I've been perving both of those cars on Barn Finds! That Guanci is just a cool car; if I had the money I'd have it in a heartbeat. That Aquila does something for me. It has some very right lines, though some are also almost uncanny-valley-level off. It might even have some get up with that Corvair flat 6.
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For the AMC fans. Ramblers, Javelins (and the Javelin AMXs), the Gremlins, Hornets, and of course the Jeep CJs. AMC is the acronym for the American Manufacturing Company. American Motors Corporation (AMC; commonly referred to as American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company on May 1, 1954.
American Motors' "wonderous world of wagons. Made for three years in very limited numbers, each year has a bad azz badge identifying the model/year. The link has sublinks in it. All interesting.
We had/have a member from Florida. Neptune. He was an avid collector or admirer of wood side station wagons. I miss that guy.
Originally posted by cvxjet: The Guanci looks a bit like the De Tomasa Mangusta- predecessor to the Pantera...
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Originally posted by NewDustin: De Tomaso being part of it's design definitely shows through. It's like a De Tomaso and a Porsche were smooshed together.
Sadly, the car’s performance didn’t live up to its looks. It was built on a modified Henry J chassis with an inline six-cylinder engine and a three-speed manual transmission. Despite weighing just 2,176 lbs, the car’s engine put out a paltry 90 horsepower. The Henry J chassis wasn’t exactly a model for structural rigidity either. Customers who were looking for a traditional sports car with some horsepower and a chassis capable of conquering twisty roads were disappointed. To be fair, the same complaints almost torpedoed the Corvette.
The performance did not live up to it's looks ? Where have we heard that before, ?
If I'm not mistaken, they had one of these on that new TV show, Fall-Out, which is based on the game franchise. I think it was in the first episode before the nuclear fall-out.
Imagine an air commuter trapped inside a glitching autonomous JohnnyCab, endlessly circling the LAX parking lot, the destination visible across South Sepulveda Blvd, the Hyyatt Regency Hotel. His dried out, desiccated remains discovered years later, the solar powered cab having done a half million miles, the unfortunate's last text, ' Thirsty, Croaking, Skynet, Aarrgghh ! ' ' It was a software programming unconditional loop, an inadvertent error in debugging ! Just a fluke we found it ! '
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At first, I thought there was a Fiero or something else mass-produced hiding under this wild body kit, but no: Italdesign built this as a unique model with plans to originally stuff an Audi V8 inside before production delays forced them to go with 5-cylinder turbocharged powerplant.
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