Car Talk

[Montegriffo]

Not an American car amongst them, some fuckin' patriot you are.
No wonder Detroit is a third world wasteland now.

and I even paid for them with the blood money they gave me to kill brown people.

RUN! RUN! SCARED LITTLE MAN! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Merkel says thanks for buying German cars, she's going to spend it on better lives for refugees.

[Ex-California]

Not an American car amongst them, some fuckin' patriot you are.
No wonder Detroit is a third world wasteland now.

and I even paid for them with the blood money they gave me to kill brown people.

RUN! RUN! SCARED LITTLE MAN! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Merkel says thanks for buying German cars, she's going to spend it on better lives for refugees.

German cars are a huge boon to local economies since as soon as they pass 100k miles you're going to be supporting your local mechanic all the time

[TheReal_ND]

And a yup

[Montegriffo]

Money no object, Bentley blower





second choice, VW Schwimmwagen

Bentley are making 12 new blowers.

BRITISH luxury brand Bentley has become the latest car maker to jump on the classic car remake bandwagon, by announcing it will build near-exact replicas of its most famous pre-war racing model.

The first “Continuation Series” project, announced as part of the brand’s centenary celebrations this year, will see the Crewe-based car maker build brand new versions of the 4.5-litre Bentley “Blower” — so nicknamed because the engine was blown by a supercharger.

The 12 examples that Bentley plans to make (one for every race the 4.5-litre entered in period) will be based on the 1929 Team Blower that was driven in events including the Le Mans 24 Hours by British racing driver Tim Birkin, perhaps the best-known of the “Bentley Boys”. The original car is now part of Bentley’s heritage collection.

In order to ensure each continuation 4.5-litre is as authentic as possible, Bentley says it will disassemble Birkin’s car and meticulously scan every component, before putting the original vehicle back together again. The car maker’s Mulliner special vehicles division will then build 12 batches of the parts they need, and begin bolting them all together to form the new Blowers.

While modern safety standards mean the new 4.5-litres won’t be 100% identical to the works racing vehicle, Bentley says they will remain as faithful to the originals as possible. Exact replicas of brakes, suspension and supercharger will be built, and each continuation Blower will be assembled by hand using original moulds, tooling jigs and traditional hand tools.

As the finishing touch, Bentley says the four-cylinder engine (which, despite the car’s name, is actually 4.4-litres in size) will be just as powerful as the original racing cars were back in the day; churning out a healthy 240bhp.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, building a dozen almost-exact remakes of a 90-year old car by hand won’t be a rushed job: according to Bentley, it will take Mulliner around two years to build all 12 examples. Despite the long lead time and the likely incredibly high asking price (Bentley has declined to reveal exactly how much each Blower remake will cost its VIP clients), the car maker hasn’t struggled to find them all homes: every single 4.5-litre continuation model has already been sold.

https://www.driving.co.uk/news/iconic-b ... roduction/

[C-Mag]

1953 Dodge Power Wagon

[Montegriffo]

Mulliner coach built Bentley. circa 1930s

[Montegriffo]

1953 Dodge Power Wagon

That is a good looking truck.

[C-Mag]

1953 Dodge Power Wagon

That is a good looking truck.

They are a mean truck. Great backstory. A company in Wyoming specializes in restoring them.
Keep posting the car pics, I'm enjoying

[Montegriffo]

Lovely old Foden showman's wagon with a mollycroft roof.

[Smitty-48]

Ancient jalopies and milk trucks <yawn>

Crank it up, race fans

GT40 at Spa-Fancorchamps



Mo GT40 porn.



Greatest American race care of them all.