Yep ugly but cool. Pat
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Yep ugly but cool. Pat
oops, I stand corrected, the ones I looked at were 440ci.............Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm
Plenty of 440 Challengers about. I suspect many of them started out as an LA series 318 or 340 and have been "value added" by swapping in an RB 440.Quote:
Originally Posted by twitchy
Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird were built as a limited production run to provide a "production" car base for NASCAR racing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
With a fully race prepared Hemi 426 the existing cars were too damn fast for the aerodynamics of the body and also too fast for the tyres available. 200 mph laps on the super speedways at Daytona and Talladega had the drivers eyeballs shaking to the point of almost losing vision. The droop snoot and big wing stuck them to the track nicely and made them almost invincible. Goodyear improved the tyres to cope. The hump on top of each front guard was not a vent for brake cooling as most first thought, but added after first production as the aerodynamic add-ons were generating so much downforce that the tyres were rubbing on the underside of the guards at the higher speeds.
In 1983 I was offered a Plymouth Superbird from Owatonna, Minnesota, for US$8500. No great demand for them then, just another old car. The Domestic Services Manager hit the roof and the purchase was not made.
What is one worth now? How long is a piece of string. Good ones are over US$500,000.
Brian,
you seem pretty clued on in the US scene, do you know the name of the company that recently bought all the aftermarket stuff for the Buick/rover V8 and is apparently now making new heads that rival Wildcat stuff?
Serg
I have not kept up with the street and rod scene over there. Mostly involved these days with historic racing and speedway and motor cycles. Is someone making aluminium replicas of Buick 350 heads? Have you tried e-mailing the rod and street magazines and the after-market manufacturers trade associations. Buy some US magazines and e-mail the suppliers. Try googling Buick parts. I know you will get 5,000000000000000000000 results but try anyway. If I hear of anything I will PM you.Quote:
Originally Posted by uninformed
Who built the GT40 ?Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
A slight exaggeration - Rover started building the engine in the mid sixties, in a factory that started from a greenfield site in 1939. (Their pre-existing factory was destroyed by bombing in the early years of the war) The machinery it was built on would, like GM's have been installed during WW2.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm
The redesign was not because of inability to build to original design, but because tooling up to do so would not make sense for the much smaller market that would be supplied. Pontiac was supplying a market of 160million people with a mass market car - Rover was selling to the upper middle class in a 40 million market that was impoverished by the massive war debt to the USA which was only finally repaid at the end of 2006, but whose terms greatly impoverished Britain in the late forties and fifties. Quite simply, you do not use the same techniques (and hence design) to build in small numbers as you do in large numbers.
John
mightve been ugly, but damn it was fast!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
i believe that Lola had started a project and that Carroll Shellby took it over. From what I know it was the americans that finished it and made it win, in both 302 and 427 (8 or 9??) form. it was a great car....just like when Carroll Shelby took the ac 4 cyl car and put a v8 in it and made the cobra...with the end result being the 427 version that was totally redesigned including the famous cobra coupes...Quote:
Originally Posted by clean32
Serg