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Ferrari Dino 246 GTS sports car

The Ferrari Dino 246 GT provides a pure race car feel. However, you should regularly control the box. The maintenance is not cheap, but poor service leads to even more expensive costs.

For a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS in good condition now 100,000 euros and be paid. Obvious that the maintenance is not a car in this price range is cheap. Although the little Ferrari with a V6 only comes up with the V12 instead of the big brothers, the cost of service and maintenance are not nearly half as high.

Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Vintage model

After all, the Dino is not maintenance-prone to be excessive or capricious – “provided the basic right,” restricts Hans Uhlmann.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS The long-standing dinosaur specialist from W?denswil near Zurich knows the problem of lack of reliability of cars in bad technical condition. When they are finally brought to the workshop, not a mere maintenance, but expensive repairs are due. But dinosaurs that are OK, “should once a year to shop,” Jochen Frick finds from the sports car specialist in Frankfurt.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Classic car

To come within the true enjoyment of the free-revving six-cylinder, certain basic conditions are met. “The ignition must work absolutely correct, which is particularly important,” says Uhlmann.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS It should be noted briefly on the spark plugs, which previously prepared often have problems because they were wet and sooty.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Task of a skilled workshop is the distributor of the Dino with his two breaker contacts. The correct setting can actually be carried out using a Verteilerpr?fbank.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS In later versions, the case is even more complicated, because one of the breaker for the neutral charge then.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Ferrari Dino 246 GTS Vintage model

The ignition system of the Dino, the so-called Dinoplex C, now getting on in years. Some screwdrivers have it replaced by a newer CDI system. “A number of dinosaur have been converted to contactless ignition systems, some of whom do not work satisfactorily because the sample is too weak to spark a cold engine and a rich mixture,” says Jochen Frick.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Hans Uhlmann may recommend to its proprietary conversion kit for contactless ignition but without hesitation. More than 70 other Ferrari Dino and run fine with it. Ferrari Dino 246 GTS For the conversion charges he and check the centrifugal advance ? 1,600 – no installation and removal of the distributor and the other of any necessary work, such as a carburetor adjustment.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

A carburetor is adjusted correctly the way, is the second important prerequisite for good running, but not every shop has the know-how for optimal results.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Ferrari Dino 246 GTS In yellow color

Among the more elaborate work on the engine is the valve clearance and timing control. If this is done with due diligence, and all seals replaced, the cost of this to climb over 1,000 ?. For specimens with air conditioning will be added because of the air compressor, additional driving screws.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Transmission overhaul for about 10,000 engine overhaul about 25,000 to 40,000 euros Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

The five-speed gearbox can be innately want something heavy. But you should be no howling away and do not scratch when changing gear, otherwise depending on the extent of damage to 10,000 ? for an overhaul to invest. It is, however, always to wear and tear each particular weak points does not have the gear.Ferrari Dino 246 GTS

Wear and tear, it is also to make the necessary repairs to the chassis. Ferrari Dino 246 GTSWho can replace all the bushings and bearings of the front and rear axle to be reckoned with also some peaks. The parts to be obtained.

In general, the parts availability has improved in recent years. But beware, not all of the remanufactured products have the quality and dimensional accuracy of original spare. Sometimes the shows immediately, sometimes later – as in a silent jack for the suspension, because many move their car owner Dino-general only slightly. One should therefore always rely on the experience of the workshop when it comes to the purchase of spare partsFerrari Dino 246 GTS

Ferrari 330 GTC sports car

With its 300 hp four-liter V12 engine, the manual five-speed gearbox and independent suspension is the Ferrari 330 GTC certainly been one of the most desirable driving machines of the 1960s. The specimen with the chassis number 10 659, which will offer RM Auctions at this year’s autumn sale “Automobiles of London ‘, has also yet to offer a unique body – and a fascinating history:

Ferrari 330 GTC on the street

Originally the car was in 1968 at the now almost legendary American Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti and racers delivered – initially with the standard bodywork by Pininfarina. Ferrari 330 GTCChinetti sold his Ferrari to Robert V. Kennedy of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ferrari 330 GTC When the car a few years later, again at Chinetti rolled into the yard, he had two other owners in Farhzeugbrief and a slight front damage.Ferrari 330 GTC

Ferrari 330 GTC in showroom

Originally the car was in 1968 at the now almost legendary American Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti and racers delivered – initially with the standard bodywork by Pininfarina. Ferrari 330 GTC.Chinetti sold his Ferrari to Robert V. Kennedy of Cambridge, Massachusetts. When the car a few years later, again at Chinetti rolled into the yard, he had two other owners in Farhzeugbrief and a slight front damage.Ferrari 330 GTC luxury car.

