Steve Strope 1965 Mustang Ford Design Award Winner SEMA 2012 – Hot Rod Magazine Blog.
Is this the best Ford at SEMA? SEMA gave the Ford Design award to Steve Strope’s ’65 Mustang rally car. “I wanted to imagine what if Martini Racing was involved with Ford,” said Steve at the press conference at SEMA 2012. This re-imagined race car was introduced at SEMA 2012.
Chrome Fox Body is More Than a Pretty Face – MustangForums.com.
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Most of the attention was on the newer Mustangs this year, but that doesn’t mean that the venerable fox body was overlooked completely. We saw this one customized by Creations in Chrome at SEMA right next to the grave digger monster truck
. And, from the look of that wide body kit and matching tires, we’d say that it fits right in.
The thing about Creations in Chrome is that their name would lead you to believe that all they do is make things pretty. When in fact, their show cars are genuinely built to race. A few months back they brought their 2011 Mustang Show car to the Mojave Mile and ran it at 182 mph. From the looks of it they’re not messing around with this fox body either. I mean check out the size of that intercooler! And the size of the supercharger, geez.
So yeah, you’d be forgiven for assuming this shiny Mustang is just another SEMA showcar. But in reality, everything about this thing screams race car. I’d be curious to see how it runs down the quarter mile. Hopefully Creations in Chrome will oblige us with video like they did last year.
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I’ll be there wandering around – not taking my cars, but it is a great cause and a ton of fun!!!!
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This was a slow week in auto history.
A not so small feat was the formation of the Little Motor Car Co on 10/30/1911 – The Little was an automobile built in Flint, Michigan by the Little Motor Car Company from 1912-15. The Little first was available as a two-seater with a four-cylinder 20 hp engine, and had a wheelbase of 7 ft 7 in (2,310 mm) . In 1914 a 3.6 L six-cylinder L-head engine was available in a later model that had a larger chassis. This was phased out in 1915 as it was too close in size and price to the Chevrolet Six. Durant merged the Little Company and Chevrolet in 1913, gave the Chevrolet name to the Little car and moved manufacturing from the Detroit plant to Flint.
The Little was merged into Chevy in 1913.
On Nov 1, 1955 Studebaker debuted the “Hawk”. – Hawk came in the Power, Sky, Golden, Flight in it’s first production year 1956. Want to talk rare cars? How about the Flight Hawk in the K7 body type – only 560 produced. The Power Hawk numbered 7,095; Sky Hawks 3,050 and the Golding Hawk came in at 4,071.
Golden Hawk
56 Flight Hawk
Power Hawk
’56 Sky Hawk
On Oct 2, 1935 two debuts for you –
The Cord 810 and the Ford Zephyr
1935 Cord 810
1936 Ford (Lincoln) Zephyr
Thanks for reading.
Tim
Here’s another Parking Lot Spotlight.
I love just about any car in a 2 door configuration older than 1975. This two door Monterey is no exception.
1963 Monterey – you can see my newer than 1975 two door in the pic.
Tail light configuration. Love the over hang on the rear electric window.
The Monterey was a large heavy car, even the two door configuration, nearly 4000 lbs. It came in 4 door and 2 door body styles with only about 8000 combined production between the 2 door sedan and the 2 door coup. (The Monterey Custom had 3 separate 2 door models – the Mar fsback coup, hard top coup and convertible.)
Engines were V8’s, mainly the 390 with a bore and stroke of 4.05 x 2.94. Compression was 8.9:1 and managed about 101 hp with a ford C3OF-9510 two barrel. (1963 Mercury used the 427 in their NASCAR offerings, grabbing 1 Grand National win. It was the first appearance of the 427 in a Merc.)
This one will need a little work before it’s ready for the track!!!!
Thanks for reading.
Tim
This was early dawn and a few of us early birds already lined up.
It was a great day. Over 400 cars!!! I had the good look to be backed up to the Corvette Class row and right behind me was a friend with his BRAND NEW Carbon Grand Sport (see it in the other posts).
No trophies today, but a great time and a lot of beautiful cars.
Tim
Wow…a lot went on this week.
First up is the car that started it all. Oct 1, 1908 the Ford Model T went on sale. Perhaps the only car that is always referred with the word “Model”. You never hear it called the Ford T (like Ford Focus) or the T (like Mustang).
