And together they both went broke a short time later. Never did care for European styling of any era. Sorry.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/what-the-what.1138117/page-2#post-15001404 ...I guess this fits here...Don Blair was a Hotrod guy and ran an auto parts business...he ran some less than polished Hotrods at the dry lakes that no doubt were competitive and notable...this was one of them... I've always noted the oddballs with interest... What made this standout was the front suspension...transverse sprung but also partially independent...personally anything but I beam gets the big sledge around here but I think this setup looked pretty trick...but that's just my opinion...the image below shows a painstakingly krafted cardboard nose with some serious graphics to great the curious... Did it go?...quoted from Hop Up... " a successful experiment in sprint car design, this rig has turned well over 120 mph in 1/4 mile, from a standing start. A tubular frame and unique IFS system are featured. Engine is an over - bored Mercury , uses nitro methane as fuel. note the lack of radiator" I only recently found in search what I think he ran on that reversed crossmember...I believe it was an aftermarket Speedex Independent front suspension from the UK available in the mid 50's...perhaps purchased in the US as continental drift of auto and goods post war was probably becoming commonplace...
Well, the Delahayes that most people know look the way they do because they have Saoutchik or Figoni & Falaschi coachwork. Here is F&F coachwork on a Talbot-Lago: and on a Bugatti:
Anyone know about the Clark Header Co. on the side of the coupe about 10 messages above? In the 60s I loaned my early Enderle injectors to a guy with the last name Clark. He was building his own and wanted to see how mine were made. I got them back in a gunny sack and was not happy.
On FB today: Coadou-Fleury Aerolithe Marcel Coadou in the early 20’s France formed his company Coadou-Fleury and started to produce motor vehicles, starting with a cycle car powered by 4-cyl 850/903cc (Austin Ruby) engine. Aerolithe (1934) Very little confirmed information is to be found but the coupe was possible based upon and/or powered by a Citroen (B2) or Rosalie 4-cyl 1452cc engine with a 3-speed manual transmission as there are references for both. A potential crash may have sealed the cars fate and not survived?
Found this,,,,,but I dont speak that language https://aventure-citroen-min.foruma...n-rosalie-b2-aerolithe-par-marcel-coadou-1935
My French is extremely rusty, but that's an interesting link. Following the tangent: https://aventure-citroen-min.forumactif.com/t1455-la-citroen-c4-vent-debout-1930 This also picks up on the early French pontoon body rabbit hole I went down a few years ago: see earlier posts in this thread.
Some of the cars on this thread remind me of a Christmas gift I received recently, a thesaurus with absolutely nothing printed inside it's covers. There were no words to express my feelings.
Caught in the wild: "Bridges Lightning Bug "Is a streamline concept car created by Dr Calvin Blackman Bridges in the mid 30’s USA, built based upon a tubular space frame chassis/cage with aluminium bodywork featuring plastic (Pyralin) windows and powered by a rear-mounted engine. "Some photos appear to show a single rear wheel and others two, so it may have been modified during development. "Bridges passed away in 1938 and the vehicle has been lost to history."
Haven't we had the Claveau yet? "Claveau 1927 "Built by Émile Claveau, Paris, France. The car on the image is a prototype from ± 1927 that was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1928."
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