At this particular show I was admiring a car on the other side of the aisle, when I heard the an interesting conversation behind me.
1948 Continental – FOR SALE
The young man in this picture seemed to be having a hard time understanding why the owner (the adult in this picture) was selling his car. At one point he was even questioning the price of $35k!!!!
Good to see such a young guy have such an interest.
This show is to benefit the local police departments (city and count) as well as other first responders. This is the first year in the last 4 that I didn’t bring at least one car (Vette and/or Mustang).
As will all car shows, the hosts normally try to list the cars by class, but that doesn’t always work – often car clubs make up a large percentage of the participants and if the Mopar guys want to park together they will be allowed to. So you’ll see the “rows” that don’t seem to match up.
In this case, however the Chevelle’s got this one right.
Brandan and Jesse snagged a ton of photos from SEMA today, mostly encompassing the Racing and Performance segment but capturing a lot of random stuff as well. Browse the gallery below for some particular points of interest, and click through to see the full set at CarDomain.
I have an acquaintance in the great state of Texas and contacted me and wants to sell his 1949 Merc Coupe. So I’m going to list here and you can contact me directly for any more information.
I think this car is a beauty.
1949 Merc Custom For Sale
Some spec:
1972 GTO Frame, Front end, Drive train and rear end.
Bagged suspension that rises and lowers – on board compressor and tank
Power steering and Title Iddit steering column and custom steering wheel.
Rebuild 350 GTO engine with Tri-Power 3 Duce Carbs) and Lunati street/strip cam.
Rebuild 350 Automatic Trans w/2600 stall converter – column shift with oil cooler
Custom PPG Black Hot Rod flat paint with flames and pin striping.
Full set of gauges
AC
and a lot lot more!!! (see the image below).
Great looking coupe!!!
Art Work
Rear Art
Very Unique details!!!
Ok…..hold your breath for this next pic!!!!
OH….YES!!!! That’s Tri-POWER!!!!! Art on the hood and art under the hood!!!!
Custom Interior – On comfy Lincoln Seats – Diamond Tuck Upholstery
Here is the entire list of EXTRAS!!!
Many details here like Dual Electric Antenna, Dual exhaust w/Flo Masters mufflers, Lake pipes – still need the Y to connect up to the exhaust….read on!!!
You can contact me directly at timsweet@cox.net. (I’m filtering out the ‘crazies’ before I pass them on.)
Of course I spend a lot of time reading and again a lot of that is two or three-dimensional, although my wife says it’s a single dimension. She sees just “CARS” I see muscle cars, sedans (that I want to turn in to muscle cars), exotic cars and even some European cars. That’s multi-dimensional, don’t you think? I gained a little interest in them when I was a kid and my Dad surprised my Mother with a 60’ish MGB – mainly I learned that unless you wanted to fix ’em a lot…stay a way!!!
I gained a little more familiarization with another brand when I was in college. I had my license suspended….you can figure out why…so don’t make me say ‘too many speeding tickets”, ok? Thanks. So it was only about a mile or so walk to the campus from where I stayed, but if you are from one of the colder States, like northern New York, then you’d know that a morning jaunt on a Dec. morning is ‘nippy” to say the least. So I would catch a ride with a friend. He drove the one of the coolest cars I had ridden. It was a Citroen. Similar to this one:
It had the coolest suspension that would raise when you started it and lower when you turned it off.
My point being that there is another dimension to my reading – European cars. But I am in no way any kind of expert with any of them – although when I lived in Germany, I drove a very old European Ford Escort. That car was horrible!!!! However, it got me round, even when the upper part of the seat frame broke and the only way to drive it was by holding yourself forward using the steering wheel else the seat back, because it leaned so much, should dump you in the back seat. Last year I signed up for..please kneel…”HEMMINGS”… thank you….you may relax now… SPORTS & EXOTIC CAR magazine – some great articles and I enjoy Mike’s and Richard’s writings. Geezze, this is a long way around to the point that I picked up a copy of Classic & Sports Car magazine – UK produced – the other day.
In this was a series of articles that pitted 4 pair of cars against each other. One car in each pair was an expensive classic brand/model and the other was relatively inexpensive newer brand/model. Two things dawned on me, one was,”Hey, I’ve never heard of a Reliant Scimitar SS1 or a Panther Kallista.” The second thing was, “Hey, have never heard of any of these cars!” Normally if I have just one of these realizations – I won’t read the article… nope not interested…. but this time I did.
And now I need to know a little about these cars and I know you do to….all three of my readers!!! So we’ll take a look at the Panther Kallista and the Caterham Seven and the TVR S3 and the Reliant Scimitar SS1.
First up is the Reliant Scimitar SS1.
This car (at about 3000 British Pounds – $6000 USD) was being compared to the Lotus Elan (at 16000 British Pounds or about $32,000 USD). Here is what it looks like:
Reliant Scimitar SS1
Not bad-looking!!!!
These cars were made from 1986 to 1990, however the Scimitar actually arrived on the scene in 1964 with a Ford straight 6 cylinder as the power plant. These more recent models had a spaceframe chassis and fiberglass body, an iron block, alloy heads, SOHC 1809 cc, 8 valve 4. It also sported a Garrett T2 Turbo with electronic multi-port fuel injection system. This allowed it to lay out 140 HP and 141 lb ft of torque and reach a top speed of 128 mph and it only weighted 1969 lbs.
They sported a 5 speed manual transmission, rack and pinion steering, double wishbone independent suspension and disks breaks.
Just to give you some closure, it was compared to the Lotus Elan where it scored 2 points less than the Lotus (38 to 40) in Driving, Practicality, Character, Value and Usability.
Any one out there have one of these? Know anyone that has one? If so drop a comment and pic.
Ok…we are rollin’ along now. I’m also running these over on Armed Forces Car Club, so there will be two winners, one for this site and one for theirs.
Here is the next car.
This is (again) a 60’s era car. This is not of the Big 3 but this company brought us some excellent cars with some healthy power plants under the hood.
In it natural state (right off the assembly line), this car was not a muscle car, but now days you can find them with all kinds of transplants.