KARMA: E-FLEX SUPERCAR PLATFORM

Posted on May 27, 2020May 27, 2020 by MartynL

Racing inspired, all-electric AWD KARMA: E-FLEX SUPERCAR PLATFORM with four-motor BEV architecture is capable of handling over 1,000 horsepower. Following the announcement of Karma Automotive’s all-electric high-performance E-Flex™ platform with supercar-capable architecture last month, Karma engineers have now begun testing the platform in an all-wheel drive (AWD) performance EV prototype vehicle. Equipped with Karma’s racing-inspired E-Flex platform suitable for road and track day application...

ROD & CUSTOM: GARAGE TOUR

Posted on May 26, 2020 by MartynL

https://patganahl.com/2020/05/25/in-the-garage/

Serial hot-rodder Pat Ganahl takes us on a rare ROD & CUSTOM: GARAGE TOUR of his man cave, revealing what he has been working on for decades. And, is still working on! Today, Pat Ganahl takes our hi-tech readers on a guided tour of his garage that’s packed with cars and enough hard-to-see, half-hidden details to keep you busy for at least a week. I’ve already mentioned a couple of times that I’m quite happy – as most hot rodders should be – that the garage is obviously considered part of th...

CLAUDE LELOUCH: FERRARI RENDEZVOUS REDUX

Posted on May 22, 2020 by MartynL

Ferrari SF90 Stradale and Charles Leclerc protagonists in a unique short film - CLAUDE LELOUCH: FERRARI RENDEZVOUS REDUX - to be shot in Monaco on what was to be one of F1’s major events. Some appointments in the calendar cannot be forgotten. Even under the most difficult of circumstances, they cry out to be honored and transformed into an opportunity, to create something truly unique and memorable. With this in mind on Sunday morning, on the day that the Formula 1 Grand Prix was to take place ...

E-CLASS: MERCEDES-AMG SUPER COUPES

Posted on May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 by MartynL

The concept of putting big motors in midsize coupes spawned the Supercar or Musclecar era – 1960s-1970s - in the U.S. Mercedes-Benz refined the genre in 1988 with ‘The Hammer’, followed by E-CLASS: MERCEDES-AMG SUPER COUPES. For more than three decades, sporty coupes have been among the top performers at Mercedes-AMG. It all began with the 300 CE 6.0 launched in 1988, which combined two talents previously considered incompatible: super-sporty driving dynamics and high everyday practicality. The...

PAT GANAHL: OLD SCHOOL HOT RODS

Posted on May 16, 2020May 16, 2020 by MartynL

A scavenger hunt - PAT GANAHL: OLD SCHOOL HOT RODS - uncovers photos and magazines showcasing hot rodding’s golden years, including a 1961 issue CUSTOM RODDER edited by CGC Editor, Marty Schorr! What does Sailor Bob’s ’27 T have to do with this? Serendipity. I showed one of these non-color-shifted Ektachromes from ’58 recently, asking where did this one go, and why has no one built another like it? Well, I was paging through my May ’56 copy of Car Craft because it was supposed to have something...

BALDWIN-MOTION: CORVETTE CONNECTION

Posted on May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 by MartynL

Joel Rosen’s love affair with the Corvette, starting with a solid-axle Corvette that he hill-climbed and a white-trimmed black ’63 Sting Race Fuelie known in local drag racing circles as the (unbeatable) Skunk, spawned the first “tuner” Corvettes, available from the BALDWIN-MOTION: CORVETTE CONNECTION. In 1968 the Shark-inspired Corvette C3 Stingray was all new and, even after 15 years, still America’s Favorite Sports Car and the crown jewel in Chevrolet’s portfolio. Since 1953 Chevy dealers ha...

CONCEPT: CORVETTE XP-819

Posted on May 13, 2020 by MartynL

The story behind the radical CONCEPT: CORVETTE XP-819, from Concept build to concours restoration by Kevin Mackay’s Corvette Repair and then to its showing at the 2020 Amelia Island Concours where it was photographed, below, by CGC’s Mike Matune. Chevrolet has come a long way – actually 67 years - since Zora Arkus-Duntov built the first mid/rear-engine Corvette. That was in 1953 when #856 EX-54’s stock Six was removed and the body and chassis modified to handle installation of a prototype Cadet...

ROB IDA: TUCKER TORPEDO

Posted on May 12, 2020May 12, 2020 by MartynL

The ROB IDA: TUCKER TORPEDO continues where Preston Tucker, subject of a myriad of conspiracy theories, left off. It’s called, improving the breed! Preston Tucker, renegade hot-rodder, car designer, and principle behind the Tucker Corporation, engineered and built the Tucker Model 48, also known as the Torpedo, before coming to an ignominious end after a mere 50 versions were produced. The car was a radical design departure compared to contemporary offerings with a host of modern innovations...

JOEL ROSEN: BALDWIN-MOTION SUPERCARS

Posted on May 9, 2020May 9, 2020 by MartynL

Hagerty’s Reggie Horning blogs about the man from Motion who earned his cred the old fashion way - a quarter-mile at a time – and the Supercars he built between 1967 and 1974! If you lived in Brooklyn in the early-1960s and drag raced a fuel-injected Corvette or a Chevy powered by a Rochester-injected small-block, you would’ve known Joel Rosen, right w/"Astoria Chas" Snyder, tuning Chas' Corvette. He owned Motion Performance, a local speed shop known for his dynamometer tuning of record-sett...

MERCEDES-BENZ: AMG RED PIG RACER

Posted on May 4, 2020 by MartynL

That’s what they called the 300 SEL sedan powered by a 6.8 liter, 428 horsepower V8 sedan that won its class at the 1971 24 Hours of Spa and finished second overall! The MERCEDES-BENZ: AMG RED PIG RACER is credited with the birth of AMG. Today, AMG is the in-house performance arm of Mercedes-Benz, but it started out as a humble operation run by two engineers. The car that launched AMG on the path to three-pointed stardom was a hulking sedan named the “Red Pig.” Hans Werner Aufrecht and Erhard M...