Most beautiful machine ever made...

Ok, it's friday and I'm winding down. Whats the most beautiful machine ever made in your opinion? just been reading about cruisliners, and this has to be one of the most awesomely beautiful machines ever made. I can think of a few cars that rival it though...

SS Normandie, 1930's cruisliner, almost twice the tonnage of the Titanic, and a lot longer.

 

8v golf, built 1990 in Wolfsburg, considerably lighter than the Titanic and seats 5 comfortably.

 

My vote goes to the
MK.v Spitfire

Cheers
David

 

Oh yes...

 

for me it would be a car, a mercedes sl gullwing. currently selling for around the 250K mark

 

This looks okay:



and so does this:



but I also like this:

 

Old wooden speedboats are feckin ace.

 

i saw a riva moored up in cardigan west wales in the summer, really odd place to see one, nobody even new whos it was, i popped back to take a pic but it had gone.

 

I'm taking bets now on Broke posting a machine gun pic in this thread.

 

The human, I'd say.

After that it could be any fine piece of equipment, from a firearm to a watch to whatever

Broke

 

You very nearly would have won, but as you were posting that, I posted my vote of a human, but the gun was a close second

For the record, it was too hard to pick any one gun, the GE134 was thought of, a nice H&H rifle, a German MG34 or MG42, the original German assualt rifle, the AK47, Sigs and CZ pistols, and so on.

Broke

 

Don't call me the fortuneteller for nothing!

 

You were within seconds of being 100% correct, but to be honest, who here wouldn't have guessed I was going to post a pic of a firearm?

Broke

 

True.

The real spooky thing is, I didn't even know you were online at the time! Yikes!

 

Well, cars aside (and the Spitfire) ... Bismarck, 41'673 tons of pure power, yet she was still graceful.





The beautiful (but flawed) HMS Hood is a very close second ...




... pride of the Royal Navy for 20 years, she sunk in less than 2 minutes.

 

Oh well hell.... here






Swiss built mini Colt Python

It is fully working, double action revolver, with special swiss built rimfire ammo for it.

Broke

 

I find things that SAVE a life must more beautiful in general (apart from the F14)



Yet another gun massacre in the US this week...

 

I'd also put in a vote for the Hawker Typhoon, brutal yet beautiful ..



And the Lockheed F104 Starfighter, the 'missile with a man in it' ...



And the B-17, beautiful with its purposeful lines and tough reputation ...

 

Yep, that little pistol is TRULY a vicious weapon designed for slaughtering the innocent.

 

Some of the little ones were pretty, too