Car Porn.......beauty meets speed (SFW)

[Mazderati]

But since it's on an American head, in America isn't it technically a Derby?

And GM owned Group Lotus at the time.

But nice try.

Someone had to save Lotus from themselves.




Didn't know about the ownership. Hawaiian shirts, gold chains, and nugget rings it is.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Someone had to save Lotus from themselves.

Ewwww. Did Lotus take on washed up Citroen designers?

[That was Pontus]

[gravitylover]

Someone had to save Lotus from themselves.




Didn't know about the ownership. Hawaiian shirts, gold chains, and nugget rings it is.

While I am aware that I have some issues I really wanted one of those at the time. I love shooting brakes...

[Bite Me]

There's a high end vintage car shop down the street, and the guy uses the hedges behind our office to take shots. Some outrageous stuff comes by, but this is the only one I took the camera out for:

[karpiel]

holy fuckballs that is a well done ss. My buddy had a 69 in hs. Scary ass car. Got it up to 120 on the back roads of ct. Unsmart things done.

OOOOO 120 ina camaro, what a badass.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

OOOOO 120 ina camaro, what a badass.

I'm sure 120 in the typical HS kid-owned 1st gen Camaro was quite scary. The front ends would start to float at about 110.

[HankScorpio]

Alfa Romeo's little version of the stunning 8C, the 4C

[Hugh Conway]

Now here's something that could set a record:
http://www.bonhams.com/video/13160/

W196 Benz, GP champion car. Drool.

[PNWbrit]

Now here's something that could set a record:
http://www.bonhams.com/video/13160/

W196 Benz, GP champion car. Drool.

Wow.

Wonder how that ended up in private ownership?

"It is the 1954 2½-liter straight-8 Mercedes-Benz W196 einsitzer– chassis number '00006/54' – in which five-times World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio won both the 1954 German and Swiss Grand Prix races. These great victories were the first two to be achieved in succession by the frontier-technology Mercedes-Benz factory Formula 1 team in its postwar racing come-back. Chassis '00006' also has special significance as the first open-wheeled slipper-bodied postwar Mercedes-Benz ever to win a Formula 1 Grand Prix race – having made its debut in that German GP.
The car's innovative W196 design also marked the successful introduction to Formula 1 of the following technologies:

• Fuel-injected engine
• All-independent suspension
• Multi-tubular 'spaceframe' lightweight chassis design
• All-round inboard-mounted brakes
• The in-line or 'straight-8' engine 'lay-down' configuration to minimize the car's overall height
• Power take-off from the center of the engine's long 8-cylinder crankshaft to minimize vibration

The FIA governing body of International motor sport launched its first truly postwar set of Grand Prix regulations in 1954, demanding unsupercharged engines of no more than 2½-liters engine capacity. Mercedes-Benz – who had previously dominated Grand Prix racing in 1908, 1914 and 1934-39 –missed the first two 1954 World Championship rounds in Argentina and Belgium. But they then made their shattering debut in the 1954 French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux. Their all-new W196 cars ran there in enveloping-bodied 'Stromlinienwagen' form, instantly setting totally new performance standards as Juan Manuel Fangio and team-mate Karl Kling finished first and second in both qualifying and the race.
National media and the specialist sporting press trumpeted the same simple message: "Mercedes are Back"!
However, the W196 Stromlinienwagen cars with their enclosed wheels proved difficult to place upon the more twisty venue of the following British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Fangio requested an open-wheeled, W196 variant for the following German Grand Prix on the twisty 14.2-mile Nurburging road circuit. Mercedes-Benz reacted instantly, tailoring new cars '00005' and '00006' to Fangio's recommendation.
And it was in this actual car – chassis '00006' - now to be offered by Bonhams at Goodwood -that Fangio immediately won the German Grand Prix. He then repeated the feat in the following Swiss Grand Prix on the daunting Bremgarten forest circuit at Berne – storming round at uncatchable pace in '00006' to win by 58.7 seconds from Argentine compatriot Jose Froilan Gonzalez's out-classed Ferrari. This Swiss victory was Fangio's third in four Grand Prix races, and assured him of his second Drivers' World Championship title.
Thus, Bonhams Goodwood Festival of Speed auction will offer this iconic landmark-technology Mercedes-Benz W196 as the double-Grand Prix-winning car in which Fangio – no less – clinched the second of his long-standing record five Drivers' World Championship titles.
This Bonhams sale of the ex-Fangio 1954 German and Swiss GP-winning Mercedes-Benz W196 is – on so many fronts –a classic car auction first.
Robert Brooks, Chairman of Bonhams and handling the sale of the Mercedes-Benz, comments, "My motoring auction career spans five decades and I have been privileged to have handled some of the world's most desirable and important motor cars. To handle the sale of this legendary W196 Grand Prix Car – the only one out of captivity– could well be the pinnacle. Our Goodwood Festival of Speed auction is shaping up to even eclipse the record breaking Sale of last year."

