Bruno Nicolaithe Man Called Apocalypse Joe S1 1971 Art Drawings

Got €nine.000 to spare? For Sandero'south coin you can take this sweet Italian pure breed instead. A 2003 Maserati Quattroporte V8!Finding too expensive for a 14 yr old Italian auto? Think of it as a 4 seaterFerrarior the best sounding saloon ever. Or buy it just to park in your garage and chill on its cool Italian leather seats. Don't forge to rev it!

Styled by Pininfarina, the quaternary generation Quattroporte looks are a bit controversial, some love, some hate . Some say information technology really looks better today then, in 2003, when it was launched. With well-nigh ii tons, v meters long and 2 meters broad, the Quattroporte certainly has lots of personality and presence. The wheels are 18 inch. With the V8 located backside the front axle, the auto looks large from the side. Parent company Ferrari located the engine aft of the forepart beam to create a 47/53 front-to-rear weight distribution.

The interior may accept aged a flake, specially the multimedia center. But it is undoubtefully a nice place to be in, even comparing to today's luxury cars. For €9k in that location is goose egg even remotely similar it.

There are electric sport seats, rear-seat space designed for two, trip estimator, telephone, dashboard monitor and nav system. Lot of Rosewood, mahogany, or briarwood (don't really know which kind of wood this specific car has) and authentic Poltrona Frau leather seats.

Now, this is what the car is all about. The crown precious stone, the cake'south frosting, the ruby, the heart and soul, the reason why you want this 14 years old Italian saloon: the 400 hp Ferrari 4.ii litre V8.

The manual is a Corsa  automatic 6 speed 1 clutch gearbox with paddle shifts. This iv-doors goes from 0 to 100 in five.two seconds, top speed is 270 km/h. The soundtrack is a rising crescendo of induction and exhaust music across the entire rev range.

Just forget well-nigh the old one-clutch Corsa 6 speed automatized gearbox, 0-100 or top speed figures. Just listen to this Quattroporte GTS from the picture Intouchable. Information technology is a newer model but they carry the same essence.

And spotter this Fifth Gear review

Click hither for the original ad. If only I had 9k…

He is fix

Spyker may exist a relatively unknown dutch exotic sports motorcar maker, only it dates way back from 1880 to 1925, making planes and aviation inspired cars. Check out Spyker website here .

In 2000, 75 years after the original company ceased, reborn Spyker launched the C8. Using an Audi 4.2 litre V8, the basis 400hp model accelerated from 0-100 km/h in four.three seconds reaching a top speed of 300km/h.

At present picket Pinnacle Gear Jeremy Clarkson'due southreview, I guarantee you will desire one.

Lucky for y'all, a2008 Spyker C8 spyder is eagerly waiting for a new possessor on autotrader.nl for€325,000. For this tag price you will have home a viii.176 km, Gun Metallic, 400hp model. Yep, it is stupidly expensive, merely we are talking about the one of the most exclusive cars on the globe. Only 43 Spykers were made in 2008, because all models. If it is a off-white toll or non we volition permit it up for you to decide.

Check out what y'all volition take for this kind of cash:

If the looks doesn't convince you, look at the Earth War 2 fighter plane interior. You won't find anything similar it.

And, finally, some details.

These kind of fine adroitness and exclusivity can but exist comparable to Pagani or Koenisegg. It is like having the best of antiquarian automobiles with modern mechanics. Now, all you need is to install a l quotient automobile gun and purchase a leather helmet.

Click here to see the original car ad. Enjoy!

1970 and 80s Brazil was a unique market isolated from the rest of the world. Its closed  market effectively prohibited motorcar imports from 1976 to 1990, making it a propitious terrain for minor "exotic" car companies. To satisfy the needs of those wishing something dissimilar, cooler,  these companies created sporty cars using what was available then, basically VW Beetle/Brasilia mechanics. So, equally you already figured out, they had the looks but non the functioning. But hey, you can't accept everything in this life, right? Anyhow, thanks to this, at present nosotros tin all rejoice with these unusual and unique cars. Here is one of the near interesting, in my stance: The PUMA

You tin say whatsoever you want about Puma, just no i can deny, this is one of a hell good looking car.

