Showing posts with label Peugeot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peugeot. Show all posts

Monday, May 09, 2022

seen on tonight's walk, a Miramar squad's car? But a Peugeot wagon? Really odd


the old window decal in the lower right corner is from Miramar
 

So, the the Air Force style paint job? 



they even own a 2nd Peugeot

Saturday, July 18, 2020

dear ol saint Nick, I've been better than usual, would you mind thinking over my notion to ask you for a cool old car... this one is pretty light, might be a good fit for the back of your sleigh









This Peugeot Bebe had spent its entire life in Italy until being imported in 2018, much of its earlier days being used in the grounds of a villa on Lake Garda.

designed by Ettore Bugatti but a fraction of the price of those bearing his name

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26115/lot/51/

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Peugeot's new concept cars have a cool gadget to drive me nuts... it takes the steering wheel away from the human when in "autonomous made" so there's no way to prevent a crash (thanks Mike!)





https://www.peugeot.co.za/brand-and-technology/concept-car/peugeot-instinct-concept/the-responsive-i-cockpit.html

Fine, that disappearing steering wheel is a neat trick, folding down and sliding into the dash - but since I don't trust a self driving car any farther than I can throw it... I am certain that preventing the driver from grabbing a steering wheel and instantly changing the direction in a collision course is a bad idea

Monday, August 13, 2018

So, racing in parking garages was thought to be an import thing, something these damn kids do since Fast and Furious, with Hondas and Nissans... how quaint. It's been at least 91 years since some Parisian hooligans were drifting around the corners and up the ramps, so, it's nothing new.



Way back in 1927!

Banville's symbol race where several thousand people in Paris went racing in a new and gigantic garage in the neighborhood, eight floors high and three or four floors below ground, all accessed by  ramps.

Spectators hung out in the turns and at each landing, and also on the steps of the stairs and in the offices that give it an elegant feel of a major sporting event.

 At the top, in a spacious tennis court were tables of cakes, small ovens, and champagne were waiting for guests.

The meeting, which was attended by Divo, Seneschal, Wagner, Boillot, Robert Benoist, Guyot Lagache, Charavel, Thomas, Rovin and Dauvergne.  Benoist was the initiator and organizer of this meeting that included motorcycles, cyclecars, racing cars and Bugatti, Delage, Amilcar, Seneschal, Talbot, Peugeot, etc.,

It ended, without incident or accident. At the race was only one closed car, the winner of the recent Monte Carlo rally.  27.02.1927






https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7/posts/10217147361785088

Friday, October 20, 2017

one of only two surviving Charlatans Peugeots, and the only one with Grand Prix history.



The 1913 Peugeot 4.5-Liter L45 is not only regarded by many as the father of all racing engines, but this specific car ran in the 1916 Indianapolis 500.

Decades later when Bothwell took the Peugeot back to Indianapolis to compete in the Veteran Class, he beat Dario Resta's 85mph lap record at over 103mph – a record that had stood for 30 years!

Tremendously historic and full of provenance, the significance of this race car cannot be overstated, particularly when one considers that it was this engine that inspired Miller, Offenhauser and a host of others. It is one of the most original and pure racing cars of this era



https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24733/lot/408/?category=list&length=10&page=38

Sold for 7.26 million http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24733/#/aa0=5&MR0_length=90&w0=results&aj0=lot_number_asc&m0=0