Affichage des articles dont le libellé est 1940-1960. Afficher tous les articles
Affichage des articles dont le libellé est 1940-1960. Afficher tous les articles
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samedi 18 janvier 2014
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Provided Benninfarina 1980 Ferrari Benin experimental and have not been making only one copy of them, and thanks to the scarcity of the car that we can see today that are for sale again at a price of 1.1 million euros.
This car , which was built to celebrate the birthday Benninfarina the 50 considered by some Ferrari four-door only in history , which is compounded by unique , but it really is not the only , where the company has built seven copies of the 456 GT Venice and Volkswagen , which were four-door as well as for the benefit of Sultan Brunei .
The car belonging to an Italian man named Gabriel Kandrana of Modena , has tried to sell the car in 2011 but he failed to find a buyer , which is now trying to make it back request 1.1 million euros for his rare .
It has remained in the possession of the car Benninfarina until 1992 before being sold to an unknown buyer and began to move between buyers , a V12 -powered capacity of 5 liters taken from the model 512BB, engine power up to 360 hp .
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vendredi 17 janvier 2014
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As this car was originally intended to be Studebaker voltage , the motor is under slightlyhigher than normal - too high, in fact, the air filters to climb to the top of the carbs. It takes about three minutes to realize that under the old automotive standards , this thing is an absolute sweetheart to drive .
There are plenty of torque, enough to pull 2300 pounds Kurtis actual 20 mph in third . At 30 mph , it's humming a relaxed 1,350 rpm . With Studebaker supercharged six under the hood - by Kurtis powered fan production by 40 percent over stock , so it was probably releases 120 horses - Tom McCahill reported 0-60 mph in 11.5 seconds and speed on the measured mile 104.6 mph. Pretty impressive figures for 1949 , a regular sedan Ford took over 19 seconds to reach 60 and a MG TC more than 21 seconds.
1949 Kurtis sports car front end to the three-speed transmission is the light of your fingertips, if you do not want to rush the second third change , and you will need to master a good double-clutching , heel-toe downshift if you want return to the first moving without grinding gears. Fortunately, the pedals are well placed , and I quickly put to use a skill I have perfected while learning to drive a Land Rover in 1960. The car is equipped with the optional overdrive Borg - Warner for relaxed highway cruising. According to the story in the self-examination sport, Kurtis used to cruise at 90 mph regularly through the Mojave Desert in the car en route to the Colorado River to fish for black bass, much to the dismay of local cops. "I'm really pay attention , " Kurtis is quoted as saying. "The car will do 140 mph as easily as 90 . "
1949 Kurtis Sport Car Rear Lights Drum brakes are a bit of a shock , after years of hard and ABS, but I was warned that they needed a double pump before they start to bite properly , then the first is not unique " t quite as exciting as it could have been .
I do not expect all the slop in the steering, however. There must be 30 degrees freeplay around the position from center to center , and control of Kurtis along the straight sections of the two channels is like steering a ship in a storm. Parks have been very busy 142 mph , even on large areas of Bonneville .
The biggest revelation is the ride. By the standards of the time, Kurtis feels agile and responsive as a sports car , but it is not hard rock . As with its racing cars , Frank Kurtis listening carefully suspension to keep the wheels following the contours of the road as much as possible, while keeping roll , dive and squat to a minimum. Accordingly, Kurtis displays a rare quiet on indifferent surfaces , like a early 60's Alfa Romeo . "The car is much more comfortable than most foreign cars," writes Tom McCahill , " and takes the bumps smoothly. " 1949 Kurtis Sport Car combination Wheels The easy Kurtis , American V - 8 muscular frame and setting European style must have seemed sensational 1949 Frank Kurtis showed a convincing formula for an all-American sports car : The . Kurtis sports car has been well designed , well detailed, and well built.
So why were only 16 ever made ? Arlen Kurtis DeWayne Ashmead said that while his father was a talented and nice man , he was a poor man of business . funding promised by Ed Walsh as part of the agreement Kurtis sports cars never materialized , leaving the company grossly undercapitalized.
Thus, when serial entrepreneur and customer Kurtis Earl " Madman " Muntz offered cash-strapped Kurtis $ 70,000 to $ 200,000 (figures are disputed ) for the rights of the sports car at the end of 1949, it was an offer he could not refuse.
