Wednesday, June 30, 2010

The variety in the few AMX3 concept cars made, 10 total I've read, but interestingly not alike in tail lights, and rear deck




Above image 2007 Meadow Brook Concours

Above images 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed by Ilya Holt and from 2007 Meadow Brook Concours




Above 4 images were taken in 2004, at the Bizzarini Expo in Brussels by Dirk de Jager and all the above photos are from http://www.supercars.net/cars/2982.html




Notice the above museum car has a side marker light behind the rear wheel that only one of of the following do.

Lower door racing stripe and AMX 3 callout looks really good, and the rear deck styled partition with air foil over the tailights




Really don't like the above rims.




images from my many posts on the AMX 3... I hope you take a moment to see the differences in these different models, the bottom one having the coolest looking wheels, but I bet it's a mock up with no real car parts, and it looks like the model is in the design studio for a photo op.

Notice it doesn't have a gas cap like the yellow model directly above it, and the rocker panel is black with the AMX 3 call out looking really nice. Different tailights too.

From the Supercars website story on the AMX3:
Giotto Bizzarrini, of ex-Ferrari fame, was specifically responsible for making a production worthy AMX/3 out of the show queen AMX/2. What would have been a challenging build for AMC, was easily handled by Bizzarrini who was very familiar with race car design
and construction, particularly on a tight budget.

Bizzarrini's final AMX/3 featured the hallmark of sports engineering, a mid-mounted engine and rear transaxle. The Italian firm Melara developed the new gearbox while BMW completed final testing on the roadworthy AMX/3. It seemed AMC was serious about production. From a design standpoint, the AMC/3 was remarkably similar to Ford's DeTomaso Pantera which debuted just one day after the AMX/3. Such timely releases made it unclear exactly who copied who, but in any case, the casual observer can easily mistake the AMX/3 with a Pantera.

Due to the successful launch, and low price of the Pantera, AMC scrapped the AMX/3 project. Bizzarrini was ordered to destroy all six cars, which he, of course, did not.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

I'm impressed and amazed by the obscurity of 1967 fashion photoshoot at the Irwindale Raceway, with drag racer Danny Ongais, driver for MT & Leong






So you too must be wondering, who in the hell thought dragsters and womens fashion couture had anything in common? It was Vogue magazine, April 1967 issue

Monday, June 28, 2010

A freshly restored 1929 Graham-Paige Sound Train was just shown at the 2010 Amelia Island Concours

Above photo via: http://www.remarkablecars.com/for-sale/showproduct.php/product/23535/cat/4296/date/1277135154 by Douglas Wilkinson, the car is a the Tallahassee Antique Car Museum, 3550A Mahan Drive (Highway 90), Tallahassee, Florida
Phone: (850) 942-0137
Website: http://tacm.com/



Via: http://www.conceptcarz.com/events/eventVehicle.aspx?carID=18238&eventID=557&catID=2283&whichPage=1

This 1929 Graham-Paige Sound Train began life as a limousine, and then was sent to the Indianapolis, IN Harry O. McGee Company for modifications. These modifications included a large public address system. The limousine interior was left pretty much unchanged, but the front-end sheet metal around the hood area was rounded to give the appearance of being the boiler of a locomotive. A large headlight was mounted up front along with a smoke stack, bell, steam dome, and whistle. The chrome-plated bell had a wire running inside to the instrument panel so the driver could attract even more attention to the vehicle.

These vehicles were built in the late 1920s and 1930s for the parent company of Paramount Pictures. They were used for all kinds of publicity situations: to advertise the opening of a new movie in a town or to deliver a star to an opening in grand style with dancing girls riding on the seats located on the fenders.

For my previous post, with 3 different photos of the variety of the Sound Trains: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/1929-graham-paige-sound-train-and-mgm.html

For the only thing I've came across about the Trackless Train: http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/TT/AA-TT-150.pdf
For a gallery of the San Diego sound train Graham Paige that I just photographed in Sept 2010 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/09/san-diego-1929-graham-paige-sound-train.html

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Airstream, the USS Hornet, and NASA , Quite a combination, and not the first time I've posted about NASA's airstream, incredibly enough

Offloading of the Mobile Quarantine Facility from the prime recovery vessel, the U.S.S. Hornet, July 24, 1969.

Via http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a11/ap11-S69-21881HR.jpg from the unusual and NSFW website http://melisaki.tumblr.com/page/91

For more on the NASA airstream: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/04/remember-apollo-astronauts-getting.html

Melisaki.tumbler.com has a cool variety of car and aircraft photos, here's a couple

1910 Fiat S76, the beast of turin, 28.3 liter engine

Cord 810 & Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie 1936

What happened to the high level of restroom cleanliness as the high priority? Former First lady Eleanor Roosevelt once toured the US inspecting them, and that is quite a feat of publicity!


Showing an obsolete public facility, the motordrome. Motordrome racer on an Excelsior motorcycle 1914

1967 Autorama I think, photo by Margery Krevsky

The Overland Train Mark II, Yuma proving ground, Arizona

P51 small scale in aerodynamics research and developement

1944, a Corsair

Boeing 2707-300 1966 full scale mockup

XB 70 Valkyrie

Via: http://melisaki.tumblr.com

Jack Benny and Pres. Harry Truman in the photo, Jack Benny, Mel Blanc and Johnny Carson talking about the Maxwell



Drving a 1908 Maxwell, because as a long running joke Jack Benny was playing a miserly guy who wouldn't waste a cent on anything better than a 1923 Maxwell.

Jack Benny appears onscreen driving a Maxwell in the film It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

An antique 1923 Maxwell automobile owned by Jack Benny, the "Cheapest Man in the World" was used as a running gag on both radio (first appeared in 1937) and later on his TV comedy series THE JACK BENNY SHOW/CBS/1950-64. Jack insisted that he could always get a few more miles out of his beat up jalopy. But for all of his tinkering, the car usually drove for about 15 minutes at which time the radiator boiled over, forcing Jack to wait for the engine to cool down before moving along. Jack bought the car second-hand from a dealer called the Smiling Pilgrim.

Once Jack saw his servant Rochester (Eddie Anderson) daintily sponging down the car. "For Heaven sake, Jack yelled "Why don't you use the garden hose on it?" Rochester answered, "Don't you remember the last time I used the hose on it, Boss? The fender fell off!"

from http://www.tvacres.com/autos_antique_jackbenny.htm


In 1907 Maxwell constructed the largest automobile factory in the world, it was in New Castle Indiana, and about 1910-1914 the Maxwell automobile was considered one of the top 3 auto companies in America

Unless you knew the make, you'd never guess what type of car this is

Toyota Model AB Phaeton, 1936 (via Joel Abroad)

Bad train wreck, great photo

I don't know the source

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