WebClips - links to items on the interwebs

Welcome to webclips, let’s start with a few “blasts from the past”, here’s a Pistonheads thread with scans of a load of old 70’s and 80’s car brochures, how many do you remember, better still, how many did you own! http://bit.ly/J1KCcj

Here’s a build in photographs of a 1986 E38 with an S38B engine and gearbox plus uprated brakes etc, very nice build: http://bit.ly/Kn77b1

How about a glider that you can launch “on foot”? Must be the closest thing to flying naturally that there is, it’s amazing! http://bit.ly/JE5CG8

Back to motorised stuff now…a go kart that has a Yamaha R1 motorcycle engine in a Beisse Shifter chassis sporting around 180BHP!  It weighs in at about 220lbs, apparently the previous owner had it up to 181 mph before a tire blew out. http://bit.ly/IlnoAp

Here’s a great video for all you budding car photographers, Blair Bunting photographs and then Photoshop’s a Lamborghini Aventador, it’s very interesting http://bit.ly/JJHs0C

Great spin recovery from Jamie Whincup in an Australian race http://bit.ly/Kk09D4

OK, we’ve had the glider, now a Personal Air and Land Vehicle (PAL-V), it’s a car and a plane type thing (gyrocopter), and apparently it’s legal in the air and on the road http://bit.ly/IlsGhi

By now you know that I am a fan of drifting (when done well!), here are three motorcycle riders doing a great job of it on two wheels: http://bit.ly/IA2gpb

Here’s an interesting article on the BBC web site about “halo” cars, according to BMW (and others) they are very important to the brand: “It is very, very important for us," says BMW's Mr Cox. "It's seen as a brand shaper. People want to be part of that club." Which is great news for fans of high performance variants of what are otherwise normal everyday cars: http://bbc.in/IifKoS

Like thrills? Want to be scared? How about a very fast downhill ride on a bike? This is really scary stuff: http://bit.ly/Kk0PZc

This next one is titled “People ARE Amazing 2012” and I have to agree, what it is that drives some people to do some of this stuff bewilders me, but I applaud their efforts and long may they continue….otherwise we’d have nothing to put in this column! http://bit.ly/JSzUH9

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I could really do with some help in finding interesting stuff on the internet so please do email me with your ideas for links I can include in future editions of WebClips.  We also have our own video channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/BMWCCGB and our photos on flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/bmwccgb/. Also, don’t forget that we now have a Facebook page here: http://on.fb.me/xIqqnq , Twitter account (@BMWCCGB) and a blog www.bmwccgb.blogspot.com please take a look and get involved!

Please send me links to any interesting items you find on your travels around the interwebs and I'll see if we can get it mentioned here in a future edition of the magazine.

Have fun and be safe on the interwebs!