1908 Model T
Model T Ford – Rag Top
1927 saw the 15 millionth Model T produced and the last.
On the same day 46 years later (1954) Packard and Studebaker merged. It was debatable was to who the merger would benefit the most. It is was reported Packard was broke but Studebaker had money troubles as well. This was not a great partnership. They attempted to sell the cars separately in the same dealerships. The Packards were just Studebaker’s President with more chrome. They were unflatteringly called “Packerbakers”.
’56 Studebaker President
57 Packardbaker – You got to love the fins!!!!!
The Packarbaker only lasted 2 years and Packard essentially ceased to exist.
Oct 1, 1974 was the last Imperial debuted. The Imperial was at one time its own company. It was incorporated in to the Chrysler family and then sort of released back as its own brand.
1974 Imperial. The two configuration was the best looking.
Chevy delivered one of the most iconic cars in automotive history on Oct 2. 1959. That was the day they debuted the Corvair. It was a huge media blitz with some every innovative sale/marketing demonstrations. Including running through field and stream.
Any Ralph Nader fans? This is a great car and they came in four door, station wagon and drop top configurations!!!!
On Oct. 4, 1962 Buick debuted it’s Riviera.
Distinct (grill/headlight over-hang) but familiar (Skylark like). I really liked the early Riviera, right up until the boat tail design.
Now I didn’t really want to consider this next historic moment but in my opinion this really isn’t automotive related, except that it did have tires and moved along the ground, but in 1983 on Oct 4 the land speed record was broken. A British team accomplished with the Thurst SSC and setting the record at 633 mph. But really it was just a plane with jet engines – minus the wings.
The UK Team’s Thrust SSC. Notes below are from the Wikipedia
The car was driven by Royal Air Force fighter pilot Wing Commander Andy Green in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, United States. It was powered by two afterburning Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engines, as used in the British version of the F-4 Phantom II jet fighter. The car was 16.5 m (54 ft) long, 3.7 m (12 ft) wide and weighed 10.5 tons (10.7 t), and the twin engines developed a net thrust of 223 kN (50,000 lbf), a power output of 110,000 bhp (82MW),[2] burning around 18 litres per second (4.0 Imperial gallons/s or 4.8 US gallons/s). Transformed into the usual terms for car mileages based on its maximum speed, the fuel consumption was about 5,500 l/100 km or 0.04 mpg U.S.
Next up two debuts on the same day 11 years apart.
First 0n Oct 6 1955 the Lincoln Continental MK II showed up at the Paris Auto show.
Look a bit like a Thunderbird in this pic.
That’s a huge grille!!! Great looking car.
Eleven years later in 1966 Cadillac debuted the Eldorado. Perhaps the most famous Caddy model.
Here it is in a beautiful blue drop top configuration.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
We were lucky enough to have a cloudy morning for this month’s Cars and Coffee. The diffused light that the clouds provide makes my job really easy! Enjoy the photos.
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Some famous and infamous events this week occurred this week in automobile history.
General Motors incorporated 9/16/1908 – I often think that GM was started with Chevy, but in fact GM was a holding company for Buick in 1908. Shortly after incorporation Oldsmobile was added and the following year (1909) Cadillac, Cartercar, Elmore, Ewing, and Oakland (would become Pontiac) were purchased and added to the company.
Speaking of Buick, on Sept. 17 in 1854 David Buick was born in Scotland. He didn’t start out building car but engines to sell for farm equipment and then for cars and then developed his business to build both engines and cars in 1902. He developed the “Valve-in-Head” overhead valve engine.
Now for the infamous – Sept. 19th 1970, Ford introduced the Ford Pinto. We all know the story of the lack of safety surrounding the gas tank and the less than stellar calculated approach to not wanting to spend the $$ to make is safe.
1970 Pinto
Finally this week on Sept. 21, 1895 Duryea Motor Wagon Company was founded.
The Duryea brothers entered their horseless carriage in many shows and races. The Duryea Motor Wagon carriage won the first prize in the first ever American automobile . The wagon was produced in 1893 and had a 1 cylinder engine and 4 HP.
Thanks for reading.
Tim
