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Loving this build!! Every time i see a Roller, I think of this old gem: Caution, Mucho Profanity!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvgOnGAgLBY
On the GRM forum, someone has found the reasons behind the performance of the Rolls in that test
Rather than stability control, a system relegated to vehicles available to commoners, each Rolls-Royce monitors and corrects driver inputs through its patented chain-driven, vacuum-controlled Dignity Drive.
On the GRM forum, someone has found the reasons behind the performance of the Rolls in that test
Rather than stability control, a system relegated to vehicles available to commoners, each Rolls-Royce monitors and corrects driver inputs through its patented chain-driven, vacuum-controlled Dignity Drive.
So you are saying it'll patently refuse to go onto a Lemons racetrack.
Probably. We're going to need to engineer a bypass.
So you are saying it'll patently refuse to go onto a Lemons racetrack.
No, it will simply proceed stately around the track in a dignified fashion.
Much like the Super Snipe did until its untimely end.
Probably. We're going to need to engineer a bypass.
Will this step come before or after FINDING the Dignity Dive device? Can someone draw a diagram on the back of a beer coaster?
We need to address this quickly, before temps rise above 40 degrees at 3pm North, or even worse.... The fog lifts!
Sonic wrote:Probably. We're going to need to engineer a bypass.
Will this step come before or after FINDING the Dignity Dive device?
It's right next to the Infinite Improbability Drive. Smell around for the scent of Earl Gray to find it.
The Dignity Dive Device sounds completely appropriate for the intended purpose of this conveyance.
I think this may call for some desensitization therapy. Time to go and pick up a load of strippers. You may have to start with just driving by the joint at first. Slowly work your way into the parking lot. Maybe to circling the bulding it a few times. Rolling down the windows and calling out to a few on their way to/from work walking through the lot. Maybe put a jar of unopened body glitter in the rear cupholders. Work your way to opening it up for longer and longer periods of time... Work your way up to one stripper fully clothed and proceed gingerly until you work your way to 6 totally nude strippers in back.
I know working on Lemons cars for so long starts to feel a bit like a chore, but do whatever you can to keep it up.
Nice Rolls in the Easy Rider cocaine deal scene:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/6295121/e … aine_deal/
fast forward to about 2:10 to see it pull up.
^^^ Are you KIDDING me??
Easy Rider?
Canonball Run or nuthin
http://www.youtube.com/watrcrh?v=cODolsPxhaU
Not sure if you've checked this yet:
http://www.rolls-royce.150m.com/racing_rr/indexen.html
On the subject of Rolls themes I give you Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhagwan_Shree_Rajneesh The now decesed cult leader had, at the peak of his "power", 90 Rolls Royce cars - over 30 of which had custom paint jobs. Cloudscapes, rainbows, wacky scallops, women in aluring poses you name it. During my freshman year in high school (roughly 1985) at least 20 of his cars came through the Auburn Cord Dusenburg auction. At the time the auction was held in the high school gym and various school groups helped out with the crowds - us band members handled RV parking - but anyway... Some of the paint jobs were pretty cool and others, welll... My Googlefu is weak and has only turned up a couple images. Someone more savy than me will have to post them up here.
On the subject of Rolls themes I give you Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
That was my thought, too. I grew up in Oregon and went to high school with a Rajneeshee who had just moved all the way from France to join the group at Rancho Rajneesh, but then he somehow stopped in Drain and never made it those last few miles. Odd.
Anyway, yes, some nice paint jobs.
I suspect John Lennon would also be acceptable:
we were thinking about making our benz w123 look like a rolls in order to try to pull off a "Rick Rollsed" theme, but if someone is going to race a real rolls, they can have it with my compliments.
You're welcome
If you're really going to run a Rolls Royce, why not go with a fine, old, traditional English motorsport theme:
BANGER RACING!
If you're really going to run a Rolls Royce, why not go with a fine, old, traditional English motorsport theme:
BANGER RACING!
Bangers Racing is just Lemons: No Fun Allowed (UK Edition) because they get pissy even for a tirenut because "It's not from the same model of car" and themes are shunned.
Just Released at the Oscars was the new Grey Poupon Commercial ... In case you missed it ... here it is with the extended car chase!!
HaHa ... I love John Cleese
Rick Rolls...Nice.
Here's an update from this weekend's work. It's still damn cold here, and the Rolls is 17' long, so it doesn't fit in my small suburban garage. We brought it down to my house from Jeffs as he has the Boat and that needs enough work, so we split it up to make it easier.
The Suburban pulled the Rolls like a champ!
We had it running from the last workday, which is great, and it continues to run about the same, which is to say on 6.5 cylinders, but it does move, turn, and stop. We got it up in the air and did some poking around. A compression test yielded decent numbers overall, most cylinders were 140, with two at 150, and one at 130, and one I couldn't test as the timecert on that cylinder was stuck to the plug, so I couldn't thread the tester in there. While the plugs were out, I squirted a mix of ATF and sea foam in each one to clean them up and loosen up the rings. It smoked like a mofo when it started up later on burning that all out. We started to remove some of the unnecessary parts, like the A/C and washer tank, etc. We cleaned and lubed up the throttle linkage so that you don't need to pull the gas pedal back up with your toe. The throttle linkage itself is hilarious: the pedal actuated a lever under the floor, which moves a bell crank, which then actuates a rod that runs the width of the car, which then actuates a different rod that runs up to the engine, where a complex series of rods and joints goes to one carb, where it then actuates another series of rods and springs and levers to move the other carb. Nuts.
We found some new problems, and confirmed suspicions about what was wrong for other things. First, we did confirm that the rear hydraulic pump is not working. This will need to be replaced with a rebuilt unit. Second, we found that the LF strut has a broken stud at the bottom, so it isn't actually attached to the lower control arm anymore, it is just gravity and spring pressure holding it into place. The shock will need to be replaced. 
The front brakes grab a little bit, so we will need to take off the 4 front brake calipers and clean/lube/etc.
Here's the fun of the front suspension
We also drained the ancient oil in the motor, and refilled the motor with ATF to hopefully clean out whatever carbon/sludge is in there. The exhaust is a complete disaster, and will need to be replaced for most of the length of the car. How about a flow master, just because it seems so wrong!
The plan now is to have it at Monticello for Judgemobile duties with the above items fixed, then begin the "race prep" phase of doing only what is needed to pass tech, and absolutely nothing at all to make it "better" or "faster".
Loving this build!! Every time i see a Roller, I think of this old gem: Caution, Mucho Profanity!
Brilliant! Very nearly soiled myself laughing.
In for the Grey Poupon.
What motor is in this beast?
just saw this online
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