I'm with Lou, who wouldn't want to drive that beauty.

The other car looks like an Bugatti, great, now let the Bently boys hop over for a smashing rally.

If its going to be racing it can only be racing in the 1960's... there's nothing like it!

How cool wuld it be if OBD modded the heck out of GPL (with "WOFF-quality" shaders, 3D models etc etc etc)!!!

This us one i woild love to see in a sim. Back in 2011 I had the chance to drive this beauty for three weeks in a couples' rally in Sardinia. It's a 1934 Lagonda Rapide 4.5 litre, owned by a Swiss friend. That's his 1929 Bentley in the background.

That is real gem, Raine. I would like to see this piece of jewel in my garage .

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Raine, I want to know your friends. As I may have mentioned the last time you shared with us that photo and its accompanying story, I am soooooooooo jealous. Oldest car I've driven was a 1914 Ford Model T for all of about 30 miles over less than stellar roads - it was all my aching back could take. The sportiest car I've driven was a 1965 Ferrari 330 GT Series II 12-cylinder, and it rode considerably nicer - even at 150 mph.

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Like to how big is the racesim market, is this the same small size as we see at the combat fly sim.

IMHO, OBD could do justice to *any* air campaign with their skills of creating wonderfully immersive single player career modes. They just need a decent engine to make their magic work - and that must be one of the biggest limiting factors to the team. It's not like there are hundreds of suitable flight sim engines to choose from...

I'd love to see a new flight sim about the Pacific air war, but I know the chances of that happening are pretty close to nil. The amount of different naval vessels needed to be created for such a sim would alone be a huge undertaking for any team of developers, not to mention all the airplanes.

While BOB is definitely one of the most popular campaigns to be modelled in flight sims, it's also true that nobody has made a BOB sim quite in the style of WOFF. So I won't be disappointed even if the new non-WW1 sim by OBD is about the Battle of Britain!

However, I'm 100% certain that we won't be getting a 1920s racing game! Sorry to rain on your parade guys, but that simply won't be happening.

Beautiful old cars in the pics! The oldest car I've had the pleasure to drive was a 1950s Citröen 2CV - I could barely squeeze myself into the "cockpit", so it wasn't exactly a great experience.

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Lou, that Ferrari was a dream car. I have a love of 60s sports cars. I'd love to hear the story behind the experience.

What, no interest in my Citröen adventure?

You fancy people with your Bugattis and Ferraris! Hmph.

Sorry Hasse. My only experience with a 2CV was pushing one.

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My pleasure Raine. It was in 1978, shortly after I'd returned home from my four years of active service in the US Air Force. To help pay the bills I took a job with a good friend of mine from high school working at his import car shop. We did general repair and maintenance work along with a lot of kit cars, (it was the heyday of the VW-based "exotics" like the Bradley GT and Mercedes Gazelle and such). One of our regular customers was a surgeon from the local hospital who collected and raced a fair number of vehicles, most of which were Ferraris. While he never brought us any of his actual racing cars he would bring in what he referred to as his "grocery getter", a 1965 330 GT Series II. It was, as I recall, the first Ferrari you could order with factory air conditioning, which his example had. As is true of most sports cars, and particularly the older ones, they need fairly constant attention, and when you add in AC it only gets worse. The doctor would stop by every couple of months or so with the 330 GT to have us adjust the idle and the timing, tighten loose fittings and such, and charge the AC, after which we would take it out for a road test. And he always encouraged us to go out and drive it hard just to make sure everything was up to snuff - we were only too happy to oblige him on this point. With an open ten miles of very nice, quiet rural two-lane just west of our shop we had a readily available test strip and I made use of it on several occasions in the 330 GT. The short-stroke 12-cylinder in that car would rev so fast you had to really watch out not to overdo it, even though redline on it was up around 6,800 rpm if memory serves. The transmission was a 5-speed and the throw on the shifter was crazy short, and narrow. It was fast, like 90 mph in 3rd gear fast, and it would get you to its top end of 150 mph in relatively short order. But what I liked best was how it handled. It felt like you were driving a slot car, especially compared to other cars of the day. Of course now all cars seem to handle amazingly well, but back in the 1960s and 1970s such was not the case.

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Hasse, if it's any consolation, I had to work on a Citröen 2CV once in the aforementioned import shop. It was a 1970 model IIRC. I was not impressed.

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Once upon a day, I tried to dabble in game design. (writing code was not for me). But I did find that there's a lot of very powerful game engines out there...for sale, lease and free.

Olham: We've been flying DH-2's and Eindeckers for years. How bad can a pre-war Grand Prix car be? (At least nobody's shooting at you.

Right. But an aviator doen't have to fear pointy turns, slippery pavements, road holes,
trees, sheep and goats, and stupid spectators all along the course.

Cars = way to get to the airport.

You haven't lived until you drive a Reliant Rebel. Interesting around corners when the inside wheel lifts. But I could beat most other cars in England maybe because their drivers weren't completely mad.

Unfortunately I eventually rolled it (on a straight road) and converted it to a convertible.

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