Monday, August 21, 2017

Chattsworth Model A Swap Meet & Car Show -- Sunday, August 20


Lancia Flaminia

I have the dash from this car with the same gauges (I don't have all the trim and switches though...).  I bought it for the gauges.  They're some of the best looking gauges ever...




A guy was selling a 1990 ZR-1 & was asking $16,500.  This generation of Corvette is one of the worst for quality/durability (I drove one sometimes when I worked at GM to do work related errands; it was a "pool" car.  I hated driving the one we had.  What a piece of junk...  Fast but still a piece of junk to drive in almost every way...).  This twin-double overhead cam, 4-valves per cylinder V8 was designed by Lotus (which was owned by GM around that time) and was built by Mercury Marine (who had the production capacity).  This is a pretty cool engine, although it didn't have huge output, compared to what's common today, but it's supposed to rev like a twin cam 4-valve engine...  It's huge though.  The drivetrain from this car would be cool to put under a sleeper sedan (like my 1964 Mercedes.  Just pipe-dreams...).




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