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Hot Rods Head to Beaulieu — WordPress.com

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BEAULIEU’S ever popular Custom & Hot Rod Festival, held on Father’s Day, saw hundreds of colourful customs and stunning hot rods flood into the picturesque parkland of the National Motor Museum.

The Festival, held in association with Victory Wheelers, the south coast’s leading Custom, American and Hot Rod club, welcomed 7,320 visitors.

A large variety of custom cars and motorcycles were on display, with plenty of unusual designs and eye-catching artwork for visitors to admire. A number of trade stands were open for business, selling clothing, Americana memorabilia, merchandise and accessories.

This year, three dragsters formed a special display in a corner of the Beaulieu Arena. The Ratcatcher Resurrection slingshot dragster and Joe Bond’s Nuthin Fancy fuel-altered dragster both fired up for watching visitors, showing off the powerful force of their engines, in morning and afternoon demonstrations.

Europe’s first dragster, Sydney Allard’s 1961 Allard Chrysler, which was officially returned to the National Motor Museum at last year’s Festival, following extensive renovation, was also on display.

via Hot rods head to Beaulieu — WordPress.com.

Car shows on the grass are the best!!!!

Car shows on the grass are the best!!!!

 

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Tim

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Maserati centennial exhibition in Modena — WordPress.com

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A UNIQUE exhibition dedicated to the Centennial of Maserati was inaugurated in Modena this week.

Maserati 100 – A Century of Pure Italian Luxury Sports Cars retraces the story of the Italian car manufacturer through an exhibition featuring some of the Trident marque’s most significant road and racing cars and to learn about the individuals who shaped its history.

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Headed to Modena next October (2015)

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Maserati is celebrating 100 years and although it was started in the Italian city of Bologna but eventually moved to Modena in the 1930’s  where it’s headquarters still operates.  The area is called “La Terra dei Motori” or Motor Valley and host not only Maserati, but Ferrai, Lamborghini, Dallara and Pagani as well as Ducati, Malaguti and Bimota motorcycle manufacturers.   We are headed to the Modena area Oct 2015!!!!

 

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Tim

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Video: An Easy Way to Decrease the Value of Your Vette – CorvetteOnline.com

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While we all realize that cars are depreciating assets and therefore lose value with time and usage, many enthusiasts try to do everything possible to slow down this process. Some enthusiasts will go to the extent of covering their car daily, intentionally reduce the usage of their car, or even park their car when its brand new only to never use it for collector value.On the flip side of this, there are a lot of enthusiasts that believe “a car is meant to be driven” and will use their Corvette as if it were a Honda Civic in daily driving conditions. Both groups are very passionate about their opinions and if you ask either party, they will tell you that they are right and the other group is wrong.Whether you preserve your cars or drive your cars, one aspect of vehicle ownership that is sure to rapidly decrease the value of your car is an accident. Unfortunately for the driver of this video, they found out the hard way that while a beautiful black on black C5 may have a strong resale market when it looks great, that is not the case after a severe accident. Judging by the video, this black on black C5 ran right off the road– and into the trees. The impact of hitting the trees was severe enough to thoroughly mangle the front end of the car and deploy both front airbags. Often times, once the airbags deploy, the car gets totaled, which is unfortunate. Without having a video of the actual incident, one can speculate that speed was involved and the car was potentially pushed too far. Sad to see but hopefully they had some great insurance!

via Video: An Easy Way to Decrease the Value of Your Vette – CorvetteOnline.com.

My Note:  I’m the guy that drives his corvette like a Honda…only faster!!! Yes they sure did a job on this one but I don’t think they over drove the cars capabilities, more like the driver exceeded his abilities, which is usually the case with hi-performance cars.

 

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Tim

Can Cars – Hand made – UPDATE!

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Update:   It seems that the story isn’t actually true…here is the site:

http://www.sandyscancars.com

That’s to Steve Sears for researching that.

Tim

I can’t recall which reader sent me these images (they were in an attachment that I saved but deleted the email apparently) and I don’t know if the story that went with it was true but the skill it took to make these can cars is impressive and they look so cool!  Here’s the story:

 

Supposedly there was an elder man that was thought to be homeless and was often seen rummaging through dumpster and pick-up cans in the street.  He was often ridiculed by some of the local kids and made fun of because he always appeared dirty and disheveled.  According to the story he never reacted to the taunts, but went about his business.   At some point the man’s body was found on the street and the police traced him to an apartment nearby.  Upon entering the small flat, they found these cars made out of some of the cans the man had collected.

True?  I don’t know.  What I do know and I think you would agree these are very cool!!!

 

Coke Hot Rod

Coke Hot Rod

Coke Hot Rod

Coke Hot Rod

 

A CJ

A CJ

F1 Car

F1 Car

 

Check out this one:

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Tim

 

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Model car racers eye Scalextric’s crown

Stuff, has been working on its RealFX Racing system for model cars for six years. Originally the firm, based on Wolverhampton Science Park, was going to use a single ‘roll out’ racing track, but chief executive Richard North said research had found …

Bridgestone Project: Exhaust and Heads Part II

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So on to the second part of the tear down of the exhaust on the Bridgestone Dual Twin.  I have a couple videos to post, and pls keep in mind that I don’t have a ‘camera crew’ or an film editor (but I have download Adobe’s software to try — at some point– to edit my videos), nope just me and my Android.