Pumaorigins are within DKW-Malzoni, a relatevely succesfull sports and racing automobile using DKWs 2 stroke engine and Karmann-Ghia's platform.  Subsequently DKW was bought by Volkswagen and stopped producing DKW engines,  the machine, which had already been renamed Puma, had to exist totally re-designed. Inspired in the Miura(the Lamborghini), Puma was produced from 1966 to 1995, using a glass fiber body, Karmann-Ghia and Brasilia platforms and VW boxer 1500 to 1600cc engines, optionally being tuned up to 2000cc. On its prime, Pumas were exported to South America, North America and Europe, nigh of them as kit cars. Information technology was even produced in Due south Africa.

Puma GT DKW – The final with DKW engines

GT (1968 – 1969) –In 1967 Volkswagen bought DKW in Brazil. Without DKWs engine, Puma created a new auto usingVWs 1500 air cooled engine and a shortened Karmann-Ghia chassis. Launched in 1968, it was named Puma 1500 GT. Information technology's boxer engine received double carburetors and a sports exhaust reaching threescore hp and 150 km/h.

1968 Puma 1500 GT & Puma ad

GTE/GTS(1970 – 1979)– In 1970 the engine was upgraded for a 1600 cc being named GTE (E for Export). On the side by side year, the convertible version GTE Spyder was launched, being renamed GTS and GTS Spyder over the years. In 1973 a face lift was fabricated to keep Puma competitive. Meanwhile, VW ended Karmann-Ghias production in Brazil, forcing Puma to redesign its model. In 1976 a new Puma was launched using a wider VW Brasilia'south platform. The newSpyder wasn't well received, existence nicknamed "fallen-bottom" in a literal translation, Puma corrected the design on the next year. The 1600 cc engine produced 70hp with a top speed of 165km/h,1700cc to 2000cc engines were also bachelor as optional.

1972 Puma GTE in Switzerland for a photoshoot

1974 Puma GTE

1974 Puma GTS Spider

1976 "Fallen Bottom" & 1977 Puma GTS Spider

1978 Puma GTE & Puma advertizing

GTI/GTC (1980 – 1986) – In1980 a new design followed new names, the coupe was now called GTI and the convertible GTC. New contemporary "Porsche 911" bumpers replaced the  chrome units, taillights came from the Volkswagen Brasilia and the doorhandles  from the Alfa Romeo Ti 4. These were the last models before Puma was sold and changed  easily. It was the beginning of the cease.

1984 Puma GTI sold for eighteen,000$ on EBay and Puma GTI&GTC advert

Over the following years, and under a couple different managements, new  versions were launched, eventually ending using VWs water cooled 1800cc engines. Merely it never achieved the same success, until finally, in 1995, Puma shut its doors.

This could take been a lamentable stop for this one time glorious machine, just at that place is still hope. A couple of years agone, Puma announced they are back! And in great style, with a racing car! Don't believe information technology? Check it for yourself here Puma Website . I don't know in what phase the project is but we wish all the luck to them!

Brazil, São Paulo – This is an one time in a life time opportunity to ride as a legitimate brazilian diplomat. As right now a 1968 Willys Itamaraty is for sale at Reginaldo de Campinas website, a car dealer in Brazil famous for its drove of low miled classics and salty prices. This 9000 km model asking cost is 149.000 Brazilian Existent or 45.705 United states dollars. It is completely original, inclusive with out of factory tires (which are evidently expired).

For this tag price you will take home a 3 litre 6 cylinder Jeep origin engine which produced 132 hp (when new), taking the motorcar to a peak speed of 155 km/h (97 mph). All-leather black interior, jacarandá wooden dashboard, consummate instruments, air conditioning, radio and a consummate tools set.

History –The Itamaraty was the top version of the Aero Willys, a sedan produced by Willy Overland Brazil and Ford between 1960 and 1972.

The Aero Willys was an american project, based on Jeep Willys components and discontinued over there for depression acceptance. In the United states information technology was know as Aero-Ace, Aero-Eagle, Aero-Fly and Bermuda. All models used Jeep's platform, pause and steering, making it a hard ride as you can imagine. Willys Overland Brazil brought the assembly tools and started local product in 1960.

In 1961 Willys Overland Brazil decided to completely redesign the Aero Willys project and turn information technology into an international model. Information technology first appeared in the 1962 Paris Motor Show, with monoblock frame, 110 hp and a new design. Launched next year, 1963, information technology was the offset American Latina completely projected automobile.

The success was so big, in Brazil, that in 1966 a luxury version was launched: the Itamaraty. Named after the Brazilian Ministry of External Relations edifice, it was also known as "Palace on wheels". On the side by side year the get-go factory production limousine produced in Brazil was launched being chosen Itamaraty Executivo. To differentiate from the Aero, the Itamaraty had a new cromed front grill, totally circular headlights,  new tail-lights, leather interior, wooden dashboard and as optional air con.

