it was dreadful it shook a lot it was low output it was the old buick engine but smaller for the uk market but hey ho kinda liked it though
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Pick your favorite iconic car from any decade....
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i used to have a tr8 it was a tr7 with a 3.5 v8 engine
214 cubic inch V8??
Holy small, Batman.
I must agree...you Were a dumb@$$...
I imagine you're less of a dumb@$$ today!
A couple of years ago I drove the company reportage car to the gas station to fill her up.
I saw a brown metallic Veyron standing at the side of the road.
An Arab looking guy talking into a cell phone standing next to it.
I guess he ran out of gas...
There are probably more of them around in Europe, since it's not the only one I've seen in real live.
The most iconic Veyron pic I can think of:
(Man buys 2 mil car, drops cell phone, drives right into lake. Woot!)
(Man buys 2 mil car, drops cell phone, drives right into lake. Woot!)
The bodies for these were made in Linwood Scotland, and then taken by rail to West Bromwich not too far from me and @rollie 55 , where final assembly took place at the Jensen Motors plant.
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I have only seen a few Citroen's on USA roads over my lifetime. For some reason, they never set up dealerships here in the states. If I recall correctly, they had tire jacks built right into the body to make changing tires easy.
214 cubic inch V8??
Holy small, Batman.
The Mercedes Benz W116 (the 1st S-Class cars from '72 -- '80) were available with 3 V8 engines.
3.5 L
4.5 L
6.9 L
Until recently, I owned a couple of sedans with the 4.5 L V8. They had a complicated, multiport, mechanical fuel injection system that's impossible to fix once it gets to be 40 years old.
Still, 225 HP in the mid 70's wasn't too bad.
214 cubic inch V8??
Holy small, Batman.
My father had one briefly... one of the last 20 off the line the last year of production... Gold convertible with saddle interior. Small and nimble enough to feel good with the almost 150hp out of the fuel injected version. Nothing compared to his current GT500 Mustang with upgrades, but still fun.
The Drag-U-La Required A Custom-Built Coffin
Grandpa's car, lovingly referred to as the Drag-U-La, was built using a real coffin. The coffin was bought in North Hollywood in secret since you were not allowed to buy coffins without a death certificate. The coffin was paid for in cash and was left outside of the funeral parlor at night so it could be collected by the George Barris Kustoms crew to begin construction of the car.
Grandpa's car, lovingly referred to as the Drag-U-La, was built using a real coffin. The coffin was bought in North Hollywood in secret since you were not allowed to buy coffins without a death certificate. The coffin was paid for in cash and was left outside of the funeral parlor at night so it could be collected by the George Barris Kustoms crew to begin construction of the car.
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I remember those 6.9's (read about them way back then) as being insane sleeper cars.
"Top speed was factory-rated at 140 mph (225 km/h). Among the journalists that tested and reviewed the car was Brock Yates. Yates was approached by the factory to write promotional literature about the 6.9. He agreed, but under the condition that he could list the car's faults as well as its positives. Daimler-Benz agreed in turn, and Yates was given a US-spec 6.9 to drive from Manhattan to the Road Atlanta grand prix race track in Invalid Link Removed. There, Yates would drive the car in as-arrived condition at racing speeds for a full 40 laps or just over 100 miles (160 km). The only change made to the car upon its arrival at Road Atlanta was the necessary adjustment of tire pressure. Driving 40 laps was a difficult task even for a purpose-built race car, let alone a street-legal sedan designed and geared for high-speed Autobahn cruising. The 6.9 suffered no mechanical problems and averaged a very respectable 72 mph (116 km/h) throughout the test, completing it with little more than excess dust on the bodywork from the Invalid Link Removed radial street tires on which the car was driven to Atlanta. Yates was so comfortable driving the 6.9 around the track that he reported having run at least one lap with the sunroof open and the radio on, but the high price of the car made him think better of such risky driving and he finished the test with the radio off and both hands on the wheel.[7]"
That's real nice.
Did Tucker have anything to do with Studebaker?
The central headlight reminds me of the circular feature in the middle of the frontal area of some Studebaker models is why I ask.
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My brother has a NOS radio, in the box, for one. Apparently, one of the 51 made has no radio!
