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Post #571 Fri, Jun 6, 2:09 PM |
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Demigod555
Supercar Messiah - 33486
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Quote from yuma80 I don't know if this has posted here before as I'm just to lazy to click through all the pages... 
Anyway, Marconi ought to have paid 7 million USD for it back then!
pretty disappointed with those seats though.
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Post #572 Sat, Jun 7, 2:44 AM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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The Royal Brunei car collection's story usually is a nineties one, but there have been a number of classics as well. Here are five of these classics, excluding limo's like Royces and Bentley's.
1972 DeTomaso Pantera - 1 picture
A newer (taken late 2007) picture of the sad Pantera that mr. Kirby Schrader photographed in early 2004 in Brunei. This picture isn't the greatest, but the car seems to be moved to a private garden. Maybe someone is going to try to fix it up? 
DeTomaso gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/15.html
1971 Maserati Ghibli 4.2 auto - 1 picture
I don't have much information on the history of this Ghibli. If it was bought new from the factory it could have been bought by the then 25 year old Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the 17 year old Prince Jefri Bolkiah or their father Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien. It could also very well have been bought on the 2nd hand market, but it's nicer to think it was a family piece  At one point in it's life, probably nineties, it has been restored for the Royal Brunei Household without regard to cost by Bill McGrath Limited in the UK. It was sold in recent years with only 500 miles on the odo.
Maserati gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/22.html
1968 Lamborghini Miura P400 - no pictures
Sold new to Sultan of Brunei in 1968. Then in 1970 it was imported to UK and registered (as an S) ELU 137J to dealer Alan Day Ltd in London. The car is currently with a UK enthusiast and has had S upgrades, but I've never seen pics of this car  If anyone has pictures of this car, please post or contact me
1968 Jaguar E-Type S1 4.2 Roadster (S/N 1E1967) - 2 pictures
The history of the car, as supplied by a previous owner who used it in competition and then converted it for road use, is fascinatingly documented in the accompanying history file. According to his research the first owner was none other than the Sultan of Brunei (that's right! not the Prince!), a true connoisseur and collector of motoring exotica. The car then passed to the second owner, David Harris of Bournemouth, who converted it to 'mod sports' specification for competition use. The third owner was Nigel Bourne who hillclimbed the car during which period it boasted a Forward Engineering power unit and V12 brakes. In 1973, it was acquired by Oliver Walker who used it in hillclimb events until 1977 when it was converted back for road use again. This included bodywork being entrusted to respected specialists RS Panels, the engine by Forward Engineering and trim by Suffolk & Turley. The car was then owned by Peter Hampton before being sold through Nigel Dawes in 1983 to Victor Gauntlett, the former boss of Aston Martin. Subsequent owners read like a who's who of eminent collectors as it passed to Sir Anthony Bamford, respected historic racer Frank Sytner who described it as 'a D-Type for the road' before being purchased by the current owner in 1997.
Some info on the current specifications:
The specification of this highly developed E-Type includes a Forward Engineering 4.5-litre engine developing over 320bhp, stainless steel 'bunch of bananas' exhaust, uprated braking system, Spax shock absorbers, lowered suspension, reolica Dunlop alloy wheels, Synchromesh gearbox, Kenlowe fan, replica 'lightweight' E-Type seats, ventilated front discs and organic clutch. In the current ownership the improvement and development of the car has continued with a bare metal respray by RS Panels in 2000 costing in excess of £8,000, modification to accept unleaded fuel and an engine overhaul by the original engine builder Ron Beatty and uprated rear discs by Alan Collins. The car has been regularly maintained by Marcus Barclay and recent replacement parts include the alternator, distributor and brake servo.
