Thread: Beautiful cars.

I've ben lucky enough to work on some of these in the past.
The Bugatti 35B is a classic, without doubt. But my advice is to get some other sucker to T-cut the bonnet!
The Bentley blowers have to be my personal favourite. Must be in BRG of course.

Originally Posted by disco man

I was wondering how long to you put something up mate,WTF is that thing?

As several have commented, Simca Vedette. Assembled in Australia from about 1957 - 60. My father owned one.

Ford sold their Vedette works lock, stock, and barrel to Simca in about 1956. The Vedette was the French equivalent of the English Ford Zephyr, but instead of a new engine as with the Zephyr, Ford France stuck to the side valve V8, both the V8-60 and V8-85.

When Simca took over they dropped the larger motor, and fitted alloy heads to the smaller motor, enabling a higher C/R, bringing the power output up to 85HP, same as the bigger engine. Going from 13" to 15" wheels enabled them to go from 9" to 11" brakes and move the lower suspension pivot out, and the less weight on the front wheels let them fit much faster steering. This transformed the handling and braking. At the same time it was restyled.

A bit larger than the contemporary Holden FB, it outperformed the Holden, and had an enormous boot. It also had nearly twice the fuel capacity, with about the same consumption.

We had it for twelve years, and it performed well. Quite good to drive by contemporary standards, gearshift suffered from the linkage added to get to RHD.

John

I'm rather partial to the 1962 Chrysler Valiant "R" and "S" series. No other model Valiant made after these two models looked anywhere near as good. In fact the last of the Valiants were ugly bloated barges on wheels. Except maybe for the Charger.

There is a real neat S series in town that does a 10 sec quater mile.He had to fit a roll cage to compete any futher due to the pass time.Its road registered,runs a 360 with NOS.
Andrew

Originally Posted by Ratel10mm

A friend of a friend of my fathers had one of these. He sold it to a UK collector.
Befor it went into the container, he drove it to the North Melbourne rail yards where, at the time, The Flying Scotsman was visiting. He took a photo of it with The Flying Scotsman. It was a pretty impressive picture. I wish I had a copy of the photo.

Hmm, let's see now...

Alfa 105 especially the 1750 and the GTA
Ferrari 250 Spyder California
Ferrari 250 GTO
Nearly every coupe built by Lancia, but especially the Fulvia HF
Fiat 124 Spyder
BMW 3.0 CSi
BMW 1602/2002

Cheers
Mike

Originally Posted by Ausfree

I'm rather partial to the 1962 Chrysler Valiant "R" and "S" series. No other model Valiant made after these two models looked anywhere near as good. In fact the last of the Valiants were ugly bloated barges on wheels. Except maybe for the Charger.

I was looking to buy a R series Valiant a few years ago. I wanted something from that era with style. I ended up buying a Fintail Mercedes. It was a third of the price of the Valiant. Only goes to show how sought after these Valiants are.

1933 Duesenberg, then the 1937 540k Merc roadster; I'll take either amongst a whole heap of other younger ones