This Car Is Related To The One Above because...

[surprisingskoda]

Absolutely! Why not.

Mike Finnegan of Roadkill built the Blasphemi and it featured in several episodes.

One of the most famous, and one of my favourite, Roadkill creations was the "Nascarlo".

An old oval racer, based on a 90's Monte Carlo but obviously having zero relation to an actual road car, was chopped up and the chassis and running gear was shoved into a 1970 Monte Carlo shell, which was, well, it was butchered, but it gave us this:



There is a Camaro stock car a mile away from my work with an LS in it that would be for sale if enough money was shoved at the owner.

I have resisted thus far.

[ToolsnTrack]

Other famous Monte Carlo screen cars include the Tokyo Drift hero car, which was one of the limited reasons to give the film a screening.



From Wiki:

"According to John Pearley Huffman of edmunds.com, Dennis McCarthy and the crew responsible for the construction of all the cars used in Tokyo Drift, built two out of nine stunt Monte Carlo's with 560-horsepower 509 engine block, the other with "700-hp, 572-cubic-inch Bill Mitchell "Hardcore" crate engine". The last seven cars used small V8 engine blocks or had no engine them in at all. The two stunt cars used feed Hooker headers and Flowmaster mufflers that were disguised to look like Hardcore 632 valve covers.

The production team used 11 of these, in total. A stock-car pro-grade suspension was a must. The engine was a Bill Mitchell 632ci big block with a Holley 4-barrel carb on a World Products intake manifold.

Other engine upgrades include March Pulley Systems brackets and pulleys, a NOS system, a Jaz fuel cell, Earl's Performance Fittings steel braided line and anodized fittings, Hooker headers, a Flowmaster dual chamber exhaust, a Be Cool radiator, an Edelbrock water pump, Global West front and rear tubular control arms and weight jacks, Year One coil springs, Wilwood disc brakes, Speedway Engineering swaybars, Wenco 1350 extreme performance driveshaft, Quick Ratio steering box with IROC Camaro internals, Matt Sweeney reinforced fram and rollcage, Moser 12-bolt with Moser Spool 4.88 gears, and KYB shocks.

However both cars used a Richmond T-10 four-speed manual transmissions, Wenco driveshafts and Moser-built 12-bolt rear-ends "running 4.88:1 gears in a spool differential". The chassis uses Global West front control arms and coil springs, "KYB shocks, Speedway Engineering anti-sway bars, Global West weight jack plates and quick-ratio steering boxes".

Additionally, the two Monte Carlo's were build with Wilwood disc breaks, situated behind Cragar 397 15-inch wheels. The tires are Goodyear specials, 27 inches tall and 8 inches wide in the front, 27 x 10 inches in the rear. The interior was constructed with customized roll cages, large steering wheels and V-Gate shifters alongside Auto Meter gauges bolted to sheet metal that replace stock gauges Beard low back seats.

Appearance mods include a Fiberglass Trends cowl hood (arguably still a performance piece since it lowers weight significantly over stock) and Hella headlights."

And yes, I want one.

[ratchart]

Which leads us to Monte Carlo Rally, obviously, and this picture which is ace.


It's a Holden 48-215 (FX) driven (apparently!) by the Australian team of Tony Gaze, Lex Davison and Stan Jones in 1953. 


link

[rblote]

This is directly related to this unfortunate Holden and it's possible even more unfortunate owner

This completely burnt-out shell of a Holden 48-215 sedan was one of a collection of six early-model Holden cars owned by Mr Chis Lee and stored in a purpose-built shed on his property at Koornalla, south of Traralgon. The shed was destroyed by the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009.

collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1485385

[vulgalour]

I don't know much about these so it was off to everyone's favourite resource to find out more, and there's very little there either. Things I do now know is that originally the Holden was intended to be a Chevrolet but was deemed too small for the American market so instead GM released them in Australia as Holdens. As far as I can work out, they weren't exported in any notable quantity and were pretty much a domestic product, as Holdens have mostly always been. They seem well suited to Australia, size wise, but would perhaps be a little large for the UK and a bit pointless in mainland Europe where competition would have likely been too stiff. The Holden 48-215 wasn't anything particularly revolutionary, even the styling was conventional for its time.

America was in no need of compact cars and with the independents like Studebaker, Kaiser, and Frazer, producing their small stuff, GM could sit back and offer affordable motoring at an American size such as this, the thoroughly conventional Chevrolet Stylemaster of 1948.