In 1967 the engine displacement grew to 3.104 cm3 increasing the power to 132hp. It also received a new grill, new front and back headlights, new trims and the "Itamaraty" logo applied on the C pilars (This is the yr-model announced for sale).

By 1968, Willys Overland Brazil was bought past Ford. There was an effort to fit a Ford 302 V8 only the car just couldn't handle the extra ability. Sales declined twelvemonth after yr, until finally, in 1971, Ford announced the production was going to end. It survived a extra year, when finally,  in 1972 the terminal Aero and Itamaratys left assembly line.

Then, is this piece of brazilian history worth 46 of your thousand dollars?

Follow the link to meet more pictures and notice more brazilian classics: Reginaldo de Campinas. Forgot to mention, information technology says 1968 but I am pretty sure information technology is a 1967.

Today is a sad day for James Bond's fans, Sir Roger Moore passed away at the age of 89. We listing here Bail cars he used in his movies as a tribute to his memories. Thank you Sir!

1973 – Live and Let Dice

1947 AEC Regent 3 – Non what you would wait for Roger Moore's first ride as 007 but a true spy can drive anything with an engine.

1974 – The Man with the Golden Gun

1974 AMC Hornet –  On the first motion picture I'm quite certain Chevrolet was sponsoring it, now it is time for AMC (unfortunately for James). Stolen directly from a showroom in Bangkok it is used by James to chase villain Scaramanga. It becomes famous for the famous screw spring stunt. At least the top version had a rear cycle 6 litre V8… with 175bhp.

Don't ask me about the baroque whistle audio event…

Flying AMC Matador Coupe –Not Bond's though, it is Villain Scaramangas'. It is yet ugly as hell but at least it flies.

1977 – The Spy who Loved Me

1976 Lotus Esprit S1 "submarine" – Finally redemption! A car James Bail worthy! Elected ane of the all-time Bond cars, only after the DB5, it comes with torpedos, surface-to-air missiles and underwater mines. Originally it came with a 5-speed manual 2 litre 4 cylinder 160 bhp.

1979 Moonraker

I am having a hard time with this one. Take suggestions!

1981 For your eyes only

1980/81 Lotus Esprit Turbo – Lotus are back! Not so quite… The white is used start by James on the movie, non involved in any automobile chase, ends up exploding. The cherry-red or statuary one is his substitute and appears briefly in 4 scenes. A existent pitty… this time they come with a turbocharged 210hp reaching 152 mph (252 kph).

1983 Octopussy

Bajaj RE –Not a Bond motorcar, but certainly fun! And perfect for a motorcar chase scene, or meliorate, a Tuc-Tuc chase scene.

1985 A View to a Kill

Renault eleven – The paradigm speaks for itself.  Bravo!

"This radio station was named Kowalski in honor of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when he'southward gonna stop only who is gonna stop him."
Audioslave's Show me How to Live videoclip opening quote.

Final calendar week, May 17th,Chris Cornell, singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave,  died in Detroit at the historic period of 52. First of all, our sincere condolences to his family. The reason is non for us to question or judge. What matters is that he was a gifted singer and his music makes the world a improve place.

For lots of us rock music and motoring is a perfect lucifer. And then information technology plain was for Chris, equally nosotros can see by one of his videoclips,Show me How to Live, where he drives a Challenger R/T. At first it just seems to be Chris and his band cruising through the desert getting in all sort of trouble. Only for those who likes cars, movies andAudioslave it is much more. For those that are not familiar, follow an explanation of why this specific videoclip is and then meaningful , peculiarly at this moment. First follow part of the song'south lyric.

And with the early dawn
Moving right along, I couldn't buy an centre-ful of slumber
And in the aching night nether satellites, I was non received
Congenital with stolen parts, a telephone in my centre
Someone get me a priest to put my mind to bed
This ringing in my head, is this a cure or is this a disease?

Nail in my manus, from my creator
You gave me life, now testify me how to live

And in the after birth, on the quiet earth
Allow the stains remind you, you thought you lot made a man
You better think again, before my part defines yous

Smash in my paw, from my creator
You gave me life, now testify me how to live

And in your waiting hands, I will country, and roll out of my skin
And in your last hours I will stand, ready to begin?
Ready to begin? Prepare to begin? Ready to begin?

