Archive for November, 2011
1952-1955 Bentley R-Type – Expensive Bentley
The 1952-1955 Bentley R-Type was an incredibly successful model of its time, but not many of its fans knows the fact that it was a revised edition of Bentley’s Mark VI. But this time around it was fitted with an extensive tail to give it a conventional sedan body and a better engine displacement. The 1952-1955 Bentley R-Type series was available with elective GM Hydra-Matic/Rolls-Royce automatic transmission from the starting of 1952, and this transmission got incredible prominence, which could be estimated from the fact that this gearbox here was prominent than the manual gearbox. The mechanical changes and styling of the car collimated to those that were made to look-similar to Rolls-Royce Silver Dawn. The 1952-1955 Bentley R-Type had top speed of 100 mph, but still it wasn’t...
1934 Ford DeLuxe Five-Window Coupe – Surprisingly Efficient
A lot of advertisements from Ford in the model year 1920s and ’30s were exclusively aimed at women drivers. But there were some other that were a lot delicate, just as the one that we saw for 1934 Ford DeLuxe 5-window coupe, showing a woman and man driving the coupe, with the woman driving the coupe. But there was no mentioning of genders in the advertisement, because the subject at hand was very close and loved to Ford subsequently the entrance of the V8 engine in the model year 1932: economy. The main concept here was that Ford has to face the accusation that their V8 engine is too fuel thirsty, which was a major concern at the time of Depression. The advertisement for the 1934 Ford DeLuxe was tag lined “One thriftiness you will like,” and proclaimed that despite the incredible...
A lot of people at that time, and a lot of people in the current times think that the 1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst was a comeback of the enchanted letter-run 300s, but that was not what the car actually was. The 1970 300-Hurst was a specifically contrived non-letter 300 automobile manufactured by Hurst Performance Products and was sold via Chrysler dealers. The 1970 300-Hurst has plethora of advanced features even at that time, and that’s what has brought it in our list of classics. Certain highlights for the 1970 Chrysler 300-Hurst comprises the likes of peculiar road wheels, broader-than-stock wheels, the 375 bhp edition of the big-block 440 V8 engine of Chrysler, surely, a Hurst gear lever for the accustomed Torque Flite regular and heavy suspension. The outside of the car was attired up...
1901 Mercedes 35 HP – The First Impressive Mercedes
We won’t say that the automotive history began with 1901 Mercedes 35 HP, because there have been self-propelled vehicles in the market since 1775. But at the same time we wont neglect the significance of this classic from Mercedes in the automotive world. The simple reason for that being the fact that the self-propelled vehicles that we mentioned above from the year 1775 were all becoming huge, heavy and incompetent, and by the middle of model year 1880 and after that most of those vehicles were dependent on steam in one way or the other. But than the technological burst through came, which allowed the “horseless cart” to foray into the modern times was the usage of petroleum fuel in trivial, high-rev up engines and that exactly is what Daimler and Messrs. Benz achieved disjointedly....

