wombat666
December 29th, 2008, 08:02
One of my very old friends (Tony Osbourne, raced in the Tasman series in the middle '60s!) owns a very snooty establishment titled 'The Delage Garage'.
He and his band of elves restore and refurbish elderly 'French' classic cars, at a handsome profit indeed.
Tony decided to build his own version of a 1920 something 'Super Car' and certainly succeeded!!!!!!
It started life as a genuine Delage D8SS touring car, but had mostly rotted away until the only solid pieces left were the chassis and running gear.
Onto this 144" wheelbase chassis Tony's little helpers built a two seat roadster body, all beaten and rolled aluminium.
Now think about it, a 12' chassis and only 2 seats ...... wretched excess!
As a suitable Delage powerplant was either too expensive or difficult to find, the elves ferreted around and found an Hispano Suiza V8 of the correct vintage, except it's 27 litres cranks out around 220+HP at some 2500RPM and in a previous life it lived in either a SPAD 13 or similar late WW.I fighter.
This thing covers about 100 metres each time the engine fires ........!!!
It is the most fun I've had with my clothes on for many a year.
Long live the Tony Osbournes of this World.
:friday::applause::friday:
He and his band of elves restore and refurbish elderly 'French' classic cars, at a handsome profit indeed.
Tony decided to build his own version of a 1920 something 'Super Car' and certainly succeeded!!!!!!
It started life as a genuine Delage D8SS touring car, but had mostly rotted away until the only solid pieces left were the chassis and running gear.
Onto this 144" wheelbase chassis Tony's little helpers built a two seat roadster body, all beaten and rolled aluminium.
Now think about it, a 12' chassis and only 2 seats ...... wretched excess!
As a suitable Delage powerplant was either too expensive or difficult to find, the elves ferreted around and found an Hispano Suiza V8 of the correct vintage, except it's 27 litres cranks out around 220+HP at some 2500RPM and in a previous life it lived in either a SPAD 13 or similar late WW.I fighter.
This thing covers about 100 metres each time the engine fires ........!!!
It is the most fun I've had with my clothes on for many a year.
Long live the Tony Osbournes of this World.
:friday::applause::friday: