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Iconic motorsport liveries - your favourites?

Bullet · 2023-05-05T18:20:19Z

Will start with the obvious - Gulf Porsche, Martini Porsche/Lancia but also Alan Mann red and gold and Jagermeister orange...

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stingmered

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What on earth has changed re: image posting. It used to be dead easy, now I can’t get it to work…

Posted : 06/05/2023 6:20 am

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What on earth has changed re: image posting. It used to be dead easy, now I can’t get it to work…

I learned this from @scotroutes so thanks 😁. I use postimage - select image to upload, from the share option select 'hotlink for forums', copy that and just paste into the text box of your post. No need for anything other than that. Don't need any of the options on here above the text box, just paste that hotlink in and Bob's your Auntie's live-in lover. HTH

Edit: while I'm here...

[url= https://i.postimg.cc/G3KTWmkp/Screenshot-20230506-063817.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.postimg.cc/G3KTWmkp/Screenshot-20230506-063817.jp g"/> [/img][/url]

Posted : 06/05/2023 6:35 am

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head of an IT org and I still can’t link pictures properly, sigh

It's ok, I'm a woodworker so should be able to help. 😉

Find the image you wanted, say on Google images, open in new tab(sometimes preview is a thumbnail)

Copy the address up in the address bar It must end in .jpeg or .PNG

Press the img button on the forum reply box

Paste the address you copied into the pop up box)

Hit ok and all the shizzle appears in the reply box

Hit the submit button and you're done

There are a lot of images on Google images and other sites in general these days that don't use a .jpeg address, rather some gobbledegook, which can make posting images tricky.
Often you can delete all the rubbish AFTER the .jpeg part of the address and it'll work. Other times I take a screenshot then upload it to Postimage website and grab the .jpeg address from there.

Edit- or the fazzini method above if the image is on your device.

Posted : 06/05/2023 6:38 am
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Posted : 06/05/2023 6:46 am
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EDIT: Hurrah!

Posted : 06/05/2023 7:05 am
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Thanks all for tips on pic hosting. I think using img hosting sites was causing the issue.

Posted : 06/05/2023 7:06 am

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Alitalia Lancia

Nah, the Lancia looked nicer in Martini colours

My dad worked for Alitalia 🙂

🤔 Mum does like Martini mind.

Posted : 06/05/2023 8:07 am
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In later years they replaced the text on the bonnet with Tommi

Posted : 06/05/2023 8:11 am
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[img] [/img]

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[img] [/img]

Posted : 06/05/2023 8:36 am
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Posted : 06/05/2023 8:44 am

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How many of these are about liveries, and how many about loving the car/bike...? 🙂

Posted : 06/05/2023 8:48 am
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Posted : 06/05/2023 8:49 am
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Let's see if this picture attempt works...
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Woo hoo, it did 😀

Posted : 06/05/2023 9:30 am

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From the 70's the Jonny Surtees

Posted : 06/05/2023 9:41 am
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How many of these are about liveries, and how many about loving the car/bike…? 🙂

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the best cars and bikes have the best paint jobs

For example, if you could have any car in the world, what would you have? Personally, I’d have a GT40

If you could have that car in any colour paint job, what would it be?

Well Gulf colours, obviously!

Posted : 06/05/2023 9:09 pm
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I know squirrelking has posted one image of it but still my fave subtle but awesome car paint job

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Posted : 06/05/2023 9:45 pm
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Love the Suzuki escudo 😀

Posted : 06/05/2023 10:57 pm
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My Scalextric car

Posted : 06/05/2023 11:07 pm

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Vodafone mclaren liveries, they looked good every season.

Posted : 06/05/2023 11:51 pm
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I wasn’t sure whether to post the GT40 or the 917. They are both things of utter beauty.

They really are works of art, aren’t they?

Then there’s the Lola T70

There’s no argument to be made about them, beautiful lines, and a simple colour scheme that sets them off perfectly.

*swoon*

How many of these are about liveries, and how many about loving the car/bike…?

As far as the examples above go, it’s both.

Posted : 07/05/2023 12:13 am

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These:

Somewhat polished turd

Brian power

Obscure shopping trolley

For the lads

Posted : 07/05/2023 12:45 am

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If we're doing Aussie taxicabs, here are some iconic liveries.

Posted : 07/05/2023 2:13 am

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[img] [/img]

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Posted : 07/05/2023 6:35 am
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I don’t generally buy art, but I did treat my shed to some car artwork.

Posted : 07/05/2023 6:47 am
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Those prints look amazing hot_fiat. Currently perusing the website.

Posted : 07/05/2023 5:15 pm

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It has to be the Gulf Oil Porsche 917.

"When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting"

Posted : 07/05/2023 7:57 pm

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and if we're doing Aussie taxis then we might as well add a couple of classy kiwi contributions as well..

McLaren's classic orange

Britten

Posted : 07/05/2023 9:29 pm

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McLaren’s classic orange

I had a Can-Am McLaren slot car. Actually I still do, it's in a box somewhere with a heavily modded MRCC hand controller.