Jaguar gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/7.html
1965 Ferrari 250 LM - 23 pictures (including pics from the 2002/2003 restoration and the 1973 crash)
Chassis 6313, built in 1964, started life in 1965 with a number of races in the Ecurie Francorchamps team (1000km Monza, 500km Spa, 1000km Nuerburgring, 24h Le Mans, 12h Reims, Angola GP). After '65 it had a number of owners. Interesting things from this period are that it crashed in 1973, it was mistaken for 6023 in 1976 (owner discovered that it was 6313 during restoration in 1980) and the prices paid in 1975 ($25k) and 1990 ($5.5 million). In the early nineties 6313 was in Japan (including at Art Sports). Then in the summer of '92 it was auctioned by Coys for $1,7 million (!). The buyer could have been Prince Jefri. The only info I've got on this car from 1992 untill 1999 is that PJ was the registered owner in 1996. In the summer of 1999 the car got sold again for $1,95 million at Christie's at Pebble Beach.
Ferrari Part 2 gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/21.html
(Ferrari Part 1 gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/6.html)
Enjoy
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #573 Sun, Jun 8, 12:18 PM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Let's do a picture update on the ex-PJ Vector M12. I've found alot of pictures of this car and then I came across Fqogil's Vector archive, so I had even more pictures. I first made a selection of the best pictures and the ones that show interesting details, but then I realised that there are a handfull of people out there that want to see all pictures of this car and since it's the only Vector on that gallery page I just uploaded all of the pics (all 82 of them  ).
This black 1998 Vector M12 (VIN: 1V9MB1224X1048010) was one of PJ's Vegas kept cars. It was sold to Dr. Briney with 1,300 miles on the odo. Dr. Briney took the M12 to the Crystal Cove meetings a few times. Today, while still in the hands of Dr. Briney, the car is kept amongst it's Brunei brothers at the Marconi Automotive Museum in California.
Thanks to Patrick Shim for the info
Vector gallery page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/13.html
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #574 Sun, Jun 8, 5:25 PM |
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tdc911
Supercar Messiah - 3504
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Quote from yuma80 I don't know if this has posted here before as I'm just to lazy to click through all the pages...
Anyway, Marconi ought to have paid 7 million USD for it back then!
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Post #575 Fri, Jun 13, 4:51 PM |
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GTI WR6 TZ
New User - 22
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basman
is this a sultan of brunei F50
its RHD and in the UK
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=197926
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Post #576 Sat, Jun 14, 8:52 AM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Quote from GTI WR6 TZ basman
is this a sultan of brunei F50
its RHD and in the UK
http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=197926
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #577 Mon, Jul 7, 11:49 PM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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BIG THANKS to ArchangelGTR from AMF!!!
The first real photo of LM1...
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Post #578 Tue, Jul 8, 12:00 AM |
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Peloton25
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Silly me - I put it in the general McLaren thread. Doh!
>8^)
ER
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Post #579 Tue, Jul 8, 12:47 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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Quote from Peloton25
Silly me - I put it in the general McLaren thread. Doh!
>8^)
ER
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Post #580 Tue, Jul 8, 1:38 AM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Quote from yuma80 Nobody is perfect 
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #581 Tue, Jul 8, 2:00 AM |
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Peloton25
McLaren Freak - 4664
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Actually I was thinking about it more, and I believe my friends collection of Autoweeks started a few years after this issue.
Still though - I have been buying F1-related magazines from various places all over the world for years now. You would have thought that I might have stumbled upon this one by now. It seems incredible that the picture we were all after so badly was hidden neatly away in a weekly US car magazine - I am still dumbfounded over that.
>8^)
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Post #582 Tue, Jul 8, 2:47 AM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Quote from Peloton25 Actually I was thinking about it more, and I believe my friends collection of Autoweeks started a few years after this issue.
Still though - I have been buying F1-related magazines from various places all over the world for years now. You would have thought that I might have stumbled upon this one by now. It seems incredible that the picture we were all after so badly was hidden neatly away in a weekly US car magazine - I am still dumbfounded over that.
>8^)
ER
The paintjob looks soo good, better than in the drawing
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #583 Tue, Jul 8, 2:53 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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Quote from basman007
The paintjob looks soo good, better than in the drawing
I was thinking exact the same...