So I showed last post how the exhaust was attached.  Not much different than most other motorcycles, except for the rubber pieces that connects the header to the baffle.

You can see the header is a bit rusted but the bolts came off with no problem. The first header I removed was the left side and there was little to no room for a wrench much less be able to get a socket in there.  So it was a bit more clearance if I were to remove the head.  Which I’ve been meaning to do to get a look at the piston and cylinder so I did. Here are the pics and the videos:

This just shows the bolt on the inside (between) the left and right exhaust.

This just shows the bolt on the inside (between) the left and right exhaust.

 

As you can see here's no room go get a socket or even wrench in between the frame and back nut on the header.

As you can see here’s no room go get a socket or even wrench in between the frame and back nut on the header.

So taking the left head off was going to gave me more room.

The heads are on with for nuts on studs in the head.  These looked really rusted but it came off easily.

Here are couple of images:

Nuts and studs are indicated.

Nuts and studs are indicated.

 

Here is the header removed.

Header, nuts and bolts and o-ring.

Header, nuts and bolts and o-ring.

 

Baffle removed

Baffle removed and my foot!! (At least it’s not my thumb!!)

 

Of course I have to include a shot of the pistons and cylinders and you see them in the videos as well.

 

Left Piston and Cylinder

Left Piston and Cylinder

Left Head Chamber

Left Head Chamber

 

Right Piston and Cylinder. See the right head/chamber in the videos)

Right Piston and Cylinder. See the right head/chamber in the videos)

 

Videos show a bit of the exhaust and a few good shots of the piston/chamber/cylinders.

 

 

Thanks for reading.

Tim

 

 

1966 Bridgestone Motorcycle Brochure – DadsCycleMags.com

6-Page Color Brochure that was a magazine insert. Shown in brochure: Bridgestone 175 Dual Twin; 60 Sport; 90 Deluxe; 50 Sport; 90 Trail; 50; 90 Mountain; 90 Sport. 1966 Bridgestone 6-Page Motorcycle Brochure …

Motorcycles – Let’s see em!

Club(s): (PNDC). Here are 2 I brought back from the dead when I was in high school. A 1979 Kawasaki 440 LTD and a 1967 Bridgestone 175 Dual Twin. The 440 sounded great and was a smooth ride. I bought it for $200 and …

Auto Factoids for Week of June 8, 2014

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Let’s get right to the glory and the tragic historical events of this weeks Auto Factoids.

 

June 10, 1927 the Graham brothers purchased Paige-Detroit Motor Co. These guys started out producing glass and then moved into making conversion kits to turn Model T Fords in to truck.   They decided they wanted to produce their own trucks and made a deal with Dodge for the engines and selling their trucks though Dodge.  In 1927 they decided they wanted to go into the car business and make the historic purchase of Paige-Detroit Motor for what was $4 million dollars.  Renamed Graham-Page, they produced 6 and 8 cylinder cars using their own bodies (after buying Wayne Body Company) and light trucks.  Truck production ceases when Dodge threatened to enforce the non-compete clause of the original agreement.  Of note was the 8 cylinder engine they developed nicknamed the “Blue Streak”.  It soon became the name for the car. Graham brothers produced cars up until 1940 and only used their factory during WWII for various war effort production.  By 1946 they were producing cars again and farm equipment under Kaiser-Frazer name.  They eventually transferred all the rights to Kaiser-Frazer and their production facilities were sold to Chrysler.

Love this 1927 Panel Truck

Love this 1927 Panel Truck

Model 827 Circa 1929

Model 827 Circa 1929

Survivor!!!!

Survivor!!!!

Oh YES...THEY DID A BUS!!!

Oh YES…THEY DID A BUS!!!

 

June 10, 1951 Jaguar has it’s first Le Mans win and 4 years later and one day, the worse racing tragedy in organized racing history – 81 spectators were killed in the Le Mans crash on June 11, 1955.

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June 12 1954 – Packard offers new cars with tubeless tires – major milestone!!!

June 12, 1975 – Chrysler Imperial is no longer produced.  If you recall Imperial started out as it’s own brand and then purchased by Chrysler the name was retired for a period of time and then brought back in the 1970’s.

