#195025 - 03/03/06 10:45 AM
Ugly car Friday...
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scootergeek
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#195027 - 03/03/06 11:01 AM
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RyCeRoCkEtZ
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meh
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#195030 - 03/03/06 11:29 AM
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NHRATA01
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Lancia?
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#195031 - 03/03/06 11:34 AM
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YodaGTS
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This is as close as I could get, I give up:
This looks liked it too:
Edited by YodaGTS (03/03/06 11:53 AM)
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#195033 - 03/03/06 03:05 PM
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tropicana
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Looks like the giant Sturgeon I yanked out of the Volga last year.
Scott, I have no clue. Looked Ferrarish, then I saw some Jensen in there...gah.
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#195034 - 03/03/06 03:18 PM
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Almost looks like an AR Giuletta...
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#195037 - 03/03/06 03:29 PM
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TheLeech
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This one is driving me nuts. Carsfromitaly.com is down! I have no reference to check!
What we know: Left-hand drive One shot is in Italy Likely front-engined based on vents Not an Alfa (grill doesn't match and Scootergeek said so)
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#195040 - 03/03/06 03:39 PM
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Fiat Dino Coupe:
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#195041 - 03/03/06 03:46 PM
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TheLeech
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Are there two generations then?
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#195043 - 03/03/06 04:06 PM
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TheLeech
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ASA 1000 GT. That one was tough...
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#195044 - 03/03/06 04:11 PM
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Closest I could think was the 850 Coupe.
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#195046 - 03/03/06 05:09 PM
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scootergeek
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AT the Turin Motorshow in 1961 a prototype car on the Bertone stand, designed by Giugiaro with the blessing of Enzo Ferrari the engine and chassis were designed at Maranello.
Despite positive comments, Ferrari made it known that they would not be producing it, and so in April 1962 was born ASA or Autocostruzione Societa per Azione to produce it. With financial backing by the Oronzo de Nora petroleum company the car entered volume production in 1964, built at the rate of around one per week.
At the Turin Motorshow of 1962 the ASA 1000 GT was finally revealed in its final form.
The lack of the fairings for the headlights being the main difference from the prototype shown one year earlier The only production variant to appear was a Spider version with a fibreglass body, again designed by Bertone, and displayed in 1963.
Known to some as the 'Ferrarina', the 1000GT was a front engined rear-wheel drive two door coupe with a tubular spaceframe chassis.
The body was designed by Bertone, whilst the mechanicals were designed by Giotto Bizzarrini (working at Ferrari). It was powered by a 1032cc dohc engine producing a stunning 91bhp and fitted with two twin barrel carburettors. Disc brakes were fitted on all four wheels, together with a double wishbone coil spring front suspension and a coil sprung live rear axle. A four speed manual transmission (with overdrive on third and fourth "ala" MG ) was fitted.
Production began slowly, with about seven cars built by 1964. At this point Bertone ceased producing the bodies and production went to Ellena in Torino until 1967 when Marazzi in Milano took over. The chassis were all produced by Marchesi who also produced many Ferrari chassis. A total of 104 chassis were constructed allowing homologation, which required 100 examples, to be completed, but less cars were built, somewhere around 95, before production was stopped in 1967.
Even rarer Six Spiders were also built.
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#195049 - 03/03/06 11:02 PM
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baellremoteuse
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Steering la dolce vita The Age Thursday May 12 2005
The 1963 ASA 1000 GT, or 'baby Ferrari', was in a league of its own, writes KEVIN NORBURY.
Ean McDowell loves to tell the story of getting to work one Tuesday morning in Kuala Lumpur and the conversation centred on what everyone did over the long weekend. "And I said I went to Barcelona and bought a Ferrari," he laughs.
There was stunned disbelief in the engineering office where he was at the time. But he wasn't kidding. As he tells it, as soon as he knocked off on the Friday night he caught a plane to Paris, where he was met by his contact, Olivier, who next day drove him to San Sebastian, in Spain, to see an ASA, the four-cylinder "baby Ferrari", as McDowell calls it. It was a wreck, so they drove on, across Spain to Barcelona, to see another one. This one was better. It had done a mere 30,000 kilometres.
"It was very dirty but it was a very original car," he says. "When it started I just had to have it." Negotiations proved "interesting", though, given the language barrier: a mix of Olivier's French, McDowell's Aussie English and the Barcelona owner's Spanish dialect. "In the end I just gave up and bought the car." Then they drove back to Paris and he flew to Kuala Lumpur in time for work on the Tuesday. Now that's dedication.