Ferrari 330 GTC classic retro car

Chinetti decided to send the car to the renowned body-Zagato factory in Milan, to be replaced by the original body was custom built.Ferrari 330 GTC. Zagato designed a clear and sharp lines that differed drastically from the gentle curves of the original.Ferrari 330 GTC

Ferrari 330 GTC retro model

With its streamlined shape, engraved front, the rectangular glass headlamps, the step-back with square tail lights and the enormous Targa roof corresponded to the body of a non-conformist modern term that has prevailed in the course of the seventies nationwide.Ferrari 330 GTC In the spring of 1974 was the Ferrari 330 GTC to see the state of the Carrozzeria Zagato on in Geneva and was released shortly afterwards in the Italian magazine “Quattroporte”.Ferrari 330 GTC

Ferrari 330 GTC Luxury car

There also discovered the former owner Robert V. Kennedy, his former coach in the new design and decided to buy the Ferrari of Chinetti back. Ferrari 330 GTC Until the 90s was the unusual one-off in Kennedy’s possession, after a brief trip to Europe, the car ended up in the prestigious Schermerhorn Collection.Ferrari 330 GTC

Ferrari 330 GTC retro model

Ferrari 330 GTC Classic model

Ferrari 275 GTB Classic model

The Ferrari 275 GTB (Berlinetta) comes in 1964 as a faster successor to the Ferrari 250 Lusso GL on the market. The Ferrari 275 GTB has a long, aerodynamic shaped snout with large air inlets. Given a strongly curved windshield and a cut-off tail that has a spoiler edge.Ferrari 275 GTB.

Ferrari 275 GTB vintage model

With a 3.3-liter engine and three double-carbs, the Ferrari 275 GTB driven. In addition to the 275 GTB (Berlinetta) or a convertible with a modified body of the Ferrari 275 GTS Spider is presented. The Spider has a slightly throttled engine, the engine generates 260 hp and a top speed of 240 km / h.Ferrari 275 GTB

Ferrari 275 GTB Retro model

1965 Ferrari 365 P2

The 365 P Guida Centrale “or” Tris Speciale “was the very quick response to the Lamborghini Miura and Ferrari’s, years before the 1971 appearing Berlinetta Boxer, who was then to actually rivals the Miura. Pininfarina had already in 1966 presented in Paris a very original Berlinetta, the motor in the center of the frame was located.1965 Ferrari 365 P2

1965 Ferrari 365 P2

The special feature of this 1965 Ferrari 365 P2 was enlarged by a transparent roof of glass surface, which allowed a clear insight into the interior, where there were three seats and the pilot took the place in the middle.1965 Ferrari 365 P2

1965 Ferrari 365 P2 On the track

Lamborghini specialized in the mid-engine design, but Ferrari and Pininfarina went to their “central concept” one step further. With a longitudinally mounted V12 engine in the middle frame and three front seats they set the central concept consistently.1965 Ferrari 365 P2

1965 Ferrari 365 P2 Exotic model

1965 Ferrari 365 P2 Sports car

1965 Ferrari 365 P2 Racing car

Hudson Hornet Classic American model

Although the cars of the three largest manufacturers monopolized the most attention of American cars in the 1950′s, the role of the Hudson Hornet can not be ignored

Hudson Hornet Retro model

At the time of Hudson Hornet debuted in 1951, the public had been seduced by the radical styling of the Commodore company in 1948. The low profile design of the car floor placed between the rails of the chassis structure, instead of placing them on top, and the body and chassis combined into a single unit, reached a low profile design with a reduced center of gravity.

