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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

answers

The doors are from a early 70's, they have no wing windows

the rims are from a Coronet or Charger, they were never offered on Darts

the front clip (fenders, grill, hood) is from a 1970 Dart,

the hood scoop isn't even Mopar, neither is the black hood stripe

the center console is from a 72 Barracuda or Challenger

the dash, looks like its from a Barracuda

the butt stripe is just the lower half, the top is missing

the GT letters are from a Pontiac Grand Am from the 1990's, the word Sport, well that is a mystery

the trunk panel is from a 1968 Dart

and I may be wrong, but the antenna on the rear fender I think is not normal to 1969 Darts

Saturday, March 17, 2007

1922 Helica, propeller driven car

Invented and sold by Frenchman Marcel Leyat in the early 1900s. This one above, a 1922 saloon car version
http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/13/propeller-driven-car/ Looks like something Professor Fate, or The Great Leslie would drive in "The Great Race"

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

What the heck are the attachments on these hubs?



I was reading something about ultra accurate mileage measuring, maybe that is what these do by counting the revolutions

Monday, January 29, 2007

1 of 1 Hemi car

A Belvedere I stationwagon, ordered to use as a tow car for a drag racer. I noticed that guys who put together the list of rarest musclecars didn't mention it. Hmmm. http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/01/rarest-musclecars-hmmm.html#links

http://www.yearone.com/leader_ads/ronzello.html

Last years Barrett Jackson auction lists this result, but it may not be the station wagon.
979.1 1966 Plymouth Hemi Belvedere I , 2 Door Post $71,280.00
http://www.classiccar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4603


"The Hemi was available only in the GTX in 1967, unlike the previous year when it could theoretically be installed in any Belvedere. Some sources claim that the Hemi was available across the Belvedere line in 1967 as it was in '66. (One Hemi, in fact, was actually factory installed in a 1966 Coronet four-door sedan!)
A good number of 1966 buyers went for all-go-and-no-show, spending their hard earned cash on a Hemi engine installed in a lowly stripped-down two-door sedan body. To get the same engine in 1967, the buyer had to pay for the fancy GTX body. This situation left many "little guys" out in the cold, hemi wise. Thus, while 1510 Hemi-powered Belvederes were sold in 1966, only 125 were produced in 1967. The availability of the 440 took away some Hemi sales; the lack of a low-bucks body took the rest. This problem Plymouth would address with a vengeance in 1968. (Hint? "Beep-Beep!")
There was, in fact, one non-GTX Hemi-powered Plymouth available in 1967. Not many were seen because it was sold only to select drag racing teams. It featured lightweight front end components and a higher output hemi engine. Although designed strictly for off-street use, some of the cars did, according to some reports, did appear on the streets. "

http://www.allpar.com/history/plymouth/1967.html

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Once, men were allowed to be men... crazy daredevil, 4 motor, 4 wheel drive, rocket powered nuts.


http://www.almar.easynet.be/turbonique.htm has a really good article, and good photos.
http://vales.com/MTM2/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12159&ARCHIVE for the best color pics and description of how powerfully enticing this was, it went on go carts (215 mph), cars, boats, etc... strap on 1000 HP, or the full boogie 1500 HP if you clang with big brass notes when you shuffle along.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2006/04/the_real_acme.html

I won't even repost the madness here.... I can't possibly do justice to the sheer machoness of strapping a 1000 hp 760 ft lbs rocket to the rear axle of a dragster and hitting the "fun" button. Trust me, Coop, and iowahawk... read it all, soak it in. Our fathers and grandfathers were effing madmen with motors and we should just drop to one knee in homage the the giants who once walked the USA, racing for the shits and grins of it all.

thanks to http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/2006/04/real-acme.html for reminding me about this, and I'll have more on this from my archived books and magazines someday.

http://www.the-rocketman.com/turbonique1.html has 5 photo galleries of bikes, boats, cars, and go karts that had used these.



In August 2007 CarDomain found an original Cougar with a Turbonique still strapped on: http://blog.cardomain.com/blog/2007/08/turbonique.html