[Hugh Conway]

Donated to the National Motor Museum (UK) then sold off in the 80s for ~1 million pounds, reportedly then sold again a couple years later for $20 million. Couple other sales since then and the story seems to be of selling at the peak (except for the museum )


The Alfa 4C's interesting. Lots of stuff crammed into that car wrenching looks to be "interesting"

[PNWbrit]

Donated to the National Motor Museum (UK) then sold off in the 80s for ~1 million pounds

I bet Lord Montagu punched himself in the nuts about that repeatedly.

[BmillsSkier]

Love how you can see styling cues on that Benz that are still visible in today's cars - SLs come to mind.

[schuss]

Eh, a lot of early race equipment was scrapped/crushed or discarded before they realized it could have historical significance. I still remember the Porsche anniversary back in '01 where they brought over all the museum cars. Crazy to see the actual car from the movie Le Mans, as well as the Le Mans winners and original "Moby Dick"

Here's a sample (not my pics):
http://www.snakefoot.com/porsche/page_03.htm

[warthog]

OOOOO 120 ina camaro, what a badass.

You ever been on rural CT back roads? Not a lot of straightaways to hit that kind of speed. Plus, his rear gears were fuct, and coulda locked up at any point. Add in the lack of seatbelts, and yeah it was not very smart.

[Bobby Stainless]

[HankScorpio]

Some people to seem to always scoff when Ferrari makes a super high end car. Its funky looking and its a hybrid, but I'm always amazed at the engineering they put into these cars.

[BmillsSkier]

Amazing car, I just wish they would have blunted the nose a bit more.

You want to see an incredible hypercar hybrid look to the Porsche 918. Top Gear just did a side by side of the LaFerrari, 918, and McLaren P1 - pretty interesting.

[PNWbrit]

I think there's a pleasing touch of the 156 about the nose.

[Flotsam]

this guy

[Alaskan Rover]

this guy

I had a model of the 300SL in that exact same color and red interior when I was a kid. Our neighbor had the REAL thing...also in that same color scheme.

[Alaskan Rover]

Spotted while doing some traveling during Easter:





Can this beast possibly be a Pontiac? It's obviously the coupe version of the Pontiac roadster they came out with a few years ago. I'm sorta enchanted by it.

I'm just wondering if it has the power plant and suspension to match its road-ready, menacing looks....or is it more like the. Chrysler Crossfire failure....gutless?



Damn nice color, too!!

[huckbucket]

Turn the volume uppppp ... watch in 1080.

[Bobby Stainless]

The R8 is everything it should have been, when it came out. The DCT is a game changer for that car.

Nice video of Chris Harris slinging the shit out of my favorite cars.

[Buster Highmen]

Maserati A6GCS :


And some I've owned:
1957 VW


1969 Datsun 2000


1972 BMW 2002


1967 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GT