Did anybody else read yesterdays telegraph motoring section and see this beautiful car?
Ive always hankered after one of these since my youth and it had all the best bits as well.
I then turned to page 3 and saw audis latest concept car ,looks like a very large brazier on the front,wonder if it will be coal powered? ugly doesnt do it justice---------
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the deuce coupe didn't have mudguards, so presumably won't be road legal.......i'd want to be able to drive it if I owned one
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would you drive the mona lisa on our roads?
its a work of art not a mondeo ;-)
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i take the point....but.......IMO cars are for driving, not looking at.......0-)
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Quite agree bb, alltime classic in that idiom.
Very crude and violent vehicle though, although I imagine the one featured is as near driveable as money can make it.
Long time ago I posted an account of a roadster version with a flathead engine and a sticky throttle cable that I saw understeering violently at Lord's roundabout in St John's wood. The driver looked absolutely petrified, as well he might.
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Certainly is extremely pretty. Bet it sounds good too. Love the wheels.
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maybe i'm uncvilised or lacking in culture.....but.....i'm going to stick my neck out and say i don't really like it
the roof looks out of place compared to the body; the wheels look daft, in that they protrude out of the shape with no coverings; the interior looks neither one thing or the other with XJS seats
for the amount of money spent on it i'd have a well sorted mk1 Mustang with a humunguous great V8 in it.....and a load of change
or one of those Jag mkII's that have been sorted with a load of modern kit, but still look the real thing
or an original GT40
or.................................................
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Different idiom from the one here Westpig.
Hot rod idiom is that the car should be very obviously modified, not subtly. And for the dominant form of informal competition: drag racing.
Of course you know what that is. Hence the look. Those cars won't go round corners for toffee nuts.
Eye of the beholder!
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I'm with Westpig here. Doesn't do anything for me. Callum can go on all he likes about purity of design. In fact it's so pure he feels a need to hack 2.5 inches out of the roof pillars and some out of the radiator. It all just looks wrong to me. And what are those afterthought instruments dangling below the dash all about? Each to his own. Would like to hear the V8 bark, though.
Hawkeye
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Just a little deuce coupe with a flat head mill
But shell walk a thunderbird like its standin still
Shes ported and relieved and shes stroked and bored.
Shell do a hundred and forty with the top end floored
Shes got a competition clutch with the four on the floor
And she purrs like a kitten till the lake pipes roar
And if that aint enough to make you flip your lid
Theres one more thing, I got the pink slip daddy
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Shes ported and relieved and shes stroked and bored.
Now I always thought it was "re-leaved" as in lower springs ...
So, experts, what is "relieved" when you tune your ancient V8 ?
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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it only applies to sidevalves, relieving is where the combustion chamber & possibly the block is opened up by grinding away above the "bridge" between the valves & the bores to allow freer passage of inlet & exhaust to from the valves.
Think of an upside down bathtub between the valves & the top of the piston.
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A proper roof chop on a proper car as this is has always showed style i find.
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The caption to one of the photos says, "originally wanted a Jaguar engine for obvious reasons."
Good job he plumped for something more authentic, not a flathead but at least a traditional Ford smallblock. I thought most of the character of these things was the lumpy-idling, rumbling old-school V8, a modern smooth DOHC V8 would not be in keeping, IMO. (But each to their own obviously). :o)
Some good clips of similar machines with flathead V8s on YouTube..
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