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Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:07 pm

Interesting... Jacked up of course but it also looks like 4 wheel disc brakes with modern wheels?

Type IV engine too?

Fri Sep 17, 2021 1:39 pm

Looks to be a well built Baja. 10/10 would drive.

Sun Sep 19, 2021 9:27 am

saw an example of this type of citroen today on the A1

Sun Sep 19, 2021 11:58 am

Corvair Monza, Corvair waggy, & a Ford truck.

Sun Sep 19, 2021 10:25 pm

Aren't the Corvair Wagons super desirable?

I remember seeing someone say that somewhere online a while back and I remembered because there's one here in my town

Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:26 am

These are from the last few months of Cars and Coffees and the microcar show.

Mon Sep 20, 2021 11:15 am

^^ nice to see a velorex and the other tiddlers too!

Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:11 pm

ToolBox wrote: These are from the last few months of Cars and Coffees and the microcar show.

uff da.

That is definitely not one you see everyday.

Mon Sep 20, 2021 12:12 pm

We just had the hydrofoil races in Mission Bay last weekend. The big boats.
But what I really want to know about is that Ferrari. I've not seen that one before. What model?

Tue Sep 21, 2021 2:24 am

I googled 'ferrari no windscreen' which brought up the monza sp2 - for that authentic 'flies in the face' experience

Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:00 am

cdennisg wrote: ToolBox wrote: These are from the last few months of Cars and Coffees and the microcar show.

uff da.

That is definitely not one you see everyday.

There are a few more in the area. Most of the people who show up to this C&C are tied to the auto industry in some way. The depth of some of their collections is amazing. Pre production vehicles show up to be critiqued by the other designers that show up.

Here is a NYT article on the event. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/business/dream-cruise-car-designers.html

Tue Sep 21, 2021 9:09 am

I've seen that Stratos before. IIRC it's a replica from Eagle Cars in the UK. Runs an Alfa 6cyl, or did.

Wed Sep 22, 2021 3:16 am

A Lamborghini Diablo and a Lamborghini Countach on the Autobahn...like in an hour of each other...I loved Grand Tour track race of the Countach...on how bad it really was...

Fri Sep 24, 2021 3:37 am

Love Microcars!

ToolBox wrote: These are from the last few months of Cars and Coffees and the microcar show.

Thu Sep 30, 2021 8:58 am

A Kubel during a parade lap at Waterford Hills Road Race Course...

John Planck photo

Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:09 am

^ two kubels in fact :wink:

Thu Sep 30, 2021 10:44 am

finster wrote: ^ two kubels in fact :wink:
:lol:

Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:44 pm

Orange Thing with For Sale sign, in my small town.

Sun Dec 05, 2021 11:52 am

Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:44 pm

TDCTDI wrote:

Nice! Studebakers of this era were fascinating. Steve Magnante's "Junkyard Gold" covered several models, and is a story of trying to compete with the Big Three on a shoestring budget.

This car had a large V-8 and was a muscle car of the era. Fins were so popular, they grafted fiberglas fins on the rear fenders! Cheaper than retooling for an all new fender.

This one has Twin Traction (TT badge at the rear), the Studebaker/Packard version of posi-traction.

Or as the lovely Mona Lisa Vito said in "My Cousin Vinny", "It's a limited slip differential which distributes power equally to both the right and left tires. The '64 Skylark had a regular differential, which, anyone who's been stuck in the mud in Alabama knows, you step on the gas, one tire spins, the other tire does nothing."