Any Rennlisters from New Zealand?
12-09-2014, 10:05 PM
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Seems to be a reasonable choice. Just need a 100mm reinforced concrete floor. I like the portable hoist better than the scissor lift given they both have the same floor requirements.
12-09-2014, 10:10 PM
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12-10-2014, 12:02 AM
Pete's efforts are a hard act to follow, but the H weapons will roll into battle again this weekend.
You are a mine of info Walter!
12-10-2014, 12:50 AM
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LOL! I could also change my name to something like....Max! Joking. The idea has crossed my mind many times. I probably have the connections and some of the experience (in a reverse manner), but it wouldnt make a good living. More a passion. The numbers we are talking about are very small, the NZ vendors a tough bunch and the wealthy offshore buyers even more so. Ive looked at the margin calcs and to make it bearable for both buyer and seller parties (10%) its borderline. I see why the guys who make good from it like the guy I know in Monaco I mentioned only touch the heavy metal. 500K plus at 5% plus dispersements and it starts to work. The thing is the real margin is in doing it from NZ would be in buying the cars and exporting them yourself. Just need a strong network on the other side. Certainly something I may foster when in UK next and the working capital isnt too much of an issue. If you see me starting to buy 3.3T on TM in the next few years you will know whats up ;-)
12-10-2014, 03:48 AM
Might not be Rennlist's fault.
I spent some time recently looking into this problem for another iPerson. IIRC, the bottom line is that iPhones are like digital cameras in that they record the orientation of the photo at the time you snap it, but unlike Android phones, they do it as as a function of the iPhone's orientation rather than the direction of gravity. So if you hold your iPhone 'upside down' your photo is tagged to be 'this way up' (upside down). This allows creative Apple effects like your ceiling hugging cars, which would normally need post-processing - ie flipping - to achieve with most Android phone cams. Increasing the potential for confusion, i believe recent iPhones have the official 'shutter' button on 'top', but can also allow the button on the opposite side to trigger the camera, making it easy to inadvertently use it when held upside down.
As you noticed John, even if the pic is later flipped in some 3rd party editor it can still retain Apple's original 'this way up' flag, which some software still respects. Really annoying - even more so with videos, where a 'fixed' video may show fine on PC but not back on an Apple device for instance. Hampton laps look quite different upside down.
iExperts probably know more about it and apparently there are some apps that can correct the upside photos/videos automatically. Easiest though is probably to just assign a different function to the iPhone's 'false' shutter button, leaving just the proper button active.
TLDR version: just stop holding the camera upside down
I spent some time recently looking into this problem for another iPerson. IIRC, the bottom line is that iPhones are like digital cameras in that they record the orientation of the photo at the time you snap it, but unlike Android phones, they do it as as a function of the iPhone's orientation rather than the direction of gravity. So if you hold your iPhone 'upside down' your photo is tagged to be 'this way up' (upside down). This allows creative Apple effects like your ceiling hugging cars, which would normally need post-processing - ie flipping - to achieve with most Android phone cams. Increasing the potential for confusion, i believe recent iPhones have the official 'shutter' button on 'top', but can also allow the button on the opposite side to trigger the camera, making it easy to inadvertently use it when held upside down.
As you noticed John, even if the pic is later flipped in some 3rd party editor it can still retain Apple's original 'this way up' flag, which some software still respects. Really annoying - even more so with videos, where a 'fixed' video may show fine on PC but not back on an Apple device for instance. Hampton laps look quite different upside down.
iExperts probably know more about it and apparently there are some apps that can correct the upside photos/videos automatically. Easiest though is probably to just assign a different function to the iPhone's 'false' shutter button, leaving just the proper button active.
TLDR version: just stop holding the camera upside down
12-10-2014, 04:59 AM
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12-10-2014, 05:50 AM
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http://www.ferdinandmagazine.com/car...he-ice-driving
Take a read of this. My dates in January locked in now. Could be rubbing bumpers with Carlos Sainz, Adrian Newey?? who knows. Should be fun fun fun.
Take a read of this. My dates in January locked in now. Could be rubbing bumpers with Carlos Sainz, Adrian Newey?? who knows. Should be fun fun fun.
12-10-2014, 05:54 AM
Oh yes. In 5 years I'll have the track to myself -- everyone else will spend the day in pitlane with toothbrushes and white gloves, cleaning off the dirt from the drive there. In 10 years collectors will be going crazy over the combination of raw power and unbridled 80s sex appeal that is the 944 and I'll sell my car ("One careful lady owner. Never been tracked. Never been intimate with the walls at HD turns 1 and 10" etc etc.) and retire. Better buy a 944 now while you can afford one, gentlemen!
12-10-2014, 06:25 AM
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Oh yes. In 5 years I'll have the track to myself -- everyone else will spend the day in pitlane with toothbrushes and white gloves, cleaning off the dirt from the drive there. In 10 years collectors will be going crazy over the combination of raw power and unbridled 80s sex appeal that is the 944 and I'll sell my car advertising it on Trade me for $150,000 ("One careful lady owner. Never been tracked. Never been intimate with the walls at HD turns 1 and 10" etc etc.) and retire. Better buy a 944 now while you can afford one, gentlemen!
12-10-2014, 03:46 PM
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http://www.ferdinandmagazine.com/car...he-ice-driving Take a read of this. My dates in January locked in now. Could be rubbing bumpers with Carlos Sainz, Adrian Newey?? who knows. Should be fun fun fun.