[rblote]

I think that you are not far of. The Holden was a big thing in Australia but only in Australia.

Chevrolet (brother or sister of Holden) has brought out a multitude of models.
Just "google" "how many Chevrolet models are there" and Wikipedia will show you a list of Chevrolet's as long as your arm.
Some have nothing to do with GM/Chevrolet. Must have to do with import regulations etc.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chevrolet_vehicles#Past_models
I always liked the late 70's Caprice but my personal all time favorite Chevrolet was the mid 70's Camaro.
There was a dealer near my high school in Holland importing everything American.
I have spend many hours sitting in them and looking at them. At some stage they were almost affordable to me.
I never bought a Camaro. But they still are the best Chevrolet ever made.

[rodharris83]

The Camaro was built on the GM F Body platform, which also gave us the Pontiac Firebird:

[darrenh]

easy shoe in for knight rider...




the third gen firebird also has a link to smokey and the bandit, featuring as the blocker car in the third film of the franchise, where snowman is the bandit in a weird twist of fate, as jerry reed was destined to be cast as the actual bandit at one point in time.



2nd gen camaro also has a reverse link to knight rider, if you look closely at the aerial stunts, big jumps or crashes, 3rd gen firebird magically turns into a grainy long distance shot of a black 2nd gen camaro mid air (not very seamlessly) probably as cost cutting measure not to delete a thousand KITT replicas in production.

[rodharris83]

The Gen 3 Firebird was offered with a 231 cu in (3.8 L) Buick Turbo V6, which was also used in one on my favourite cars... the Buick GNX:

[mrbounce]

Take a US turbo'd V6, enlarge it to 4.3 litres, bung it into a pick-up and you get the superfast GMC Syclone, or its brother, as shown here, the small SUV that is the GMC Typhoon. Deceptively fast, running a standing 1/4 mile in 14.1 sec, it was quicker than a Ferrari 348 in a straight line.

[accord83]

In the 1950's there was a market for kit cars built on side valve running gear here is the Tornado Typhoon.

More here  
www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/tornado.htm 

[vulgalour]

The Typhoon really is deserving of the Sports Utility Vehicle title too, in a way many SUVs simply aren't. I'm going to be cheap for my link and go with the GMC Syclone mentioned above to take us to the Ford Galaxie. It's just because I get annoyed with car names that are real words incorrectly spelled, you see.

This one here is a Ford Galaxie Starliner, the fastback roof making for a very stylish car. If you wanted one with a soft top then that was the Sunliner, because that's how Ford liked to do things in the 60s. Starliner for those evening cocktail binges, Sunliner for a hungover trip to the beach the next day.

EDIT: it's related to the Tornado Typhoon because you could probably fit that in the trunk and shut the lid with no harm to either vehicle.

[rblote]

The Ford Galaxie above is a awesome looking classic car. I am sure we all agree on that one.
Why does Ford abuses it's own history by naming this thing a Galaxi

Well, at least it's not a retro (yet) and doesn't belong here anyway. But atleast I have now a reason to keep the Ford theme going for a bit...
This is the Ford Escort MK1 Sataion wagon.
Mum and dad bought a brand new one in 1974. Unfortunately it was written of within 1 day. Well actually within 8 hours...
It was replaced with exact the same car as seen below. The same awesome color but not these wheels.
I think it was a 1.1 L or a 1.3 L.

[darrenh]

west german peer and almost the same colour, opel kadett C caravan. the most interesting thing i can say about it (other than having superior suspension than an escort ) is that it was the last small rear wheel drive opel/vauxhall. sold in the UK all "wayne cherried" up as a chevette, but i think the bluff nose opel version is way more handsome.

[accord83]

Which had a UK light commercial equivalent, the Chevanne, which replaced the Bedford HA van, which had an Estate conversion built by Martin Walters called the Bedford Beagle:

[rblote]

That brings us to the real deal

Ohhh sorry wrong site...

[darrenh]

There's another beagle, a 2 seater electric hand built in Japan by kogei, T10, nicknamed the eco-beagle

[mrbounce]

There have been many small electric cars, but one of the more unusual designs was the US-made CitiCar from Florida, made between 74-77. A ridiculous version was the customised one featured on Kount's Kustoms. It was made for Roli, their detailer, who always struck me as being a bit strange.

[accord83]

That man has chain driven trousers especially for his electric car, Frazer Nash used chain drive

[rblote]

That man has chain driven trousers especially for his electric car, Frazer Nash used chain drive
That's a very creative link there mate!! I really like it.