1975 was the last year for the Land Yacht

1975 was the last year for the Land Yacht

 

June 14 1932, Happy Birthday to

Nicolaus Otto

Nicolaus Otto

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Auto Factoids for Week of May 18, 2014

If you thought last week was light…this week is weak!! Buick became a corporation back in 1903 back on May 19. It eventually became a major General Motors brand.
Auto Factoids for Week of May 11, 2014

Light week this week. 5/14/1969 – Last Corvair build. If you know only a little about automotive history or maybe politics or the consumer safety revolution of the 60′s and 70′s you’ll know the name Ralph Nader. With a little …
Auto Factoid 9/8/2013 – 9/14/2013

Auto Factoids are back!!!!   Lets just get started. Happy Birthday (Sept. 8, 1903) Preston  Tucker – nice cars!!!   On Sept 9th 1935 Studebaker put the first car on a Pennsylvania RR rail car headed to NYC  but the final destination was London.  (Actually there were 163 cars in that shipment.) These are …
Auto Factoid 9/8/2013 – 9/14/2013

Auto Factoids are back!!!!   Lets just get started. Happy Birthday (Sept. 8, 1903) Preston  Tucker – nice cars!!!   On Sept 9th 1935 Studebaker put the first car on a Pennsylvania RR rail car headed to NYC  but the final destination was London.  (Actually there were 163 cars in that shipment.) These are …

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first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.

first internal-combustion engine to efficiently burn fuel directly in a piston chamber.

 

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Tim

A Sinkhole Swallowed Cars at The Corvette Museum And Now Everyone Wants To Go

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A Sinkhole Swallowed Cars at The Corvette Museum And Now Everyone Wants To Go | TIME.

A view of a sinkhole that opened up in the Skydome

A view of a sinkhole that opened up in the Skydome

Tourism up 50%….that’s great!!!

 

Tim

 

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National Corvette Museum might preserve sinkhole

The sinkhole that swallowed up eight Corvettes earlier this year has been something of a mixed blessing for the Bowling Green, Ky., National Corvette Museum. On the one hand, those rare (if not uniformly invaluable) Corvettes were damaged, or outright …

Mustang and Me – ’71 Mach I

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One of my readers stopped by my Facebook page for Average Guy’s Car Restoration, Mods and Racing and dropped me a note about his 1971 Mustang Mach 1 he is restoring.

He wrote:  “Guys – been lurking here and can’t get enough. I’m restoring a 1971 Mustang Mach 1 which I just made a video of – would be great if everyone could hit “LOVE IT” on the video link: http://bet.votigo.com/fbcontests/showentry/Ford-Contest-1/137096”

Here is the video he posted.  Lot of work went into this car.

 

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Tim

 

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Ford Mustang Mach 1

The Ford Mustang Mach 1 is an performance-oriented option package of the Ford … A 1971 Mustang Mach 1 was featured in the James Bond film, …

DeltaWing gives first look at 4-seat passenger concept

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With its swept-wing design and narrowed front end, there’s no mistaking the DeltaWing for anything else on the track.

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Now the company has unveiled a newly rendered DeltaWing concept, that it hopes will take the radical design and turn it into a high efficiency, road-going passenger car for four. The DeltaWing concept has lost some of the ‘fighter jet meets 80s era Batmobile’ appeal of… One key attribute of the DeltaWing shape is considerably less overall mass, which translat… Unlike the pictured electric ZEOD RC, the 4-passenger DeltaWing will run a small 110 hp fo…The proposed passenger version won’t have the original DeltaWing track racer’s performance capabilities, but it will retain most of the car’s uncommon DNA.

umm....yeah....gonna have to say - don't!!!

umm….yeah….gonna have to say – don’t!!!

via DeltaWing gives first look at 4-seat passenger concept.

 

I don’t even think the delta wing should be a street car at all and the passenger concept is just, horrible.  Looks like the Prowler only without a full front end.  Ant-eater with wheels!!!   Make a great kids Hot Wheels collectable.

 

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Tim

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@DeltaWingTech reveals a concept for a 4-seater delta wing car. http://t.co/P3SDGJdQTe

Challenger Hellcat with ‘600-plus horsepower’ – Autoblog

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I’ve said it a few times and I’ll say it again and mostly likely not for the last time.  MOPAR got it RIGHT with the Challenger!!!!!  Fiat ownership or not….it will continue to be an iconic car.

Now take that car that you did so right and boost it’s horse power….maybe up to 600 or more…and…well let’s not mince words…it’s a MONSTER!!!  Chase the link below and check out the video, you’ll see what I mean!!!! Can you say…first every factory super-charger!!!

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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with ‘600-plus horsepower’ officially unveiled – Autoblog.

Dodge has officially unveiled the most powerful vehicle to ever wear the Challenger name – the SRT Hellcat– complete with over 600 horsepower courtesy of a supercharged, 6.2-liter Hemi V8. It will be offered alongside the 485-hp Challenger SRT

The new, force-induced V8 isn’t just the most powerful ever fitted to the Challenger, it’s the most powerful eight-cylinder Chrysler Group has ever built. Power figures aren’t finalized, so expect to see “over 600 hp” bandied about quite a lot. That fury will be channeled through either a six-speed manual or eight-speed automatic. Yes, over 600 ponies through an eight-speed auto. So far, the only vehicle we know of that delivers more output through that many gears is the as-yet untested Chevrolet Corvette Z06. Sadly, we don’t have performance metrics just yet, although if this thing can’t crack four seconds to 60 miles per hour, we’ll be pretty surprised.

dodge hellcat engineThanks for reading
Tim

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