BdB's Dream Car...

[Mossie]

1938 Figoni et Falaschi Talbot Lago


Jon

The Lago especially is a beauty isn't it?  I think the both the Lago & Devaux could both have potential as Batmobiles!!!

[jcf]

The various landspeed record cars would come closest to that.

Ah yes, but they are designed to go in a straight line, are generally quite large and are not race cars per se, I'm thinking along the lines of vehicles intended for Grand Prix, Indy or GT racing.

Jon

[GTX]

I would take this one:



Except they only come in automatic rather than manual which is what this really deserves!

Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

Lancer was right, it's gorgeous in maroon!

[Brian da Basher]

It sure is! You guys keep this up and I'm gonna have to create a seperate folder for all the hot car pics!

Brian da Basher

[HOG]

Hoyhoy`al
Don`t know what it is. Found it on a weapons site where someone posted it for info and is captioned on the site as "german mortar crew"?


But it has got wings and an `airyplane influence.

[puddingwrestler]

That is a Mercedes Benz made in the 1930s to have a bash at the land speed record as I recall. It's certainly an MB, but I can't remember exactly what race/record it was designed for.
I do believe it had an unholy engine capacity (Something like 40 liters)

[Brian da Basher]

That beauty looks like it's setting a speed record standing still! Nice find, HOG!

Brian da Basher

[Daryl J.]

The Concours d'Elegance at Forest Grove, OR had a theme a little over a decade ago called "streamliners'' and there was a bunch of stuff like pictured here.    I left with significant respect for design that's for sure.   Too bad there weren't digital cameras then, eh?



Daryl J.

[noxioux]

Streamliners are all well and good, but I think the really bright aircraft manufacturers would've subscribed to the time-tested method of "strip it down and stuff it full of engine".

What I'd like to see is a motor built like the old Miller-Offenhauser engines, but with the benefit of some more modern fuel delivery and engine management systems.  Maybe Rolls Royce cuts down a dual-stage supercharged V-12 to 8 cylinders and stuffs it into something like a Bugatti type 35.

[jcf]

Hoyhoy`al
Don`t know what it is. Found it on a weapons site where someone posted it for info and is captioned on the site as "german mortar crew"?


But it has got wings and an `airyplane influence.

M-B T80 powered by a DB aircraft engine.

Jon

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How about this design I've got down as by Bristol. Not as pretty as the others but this sucker flys ! (allegedly)

[Mossie]

Here's the promised scan on a Westland design.  It's from an article on the 'Seager Archive' in Flypast.  Stanley Seager, a designer for Westland started work there as a Tea Boy in 1915 & retired from the company in 1967.  In his retirement, he took to retrospectively drawing Westland designs.  The collection is now up for sale.  It apparentley includes many 'aero-cars', but these are the only two in the article.



The streamliner is quite an unusual design from 1938, a two wheeler with outriggers.  It's shape & layout might suggest a racer, but the three seats suggest otherwise.  Could have formed a basis for some kind of racer, that's for certain.

[lancer]

Lancer was right, it's gorgeous in maroon!

Told ya..