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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
- Thread starter Iridescentone
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Yep, those ME 109's gave you Brits quite a challenge during the Battle of Britain. Thank God you had Spitfire.Thats the onethank you
The 109 was a very good plane, but the Spitfire got its measure. The 190 was even better and it took a few new Spit variants to take that.
The ME 262 was the plane though, but fortunately it was too late and too few.
I think the P51 did well against it.
I wonder how the Hellcat would have faired or the Corsair as they totalled outclassed the Zero when the came onstream.
The ME 262 was the plane though, but fortunately it was too late and too few.
I think the P51 did well against it.
I wonder how the Hellcat would have faired or the Corsair as they totalled outclassed the Zero when the came onstream.
Saw this on Hagerty today.
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Gassers and fuel altereds are some of my favorites. Stick a big motor between your legs and go fast!
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Gassers and fuel altereds are some of my favorites. Stick a big motor between your legs and go fast!
Ford Siata Daina Sport Coupe 1800 (1953)
Hmm, less hair but more hood scoop.
More hood scoop, deep sump oil pan, skinnies up front and a set of steamrollers out back.
Also looks like a set of gauges mounted on the dash and his car number written in shoe polish (or Geddex) in the upper right hand corner of the windshield.
Would like to see a time slip for that beast.....
Porsche with a Citroën DS nose. I guess it's photoshopped, but it looks good.
On the other had, I might like an original DS with a Porsche 6 cylinder boxer in the front better.
I remember a webpage about a guy who was working on an Chevrolet Corvair engine to adapt it to his DS.
Reason behind this transformation was the fact that the Citroën DS was originally intended to have a 6 cylinder boxer engine.
prototype of the water cooled 6 cilinder boxer engine
Citroën DS prototypes The birth of a Goddess 1:
"Walter Becchia was the man responsible for the 2 CV's flat twin and it was he who was given the task of developing a new engine.
He designed a water cooled flat six of 1 806cc capacity producing 63,8 bhp @ 4 500 rpm.
The project was abandoned in 1954 due to lack of power, excessive thirst and great weight despite the widespread use of aluminium. The flat six would have been mounted ahead of the front axle as in the 2 CV."
Costly idea though, a Porsche 996 GT3 engine on E-bay has an asking price of US $45,200.00 (014-17 Porsche GT3 911 991, Ma1.75, F01557, 3.8L, 10K Miles, Near-New Condition)
Another one $27K. And then you'll have to make it fit in the front of an ID or DS.
It's probaly a lot easier to fit a Porsche 912 2.0 L Volkswagen Type 4 H4 (912E) engine in a VW T1 bus.
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The Zero was outdated by the time any of those planes showed up in numbers.
More importantly (and to the point) was that Japan had simply run out of pilots. The highly trained, deadly marksmen of the early war who drove those early Zeros had been reduced to near nothing by the end of the war, and the newbs who lost their lives in the Marianas turkey shoot were nowhere near their equal, and were, by that time, the ones who were flying old machinery against advanced planes and tactics.
Has this been posted here, already?
