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Before Zora Arkus-Duntov joined GM & eventually became the 'father of the Corvette', he & his brother ran Ardun Manufacturing Co. One of their products was to make an Overhead valve cylinder head / intake manifold conversion for Ford's popular V-8 'flathead' passenger car engine, to give it much more power to enable returning GIs with old jalopies to hot rod their Model A Fords, since the converted motors were too wide to fit Ford sedans.

Here, a friend's 32 Ford 'Deuce' coupe with original (1947) -equipped, supercharged motor. Rare indeed !

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6 minutes ago, Lelmer said:

Car or plane? 😃

Front part of a formula One car. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the make of it.  Maybe our friend, Stuny, who has a collection of every car made at any time in any part of the world could recognize this monster. My previous post is also a part of this car. 😉😅

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7 minutes ago, Louis said:

Front part of a formula One car. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the make of it.  Maybe our friend, Stuny, who has a collection of every car made at any time in any part of the world could recognize this monster. My previous post is also a part of this car. 😉😅

Very nice detail photo's.

BTW, 2023 Red Bull F1 🙂

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6 hours ago, Lelmer said:

Very nice detail photo's.

BTW, 2023 Red Bull F1 🙂

The Miami F1 is somewhere in the beginning of May. I shot these pictures a couples of weeks ago (2024) at Miami Design District.

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1958 PORSCHE 718 RSK 'Mittellenker' ( center steer ) race car. Available either as a two seater or as a F2 single-seat race car with 'kit' of parts necessary to convert to a 'normal'  two-seater for sports car racing.

Please note empty steering column opening in dash to left of lower small gauge to left of steering wheel.

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To expand and further illustrate PORTSCHE's brilliant interpretation of FIA rules, here's as rare an image as I have personally ever taken: two 718 RSKs next to each other, one as an F2 single-seater, the right-hand car as a 2-seater.

4 F2 cars were produced for the factory team, and a mere handful of 'kits' were sold to privateer owners who wanted to convert their cars from time to time - to see them next to each other is nothing short of miraculous.

I believe the image shows clearly which parts had to be changed to achieve either configuration........but it did require overall views of the cars, not partial detail shots.

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I really like this old photo taken on film via and R8.  I do not remomber where it is or what car.

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Three wheeler - JAP engine

M11 & summilux 35 FLE II

 

 

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In the late '50s & early '60s, the golden age of motorsports, ferocious competition between manufacturers was at its peak with everyone looking to find even fractions of horsepower.

To find that elusive bit of extra HP & rpm, Ferrari turned to technical universities for help in the latest tech and aerodynamics since they had no wind tunnel of their own ( yet ), an excersize that yielded one of the signature 'tricks' for their 3-liter 250 series of race and road machines - the SNAP (Scarico Negativo Aria Pressione or ‘Exhaust Negative Air Pressure’ ) exhaust tips, which netted them a couple of very useful horses at higher rpm for Testa Rossas, 250 SWB GTs and GTOs.....not to mention improving the acoustics of the famous V-12 'music,.

That timeframe was about the same period that cleaning up car emissions was becoming a factor and it was discovered that these tips helped in making the exhaust gases 'look cleaner' to the testing probe for emission testing.

Original, in-the-box tips today sell for thousands $$$ with numerous replicas and reproductions being manufactured worldwide. Shown below, originals on Count Volpi's 'Serenissima' 250 GTO

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......and a 250 SEFAC GT coupe with original SNAP tips, with protective shield over them ( on the driver's side only ) to prevent spilled fuel during pit stops from igniting on the hot  exhaust.

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On 6/12/2024 at 12:01 AM, Ivan Goriup said:

......and a 250 SEFAC GT coupe with original SNAP tips, with protective shield over them ( on the driver's side only ) to prevent spilled fuel during pit stops from igniting on the hot  exhaust.

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Interesting detail. Thanks for the explanation.

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I wonder how many realize that the earliest Jaguar XK-120s had bodies made of aluminum - then switched to all -steel in 1950 because world-wide demand for them completely overwhelmed the factory's ability to produce the alloy-bodied version in anything near sufficient numbers.

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MAN fire engine

M246 + Summicron-c 40mm f2

 

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