Hudson Hornet Vintage model car

The elegant Hornet was offered as a two-door coupe, a four-door sedan, a convertible and a hardtop. He pioneered the use of unique structure (chassis-body), as well as its powerful engine L-head 6 cylinder in line. Hudson Hornet- originally the engine in the Commodore had 262 cubic inches, but when mounted on the Hornet in 1951 and had a displacement of 308 cubic inches. Hudson Hornet with an aluminum head high compression and two barrel carburetor could 145hp with 275 lb-ft of torque, making it the six-cylinder engine more powerful in the world.Hudson Hornet

Hudson Hornet Hotrod

The Hudson was lavishly decorated, with lots of chrome exterior and interior, attractive upholstery and room for six adults. In 1952, Hudson joined an optional engine, the Twin-H. Using two interconnected multiple carburetors fed by two of the gorge, making a 170hp power. Hudson Hornet Alternatively, 7-X, increased their power 210hp.

Hudson Hornet Rear view

The runners took note. At a time when stock car competition was really competitive actions, the attributes of the Hornet made it a natural candidate for the NASCAR races and more – despite its obvious trend for luxury. The track star Marshall Teague received support for their efforts in NASCAR, and he and his “Fabulous Hudson Hornet” won several competitions of the season. In total, Hudson won 12 of the 41 races of 1951, including the season opener at Daytona Grand National. In 1952, the domain of Teague and Hudson was total, winning 27 of the 34 competencies in NASCAR. 39 more victories followed in the next two seasons.Hudson Hornet

Classic retro car Hudson Hornet

However, neither the advanced technology and success in careers in America’s most important series might help sales, which were dormant since the debut of the Hornet. Hudson Hornet Superficial changes for the 1953 model included a redesigned grille and hood, and in 1954 was presented ventilation hatch on the hood, one piece windshield, and redesigned rear. It was all for nothing. As Hudson‘s finances were in decline is planning a merger with Nash.

Hudson Hornet in Blue color

The Hornet is robust, well-built engines that offer a lot of trouble-free miles with proper maintenance and management as any other American car of the era, thanks in large part by its low center of gravity and uniform distribution of their weight. Hudson Hornet Its six cylinders also undoubtedly help, even the base engine of 145hp.

Hudson Hornet Interior view

Hudson Hornet Interior view

Hudson Hornet Super Vintage model

Hudson Terraplane American model

Hudson Motor Car Company formed Hudson and other brand automobiles in Detroit, Michigan, from 1909 to 1954th 1954 Hudson merged with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form American Motors. The Hudson name was continued through the 1957 model year, after he was dropped. Hudson Terraplane

Hudson Terraplane Classic car

The name “Hudson” came from J.L. Hudson, a Detroit department store entrepreneur and founder of Hudson’s department store, which provided the necessary head and gave permission for the company to be named after him. A total of eight Detroit businessmen who founded the company on 24th February, 1909, produce a car that would sell for less than $ 1,000.Hudson Terraplane One of the main “car men” and the organizers of the company Roy Chapin, Sr, a young executive, who had worked with Ransom E. Olds (son Chapin, Roy Jr, would later President of the Hudson-Nash descendant American Motors Corp. to be. In the sixties).Hudson Terraplane

The company quickly began production with the first car that was driven in by a small factory in Detroit third July, 1909. The new Hudson “Twenty” was one of the first cheap cars in the U.S. market and very successful with more than 4,000 were sold the first year.Hudson Terraplane This was the best first production of the year in the history of the automotive industry up to that time.

