Thread: Dream Cars

Originally Posted by VladTepes

Praise the Lord someone who mentions Lamborghini but doesn't use the word Countach.

Me, I like the Lambo Miura and it opens up for easy access to all the bits:

So does this bigger one:

Dream car would have to be a Grp4 Lancia Stratos, or Group B Lancia Delta S4, 890kilos, 640hp.
Thats the speed taken care of now for style a Lancia Aurielia spyder.

Love my landys for off road and Lancia on, I have a 1976 Lancia BETA coupe.

Pics ? You don't hear much about Lancia. A forgotten marque. Shame too. Nice cars.

Here's some Pic's

Stratos road car and race car, hope this works just learned how to resize photos to put in here.
3 time world rally champion won the monte carlo rally 5 years after retirement with a priveteer team

Cool it worked,

This is Aurelia spyder, Delta S4 and 037 (in order)
Aurelia was world first production V6 also had fully independent suspension(1955)
Delta S4 supercharged and turbocharged 4wd 0-160k's(100mph) <3sec on dirt
037 last 2wd car to win world rally championship best tarmac rally car ever

Delta S4 supercharged and turbocharged 4wd 0-160k's(100mph) <3sec on dirt

From memory this was the car that 'spoilt the Group B Rally Car Party' when there were a couple of deaths....

As good as they were, there were no match for the Super Pug...the 205T16

Yeah the Pug was brilliant but the Delta had only just come in while the pug had been there for 2yrs already had Toivenen not died they would have creamed the 1986 championship as they were streets ahead of everyone technically.This the spawned the Delta intergrale group A car that won 6 world championships in a row. Lancia have also won more world championships than any other make(also in F1 and world sport car racing too). Unfortunatly Lancia doesn't race anymore.

Originally Posted by Quiggers

To be specific vmorph the Holden op in Oz is as follows
HMC: Holdens Motor Company which builds cars
HEC: Holden Engine Company which builds engines
A long time ago before the local GM (not GMC) nearly went belly up, it was known as GM/H.

In the US GMC is referred to as the truck division and still exists in badge engineering of product shared with Chev (as primary 'other' truck badge).

HMC Aust builds the Commodore and derivatives
HEC Aust builds motors available to any other builder/manufacturer who wants the products. You'll find these engines in Daewoo vehicles, which Holden sells in Oz as the (current) Barina and its slightly bigger sibling.

But as said before, GMC is not an Aussie badge.

Read up on company law and name registration and you'll discover why the names are why they are.

GQ

When I worked there it was General Motors-Holdens that was the basic Aust. based manufacturing Coy. There were a number of other associated or wholly owned companies that did ( or did on paper) things under the GM-H banner. Reporting was to General Motors Overseas Development Corp. (GMODC), of New York, and then to General Motors Corporation (GMC), of Detroit. The overseas auditors came "out a' Dee--troit" so I suppose through the myriad of corporate puzzles, everything was really GMC of Detroit in the end. Some more senior GM-H staff were employed by GMODC and, by Oz standards of the time, very well remunerated and well treated with fringe benefits. It was considered a great coup to get "on the New York payroll".