Well we just returned from a weekend trip to Las Vegas celebrating my beautiful wife’s birthday. Of course since you see this post, you can surmise that we didn’t come back big winners, but I did bring home more money than what I started with and we had a great time. However, I was disappointed, I hadn’t been to the “strip” for a number of years and I was expecting to see some fantastic cars zipping around. High roller – flashing their Lambo’s and Farraris or even a Lotus or a classic. Nope – not a one, unless you count the Ferrari that sat at the resort the entire time. Very disappointed.
So back at the old keyboard and here are your auto factoids for the week.
Jan 20, 1942 – Chevy sends it last car off the assembly line until WWII concludes. The bulk of the last cars produced were, for the time, the very undesirable “black out” models – where chrome wasn’t used and the cars seemed muted. But a true black out model is highly sought after in today’s market.
http://travelphotobase.com/v/USWA/WATM4211.HTM
Jan 21, 1954 – …… Tell you what….guess what this is?
http://www.turbinecar.com/mags/trueauto55/trueauto55.htm
It’s a gas-turbine engine powered bus. First displayed in NY on this date. This is a GM application the are others, including a “firebird” and some Chrysler projects.
Jan 24, 1960 – Volvo shows the world the P1800 Prototype. The engine was the Swedish B18 and it displaced 1800 cc. Topped with dual SU carbs it produced 100 hp. The try was dubbed the P1900 but only double digit(under 100) number of cars were sold. The engine was Swedish but the car was being manufactured by Jensen. Jensen had quality control problems with the P1800 and by 1963 Vovlo took the car home to it’s Gothenburg and named it the 1800S (for Sweden).
I seriously like the lines of this car!!
Thanks for reading
Tim
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