Vintage sports and racing cars pictures.

[John Meachen]

Indeed they don't.

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[Paul Pless]

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[Canoeyawl]

They don't have to be silver or white...

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Copper brake drums

[hawkeye54]

The car in # 12497 appears to near perfection - I like it a lot ! ! ! !

[skuthorp]

My Fiat X1/9 (targa) was great. With the top removed and the windows up, at least at 50+ mph, you could drive in the rain and not get wet, so long as it wasn't a real downpour. In a Michigan winter, with the top off, windows up and the heater going, it might not have been what you'd call warm, but it wasn't uncomfortable.

I had a friend who knew exactly how fast he needed to drive to keep rain out of the car with the top down.

[Paul Pless]

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[John Meachen]

A Delage from the same sort of era.

[Lugs]

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The red 156 is mine. It's the 2.0 twin spark petrol, fitted with a millennial anti-theft device. The black 159 belongs to a mate, but he likes me to exercise it regularly. It's the 2.4 5 cylinder diesel with the lazyman's gearbox... which makes it a great car around town, with oodles of torque.

[birlinn]

A rather older Alfa. 1922.

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[John Meachen]

I don't think I have posted this Delage before.

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[John Meachen]

Another French car,to keep this thread from dropping any further.

[skuthorp]

A bloke down the road where we used olive had an Aston Martin DB 35 with similar spartan interior.

[Hugh MacD]

From the Portland ABFM a few years ago:
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[Garret]

Inquiring (& iggerent) mind: The supercharger forces the air/fuel mix through the black pipe. What's the SUish looking thing (but not a carb I'm thinking) above it on the manifold?

[Paul Pless]

and what are the copper lines going into the intake manifold and why does the distributor indicate the engine is an inline six cylinder??

Inquiring (& iggerent) mind: The supercharger forces the air/fuel mix through the black pipe. What's the SUish looking thing (but not a carb I'm thinking) above it on the manifold?

[Garret]

and what are the copper lines going into the intake manifold and why does the distributor indicate the engine is an inline six cylinder??

Maybe a cold start system? Fuel into the center thingimibobby that then goes into the manifold via the lines? Sure looks like a 6.

[John B]

K3 magnette, they had tiny 6 cyl engines... 1000 or 1200cc. I know nothing about supercharging.
Interlude..
A real sports utility vehicle parked around the road from us a couple of days ago.
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[Canoeyawl]

Inquiring (& iggerent) mind: The supercharger forces the air/fuel mix through the black pipe. What's the SUish looking thing (but not a carb I'm thinking) above it on the manifold?

Blow-off valve

https://www.vintagemgparts.com/blow-off_valves.html

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https://www.vintagemgparts.com/ki-gass_jets.html

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[Canoeyawl]

K3 - 1100cc 6 cyl (capable of 8000 rpm's)

https://simeonemuseum.org/collection...g-k3-magnette/

[Garret]

Thanks Jake!

[Paul Pless]

Interlude..

a clean and unmolested el camino - somewhat of a rarity even here

check these pickup versions that alfa built for italian for italian fire departments

[Garret]

From the looks of the 2nd pic - it's got a full load of water. Cool rig - I want one!

[Hugh MacD]

Needs a little work:
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[John Meachen]

and what are the copper lines going into the intake manifold and why does the distributor indicate the engine is an inline six cylinder??

I'm reasonably sure that the line at the front of the engine is connected to the oil pressure gauge.The other may well be a boost gauge.

[Canoeyawl]

Blow-off valve

https://www.vintagemgparts.com/blow-off_valves.html

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https://www.vintagemgparts.com/ki-gass_jets.html

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It's a long way from the Carburetor/fuel/supercharger to the combustion chamber. Those copper tubes are a dash controlled priming device to avoid endless cranking (I think)

"The Ki-Gass system, also referred to as Kigass or K-Gas, is "a system of starting petrol and Diesel engines by injecting finely divided fuel in the form of a mist into the in-take pipe."^[1] The system uses a hand-pump to spray fuel into the air in-take, thus priming the engine for easier starting. In the case of diesel engines, this spray was aimed at a heated Glowplug fitted into the manifold. Ki-Gass systems were widely used on aircraft, cars and tractors in 1944,^[2] including British Spitfire and Hurricane fighters.
The system is thought to have been introduced in the mid-1920s, when it was a feature of the 1926 Vauxhall 30-98 OE Tourer.^[3] It appears to have origins in fuel priming pumps developed in the early 20th century (e.g. by Frederick Lunkenheimer).
Manual priming was carried out via a small pump or push button (e.g., in some Ferguson TE20 Tractors).
Bugatti used Ki-Gass to aid starting on several of their early supercharged cars in the mid 1920s, such as the Bugatti Type 35. A lever^[4] on the dashboard allowed the driver to pump some gas into the intake."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ki-Gass

[Hugh MacD]

LOVE IT! I keep learning more about old cars from the WBF than I do from my automotive forums

[robm]

That blow-off valve after the carb must be hard on fuel economy.

[Andrew2]

That blow-off valve after the carb must be hard on fuel economy.

Yep, I was wondering about blowing mixture about the engine space without a fire protective mesh screen .

[hawkeye54]

^ It could make road-rally driving REALLY exciting ! ! !

[Canoeyawl]

In this example the "blow off valve" shown is to prevent damage to the supercharger from a "backfire" (which can generate a lot of pressure in that induction path)
It is not needed or used to regulate normal induction pressures. That is calculated by displacement and supercharger speed.
(I would like to see a tube routed downward to clear the burning backfired fuel from under the hood, but note the carburetor is out in front of the car, so the risk of raw fuel being ignited under the hood is reduced. (The tube may in fact be removed in this image)

[Garret]

I don't think I posted this earlier.

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[Paul Pless]

dude's first car
he bought it used in 1963 and drove it almost daily for forty years
visited every state in the 'lower 48' and all the canadian border provinces
after it broke a half shaft in the the early 2000's he parked it for three years until he retired and could restore it
good to go for another 40 years

[Lugs]

Nice one Paul.

Meanwhile, in the racing car side of the thread, a guy I know just started a new job. Parked in the very interesting garage is a Bugatti Chiron. Not the base 1500 hp version... the fast one. Cost his boss $4 million. And at that, he can't bolt on a registration plate unless he coughs up another $3 mil in taxes... so, it's a track car.

[Paul Pless]

[Garret]

Even wires on the trailer! Nice.