Hudson Terraplane Retro model

The company had adjusted a number of first for the auto industry, these included double brakes, the use of dashboard oil pressure warning lights of the generator and the first from the crankshaft, which the Hudson allowed straight-6 engine, dubbed the “Super Six” (1916), to work with a higher rotational speed to make while remaining smooth, and develop more energy for its size than lower-revving machines.Hudson Terraplane

Luxury Model Hudson Terraplane

Hudson Terraplane

Toyota Corolla AE86 Drift Car

Corolla with a number of the body “AE-86 produced from 1983 to 1987. In the run-off – it easy RWD car with a relatively powerful motor 4a-ge and limited slip differential in the gearbox. Cost is initially expensive and quickly earned a reputation for excellent combat cars driving sideways on the race tracks and public roads. It was at the wheel “Hachiroku” legendary Tsuchiya Keiichi was a worthy competition to the more powerful and modern vehicles on the road Fuji and Tsukuba. And five years ago when, thanks to the magazine Option and Mr Keiichi, finally drifting out from the underground, the demand for 86-th body in the world (and, of course, primarily in Japan) has risen sharply.

Toyota Corolla AE86 Tunned

Now almost every Corolla AE86 immediately after purchase goes to completion. More precisely, after repair, which often have to arrange to have her drifter – multiple instances of death groomed gardeners. Body reinforce various streamers, welded frame, throwing everything superfluous from the salon. Options to harness a huge amount of tuning studio can offer a lot of interesting here: the spring of different stiffness and length, a huge selection of shock absorbers with different characteristics, the whales screw suspensions, stabilizers varying thickness plate breakup, support and shock absorbers, etc. and so on.

Toyota Corolla AE86 Drifting

Motor (Second Generation legendary 4a-ge – Red Top) thoroughly finalized. Camshafts tunned of the standard, produced lighter connecting rods and pistons, lightened flywheel to the crankshaft and put the nozzle increased performance. In the lubrication system put in place an oil cooler, and the final chord was a complete exhaust ACS devellopment diameter of 2.5 inches. Now the motor is spinning up staggering 11,000 rpm! Please note: the hood slightly raised in the area of the windshield for improved cooling. In this case, questions about the need for such improvements did not occur.

Toyota Corolla AE86 Tunned Drifting car

Despite the fact that the machine element has been defined clearly, over the suspension wise for a long time: they could not find a suitable setting. In the end, after numerous experiments have decided to do hodgepodge. The front suspension consists of depreciation KONI struts with clipped rods, springs from Ground Control, spacers to shift the center of swing T3 (they return the lower suspension arms to the normal state in that case, if the machine is too low) and upper bearing shock absorbers allow easy adjustment of camber angle . Rear springs installed TRD, Bilstein shock absorbers and breakup Plate T3 (techno toy tuning). Transmission standard left, just changed to the standard differential Tuned LSD from Onoff-Racing.

Toyota Corolla AE86 Modified For Drifting

Toyota Corolla AE86 Sports car

Toyota Corolla AE86 Racing car

Toyota Corolla AE86 Drifting On The Track

After such a comprehensive tuning in the car was left almost nothing standard. The result is a truly no-compromise car. It is, of course, girls on a Saturday night not to ride, but what feelings must have the owner of this “Hachiroku, a fan passing by the black rubber corners driftovyh slopes!

Toyota Corolla AE86 side ways

Toyota Corolla AE86 Modified for drifting

Austin Mini Tunned

Legendary British Mini car in its appearance owes much to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (Gamil Abdel Naser), who in 1956 nationalized the Suez Canal. As a result of the ensuing war in the Middle East oil supplies to Britain declined sharply – so much so that the gasoline had to introduce the card. This provoked a surge of interest in the minicar than decided to take the Lord Leonard (Leonard Lord), while the head of the concern British Motor Corporation. BMC – created in 1952 by the union, which consisted of such famous brands such as Austin, Morris, Wolseley, Riley and MG.

Austin Mini in Red Color

Dissatisfied with the dominance of jerry-built «bubble cars» («machine-bubbles”) on British roads, mostly German assembly, the Lord decided it needed a noteworthy domestic car. He commissioned the development of a new machine Alec Issigonis (Alec Issigonis), an Englishman of Greek descent, who had long established himself as car builder  and even Rider. He was given the task to construct a four-seats, whose size would not exceed 3 ? 1,2 ? 1,2 m, the length of the passenger compartment should be 1,8 m. Equip this baby needed to the existing 4-cylinder engine from the model of Austin A35

Austin Mini

To meet these requirements, Issigonis went to a revolutionary step. The new model had a front-wheel drive, a motor located across the body – this scheme would become common on front wheel drive cars. Transmission makers crammed into the crankcase, and radiator are not put in front of the engine, and at his side. In this position, the radiator is blown by a stream of air, already passed by the motor and had time to warm up, but the length of the machine remains within established limits. In the miniature car quietly climbed 4 people, and even left room for luggage.

