Un sujet pour pour présenter les délires, les véhicules les plus improbables, les carrosseries les plus extravagantes...
Je commence avec ce que Ford envisageait à une lointaine époque. Les ingénieurs prévoyaient que les voitures du futur pourraient bénéficier d'un mini réacteur nucléaire.
En France on avait Chimie 2000 et là bas c'était: Atomic energy lab!
The Phantom Corsair is an automobile prototype from 1938. It is a six-passenger coupe that was designed by Rust Heinz, a member of the H. J. Heinz family, and Maurice Schwartz of the Pasadena, California based Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company. The design was a departure from contemporary car design and it did away with many features, common at the time, that were eventually abandoned by mainstream designers.
Production
Heinz planned to put the Phantom Corsair, which cost approximately $24,000 to produce in 1938 (approximately $300,000 in 2005 dollars) into limited production at an estimated selling price of $12,500. However, Heinz's death, shortly after the car was completed, ended those plans.
The 1938 Phantom Corsair now resides in the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada.
The full story of this car, as well as studio pictures, appears in the October 2006 edition of Classic and Sports Car magazine.
Design
With a height of only 147 cm (58 in.), the steel and aluminum body had no running boards, fenders or door handles. Instead, the doors could be opened using buttons located on the outside and on the instrument panel. To match the advanced design, Heinz chose the most advanced chassis available in the United States at that time, the Cord 810. The V8 engine-equipped Cord also featured front wheel drive and an electrically operated four-speed gearbox, as well as a fully independent suspension and adjustable shock absorbers. To accommodate the large body, various changes were carried through on the chassis. The car's lower frame was made of chromoly steel and the upper frame was constructed of electrically welded aviation steel tubing. Power for the 2-ton / 4500 lb. (2000 kg) Phantom Corsair came from a modified Cord 810 Lycoming 8-cylinder unit, supercharged to produce about 190 hp. The aerodynamic body enabled the car to reach speeds of up to 115 miles per hour (185 km/h).
Phantom Corsair in media
* The automobile was featured as the "Flying Wombat" in the David O. Selznick film The Young in Heart (1938), starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Janet Gaynor, and Billie Burke. Heinz and his car were featured in a segment of the Popular Science film series in 1938.
The Phantom Corsair can be seen and driven in the computer game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, in which it is referred to as the Manta Prototype.
Top mortel, tu veux dire !! J'veux ça avec une Cuda, bien sûr...;)
Et avec une Valiant? bon c'est d'usine mais je ne résiste pas à vous faire partager les commentaires d'un amateur US.
On the other hand, I remember people's reactions to the 66 Valiant wagon I had once, which was undoubtedly the most useful, but also undoubtedly the ugliest car I've ever owned. I learned who my true friends were, but even they gave it nicknames such as the Hearse, and my favorite affectionate title, the White Rat. One time, a friend hesitatingly asked me to park it down the street a few houses away. We still laugh about that funny story, even today.
Source: http://www.earlycuda.org/members/erik.htm
Bien entendu vous savez que je ne moc pas des Valiant, c'est juste pour illustrer l'aspect généraliste de ce forum :lol: :boufon:
The Phantom Corsair is an automobile prototype from 1938. It is a six-passenger coupe that was designed by Rust Heinz, a member of the H. J. Heinz family, and Maurice Schwartz of the Pasadena, California based Bohman & Schwartz coachbuilding company. The design was a departure from contemporary car design and it did away with many features, common at the time, that were eventually abandoned by mainstream designers.
Production
Heinz planned to put the Phantom Corsair, which cost approximately $24,000 to produce in 1938 (approximately $300,000 in 2005 dollars) into limited production at an estimated selling price of $12,500. However, Heinz's death, shortly after the car was completed, ended those plans.
The 1938 Phantom Corsair now resides in the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno, Nevada.
The full story of this car, as well as studio pictures, appears in the October 2006 edition of Classic and Sports Car magazine.
Design
With a height of only 147 cm (58 in.), the steel and aluminum body had no running boards, fenders or door handles. Instead, the doors could be opened using buttons located on the outside and on the instrument panel. To match the advanced design, Heinz chose the most advanced chassis available in the United States at that time, the Cord 810. The V8 engine-equipped Cord also featured front wheel drive and an electrically operated four-speed gearbox, as well as a fully independent suspension and adjustable shock absorbers. To accommodate the large body, various changes were carried through on the chassis. The car's lower frame was made of chromoly steel and the upper frame was constructed of electrically welded aviation steel tubing. Power for the 2-ton / 4500 lb. (2000 kg) Phantom Corsair came from a modified Cord 810 Lycoming 8-cylinder unit, supercharged to produce about 190 hp. The aerodynamic body enabled the car to reach speeds of up to 115 miles per hour (185 km/h).
Phantom Corsair in media
* The automobile was featured as the "Flying Wombat" in the David O. Selznick film The Young in Heart (1938), starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Paulette Goddard, Janet Gaynor, and Billie Burke. Heinz and his car were featured in a segment of the Popular Science film series in 1938.
The Phantom Corsair can be seen and driven in the computer game Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, in which it is referred to as the Manta Prototype.
André à dû voire cette voiture, avant de pondre cette immondice de DS :sick:
dans le meme style de modif shooté vite fait un crew-ram pratique pour amener la famille en vacances:lol: :lol: ;) ou une equipe de potes en concentre...;) ;) ;) :whistle: :P
Wanna drive my truck? Hauling ass sucking gas.
if it ain't a mopar it's pure shit
Le coup des break de chasse, ca se faisait sur les Corvettes car beaucoup de spécialistes proposaient le kit dans les 70's.
Assez réussi je trouve:
J'ai plein de catalogues d'époque de kits pour corvettes. Il ya avait des trucs moches comme de jolies variantes à réaliser.
J'ai le sentiment que la Corvette fut l'une des premières voitures pour laquelle les ricains ont proposé des kits aussi variés. Lorsque j'ai vu la première photo de cette transfo j'ai trouvé ça incroyable. Bonne pioche ;)
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