Great day out at the Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse, with loads of Italian metalwork, modern and classic-
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Scottish Italian Car Day
Great day out at the Hill of Tarvit Mansionhouse, with loads of Italian metalwork, modern and classic-
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Looks like a fab day out, Ali, especially as I love Italian sports cars. Wish I'd been there!
Marco.
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
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Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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And my contribution to the festivities (turned out to be the only one there)
Don McCorleone
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Aye, a grand day. Nice weather too. Lots of cars I'd have happily taken home!Originally Posted by Marco
Looks like a fab day out, Ali, especially as I love Italian sports cars. Wish I'd been there!
Marco.
Don McCorleone
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Couldn't leave this beautiful pair out -
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I think you've probably got most of my all-time favourites there. All that's missing is a Miura, preferably in orange and a FIAT 124 AC coupe (never liked the spider quite as much).
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Don McCorleone
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Aye, I spent most of the day drooling. Loved that Delta Integrale!
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Just had to put these up too, this was in beautiful condition -
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love the 'Dino' at the top.
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Aye, sounded even better than it looks.
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