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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Via: http://www.shorpy.com/node/5839?size=_original and if you want to read about the Milburn Electric model 27 in the lower center : http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z15228/Milburn-Electric-Model-27.aspx
drag racing semis... smoky burnouts... and look at the torque twist pulling the front wheels off the ground
0 comments Posted by st at 7:40 AMThe 103 yr old record for fastest steam powered car is soon to be broken
0 comments Posted by st at 7:16 AMIn 1906 Fred Marriot set the 127.66 mph record, and nothing in 103 years was intiative to make someone determined to break it.
I was recently reading something Jay Leno wrote about it, and he's a great writer I recommend... but I forgot to post a link to his column.
Read about the new contender here: http://blog.cardomain.com/2009/03/31/steam-power/#more-15803
Saturday, April 4, 2009
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
One Strada owner’s passion for his car led to the ultimate street Bizzarrini. The Duke of Aosta was in his 20s and resided outside Florence, and the engineer remembers him buying a Strada that he used a lot.
In fact, he liked his Strada so much he approached me, wanting a car that was even more racy. I offered him [P538 003], but he was too tall and didn’t fit.’
And so was born the car you see here, the Duca D’Aosta, designed and built from scratch. Bizzarrini and his men made a P538 chassis and invited the Duke to Bizzarrini’s small factory in Livorno. They took his measurements and went to work making a new car to debut at 1968’s Turin Auto Show.
At around the same former Bertone and Ghia designer Giorgietto Giugiaro (who had just formed ItalDesign) expressed an interest to build a striking show car based on the P538 chassis.
