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Aya-Wavedancer — 1937 TalbotLago T150C SS Teardrop Coupe RQ View
Published: 2014-05-23 19:05:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 3031; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 84
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I realized I forgot to add a RQ view of this really beautiful vehicle to the gallery. You can do a search and find the FQ view with all of the details of this very advanced vehicle for its time there if you're curious.
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It reminds me of a gta 5 old classical car... But I don't remember it's name...
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There's a "Truffaude" that's actually more similar to a Bugatti Type 57.
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The French coachbuilders in this period were totally out of their minds in terms of style and uniqueness, followed closely by some of the Italian houses. it's always fun to see cars like those up close.
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I did do a Wikipedia search and the most recent one of these that sold at a Christie's Auction according to they , and or other elegant coaches of this design was for $4.97 million $$$$
Years ago I work for a studio photographer whose primary client was the Ruger firearms company. At that time one of the original owners bill Ruger was still alive. He had a collection of old Duesenbergs and Auburn and Delahaye , so I got to physically be in the presence of those cars as well. I can truly appreciate
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Just beautiful. Outrageously advanced for 1937. Beautiful capture of a beautiful car... Featured here www.ultimateeditionoz.com/foru… Thank you and congratulations on this magnificent image
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They are. I know several of them have been caught by DA people, much like the Tuckers.
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Nice car with awesome specs. Sleek like a tuna fish.
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its a beautiful car it looks like something from a dr seuss book i wonder how it drives
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The engine's a 140 HP straight 6 Hemi with a state of the art Wilson pre-selector gearbox, independent front suspension, and based heavily on Talbot's GP (what we'd refer to as F1) technology. I'd imagine the car runs quite well for 1937 standards. The 115 MPH top speed was excellent for a car of that era as well.
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sounds exceptional for a car from the 30's although i always wanted to drive a car with a pre-selector gear box especially an old Daimler
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Another car with a Cotal preselector is the Peugeot Darl'mat, I have a few pics of one of those as well in my gallery. A stunning little sports car with success at LeMans.
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oh i didn't know peugeot used a pre-selector gearbox but then again pre-selectors wasn't that popular over here i don't think
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Mainly a British and French thing from what I know. Talbot-Lago seemed to favor them. Unsure of I have a detail shot of the Darl'mat cockpit up on DA but you can look. I know I have a shot of how the windshield can retract and the engine
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i knew lancaster used them and some Darracqs i think.
i saw the talbot and the engine was in great shape for a car from the 30s and i never knew the windscreen was retractable must be for aerodynamics or something. its a pretty neat car for its age
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Racing cars of the era and into the 50's tended to minimize the windscreen for racing. Either people installed Brooklands windscreens, flipped down the windshield when applicable, or just removed them for racing. The LeMans D-Type jags had a tall aerodynamic windshield that Hawthorn disliked for being so high. Had it cut down and IIRC, the Jag lost about 5 MPH top speed on the Muslanne. Later in that era, the FIA began to require higher windshields for sports cars. If you look at the 1957 Testa Rossa in my gallery you'll see that.
My guess was the thought with the Darl'mat was that you could drive the car to the track, roll down the windshield, race, then drive it home. Or maybe if the driver felt sporty, put on his cap and goggles, lowered the windshield, and just drove it that way.
I need to look at my pics of the Darl'mat for the cockpit and get one up so you can see the shift mechanism. It's somewhat unusual.
I also had to do some researching amidst some confusion regarding the Talbot-Lago and Talbot-Darracq when you mentioned the Darracq. They were both the same manufacturer, I believe that the Lago name was used in Europe and outside, and Darracq used in the UK. It could be the reverse, but they're the same builder. Extremely confusing!
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I never knew the jag had its windscreen cutdown i bet that loss 5mph killed the car during the races and i see what you mean with the testa rossa although look at f1 cars now there the bare minimum you can get
yeah i think it was so people would buy them for off track driving so the common man could drive it and feel like a racer and i really wanna see this cockpit now i curious to see this unusual shifting mechanism
yeah i just looked this up and i thought they were different makers i'm gonna have a look into it a bit more now
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Read more on the D-Types, especially the factory long-noses, mainly was Mike Hawthorn who had the aero windscreen cut down the one year. Regulations later mandated a more encompassing windscreen, you can find pics all over. Still, D-Types won LeMans 3 years in a row. Will look some things up in a book to see if that's more specific... Only Hawthorn's winning car in 1955. Some claims of up to 190 MPH on the Muslanne, definitely 180, but they all say a few MPH less with the cut down windscreen. The D-Type was extremely aerodynamic for the era.
Aero was different back then, mainly for top speed, people didn't realize yet about the importance of downforce- One man did, a Swiss driver named Michael May who was ahead of his time, but that's another story. ^_^
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i'll have to read up more on the d-type as i don't really know all that much about jaguar in general as i'm not a big fan of them i only know bits about the d-type
i saw a few pic of them with both windscreens. it was a great car until the 3L version
it looked aerodynamic didn't the mount the engine at a angle to reduce drag or something and i always though it looked like a bullet very sleek and stylish
yeah it had a great top speed but i always wonder how it handled on and off the track
i never heard of michael may
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I think if you do a search for "Michael May Porsche" you'll find something rather interesting on the image search. He was a Swiss engineer and sports car driver in the '50's.
Yes- the D-Type incorporated a lot of Aeronautic engineering principles into the design. Part of the package was using what we'd call in the States a "laydown"engine mountwhere the height of the engine's lowered so the hood/bonnet height is lower. Indy cars were also starting to do that in the same period of time. Also, they used an aircraft style rubber fuel bladder and not a fuel tank. My guess is a combination of weight and safety. in a crash the bladder wouldn't crack or split, with resulting disaster. No fuel cells in the 50's. I have two early D-Types in my gallery, the short-nosed ones, both pretty sharp examples. I need to get to the Simeone to see theirs run eventually.
Sports car handling in the 50's, well that's relative to today's cars and tire technology. Jaguar pioneered disc brakes in this era in the C-Type and it game them a serious edge versus Ferrari, Aston-Martin and Maserati. Took Ferrari a good while to finally admit Disc brakes were a good thing.
Have to go- Surgery today, supposed to be easy- and hope it is.
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i hope its nothing serious and you don't spend too much time in hospital i hope you get well soon
and take your time recuperating
i did some research on michael may and i never knew he pioneered the wing (we call them spoilers in england) and all the crap porsche gave him for it and had it banned. but holy crap the size of that spoiler on that porsche was huge compared to now and i wonder how it went from being mounted over the cockpit to mounted on the rear
yeah you can tell even by the look it was designed by a aeroplane engineer and the fuel bladder was a good idea saves weight and is deformable and can be easily replaced.
true enough this was the 50's i suppose they wouldn't have had the best tyres, i don't think radial tyres were introduced until the 60's and atleast they had disk breaks
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