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. Posted using the Full Custom H.A.M.B. App!
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.
Who says treehuggers lack the self dicipline to do things right and follow a job through to completion...
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."
^ 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.
These seems like a cool option: 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.
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.
^ 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.
Not HAMB friendly, it is a 1949 Porsche Gmund. Unfortunately, they didn't make these (Wagon). Its just a photoshop.
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.
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.
Great subject from my point of view. Below is how I'm dealing with the issue of street-streamliners. Yes a tadpole autocycle.
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
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 I feel is the most beautiful car ever made...
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.
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.
Looks like you've got the bodywork done. There is thread just on that car here somewhere. Hope to see it completed.
The image I posted in November 2015 seems to have disappeared. No matter, here is another, posted on FB today: (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: 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?
Interesting coachwork on a 6-cylinder Alfa-Romeo, done in either 1930 or 1932 by one Joachim Kusters in Brazil: https://blog.hemmings.com/?s=argentina+hearse http://www.allcarindex.com/main-index/car-make-details/Brazil-Kusters/
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