L ' bitter irony is that Frank Kurtis was , perhaps , the right man in the wrong place with an idea that was just too big for him . Within two years of the Kurtis Sport Car on the cover of Motor magazine Trend, a high officer of GM in Detroit initiated a secret program called Project Opel scenes , a proposal for a car fiberglass sports handicap two security uses many regular production car components under his skin well done. name the exec GM's Harley Earl. And the car well, he came to public attention as the EX- 122, one of the stars of the Motorama at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in January 1953 Date first . But we know better than the Chevrolet Corvette.
From Motor Trend
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samedi 11 janvier 2014
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I feel as if I had been handed over keys to the family jewels . And in a way I did, because both low seats and standing in front of me is an indispensable part of the history of Motor Trend . This is Kurtis sports car serial number KB003, the car appeared on the cover of the first edition of the magazine until 1949 , in a photo taken by the founder of Motor Trend Robert E. Petersen . That same year , Wally Parks , the right man Petersen and founding editor of our sister publication of , and Hot Rod , KB003 has a sizzling 142.515 mph on the salt, white sparkling opening nationally Bonneville Speed Trials . There are more than 62 years , helped launch this car brand 's legendary press and cars , and now I am honored to be a part of it . And I'm about to pay ... Kurtis was the product of a sports car auto amazing explosion of creativity that occurred in California after World War II . After suffering a crushing depression and the war of attrition , the Americans were ready to celebrate the booming economy provided jobs and prosperity. They had enough of the cars for tough times - sedans and coupes were breastfed during the years of the war on old tires and rationing dark and sensitive gas Depression . California was where the fun begins . Frank Kurtis , son of a blacksmith , a Croatian , and was in his position .
Kurtis began his apprenticeship drive in the early 1920s to the time before the body shop of LA Cadillac dealer without me specializes in building custom cars for Hollywood stars . Not only that he did not learn of the metal forming and welding , and he also picked up tips on drawing and design of the body only Harley Earl , president of General Motors in the future of the design of his body was a family business , Earl car works , was purchased in 1919 by the company without me . The Kurtis auto rock star in itself in the late 1930s, and after work for a short period of Howard A. " Dutch " Darrin Packard develop customized stylish body - Darrins while the dwarf racers dominated everywhere dirt oval in America in the hands of drivers such as Rex Mays . After the war , he worked Kurtis Kraft , Inc. in Glendale fabrication of hundreds of mini- runners , in addition to a series of roadsters of the Indy 500 mile race famous . Curtis won five cars of the six detainees 500S 1950-1955.
Kurtis was a thinker and a rebel. See dwarves cutting prewar and bounce cornering in dirt as Los Angeles Stadium for Gilmore, realized their center of gravity was too high, and pendants too severe. Participants have less spread and more manageable in the corners and faster with improved stability and smoother traction. Approached the development of the new sports car the same way as thoughtful . Kurtis 1949 was not the first car in the way Frank . Ten years ago , he had built and handsome, unique power Mercury sports car for Denver wealthy ranchers , Bill Hughes. According to an article in the may 1952 sports car review , Curtis Hughes was charged only $ 900 for the car, and sell them at a later time Hollywood director Hughes to $ 3,200 . After the war , the car changed hands again, this time for $ 8000 and reported . It is very likely that Curtis may have heard of the sales process. Around the same time , he had the 1941 Buick allocation , and turn it into a two-seater sports car led to the Indianapolis 500 in 1948. He impressed a lot of people in the driveway of gasoline, including Ford scion Benson Ford , who asked him to build a copy.
This would undoubtedly have made him think: Maybe there was a market for this new type of sports car - something that combines American power easy with more sensitive handling and fresh European style and design modern. He formed a partnership with his St. Louis Kurtis Kraft race car salesman, Ed Walsh, Kurtis to create a sports car and the company, and began to work on the design and development of a sports car can be put into production. Kurtis design and innovative steel frame resemble the internal structure of modern monocoque with front and rear bars to support the engine, suspension components secured through bars which supported the thresholds and steel floor; Firewall support steel dashboard, which has been attached to the largest section of the box beams run along the sides of the machine to the front of the car, and the steel walls that connect the bumper cross beam rear elevated behind the interior rear frame rails. Body panels must be drawn on the carrier on. The images showed that published in the Hot Rod prototype tested by Kurtis in Rosamond dry lake in December 1948 without the chassis rigidity of the basic structure.
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