Austin Mini Cabrio

The tiny 10-inch wheels are allowed to get rid of the large wheel arches. Finally, for the sake of brevity conventional springs were replaced with conical rubber blocks. The design of the machine allowed to ride with an open trunk, thereby increasing the volume of transported cargo. Design features have also been external welds and open the hinges, which lowered production costs. The first prototype was ready by October 1957

Austin Mini

However, sales began in August 1959, and a new minicar was not called Mini. It is sold under the name of Austin 7 (the traditional name for the smallest Austin since 20-ies), or as Morris Mini Minor. Title Mini has appeared only in 1961. We can not say that the model became an instant bestseller, but over time it has gained popularity, becoming the English the same than for the rest of the world was “Beetle”. They even say what this machine was inspired by the fashion designer Mary Quant (Mary Quant), invented the mini-skirt

Austin Mini Sports model

Mini was produced in various species. There were wagons with wood trim, called the Morris Mini Traveller and Austin Mini Countryman. There were vans and pick-up by a quarter of a ton. There was even a Jeep »Mini Moke, developed for the Army, but with their tiny wheels and without all-wheel drive turned out to be unfit for military affairs, but got enough popularity as a beach car.

Austin Mini

In accordance with the practice of badge engineering got its Mini brand more upmarket Riley and Wolseley – these machines were sold as the Riley Elf and Wolseley Hornet, and had a protruding hood and front end design in the style of these brands. There were also licensed Mini: in 1965 they released an Italian company Innocenti, was under the control of the BMC, and even Mini collected, even in such distant countries as Chile and Uruguay

Austin Mini On The Beach

Austin Mini Tunned Version

Mercedes Benz 450sel 6.9 w116 with cool Rims

Your lunar vehicles, the U.S. had long been mothballed in 1975 because the Germans seized the Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 W116 series from a road rocket, the thrust of it was certainly felt in touch with a Saturn V

Mercedes Benz 450sel 6.9 w116 on the road

The engine borrowed from the engineers in the base of the powerful State Limousine 600, a Rolls-Royce inferior in reputation and nothing in luxury: From gigantic 6834 centimeters displacement, he wrung a record 550 Nm. In his time, this was an absolute car-record and is in the car quartet still enough to achieve against a current S500 the crucial spot. 450sel 6.9 w116 Sporting values that some would hardly suspect that in the “Stuttgarter late Baroque fa?ade held, even if the vehicle is then represented with a base price of 70,000 marks the equivalent of a condo

Mercedes Benz 450sel 6.9 w116

For those who wanted to keep up with the concentrated power is not quite as over the hill, Sportservice Lorinser offered even then the Extrap ortion overtaking. 450sel 6.9 w116 A similar vehicle with a contemporary tune the Swabian tuners currently presented at the Classic Center of his car dealership in Waiblingen

1975 BMW 700

With the economic miracle in bloom, the demands of car buyers continue to the end of the 50s. 1975 BMW 700.The Spartan small cars have passed its zenith, the customers demand real cars. 1975 BMW 700.BMW responds to 1957 first with the 600, an extended Isetta with a two-cylinder boxer engine in the rear. 1975 BMW 700.In 1959 four-seater round but is replaced by a much more modern construction, the pontoon body in creating the first self-supporting: The 700th BMW

1975 BMW 700

In particular, a robust bumper for motor sport is width of the 700 quickly became famous.1975 BMW 700. “The BMW Coupe reaches 700 with his 30 hp two-cylinder with the same interior space and better road holding the same top speed, the same acceleration and secure higher road averages than his legendary predecessor, ” it is officially called. 1975 BMW 700.In fact, the 640 pound flyweight outclassed the competition in its racing class from the start.1975 BMW 700.

1975 BMW 700