Showing posts with label beautiful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beautiful. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 20, 2019

the one of a kind AC Cobra Coupe, AC Cars Ltd owner Derek Hurlock and his team built to take on the ‘works’, Shelby Daytona Coupes in the famous 1964 24 Hour classic.


Visibly lower than the Pete Brock designed Daytona coupe (41 inches compared with 48 inches- its height a function of uncertainty over Le Mans windscreen height regs) both designers sat the drivers lower in the car. Turner had also raked the windscreen, created a lower nose section and a longer flowing roof as well as designing the ‘eyebrows’ over the tops of the wheel arches he claimed help clean up airflow.

During Le Mans Sears and Bolton were timed at 180.2mph @ 6300rpm, matching the Daytona Cobras despite giving away 30bhp to the Shelby entries- AC cars chassis #A98 had a 289cid/4.7 litre ‘Windsor’ engine which developed circa 355bhp, the Shelby cars had around 385bhp.

The car qualified conservatively second in class behind the Gurney/Bondurant Shelby entry and ran in that race position, at one point leading the class early in the race averaging 20mph for the first 3.5 hours.

The big coupe began to have fuel feed problems which were found after the race to be caused by newspaper in the fuel tank- sabotage- which blocked the fuel filter. Much time was lost as the filter blockage was diagnosed and remedied.

A tire blew out late in the race, and the wreck of Coupe A98 was brought back to the AC headquarters in Thames Ditton and never rebuilt and or raced further ‘in period’. The very significant car was restored by Barrie Baird who negotiated its purchase in 1972. The work took over 12 years

https://primotipo.com/2018/03/08/ac-cobra-coupe/

This might be only the 2nd time I've ever read about sabotage during a race. The other was at Riverside

Saturday, May 12, 2012

1939 Bugatti type 57C, coachwork by Vanvooren, wedding gift to the Prince of Persia, from the country of France. Exquisite, and now in the Peterson Museum collection










 here is a good examplke of what a difference lighting makes









 the above and below photos are both here because I can't decide which I like better


 the trunk dorsal fin chrome stands out great in this side shot, but disappears from behind


Sunday, January 01, 2012

More beauty posted on the tumblr page

Beauty http://isonlyskindeep.tumblr.com/  so enjoy. If any one of those don't measure up, let me know, and those photos get deleted so that the complete collection's level of excellence is improved

Saturday, December 03, 2011

I just posted more beautful women on my Tumblr gallery of beautiful women










These are to indicate the level of beautiful

Beauty http://isonlyskindeep.tumblr.com/  so enjoy. If any one of them don't measure up, let me know, and those photos will be deleted so that the complete collection's level of excellence is improved

Sunday, November 06, 2011

Many, many more beautiful women added to my Tumblr of beauty



http://isonlyskindeep.tumblr.com/ for many more. If you find that some don't measure up to the standard of beauty that the rest set, let me know so I can remove them.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I'm branching out a little bit. Besides my Tumblr on awesome vehicle photos, I've made another of just beautiful women

Beauty http://isonlyskindeep.tumblr.com/  so enjoy. If any one of those don't measure up, let me know, and those photos get deleted so that the complete collection's level of excellence is improved