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Street Legal Streamliners?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by 60 Plymouth, May 3, 2012.

  1. Paul
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    Norman Timbs Special




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  2. 64 DODGE 440
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    Someone needs to bring that back to life.
     
  3. It has already been restored. The Rodders Journal did a story on it in issue #48
     
  4. gyronaut
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    Norman Timbs Special getting held up by slower traffic. It's roadworthy and registered...

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  5. mphudak
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    There was an episode on my classic car about it and the owners Hudson italia. Very cool car. Small fortune in the real gold flake alone in the paint.

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  6. Ned Ludd
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    George Eyston's Speed of the Wind. It feels more than a bit undershod, and I'm not crazy about the front end, but there's a lot I could directly transpose onto a hot rod.
     
  7. falcongeorge
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    Who says treehuggers lack the self dicipline to do things right and follow a job through to completion...
     
  8. Ned Ludd
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    More my cup of tea:
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  9. Ned Ludd
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    Volkhart V2 Sagitta: VW-based, 1947:
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  10. gnichols
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    I think this would have been a great 2-door convertible sports car. But...
    As Forest Gump might have said, "Fugly is as fugly does."
     
  11. 50Fraud
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    ^ Looks like they were going for a quantum improvement in aerodynamics over the stock beetle body. It would be interesting to know how much the top speed was affected with this body.
     
  12. volvobrynk
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    These seems like a cool option: ImageUploadedByH.A.M.B.1422993061.537892.jpg
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    Some of them is 2stroke, but the last one holds a V4, and there is room for improvement.

    But a vw 1600 diesel, no huffer 1977-1993 does 19-23km per liter. And can fit in most things. Will work damn fine in a Track T. It's available with a turbo, slows down on the economy, but still better then most. We talk 18-20km per liter.
     
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  13. James D
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    A nice 1939 Mercedes 320 Stromlinien-Limousine. I dare say the "aero" had a lot more to do with form than function, but it was still good for 78mph.

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  14. 50Fraud
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    ^ I like the looks of that Mercedes. I had never seen a picture of it until a year or so ago; I guess maybe it lay around unrestored for a long time.
     
  15. Fulvia
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    Not HAMB friendly, it is a 1949 Porsche Gmund. Unfortunately, they didn't make these (Wagon). Its just a photoshop. :(
     
  16. James D
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    Yeah it was a new addition to the Mercedes Museum, the last time I was there. Not sure where they'd been hiding it, or if it was a recent aquisition.
     
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  17. Jalopy Joker
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    Eagle Field Hot Rod Gathering 10-09-10 020 (Small).jpg Eagle Field Hot Rod Gathering 10-09-10 019 (Small).jpg Eagle Field Hot Rod Gathering 10-09-10 021 (Small).jpg Eagle Field Hot Rod Gathering 10-09-10 022 (Small).jpg Eagle Field Hot Rod Gathering 10-09-10 023 (Small).jpg The Meteor Built in late 30's for dry lakes, street driven in 40's (hidden headlights), see article in issue #10 of Rod&Kulture and others.
     
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  18. Ned Ludd
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    DB2-Citroën, courtesy of Marc Hendrix:
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    Edit due to broken link. Here's another pic:
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  19. Ari Lea
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    Great subject from my point of view.
    Below is how I'm dealing with the issue of street-streamliners. Yes a tadpole autocycle.
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  20. Ned Ludd
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    Welcome Ari. Though I suspect many of us here would want to see your project with little flat-glass windows and covered in flush rivets :)
     
  21. 64 DODGE 440
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    Maybe even button head rivets. :)
     
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  22. Zandoz
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    Every time I see a belly tank o the bay I wish I still had the health and fabrication skills to tackle doing a street legal one passenger interpretation.

    I'm surprised someone has not brought up the teardrop cars from the 30s. This Talbot Lago Talbot Lago Teardrop.jpg I feel is the most beautiful car ever made...
     
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  23. Ned Ludd
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    On Facebook today:
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    "Fiat 500 Testa Siata 1938"
     
  24. Ned Ludd
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    Found today, again on FB:
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    1935 Škoda Dynamic concept.
     
  25. James426
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    Here is one that I had found in a back yard in Southfield Michigan. It is pictured in a previous post restored. 1937 Adler Rennlimousine Lemans Competition Coupe. I don't know what the numbers are on the design, but it looks pretty slippery. 10440868_700568570059766_5923023097674947410_n.jpg 11063928_700568730059750_4536351266239610752_n.jpg 10987417_700568673393089_682159742063441417_n.jpg
     
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  26. James426
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    This is one I own now. It is a 1931 Pierce Arrow land speed car. If I can get this one restored I would like to drive it on the street and return it to Daytona Beach.
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  27. Doctorterry
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    I've got a friend with a belly tank just sitting in his field. Ran when he bought it off of Egay
     
  28. blowby
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    Looks like you've got the bodywork done. ;)

    There is thread just on that car here somewhere. Hope to see it completed.
     
  29. Ned Ludd
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    The image I posted in November 2015 seems to have disappeared. No matter, here is another, posted on FB today:

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    (I image-searched for a non-FB web address, so hopefully this one won't disappear quite as quickly.)

    It raises all kinds of possibilities. The above approach was used on a lot of factory speed record attempts in the era after WWII. I think also of the Peugeot 404 diesel record car of 1965:

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    The practicality of the single-seat arrangement is, of course, an issue in a street-driven car. But what about a '50s American convertible with tandem seating on one side only, an integrated rigid tonneau cover like the ones in these pics, all kinds of aerodynamic detail tweaks, and something like a Messerschmitt microcar canopy?
     
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  30. Ned Ludd
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