This 1971 Plymouth Barracuda is one fine looking beast. Since the 1930’s, four generations of the Manns family have been fixing cars in the same small town of Festus, Missouri. These are craftsmen that have the ability to turn rust into reborn. To take a tetanus inducing deathtrap into a show stopping tire burner with all the amenities of a modern day vehicle. Manns Restoration is one of those shops that can take an idea crudely drawn on paper and deliver a final product beyond all expectations time and again.I thought you might like a look at this custom 1971 Plymouth…
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Straight-laced and as conservative as you could get. In the mid-1960s, it was an image that Buick was trying to shake. Buick machines were initially as out-of-place with muscle machines of that era as could be imagined.Buick might well have been the family car that your parents grew up with. It was also a sign of success in business. So if this brand was to compete in the land of burn-outs and stop-light challenges, some changes were definitely in order.–But enter the Gran Sport model in the mid-1960s and nothing would ever be the same. The classy GS model would be…
Sold for $368,000 at 2019 Gooding & Company : Pebble Beach. In 1905 Louis Delage started his automobile company in France and within a year he began racing. A man obsessed; he won the European Grand Prix Championship in 1927. His dream realized, he closed his race department, sold off his race cars and returned to the manufacture of automobiles. He lost money on every chassis sold. Delage was financially devastated. He sold out to arch-rival Delahaye which continued production. The D6-70 was introduced shortly thereafter in 1937. This 1938 Delage D6-70 with its 2.7-liter, 6-cylinder engine has cabriolet coachwork…
Ransom E. Olds began producing automobiles in 1897. Oldsmobile was the first company to use the assembly line, but Ford Motor Company later added the conveyor belt. General Motors acquired Oldsmobile in 1908 and Mr. Olds later pursued another of his inventions, the power lawn mower. The Ideal Power Lawn Mower began production in 1914 and was eventually sold to the Indian Motorcycle Company in 1945. The 1932 F-32 included many firsts for Oldsmobile. They featured an automatic choke and an automatic throttle advance which moved the throttle to a start position when the starter pedal was depressed. It was…
Aside from that, we’ve discovered a slew of indications indicating our ancestors The recently uploaded website “UNEXPLAINED MYSTERIES” attempted to validate this ongoing notion by evaluating the opinions themselves. It was titled “Is Earth’s Civilization 103 Million Years Old, and Was It Aliens?” And it has deepened into what has compelled devotees all around the world to reach this conclusion more than ever before. For example, it refers to all of the pyramids discovered on Mars using Curiosity Rover’s surveillance photographs. They resemble the ones we’ve seen on Earth, which were allegedly created by the ancient Egyptians. were far more…
We all know that the first man to land on the moon was Neil Armstrong, a NASA astronaut and also an accomplished test pilot and a figure in American and world history that you can bet many generations from now people will still be talking about him, as well as his moon landing. Here are some statements by a former Astronaut: Professor: What really happened out of Apollo 11? Armstrong: An amazing thing, even though we have always known of this possibility. The fact is that they (aliens) ordered us to turn away! Professor: What do you mean “warned to…
What you will see in the following video is apparently an extraterrestrial entering a flying saucer before taking off. The video was recorded in a remote snowy area of Romania, near the city of Targoviste. According to the video loaded on YouTube, the material was filmed a few years ago, showing how a big head humanoid walks over two legs toward his spacecraft. As soon as the creature enters the spacecraft, it takes off slowly and disappears. The video had millions of views, however, most viewers insisted that the whole video was just fake CGI. But as always, there were…
Without a question, one of humankind’s finest inventions to date is NASA’s Curiosity Rover. The $2.5 billion rover was an expensive project at the time, and many people were terrified that it would be finished soon, but it was well worth it in the end. As a consequence, we have made many discoveries. In contrast to NASA, which appeared to have lost its path along the road, the Curiosity Rover is still sharing its findings with us. This is how the current discovery came to be. As you can see, this is no ordinary rock; it has a mouth, a…
In the mid-1960s, Ford set out to beat Ferrari in the Italian automaker’s favored arena: the 24 Hours of Le Mans. After two disappointing attempts, Ford succeeded in 1966 by finishing first, second and third with the GT40 Mark II. To defend its title in 1967, Ford created an all-new car. Only the engine and transmission remained from the Mark II. The new car’s aircraft-inspired honeycomb aluminum construction reduced weight and improved strength, while its aerodynamic body held it to the road. Ford entered four Mark IV’s at Le Mans. This MK IV Racing Coupe is the car that caused…
At the 1952 Geneva Motor Show, Fiat excited the public with a new car developed especially for racing. Powered by a Fiat 2 litre V8 engine, the car was known as the 8V, or ‘Otto Vu.’ Of the 114 8Vs built, very few received bodywork by Zagato like this example with its distinctive ‘double-bubble’ roofline. The 8V Zagatos were very successful in racing due to their lighter weight. In 1954, one particular 8V Zagato was campaigned by Elio Zagato himself. Originally kept as a factory car with coachwork by Fabio Rapi, it was returned to Fiat in February 1954 to…
Hot rodding is as American as apple pie. It embodies some of the most fundamental American concepts such as the ability to accomplish anything. An OEM can spend millions of dollars developing a car like the Corvette Z06, but we believe we can make it better. More over, we believe we can make a much older car even better than a brand-new car. Is it arrogant and even foolish? Probably, yeah… But this is the land of opportunity. And out on track, it doesn’t matter whether each part was meticulously designed by a separate engineer with FEA and CAD software,…
In 1964, Chrysler gave the world a glimpse of the future. The automaker built a fleet of turbine cars – automobiles with jet engines – and lent them out to members of the public. The fleet logged over a million miles; the exercise was a raging success. These turbine engines would run on any flammable liquid diesel, heating oil, kerosene, tequila, even Chanel No. 5. If the cars had been mass produced, today we might have cars that do not require petroleum-derived fuels. The engine was also much simpler than the piston engine it contained far fewer moving parts and required…