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Links, Images and Videos of the Week (2009/26)

https://youtu.be/eUB4j0n2UDU

Vintage cars en masse

And I only picked 44 photos – the Donau Classic Oldtimer-Rallye 2009 in Ingolstadt and the surrounding area featured 190 cars from 1928 to 19841. On Saturday afternoon, they had to drive a small round course in Pfaffenhofen’s city center, including my street. I concentrated mostly on the older cars for my photos because I think they are more interesting than those from the 70s and 80s.

In this post I’m only showing a selection of the selection; all 44 photos are available on Flickr, e.g. as set overview and as slideshow.

(The cars’ specifications are taken from the official start list.)

The oldest one, a Bentley 4,5 ltr. open from 1928:
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Alvis Speed 20 (1935):
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BMW 600 “Rennsemmel” (=”Racing bread-roll”) (1959):
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Riley TT spezial (1936):
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Hudson Big Six Sedan (1935):
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Josef Kulzer Fiat Kulzer Spezial (1940):
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Horch 930 V Cabrio (1939):
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This “Pi” looks funny, but the start list is wrong here, since this silver Porsche certainly is no black-red Ferrari:
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DKW F 89 L (1953) – not much beer left…:
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MG A 1500 MK I (1959) – The almost drove straight ahead without going their rounds… [Insert joke about blondes.]
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Fiat 500 (1973):
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Front: Jaguar XK 120 SE OTS (1953), back: Triumph TR 4A / IRS (1967):
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That’s the end of this selection of a selection – as I said, there’s more on Flickr: set overview, slideshow.

  1. well, 3 new ones (2008) before and after the actual rallye were also on the course []

Hexed?

…or: The assembler code snippet of the week1

    add al,90h
    daa
    adc al,40h
    daa

Can anyone tell me without cheating what this code does? :bigsmile:

Show solution ▼

  1. don’t worry, that won’t become a regular feature []

Magenta

The next photo for Project “Show Colors”:

7: Magenta

7: Magenta

A cordless ISDN phone with a Deutsche Telekom special functions key that I never used, even when the Telekom was responsible for more than just the bare wire – but guess which key a neighbor who once locked herself out of her apartment and asked me if she could call her daughter who had a key pressed to make the connection after dialing…?