Totally agree. I have been searching for an original Morris, or Austin S to race for a while now. They have become ridiculously expensive....
All right hairdressers then Something about the ZR1, I'm a 60/70's muscle car kind of guy but I could see this as my day to day runabout for shopping Obviously due to the very real danger of climate change I will get a hybrid. Pretty sure that's the term for fitting Nitrous
Exactly. Hybrids for everyone... It must look stupid, ridiculous, and cost 2X what a regular car does... However, I am partial to one of these... Yes. I do like the hybrid....
I loved my Italian motorbikes. All the performance and handling of a Ferrari at an affordable price. I sold my Moto Guzzi Le Mans 2 to a friend who still uses it as a daily commuter. It has over 125,000 miles on the clock and starts at the first touch of the button.
Yup! I taught my wife to drive in one of the original 1960 era Mini's and then I taught my daughter to drive in 2012 Mini Cooper. The handling always puts a big smile on your face and if I can find a decent used one I might buy it as a 2nd car just for the fun of driving it.
The all electric Rimac C-Two does 0-16 in 1.85 seconds with a top speed of 258 mph. http://www.rimac-automobili.com/en/supercars/c_two/ I costs just a little bit more than just 2 times what a regular car costs.
I don't care. I just like his cars. If I was alive in 1937 and wanted some delousing supplies I'd probably go to Germany too. So what. I'm not a fan of boycotts.
I bet. The Porsche is about $1.7M. Also, slightly more than 2X what the regular ones might cost... Looks cool though. Does it go farther than 300 miles yet?
I have a hindsight story. Back when I a young man I saw a Ferrari 5 liter Super America in a used car lot in Portland, Oregon in 1968. The sticker price was $4500. I discussed it with a friend who was an amateur road racer. He explained that I may be able to afford to buy it but I may not be able to afford to maintain it. I looked at the prices to maintain it and decided he was right. I walked away. 15 years later I was driving in Ft. Lauderdale with a couple of my sales reps and passed by a Ferrari dealership. I swerved in just to spend a few moments gawking. Low and behold, they had a Ferrari 5 liter Super America with those same Oregon license plates attached. An employee there explained that the car had belonged to Gino Martelli who was head mechanic for the Ferrari African racing team. Enzo Ferrari had given it to him as a gift when he retired to Portland and took a job as service manager at a Volkswagen dealership there He said I could buy it for $45,000 - ten times its price from 10 years earlier. I haven't seen or heard about the car since then but I can assure you it would now sell for millions. How smart it would have been to buy it in 1968 and put it up on blocks for a few decades. Car collectors are as emotional as they are wealthy. The collector car market is truly crazy.
A lot of people don't understand that electric motor torque works in the opposite way as that of reciprocating engines. Maximum torque occurs with the motor at rest and declines as RPM increases. Gas engines have zero torque at rest and the torque increases with RPM. That explains the incredible starting acceleration of electric motor driven vehicles. They will push you back into your seat.
Back in the 90's I almost gave in to a Ducati 900 SS after a test drive but it was just a little too raw for me. (That's code talk for it was a brute and had me a little scared)
So, as with all things, the trick is actually getting the power down to the road. Without wheel spin. For electrics, this must come as a function of computer assisted modulation. Otherwise, the car would just sit there and spin. Like a Hemi Cuda....
When I was just getting out of college, I became very emotional about a 63 Maser 3500 GT spyder. It wasn't terribly expensive, at the time, was in marginal shape (had several mechanical issues, electrical issues). I had the money, but frankly, didn't have the necessary garage that it would have required to be brought back to life over the years it would have taken to restore it. I still look fondly whenever I see one. They are, now like so many of the classics almost unobtainable. Yes, they are now expensive, but because there were so few of them actually built, they just almost never come to market. I really like these early/mid 60s Italian marks. Some of the most beautiful, sensuous lines ever laid down on a chassis are from this era. The Maser just being one.
I have several classics, but I am looking for another...specifically a 60's era Dodge Town Panel...the 60's era dodges have the 50's body style, but are updated to the 12 volt systems and standard motors is the 229 slant six. Which in my opinion is one of the best motors ever built. Parts are easily available as the motors were still being made up until 1993 for marine applications. I'm also looking for the Dodge lil red express, but I doubt I will find one in reasonable condition that I could afford.
Gender? Ferarri built tractors before they built cars. As for gender, I don''t know what you're talking about.
I doubt that I have ever seen a Slant Six in a boat. Chrysler did build six cylinder marine engines from the 1920's on. But these were large displacement flathead sixes.
I was going by memory and it was used till 1991 not 1993. We are talking about higher end boats with inboards not your typical bass boat or ski boat https://www.allpar.com/slant6.html
Cool looking truck. I am assuming the panel, non window version? I found a couple on for sale sites all under 15K. From this era, I am a Willys Fan.
