Cars that make your jaw drop.

[FLH03RIDER]

Now back on point...
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The Buick Wildcat is pretty damn
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[Johndicezx9]

A Miata can be a jaw dropping car for a gear head, but a mini van?

IIRC correctly this was the Miata concept image that you put in the same sentence as a mini van.

Isn't that a concept of the "RX-10"? ... with a rotary motor they keep threatening to make?

http://www.supercarworld.com/cgi-bin/showgeneral.cgi?1065

MX is not RX, and that's from like 10 years ago....

I still see mini-vans on the road; where's this?

 

[Abacinator]

Now back on point...
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The Buick Wildcat is pretty damn
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THAT



is horrendous

 

[GAJ]

Isn't that a concept of the "RX-10"? ... with a rotary motor they keep threatening to make?

New concept from last year so might be Miata, might be RX as evidently they are talking a rotary/EV hybrid which I'm not sure makes much sense but my Dad wasn't a mechanical engineer so I know nothing.

 

[bikewanker]

Had a couple hours to spend in Scottsdale and found the Penske museum nestled between Ferrari and Lamborghini dealerships on a rather large multi dealership compound. 8 or 9 cars so wandering dealerships was expected. I thought Roger’s ‘66? Pontiac Catalina black race car was kinda cool but not enough to photo. There was a high six figure Ferrari with a keyed door lock!

https://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=561122&stc=1&d=1713115458
https://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=561123&stc=1&d=1713115464
https://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=561124&stc=1&d=1713115464
https://www.bayarearidersforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=561125&stc=1&d=1713115464

 

[TheRobSJ]

Had a couple hours to spend in Scottsdale and found the Penske museum nestled between Ferrari and Lamborghini dealerships on a rather large multi dealership compound. 8 or 9 cars so wandering dealerships was expected. I thought Roger’s ‘66? Pontiac Catalina black race car was kinda cool but not enough to photo. There was a high six figure Ferrari with a keyed door lock!

I saw that whole compound over there about five years ago. Pretty impressive operation. Thats when I realized that the Penske auto group seemed to be doing quite well. Eventually wound up working for them and saw firsthand that they have no qualms about reinvesting in the business.

Case in point, the dealer I was working for previously, the shop air compressor crapped out. Kind of a vital piece of equipment in a busy shop. As the foreman, I made an executive decision to rush out to Sears that day and buy a little 3gal compressor, just so we’d have something to inflate tires. Many of the guys had electric power tools, though some still had air, so we weren’t totally crippled. How long did it take to get a new compressor? Because the owner was extraordinarily cheap, he got some brand I’d never heard of on a slow boat from China. Took 3 months. So 3 months of us moving this little baby compressor around to do tires. So much productivity lost.

Similar situation happened at the Penske store. The tire balancing machine was getting a bit wonky. Still worked, but was being fussy. So maybe we had to spend a little extra time balancing tires…which of course robs productivity. Company came out to repair it and said it needed some part that was backordered for awhile. Some calls got made to upper management, and we had a brand new $30k machine in there the very next day.

 

[auntiebling]

Now back on point...
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The Buick Wildcat is pretty damn
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PPPPPPPPPlease bring back the straight 8!

IDK, there's Honda mini-vans and Mazda Miatas posted years/pages ago, so that "jaw dropping" ship certainly sailed a while back.

did someone say minivan?

 

[GAJ]

did someone say minivan?

That's a lot of cupholders!

 

[FLH03RIDER]

Mid-engine mini. Don't spill your coffee down those "cupholders".

Now about that Buick straight 8.
"Bombshell Betty" a 1952 Buick Super Riviera landspeed racer. 324ci Buick inline-eight. BorgWarner T-10 4spd trans, 9" diff. 340hp and 165.735 mph at Bonneville Salt Flats in 2013.
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[auntiebling]

there's someone on the local facebook marketplace trying to sell a "rebuild" but disassembled buick straight 8 for 6k... meanwhile one can find a running straight 8 powered car for similar.

there have been some pretty successful adaptations of LS heads to ford 300 inline 6 engines (with some welding of course) i wonder if that's possible on the straight 8... turbo cross flow inline 8

 

[Holeshot]

Ultimate Cars and Caffeine car...

 

[bikewanker]

Never considered the aerodynamics of a bullet bra.

 

[augustiron]

A guy I worked with always talked about welding 2 straight 8s inline to make a straight 16.
He thought he had all the details worked out. Lol

 

[FLH03RIDER]

A guy I worked with always talked about welding 2 straight 8s inline to make a straight 16.
He thought he had all the details worked out. Lol

I've seen a GMC V12 truck engine, '60's vintage, basically two V6's mated together to make a V12. Sorta like this one but with custom intakes and Lucas mechanical fuel injection.
Thing was was pretty wicked sounding.

 

[Kornholio]

Volkswagen's W12 engine is just two VR6's mated together too.

 

[Johndicezx9]

did someone say minivan?

Oh how the French love to mock us....

 

[ST Guy]

There used to be a company that built a V16 out of two small block Chevy’s. And for a bit extra, they could stuff it into a Chevy tow vehicle/truck. Apparently it made an excellent tow rig.

 

[Shunter/Get-Off]

Volkswagen's W12 engine is just two VR6's mated together too.

Cosworth DFV, possibly the best racing engine since the Offy, stands for Double Four Valve. It was literally just two FVA/FVC cylinder heads on a new V8 block and crank.

 

[Blankpage]

There used to be a company that built a V16 out of two small block Chevy’s. And for a bit extra, they could stuff it into a Chevy tow vehicle/truck. Apparently it made an excellent tow rig.

Sounds like a lot of hassle for little gain since there already exists off the shelf more suitable tow truck engines.

 

[TheRobSJ]

2025 Vantage