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-Andrew L
I thought it had a V12 badge on the trunk -but I could be wrong.
I defer to the more knowledgable members of this board.
Early Corvair coupe, reminded me for some reason of the '46 or so Plymouth coupe I saw yesterday. Same bright blue color but also there's something very smooth about both of them and very fluid, like they were sitting back on their haunches ready to run (or maybe it's just weak springs).
Very clean '71-3 Cougar convertible GT, medium dark green. This isn't my favorite Cougar but they've grown on me--they certainly make a statement, something rare in these cautious times.
cars with Penn. plates driving thru the
snow Saturday
This morning I saw a somewhat unusual car. It was a hearse based on a 1992-96 Chevrolet Caprice. It appeared to be in extremely good condition. I've seen hearses based on Cadillacs, Lincolns, and an occassional Buick, but this is the first one I've seen based on a Chevrolet.
Quite a few hybrids here in California as well.
I only saw the rear end of it as it passed me while I was waiting for a light to change.
Based on pix from their website http://www.qvaleauto.com
I'm glad I only saw the rump!
was UGLY lime green color. Could of been
a Toyota !
The hybrid I'd like to see (not my own invention really, I seem to remember reading about Dodge trucks doing something related to this in the future) would be a FWD car with a RWD electric setup. With proper sensor/computer controls, I expect you'd need no mechanical interconnect. The RWD part would push a bit on hills and also provide AWD capability if the fronts were spinning.
A Qvale Mangusta? I know what a deTomaso Mangusta is but am not familiar with a Qvale Mangusta. Are we talking about the same thing?
http://www.gbclassiccars.co.uk/triumph_herald.html
http://www.philseed.com/trherald.html
I'm with Bill (wherever he is) on post-war British sedan styling--I love it.
http://nakedchassis.co.uk/2001/06/C0005.shtml
http://formen.ign.com/news/26860.html
I used to own a special bodied car that was built on a Herald chassis, called a Bond Equipe GT, and like the Herald, it was awful to drive. It was a kind of frog-like fiberglas body with typical British Jurassic-level quality to the glaswork. Coupled to the thrashing Herald engine and grinding-marbles gearbox and baby-buggy suspension, it wa a thrill a minute at speed.
To think that the same country produced the E-Type and the Herald at the same time. What an eccentric Island People!
This has to be one of the rarest cars I have seen, I may see a TR2, 3, 4 or 5, but I haven't seen a Herald in over 20 years. It was a good trip down memory lane.
I have 4 large books on Triumph and none even mention the Herald. Some things are best forgotten.
Now I wouldn't mind owning a Borgward again, but that of course is another story.
No reason Borgward could not have been BMW. They were about equal in size and product in the late 50s, but obviously not in visions for the future.
OK have to confess, although it didn't look, at first glance, like a hot rod, with super wide rear tires or anything, & it was fairly plain looking, but at closer look you could see it had about 1500 bucks worth of tires & wheels...owner was coming out when I was loading up, I commented "you don't see many vegas around these days" turns out he has hundreds of hours of labor, many thousands of $, and now has a vega with a 327, nearly 400 h.p., does a 1/4 mile in low 10's. I told the guy I ran around with a guy in highschool in early 80's with a vega that woulda taken about 10 MINUTES to go 1/4 mile!
He takes off fairly aggressively and I notice that the engine doesn't sound old-timey like an American six or V8 from the late '50s would. It sounds surprisingly modern and very German, with a hint of whirring mechanical overtones that might have been the timing chain. Very entertaining in a subtle way.
The deck seems incredibly long and the car looks a little like those Gran Prix streamliners Germany built during the '30s. Maybe it was just the beautiful silver body.
He works his way into third and I notice that the ratios are pretty close. It's not the sound of a really close-ratio box--like you're shifting into the same gear each time--but with minimal rpm drop.
He leaves behind the smell of unburned hydrocarbons, something every old car seems to do regardless of condition.
When I was very young I had a metal model of a gullwing and the 300 has always been one of those mythic cars that are larger than life to me (and to lots of people I guess). It's the second one I've seen on the street this year but the closest I've been to one in many years.
The 300SL is one of the very few collectible cars in which the coupe is worth considerably more than the roadster. The only other one that comes to mind is the 1963 Corvette Split Window coupe.
The Heralds biggest contribution was its front suspension. Triumph designed a beautiful unequal length double a-arm suspension with a coil over tube shock. Lotus lifted this suspension for the Elan and pieces of it were used on many small sports racers.
Heralds have a small following among Triumph people in the US and the Sports 6 (the US model Vitesse) is actually sought after. One very nice Sports 6 went for over $17k a few years ago. Silly money I know but someone paid it.
I must confess, I am one of the afflicted. I have 4 Triumphs including a Sports 6 convertible. Don't ask how many run.
Cheers
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Ah, I like to make fun of obscure cars but--- They're like the sad puppies people drop off at the pound---deep down I really like them and feel sorry for them.
When I pulled into the parking garage at work this morning there was a white 911E in the stall next to mine. What does the "E" stand for and is it a rare model?
I'm still trying to figure out why this guy chose a 15 degree day to break out his toy. He usually drives a mid-90s Taurus to work.
The E suffered from two major problems that I'm aware of offhand. One, the hydropneumatic struts that were supposed to take the place of both shocks and springs. Good in theory, not so good in reality. Very expensive to fix, and you're better off converting to the standard suspension (shock + torsion bar) from the T models
The other problem was the injection system, which gives terrible gas mileage and is very difficult to get just right.
If you want a 69-71 type 911 (they have a longer wheelbase than the earlier ones, so that's good for comfort and handling), and you can't afford an "S", then buy a 70-71 "T" model, which avoids the two major problems of the "E"---all you lose is some power, but the early 911sare not particulary fast by modern standards anyway, so......
Actually, I kinda liked the front-end on these. It gave the car an almost tough, menacing look. A comparable 'Stang looked wussy in comparison! Of course, the primer-black paint on this particular example might have helped that image!
Having said that, I'd probably never go to the trouble to learn enough about them to really keep one up. There seems to be a fair amount of reasonably specialized knowledge that I'm to lazy to pick up.
Also seen during my recent week in Arizona (Phoenix/Tempe/Mesa/Gold Canyon/Sedona):
-70s Ford Maverick
-55-59? Hudson with body work like an old Ambassador.
-Sundry old Brit cars seen at an MG Club show. Most interesting were the big Healeys. The desert sun plays havoc on those wood dashes.
Happy Thanksgiving
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
(I tried searching on SEAT to see if this was already covered, I got more on heated seats than I wanted to know.)