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So lets say you've got a hankering for a mid-80's mustache style Ferrari but you don't want to deal with maintenance bills that would make Leno cringe. Perhaps we might interest you in an armored Maybach 62 this shockingly realistic looking '86 Ferrari Testarossa. Normally this is where we would make fun of the Fiero chassis that is holding all that sneaky body work up, but not in this case. There's an 1984 Chevy Camaro lurking under them thar fenders! The obvious match of mullet to mustache has us staggering. Not only does this street fighters' combo land the one two punch of terrible chassis and solid axle, it finishes us off with the less than spectacular 305 V8 mated to a legendary 80's GM slushbox. Don't worry though, it's got original Ferrari badging and needs paint work. Keep in mind that "if you don't like attention & people asking you to take pictures, this is not the car for you!!" [ Craigslist ]
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Looks like the voting is still neck-and-neck on the Plate-O-Shrimp Edition Choose Your Eternity poll , so those of you who feel strongly about J. Frank Parnell's Malibu or Bud's Impala better go and cast some votes. Today we're going to ditch the common-theme-between-entrants idea and go with a couple of compelling-yet-markedly-different choices. Thanks- and a Project Car Hell Tipster T-shirt - to ZZMarcus for the tip! How would you like a stealthy sedan with design by Giorgetto Giugiaro and a Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole engine under the hood? Say, perhaps, this 1989 Lancia Thema 8.32 , which just failed to sell when the top bid of $7600 didn't meet the reserve price? That means the seller's probably in a price-cutting mood! Never heard of the Thema? Well, head on over to this bitter and heavily pro-Thema-biased Wikipedia entry and check it out! This particular example is in "excellent original condition," according to the seller, needing only some minor paint...
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Yesterday's QOTD was a really good one for multiple reasons . One of the many topics discussed was power vs. torque, a concept still not that well understood by petrolheads. To radically simplify the argument, push-rod mills have less reciprocating mass and are therefor able to generate oodles of twisting force down low in the rev range. They tend to burble rather than scream, need larger displacements and don't rev all that high. On the other hand, smaller overhead valve engines are able to whirl up to lofty red lines and generate stellar horsepower figures, but sacrifice bottom-end grunt in the process. For example, lets compare the Z06's 7.0-liter V8 to the Ferrari F430's 4.3-liter V8. The uber (for now) Vette stumps up 505-hp at 6,800 rpm while the Ferrari's relatively diminutive power plant blats out 490-hp at 8,500 rpm. However, the Z06 stumps 470 ft-lb of twist at 4,800 rpm while the Italian can "only " muster 343 ft-lb at 5,250 rpm. There's a Talmud passage that deals with what...
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After seeing the '49 Cadillac cruise to victory over the '68 Cad in yesterday's Project Ambulance Hell poll , we realized that we've been making the choices too easy lately. See, the whole point is to make you need the car, even with full open-eyed awareness that it will soon reduce you to a broken, weeping heap of misery crawling across the garage floor. And what better way to reach that goal than via a staggeringly difficult engine swap ? We've picked two cars and four engines, giving you eight wonderful choices! First, the cars: Old British cars have a storied drag racing history in the USA, with the V8-ified Ford Anglias being the most famous examples, and seeing the Morris Minor family tree yesterday put us in a Morris sort of mood. Therefore, the obvious choice for Mix-n-Match Car #1 is this 1957 Morris Minor . The seller seems to think it's a Mini, but he'll be even more confused when you tell him what kind of engine you plan to stuff under its bonnet. It's got some rust, but that...
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