drive all day

Devoted to the cult of the automobile. An equal opportunity car lover's blog, everything from European to American, Korean, Japanese, Iranian or Brazilian, autocross, hot rods, classics, V8, two-stroke, stock, modified, fast, slow, front wheel drive, rear wheel drive, rusty, polished, or anything at all. If it's a car, it is welcome in this blog.

9

Marcos Mantis XP
An outrageous, breathtaking and unique car; with a stressed plywood monocoque construction (yeah, plywood!), and clear platic sides and roof.
Powered by a BRM-Repco V8 F1 engine, and sporting a full Cooper F1 suspension, the car could hang with the best of its time. Raced once at the Spa 1000 km in 1968, but the car succumbed to electrical problems and never raced again.







Evidence of plywood underneath the data plate:
9 notes | 1 year ago

1973 Maserati Bora 4.9

13 notes | 1 year ago

75

wellisnthatnice:

Koenigsegg CCXR Special One by nandrphotography.com on Flickr.
75 notes | 1 year ago

12

dankdopeish:

BOSS.
12 notes | 1 year ago

32

1974 Jensen Interceptor MarkIII 440 Chrysler
Built for roughly ten years between 1966 and 1976, the Interceptor was conceived as a sort of muscled-up XKE or DB6, including Girling four-wheel-disc brakes with a mechanical anti-lock system and available all-wheel-drive. The 10.75-inch Girling four-wheel-disc disc brakes were also state-of-the-art equipment for the era and together with the anti-lock system gave the Interceptor not just the stopping power but also the control of a modern car.

None of this came cheap, though. Base Interceptor coupes cost roughly twice the MSRP of a same-year Corvette: about $16,000 at a time when a new ‘Vette sold for around $7,000 or so fully loaded. Convertible Interceptors and FF models with all-wheel-drive bumped that up to $25,000 – exotic car money back in the early-mid 1970s. 

Shortly after production began, however, the ante was raised considerably when Chrysler’s famous 440 cube big block became the standard Interceptor powerplant – with either a single four barrel or – if you were well-heeled enough to pay the extra shekels for it  - the same three two-barrel “Six Pak” set-up used in muscle car legends such as the Charger Daytona and Plymouth Superbird. Before emissions regulations and the ever-escalating cost of fuel began to choke the life out of the mighty 440 (as they were doing to all U.S. performance engines after about 1972), it delivered as much as 375 BHP and pushed the two-ton Jensen to 60 mph from rest in about 7 seconds flat and to a top speed close to 140 mph – excellent numbers for the time. (440-equipped early Interceptors were almost exactly as quick as the four-seater Ferrari 400 GT – and quicker than the ’68-’78 Lamborghini Espada.) 

By 1975-76, emissions regulations and double digit inflation conspired to sap the Interceptor’s might (its 440 cube V-8 was down to a so-so 290 net horsepower) even as it became even more expensive – factors which helped accelerate the demise of the car, and ultimately Jensen Motors, Ltd. The Birmingham factory fell silent after 1976, when the last of the original models – the Mark III – rolled off the line. 

Fewer than 7,000 cars were produced, all told – including a small percentage of convertibles and FF all-wheel-drive examples.
32 notes | 1 year ago

21

A VW Rabbit Rat Rod complete with German helmet air cleaner…
21 notes | 1 year ago