Awesome Thread... [Automotive Edition]

[bartboy9891]

:lol: I know that! But I want to know the car.

Ultima GTR

 

[JohnnyRacer]

^ +Rep to both of you, thanks!

 

[thedguy]

https://pic.armedcats.net/s/st/stevanford/2009/08/18/112.JPG
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https://pic.armedcats.net/s/st/stevanford/2009/08/18/08GoodwoodFoS_jb_0232.jpg

Underdog of the MFing decade! And it won class in 84.

 

[Cryptopygia]

There also happens to be an RX-792P behind the Leyton House 962.

More rotary-powered goodness for you to drool over, I guess.

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/24329017.77.jpg

(It didn't win it's class, though, for two reasons: 1. Underpowered. Its R26B developed about 620hp, compared to the 800+hp of the front-running cars it would occasionally score podiums against. (The exhaust also used to have a nasty habit of setting the bodywork on fire, and Mazda struggled to get it under the 108dB limit IMSA enforced.) 2. Toyota/AAR had their Mk. III, which was nigh-on unstoppable, aside from the odd challenge from Nissan and Jaguar/TWR.

And of course, sticking with rotary-powered prototypes...
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/480719830_869cf46e5c_o.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/0-0-0-0-IMSA-63_Argo_JM19_Mazda.jpg

The Argo JM-19, also a two-rotor, complete with ugly exhaust...

The JM-19 evolved into the Kudzu DG-1, which was essentially a 7/8th Argo (and with the exhaust inside the body, and gradually evolved into...

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/23589206.632.jpg

...the DG-3, an evolution of the piston-powered DG-2. Same ugly exhaust as the Argo (packaging reasons *not enough room*), but connected to a three-rotor, and which became the DL_ series of WSC prototypes... (A modified DG-3 won the 1994 WSC championship)

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/87809012.AEruyuFs.jpg

And just because, here's a video of one on the street...

[YOUTUBE]DHM8aw8Hhv0[/YOUTUBE]

Oh, and...

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/am/amtgman/2009/08/18/1198__H0Q0455_000.jpg

Okay, that's enough rotaries for now...

 

[napoleondyna]

*snip*

rest of the gallery her > http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/2009-monterey-historic-automobile-races

I got to witness this on saturday. It was.... :shock: :shock: :shock:

Some photos I took:

 

[nsx_23]

http://img44.imageshack.**/img44/8506/46814233.jpg

This is why the 8C Competizione will never be anything but ugly to me.

 

[CrzRsn]

http://img197.imageshack.**/img197/2285/2667401.jpg

 

[Polly]

My new Perfect 2 Green Car Garage:

Yours for just 5K.

 

[CrzRsn]

Ah. Green cars I approve of.

 

[killpanda]

Yep, I'll take both as well.

 

[Aston Martin]

I do like a Marcos.

http://img26.imageshack.**/img26/8278/vs0ge9ss.jpg
http://img18.imageshack.**/img18/791/uwybghis.jpg
http://img26.imageshack.**/img26/6729/2xsomlkb.jpg
http://img22.imageshack.**/img22/165/hhzfxsxj.jpg

 

[Blayde]

HOLY WIDEBODY batman :O

 

[Posmo]

That Marcos was posted on Barryboys some time ago, basically it's a very well made fake. None of the vents on the car serve a purpose, and there is no such thing as a Marcos LM600 EVO.It's just a butchered road car made to look like a LMS racer.

 

[thedguy]

My new Perfect 2 Green Car Garage:

Yours for just 5K.

What is this? It's all kinds of awesome (just needs a less sick inducing color).

edit: my blind ass now sees it's a Fiat, but what model?

 

[marcos_eirik]

That Marcos was posted on Barryboys some time ago, basically it's a very well made fake. None of the vents on the car serve a purpose, and there is no such thing as a Marcos LM600 EVO.It's just a butchered road car made to look like a LMS racer.

There is... The Marcos LM600 raced in international GT-Racing series from 1995 and is still raced by the dutch Team Eurotech Racing. It was very successful in the BRDC championship series and took a few BPR-GT outright victories, despite being a GT2 car. The late models (often branded "EVO") were very highly developed and very wide, running a 6,8-liter GM V8. It was basically the cheapest way into a top spec GT car, being somewhere around 1/3 the price of a Porsche 993 GT2 EVO.

Early car:

Late car:

 

[Polly]

What is this? It's all kinds of awesome (just needs a less sick inducing color).

edit: my blind ass now sees it's a Fiat, but what model?

It's a '74 Fiat 128 Rallye

 

[avanti]

What is this? It's all kinds of awesome (just needs a less sick inducing color).

edit: my blind ass now sees it's a Fiat, but what model?

its the 128

argh! too late

 

[Donington]

 

[Porsche Liebhaber]

More:

 

[BTM5]

if the wheels and the parts that are red would be orange.......HOLY MOTHER