Posted : 07/05/2023 10:36 pm

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The Toon Lister .. top choice

Mine would be Bastos M3 (apart from all the Escort Mk1s and 2s of course, Colibri lighters anyone? And JPS obviously, and Aston at LeMans, and JJ Lehto Black Mclaren, and Gulf, goes without saying. And....there's too many memories Boom, mind gone. 🙂

Posted : 07/05/2023 11:07 pm

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Remember the days of special saloons? The Nick Whiting All Car Equipe Escort, Dave Brodie's Run Baby Run Escort - simpler times...

Posted : 07/05/2023 11:12 pm
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Remember the days of special saloons?

Oh my, Sunbeam Stilettos, saw one on a trailer on Friday going down M5, awesome, but simple

Posted : 07/05/2023 11:16 pm

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That was it, Wendy Wools 🙂 Brilliant

Posted : 07/05/2023 11:18 pm

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wendy wools

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That Britten is iconic even without a paint job.

Best thing in the wellington museum 🙂

If we are on NZ hometown icons...

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:14 am

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If you are into the down-under thing, the Possum Bourne Subaru and Roger Freeth Starlet (with a Rover V8 shoehorned under the bonnet) are iconic. Freeth was Bourne's co-driver, but was killed in a crash. Bourne was also killed in a different crash years later.

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:24 am

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This had the potential to be thread of the week, a rich topic worthy of discussion. It's a shame that some are listed but no image is posted

Jagermeister

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:29 am

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The best liveries should use both color and pattern in my opinion. Some, like that Jagermeister one, is just the right colour and some text. Effective and memorable, but not the best like Martini, Gulf and Alitalia.

And the iconic ones are those that get redeveloped over years on different cars/bikes/machines and different shapes.

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:38 am

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Previously mentioned, deserves a photo

But I'd say it was the car that makes it memorable, rather than the livery.

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:40 am
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Previously mentioned, deserves a photo

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:43 am
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Mentioned, but sadly not in this guise

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:47 am

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Bilstein

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I always preferred the snake over the hornet

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:51 am

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Anyone else remember when BAR wanted to run their two cars in different liveries, but that wasn't permitted.

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:52 am

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Lucky strike probably deserve a photo of it's own

Posted : 08/05/2023 9:53 am

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Apple

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Sunoco, here on a Porsche 917-30 Can Am racer

Posted : 08/05/2023 10:09 am

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Best F1 paint job?

Posted : 08/05/2023 10:13 am

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The Britten & McLaren have been done, so I'll go with Blasphemi.

Posted : 08/05/2023 10:24 am

the00

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Best F1 paint job?

It's up there.
Gulf and Harrods are cool too though.

Posted : 08/05/2023 10:27 am

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I'm not familiar with this Nissan livery, but I like it...

Posted : 08/05/2023 10:34 am

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Posted : 08/05/2023 1:31 pm

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Ah yes the Mk1 Lotus Cortina. Perfect. One passed me in Poynton the other day.

Posted : 08/05/2023 5:35 pm

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I was always slightly swayed by simple Vauxhall livery...

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Posted : 08/05/2023 6:08 pm

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Gulf + one of the best looking cars ever

KW suspension have put their name on some unusual but serious machines over the years. Like this Starlet, yes a Starlet!

Posted : 08/05/2023 11:50 pm

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My votes (not sure if the first has already come up, the other two definitely):
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Posted : 09/05/2023 7:43 am
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for me, its gotta be the lesser known pink & grey livery from world famous racer V7FMP from a few years back...

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Posted : 09/05/2023 9:19 am
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Good shout posting your own livery! Nice one.

Posted : 09/05/2023 10:20 am
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Ciggy companies really did know how to market their products! Still stuck on our minds all these years later...

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Posted : 09/05/2023 10:26 am

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@Bullet I'll take your Bastos BMW M3 and raise you a Bastos TWR Rover SD1

Also, I like this

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Ciggy companies really did know how to market their products

They did indeed

Posted : 09/05/2023 1:23 pm

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+1s on the Silk Cut jags, Marlboro Maclarens and Gulf Porsche or Gulf Ford

Posted : 09/05/2023 1:29 pm

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This is giving me a chance to go through my Goodwood Members Meeting albums. @northernmatt I see your Bastos SD1 and raise you a Camaro 🙂

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Posted : 09/05/2023 3:56 pm

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And some other faves...
David Piper 917, famously seriously injured filming the McQueen Le Mans movie
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Salzburg 917
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And some other classics.
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Posted : 09/05/2023 4:07 pm

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Kev's bikes

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Both mine on the first page- JPS Lotus F1 and Yamaha speedblocks. Perfection.

Posted : 27/06/2023 5:36 pm

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Lotus 79 - Olympus flavour:

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@fruitbat, looky likey!

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I had a very dear uncle who used to make the Tamiya car models, so have so many faves due to the memories of helping when i was a wee lad.

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Was always my go to on V-Rally

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Oh yeah and anything Vauxhall with CLELAND or LESLIE written on the side and massive scrapes and dents instead of paint

Posted : 28/06/2023 5:12 pm