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The right car to go with your A-2?
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John Lever
Moderator
exactly...Stony said:
zoomer
Well-Known Member
< :lol: >
Silly limeys. Everyone knows the A-2 is not really a 30s jacket - it's a piece of Real Man's equipment.
Real Man's cars and bikes didn't exist in the 30s any more than Real Man's music did.
Consider...from 1932, the year of the first A-2 contract. Even the Holy Hog was a bit sissified.
And those trucks that were "Built Ford Tough" looked like this!
Need I even mention our Air Corps?
< / :lol: >
Silly limeys. Everyone knows the A-2 is not really a 30s jacket - it's a piece of Real Man's equipment.
Real Man's cars and bikes didn't exist in the 30s any more than Real Man's music did.
Consider...from 1932, the year of the first A-2 contract. Even the Holy Hog was a bit sissified.
And those trucks that were "Built Ford Tough" looked like this!
Need I even mention our Air Corps?
< / :lol: >
John Lever
Moderator
Sorry Paddy if our friend called you a Limey...
airfrogusmc
Well-Known Member
ties70
Well-Known Member
An A-2 jacket is definitely too cold when it's a winter morning and you are waiting for the wrecker to load load up this one....
I thought about quit driving at all....three weeks later I had this one:
Today I have two of these...they fit with all kinds of flight jackets:
I thought about quit driving at all....three weeks later I had this one:
Today I have two of these...they fit with all kinds of flight jackets:
ties70
Well-Known Member
Van,
nice Solstice!
Did you know that this is actually its (not so) distant "cousin"?
The OPEL GT:
You can tell from the windshield frame and the back edge of the doors that GM used the same basic platform and combined components to save some money.
This is the early OPEL GT from the 70s. That was one stylish car....you could definitely tell why they called it Germany's "Poor Man's Corvette"...
nice Solstice!
Did you know that this is actually its (not so) distant "cousin"?
The OPEL GT:
You can tell from the windshield frame and the back edge of the doors that GM used the same basic platform and combined components to save some money.
This is the early OPEL GT from the 70s. That was one stylish car....you could definitely tell why they called it Germany's "Poor Man's Corvette"...
Vcruiser
Well-Known Member
Hi Ties
Yes there are two versions of the Kappa car which were made in Wilmington,Delaware(but discontinued last summer)on side by side production lines. The Pontiac Solstice...and Saturn Sky. Both same platform..engine..with mainly only styling diffs. The Sky was the basis and sold as the Opel overseas with Euro trim modifications.
The old Opel GT was quite something for it's era as well. I'm quite familiar with it since a close friend of mine had one exactly like in your photo.
Van
Yes there are two versions of the Kappa car which were made in Wilmington,Delaware(but discontinued last summer)on side by side production lines. The Pontiac Solstice...and Saturn Sky. Both same platform..engine..with mainly only styling diffs. The Sky was the basis and sold as the Opel overseas with Euro trim modifications.
The old Opel GT was quite something for it's era as well. I'm quite familiar with it since a close friend of mine had one exactly like in your photo.
Van
usafwso
Active Member
How about this little Italian beauty. Two friends of mine work at an Audi/Lamborghini dealership in Las Vegas we had chance to take it out for a Sunday drive to Hoover Dam. Great car but way too impractical. This particular machine is only one of two currently in the United States. Too bad I wasn't wearing a flight jacket that day.
Bluebottle
Member
Beat up old '40's A2 - beat up old '50's VW Kombi.
Like Zoomer says, a work jacket for a work vehicle
But this is the tidy little A2 Accessory I'd love for my mid-life crisis
Like Zoomer says, a work jacket for a work vehicle
But this is the tidy little A2 Accessory I'd love for my mid-life crisis