At first the lyrics seem to be about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it is because both take the same theme: creation, purpose, life's meaning. What does information technology take with motoring? You might wonder. For that, you must empathise the movie1971'due south Vanishing Bespeak in which the video was based and why information technology fits the lyrics:

The flick has 2 main characters:

• Kowalski, a car delivery driver, ex nascar commuter, ex wheel racer, ex detective and a Vietnam medal of honor veteran. In brusque terms, a true bad-ass.
• And the1970 Alpine White 375bhp Magnum Contrivance Challenger R/T. Tin yous retrieve of a ameliorate named car for the movie?Challenger!

The plot runs around Kowalski'southward try to deliver the machine from Denver-Colorado to San Francisco – California, a 1200 miles (1900 km) in ane mean solar day. Apparently he attracts law attention and his bulldoze turns into a 4 states high-speed pursuit.

The starting point is in Denver on a late Friday nighttime, where Kowalski insists he has to reach San Francisco the adjacent 24-hour interval at 15:00 pm, fifty-fifty though the delivery is not due until Monday. The reason for that is unclear, he just says: "I gotta be in Frisco 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.".

Kowalski drives beyond Utah and into Nevada, with the police unable to take hold of him. During the pursuit, Kowalski listens to christian radio station KOW, on which a blind disc jockey calledSuper Soul, listens to the police radio frequency and encourages him. Super Soul seems to understand Kowalski and seems to run into and hear Kowalski'southward reactions.

During the police force chase across Nevada, Kowalski finds himself surrounded and heads into the desert. After he blows a left front tire and becomes lost, Kowalski is rescued past an old prospector who catches snakes in the desert. Afterward Kowalski is given fuel, the old man redirects him back to the highway. There, he picks upwardly 2 hitchhikers stranded en road to San Francisco with a "Just Married" sign in their rear window. When they attempt to hold him up at gunpoint, Kowalski throws them out of the car and continues on his journey.

At 1 moment Kowalski suspects that Super Soul'due south broadcast is at present being directed by the police to entrap him. Confirming that the constabulary are indeed waiting at the border, Kowalski receives help from a hippie biker, calledAngel to go through the roadblock. He finally reaches California by Saturday 7:12 pm. During the journey Kowalski has memories flashbacks: racing accidents, his girlfriend'south tragic decease and preventing his law partner from raping a young adult female.

On Sun morning time, California law, who have been tracking Kowalski's movements, set a roadblock with two bulldozers in the small town of Cisco, where Kowalski will be passing. As the Challenger approaches at loftier-speed, he smiles as he sees the light glinting from between the bulldozers but before he crashes.

Past the mode, by definition vanishing bespeak is a point in the prototype plane where the projections (or drawings) of a prepare of parallel lines in infinite intersect. On a direct plain road information technology would exist the horizon where the road ends, therefore the movie title "Vanishing Betoken".

There are a lot of references in the movie. I like to recollect that Kowalski's journeying is a symbol of life. He is on the route, only drives for drive, trying to reach his destiny. "Super Soul" guides  and talks to him fifty-fifty though he is blind and one can't speak to the other. Confronting his will "Super Soul" misleads Kowalski, but eventually "Angel" helps him getting through. There is evil disguised as skillful on more i occasion. When he finds himself rock bottom lost in the desert, irresolute a flat tire and a viper is nearly to strike, aid comes to his aid. And he is always accompanied by his faithful White Challenger to get him through the journeying.

At the end I like this interpretation, based onMotorTrend mag: "To Kowalski, it was all the same a hole to escape through. It symbolized that no thing how far they push or chase you lot, no one tin can truly take abroad your liberty, there is always a light, information technology is not the finish of the road.". Kowalski drives to drive, with no real purpose for doing what he's doing. He decides to give his life its definition and significant, with complete freedom over his actions.

I stop this post by quoting i of Super Soul's radio broadcast:

"And there goes the challenger beingness chased by the blue, blue meanies on wheels

The vicious traffic squad cars are afterward our lone driver

The last american hero

The electric centaur, the demigod

The super driver of the golden west

Two nasty cars are close behind the cute alone driver

The police numbers are getting closer, closer, closer…

To our soul-hero in his soul-mobile

Yeah, baby, they about to strike

They gonna get him, boom him

Rape the last cute free soul on this planet

But information technology is written

If the evil spirit artillery a tiger with claws

Brahman* provides wings for the dove"

*The divine and absolute power of beingness that is the source and sustainer of the universe.

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