Spend time with McDowell and you soon discover that little ASA mission wasn't out of character. He loves Italian cars, although he started out a Riley man, as was his father. But the son's conversion happened one wet day in 1972 after he traded his leaky Austin Healey Sprite for a Fiat 850 Coupe in suburban Ringwood. "It was more a spur-of-the-moment thing," he says. At the time Fiat's advertising campaign slogan was "have an Italian love affair". And McDowell did just that.
He now has quite a collection of Italian cars, everything from a 1958 Moretti to a 1968 Lamborghini Miura S and "little Italian cars (Fiats mostly) that people don't even bother to tow off the street". "But I still think they're great little cars," he says. Many are not exactly pristine, let's be honest, but he loves every one of them.
Still, McDowell had always wanted a Ferrari-based ASA, the four-cylinder coupe concept that Enzo Ferrari sold to the big Italian chemical manufacturer ASA. McDowell bought one in the US in 1972 but it doesn't have an engine. It was his hunt for an engine that led him to Barcelona and on that same trip he mentioned to his French companion that he'd also love a Stanguellini and three years later, bingo, Olivier calls: he'd found one. In the warehouse he rents to store his cars, McDowell pulls back a cover to reveal a blue and white 1959 Stanguellini Formula Junior race car, number 41 (pictured below). "That's basically as it last raced in 1963," he says. "They were made with total disregard for cost and the performance is staggering. It has a 240 km/h top speed and shattering acceleration." When he starts its Fiat-based 1100 cc engine with avgas flowing through twin-choke Weber carbies, the sound is ear-shattering, too. The Stanguellini is identical to the factory race cars but this one was privately owned, apparently, and in 1960 won a formula junior race at Monza. "When he (the owner) finished racing in 1963, he just put it away." McDowell is only the second owner.
Finally we get to his sleek, silvery blue ASA, the coupe with hints of Ferrari at the rear. McDowell opens the bonnet to reveal its neat, black 1000 cc engine. "That, effectively, is just four cylinders cut off the 250 V12 Ferrari," he says. "These produced 100 hp (75 kW) in 1959. It was equivalent to the racing formula at the time."
The car had been repainted in Barcelona before he bought it but the rest is original. "It's only done 30,069 since new," he says, peering at the speedometer. "The noise it makes is fantastic. It's such a responsive little motor." We walk around the car, McDowell singing its praises. "It's got Borrani centre-lock wheels. They were just the absolute best money could buy. And the Nardi steering wheel and the Jaeger racing-type instrumentation. The interesting thing about this car is that it came standard with four-wheel disc brakes in 1959. Only really high-performance stuff, like Ferraris and Maseratis, had four-wheel disc brakes."
The ASA is still left-hand-drive and the dashboard looks very sporty with its big matching tacho and speedo flanked by lots of smaller gauges and toggle switches. The gear lever sits high on the centre console. But that's not the interesting bit. What looks like a lever for blinkers on the steering column is overdrive. "It's a four-speed gearbox with electronic overdrive in third and fourth gears," McDowell says. "Which is really fun to use. You can flick it in and out as you go along. It (the ASA) is just so much fun to drive."
He claims the ASA could probably do 200 km/h at a time similar British cars were "flat out at 130 or 140".
He's done his best to prove it. The speedo tops out at 220. "I've tried to do 220. I've had it as fast as it will go (on a closed-road speed event in WA)," he laughs. "We couldn't get the needle past the 220 but we sure tried. It was absolutely screaming."
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The "Mille", as it was known, was a show car but Enzo Ferrari didn't want to build it himself and sold the concept to the Italian company Autocostruzione Societa per Azione (ASA).
The first ASA 1000 GT - its body was designed by Bertone and the mechanicals by Giotto Bizzarrini, who worked at Ferrari - was powered by a 1032 cc four-cylinder engine with twin carbies; it produced 91 hp (nearly 70 kW). The car was unveiled at Turin in 1962 and became known as the "Ferrarina" or "baby Ferrari". Only about 120 were built, the last in 1967.
Stanguellini was a Modena car dealer. He launched his first road car in 1947 and first formula junior car in 1958. In 1963 Stanguellini broke six speed records at Monza. A road-going GT was planned but only four prototypes were made.
knorbury@theage.com.au
-taken from http://www.drive.com.au/editorial/article.aspx?id=9705&vf=1 What does this thing weigh?
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#195051 - 03/04/06 03:30 AM
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tropicana
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That car is awesome. I'm in love
Great article baellremoteuse, btw
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