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Post #584 Thu, Jul 10, 2:31 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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Post #585 Thu, Jul 10, 3:21 AM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Quote from yuma80
A black F90 owow It looks very good like this! Love the initial design sketch as well.
Who is the gentleman posing with it?
I have been trying to get a Land Rover update together the last 2 weeks, but it isn't working out, so I have to postpone it. I think I'll go with Ferrari instead now
thanks again!
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
Edited by basman007 - Thu, Jul 10, 8:15 AM
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Post #586 Thu, Jul 10, 6:04 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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The gentleman is Enrico Fumia, the designer of the car.
At that time (1988) head of the Research and Development department at Pininfarina!
Meanwhile he has his own company -> http://www.fumiadesign.com/
Check out the concept car section, there you will find more infos about the F90 including a PDF document from the 2005 Ferrari yearbook mentioned below...
BTW:
It took almost 18 years before Ferrari official revealed the existance of the car in 2006 within its 2005 yearbook...
6 have been converted - known colours are black, red and yellow
Edited by yuma80 - Thu, Jul 10, 6:12 AM
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Post #587 Thu, Jul 10, 9:51 AM |
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dahldrin
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This is actually the first I've ever heard of it (the F90). Pretty awful, IMO. Cool to see photos of it, though.
And then I see a darkness
mag.Desert-Motors.com
Edited by dahldrin - Thu, Jul 10, 9:55 AM
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Post #588 Thu, Jul 10, 12:04 PM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Brunei cars, but not in Brunei spec yet/anymore.
Sometimes I come across some really interesting pictures of cars that have been in Brunei, but have just not yet undergone their conversion before going to Brunei or have allready been sold of and are allready in a different specification. I have decided to make a seperate page for the ones of you who are interested in these pics (posting them on the normall pages will get confusing). I will not go wild here posting everything I get my hands on, but just those few cars that are of extra interest
Here's the url of this page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/23.html
Ferrari 288 GTO - 2 pictures
First up are two new pictures + one picture that was allready on the Ferrari page of GTO S/N 55671.
I have posted about this car before, but I want to ask you guys again if you can help me find the article that was written about this car. It was first delivered to Ron Stratton in England who drove it back there from Maranello with a journalist riding shotgun to document what they were like to live with. It was on the plates "C224 EUL" when owned by Stratton.
After a conversion by Pininfarina it appeared in Brunei as:
FER F288 GTO BM9988 ZFFPA16B000055671
Dark Slate with Red Stripe (instead of the standard black stripe). It has a black interior with red piping on the seats.
It's hard to tell wether this is the same car that I've got allready a picture of in the gallery (the one next to the yellow Venice Estate).
In 2007 this car has found a new home with it's 3rd owner in New Zealand.
Ferrari F40 - 11 pictures
Here are 11 pictures taken this year + 5 pics from a few years back that were allready on the Ferrari page of the famous Talacrest F40. The new pics were taken by Paul Bryant.
S/N 91283 was one of the Brunei specials. After being built by Ferrari it was send to Pininfarina to be fitted with a special interior in the style of the Testarossa with leather everywhere, carpets, electric windows, conventional seatbelts and a sound system. It got repainted in a fantastic grey colour with red stripe. And mechanicly it it received a different exhaust and was converted to RHD.
Aparently it was first delivered in Spain before it got transported to Brunei. In 2002 it first appeared in the Talacrest showroom. After it got sold by Talacrest the new owner send the car to Terry Hoyle Racing Engineers for an 18 month restoration. It was brought back to rosso corsa, the TR interior was stripped and new seats were placed. However the electric windows and sound system remain. The engine appeared to be in perfect condition btw.
The then owner then stored 91283 with Duncan Hamilton for some period and attended one photographed (1 pic in the gallery) Ferrari meeting in the UK.
Interestingly enough this F40 appeared on the market again with the comeback of Talacrest on the 1st of april this year after a 5 year sabbattical. It was on the market for only a short period. John Collins has confirmed to me that it was sold during the last days of april/early days of may.
