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I've seen that! My only beef is the location of the front axle, which offends against a principle often emphasised on the HAMB. And 900bhp out...
A full-on Photoshop seemed a bit excessive for an idea which is really tangential to your thinking, so a very rough pencil sketch will have to do:...
Or a '30s car done like a '70s/'80s Supersaloon. But that really suggests a saloon as a base: a stump-nosed, mid-engined Model A Tudor?
To complicate matters further, I've just remembered the Malaysian Bufori La Joya. Bufori seem to have taken over the old GP Madison kit car, a...
I took mine to diy ti spec too, with Webers. But I was a student at the time and could never afford to get the engine sorted properly. Nor could I...
The rear-engined teardrop was a bit of an international obsession — someone should write a book about the history of the type — but the Germans in...
[ATTACH] There was a coupé prototype, too: [ATTACH]
One high-end manufacturer who very early sought to bring coachbuilding in-house was Mercedes-Benz. This precedent was factory work: [ATTACH]...
A high-end production street car in that era would be coachbuilt! And then the question is, what would the customer have wanted to express? I'd...
First thing that jumps out at me is, are you taking the 900mm length as a space zone for the engine, or would you need to get the engine, the...
Also, look at Burney Streamlines: https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/automotive-weirdness.944738/#post-10627435 — not so much for their...
Idioms. I think the ideal image informing the late-Vintage idiom (i.e. c.1930) is the ocean liner, with its gallant prow, and the steam...
I've been trying for a long time to put my finger on a change in the way people think, from an artisan-tool mindset to a master-slave mindset. I...
The XY Falcon 4-door was assembled in South Africa and sold as a Fairmont. The GT version had quite a reputation here.
I have never in my life owned an automatic transmission, except for the few months my sister and I co-owned the 1975 W116 Mercedes-Benz we...
They couldn't have known, because what they made were just particularly happy iterations of what a lot of other people were doing at the time....
3.0 Essex V6s were a common swap into VW buses here during the '70s and '80s. (That paved the way for the subsequent Audi 5-cylinder buses from...
One of my ongoing daydream projects is a design of car for open-source, open-ended, IP-free decentralized manufacture, capable of being made in...
I don't think I've ever encountered the adjective form outside my own usage. It's from chronolatry, meaning literally worship of time, which was...
Another factor; just throwing it in: up to c.1933 cars readily disassembled into a small hardware store's worth of useful stuff. It was easy for a...
It occurred to me that the reason Brake D is applied in Neutral is to prevent the kind of planetary overspeeding issues which cause unwisely set...
Thinking about this some more, and learning a lot in the process. All automatic transmission valve bodies, as far as I know, use multiple...
Thinking about it now, the Cologne V6 is a cast iron 2-valve pushrod crossflow oversquare V-format engine, just like any classic American V8. All...
Tell me about it! It's a blurb designed to make you come away from noticing that the end product diametrically contradicts the stated brief with...
As far as I know, the only Ford engine Saab ever used was the 1.5l/1.7l Taunus V4, from which the Cologne/Köln V6 was subsequently derived. The...
Something I've noticed: manufacturers weren't all that big on badges until around the mid-'30s. It was as if there was a decorum about where to...
Sum-total of the entry in Burgess-Wise D (ed), The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Automobiles, Hamlyn 1979: "SPAULDING / USA 1910-1916 "From...
It would help to know the steering ratio. I believe stock Mercury was around 18:1? — relatively quick for a heavy American car of the era. The...
Engineers design to performance objectives and cost objectives and process objectives etc., and they're generally good at that; but they also...
My only car at present is 31 years old. My "real" computer, on which I do all my creative stuff, is 19 years old. It got to a point where I had...
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