 80 odd years old and has been used to power everything from aeroplanes to farming implements. By virtue of their simplicity they have been found in the remotest corners of the world, still working. An engineering marvel would be a more apt description. 

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The splittie above probably closer to the 400k mark these days and higher.

 

By modern standards those aircooled motors are under powered sure.

But definitely not rubbish - the original design is 80 odd years old and has been used to power everything from aeroplanes to farming implements. By virtue of their simplicity they have been found in the remotest corners of the world, still working. An engineering marvel would be a more apt description. 

Definitely higher, in that shape. Naked shells in reasonable condition are now going for 80k plus in the splittie variant. That's JUST the shell.

 

And those old a/c 1600's etc are bulletproof. Just make sure your oil cooling circuits are up to scratch as well - that was their achilles heel. 

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