Again I have to say that I think it's an incredible shame that this car has partly been converted back to normal F40 spec
Pictures of this car in Brunei specification canbe found on the Ferrari page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/6.html
McLaren F1 - 6 pictures
And lastly I'll post a few pictures of how S/N 014 looks today. This car has relatively been covered alot, but I thought it's too interesting not to post
This originally yellow F1 ended up after it's Brunei time, via the UK, with the New Yorker Gaery Schaevitz. In november 2005 it was for sale in the Silicon Valley Auto Group showroom in Los Gatos, California. SVAG did receive bids for the car, but they didn't sell it untill august. In august 2006 014 was auctioned by RM Auctions at Pebble Beach. It was auctioned of at $1.55M + premium to Marvin H. Schein. Schein sent the car back to McLaren in the UK to get it painted white with black LM-style wheels and to get the High Downforce package.
The repaint also meant that the 1996 Michael Schumacher signature was gone. This got 'replaced' with Lewis Hamilton's signature in 2007.
Pictures of this car in Brunei specification canbe found on the McLaren page: http://www.supercars.net/gallery/129612/976/9.html
Another 'regular' update will follow very soon (when time allows me)
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
Edited by basman007 - Thu, Jul 10, 12:18 PM
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Post #589 Thu, Jul 10, 1:08 PM |
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basman007
Brunei Addict - 20766
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Quote from dahldrin
This is actually the first I've ever heard of it (the F90). Pretty awful, IMO. Cool to see photos of it, though.
http://www.supercars.net/Pics?viewPic=y&source=gal&uID=129612&gID=976&pgID=6&pID=451008&first=true
http://www.supercars.net/Pics?viewPic=y&source=gal&uID=129612&gID=976&pgID=6&pID=492540&first=true
http://www.supercars.net/Pics?viewPic=y&source=gal&uID=129612&gID=976&pgID=6&pID=492541&first=true
http://www.supercars.net/Pics?viewPic=y&source=gal&uID=129612&gID=976&pgID=6&pID=667182&first=true
http://www.supercars.net/Pics?viewPic=y&source=gal&uID=129612&gID=976&pgID=6&pID=635980&first=true
http://www.supercars.net/garage2/129612/galleries.html
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Post #590 Thu, Jul 10, 2:54 PM |
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Innotech
fUck this site - 38021
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Quote from yuma80
I have never seen these photos before
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I understand how scissors can beat paper, and I get how a rock can beat scissors, but there's no #$%#ing way paper can beat rock. Is paper supposed to magically wrap around rock and leave it immobile? Why the hell can't paper do this to scissors? Screw scissors, why can't paper do this to people? Why aren't sheets of college ruled notebook paper constantly suffocating students as they take notes in class? I'll tell you why, because paper can't beat anybody. A rock would tear that shit up in 2 seconds. When I play rock paper scissors, I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, oh shit Im sorry, I thought paper would protect you, asshole.
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Post #591 Thu, Jul 10, 8:53 PM |
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amenasce
STFU - 64022
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The F90 is horrible
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Post #592 Thu, Jul 10, 11:20 PM |
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afiqmeister
New User - 29
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Great update as usual Basman. Can't wait for the next one. I am really interested in the Brunei cars spotted in Brunei itself. Or even better- inside one of those huge garages
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Post #593 Fri, Jul 11, 3:56 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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rather small, but better than nothing...
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Post #594 Fri, Jul 11, 7:07 AM |
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Joao Gois
Supercar Messiah - 3661
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Quote from yuma80
rather small, but better than nothing...
Powered by passion, driven by knowledge
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Post #595 Fri, Jul 11, 7:19 AM |
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yuma80
retired member - 650
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Quote from Joao Gois
Isn't that in your avatar the road-going CLK LM? It's so hard to find pics of it... could you post your avatar & other pics you might have of it, please??
As for my avatar, it's just as tiny as you can see - sorry...
Edited by yuma80 - Fri, Jul 11, 7:19 AM
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