It took me awhile but I just found and watched a video and the owner said they were not functional. They were added to simulate cooling for the rear brakes.
...fresh swoop...fresh as in recently captured...last month at the Jam-Up... What's cool is the subject at hand can be found in many forms not always considered...I chose a crop of an image I took to better focus on elements that have swoop and in the case of this image both Customs provide it... I guess regionally many are inundated with shows catering to our vintage interests here...were I live I have to venture out and I did. This show gave and gave...it was a good day...in fact there was an overwhelming supply of quality material...I ran out of juice...smiling...
I wouldn't be surprised if that look you're funning about had an influence on it...truth is many times stranger than fiction... Bttt...
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-milthorpe-ford-v8-special.942632/ ...The Milthorpe Ford V8 Special...featured in a Thread by @Jive-Bomber some time ago...do check it out, what an incredible read...All I'll say is it started out as a 1941 Ute...the rest is described explicitly within the thread by Jive and the owner...
O/T but maybe humorous: I had a friend who rented one for a weekend. He was going to copy it to build a kit car. Made some forms, pulled a fibergl*** plug, took it back to the dealer. It was a mess. The factory found out, contacted him, threatened legal action. He was forced to destroy the Miura molds.
Walter Baker (owner of Baker Motor Vehicle Company) at the starting line in his Torpedo Kid 2 in 1903.
1951 Lancia Aurelia B20 GT that was modified by the factory with a chopped top and lowered headlights for better racing aerodynamics.
From last weekend, a rare Rosengart Super Traction, build for maybe 6 month right before WWII, because they were almost bankrupt at that time they used a Citroën Traction Avant engine. The deal with Citroën was to not build any 4 door sedan, so they built only convertibles and coupes. About 1000 have been built with the vast majority being the rag top. After the war in '48 they tried to build a 4 door using the Mercury flathead V8 and went belly up.
Nope, I've never even seen one. It seems that only the ones that were shown in '46,'47 and '48 on the auto shows were the ones made. So it's really a handfull. I believe that only a 4 door and a convertible survived but don't bet your life on that.
Panhard & Lev***or Dynamic 1936-1939 coach (5 window coupe) Powered by an inline 6 sleeve valve engine produced under a Knight license A neat feature that proved too odd for the consumer a center steering wheel from '36 to '38 as shown in this ultra rare coupé (3window), only 2 known survivors.
I have the remains of one of those . Then again it might just be a single Topolino C type seat frame .
there was a early fifties stude with a c3 corvette nose land speed car found and sold a year ago if i remember it was home built and went out the back at near 300 mph and boy does that nose look like it belongs there
I can just read PANHARD on that one . Above to the right behind the two men just happens to be a C type Topolino / Simca 6 coupe which you almost never see these days. Plenty of the convertible/cabriolet type around though.
That's the 1948 Panhard Dynavia : 2 built 1 still exist, aluminium body, 650kg and a cx of 0.26, 650cc engine. 78mpg. If I recall 3 headlights of different colors to make 1 white beam. I guess it inspired Roth?
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