I think your seeing a reflection on the doors. I don't think they were being delivered to a dealership. No window stickers. Car Hauler is too ratty. Rear car has damage to rear center of bumper?
Maybe for a movie? All cars identical. Going to a race shop?
my nephew is a big mopar fan, got a second place at the GNRS with one of his cars, has a Bird, 440 coronet, old barracuda, He said that a lot of the "birds didn't sell, were parked at the back of dealerships for over a year before they were discounted and finally sold.
had a '66 Gt many yrs ago and loved it too.. when i got the car from Boise Idaho the owner said MANY times it was restored. and he OWNED a auto repair shop (eagle auto). so i figured he knew what he was talking about.. WRONG.. he lied big time. so every time i had or wanted to do a major repair on that "restored" car it keep digging at me. so i had to cut loose of it.. the new owner got it in MUCH better cond then i did.. and i did not lie on needed stuff to do.
restored (ya right) items i had to do:
complete engine rebuild, complete cooling sys, full front susp, upgrade p/s sys, replace butcher instrument gages, repair center console, and several smaller ones.. sorry for the rambling
1957 Fiat 682 car transport used by Ferrari till 1970 is now for sale on the world market sans the 3 Testa Rossa shown here, WOW that is millions of dollars right there. If you need to ask the price then you can't even afford to pay attention.
Do you think the driver of these rigs would be a little nervous loaded up to the gills with priceless cars:sweat:
Alternately you can own the very nice replica model for slightly less :thumbup:
Here's one I always liked. This is Mercedes "Blue Wonder". It was powered by the same engine that they were using on the track in the 300SL's. The Idea behind it was to transport the race car back to the factory between races for repairs. The Transporter would fly at better than 100mph with the car on it's back. It or a replica ended up in the workshop at Moon Equipment in the 60's.
This started as a Standard Citroen DS. That model ran fron 1955-1975. Four cylinder front wheel-drive car not particularly popular in the U.S. but very popular in France. Around 1961 Citroen began designing a GT (Gran Turismo) version of the DS. In 1968 Citroen purchased Maserati. The Citroen SM was first seen at the Geneva Auto Show in 1970. The SM was to become Citroen's Flagship model rivaling Jag, Lotus, Aston Martin and the rest of that class of automobiles.
The big problem with the SM was that Citroen didn't put the big Maserati engine in it. Acceleration was adequate and the top end was nice but it wasn't a great performer. Finally appointed and somewhat heavy didn't help .Handling was excellent.
As for the Transporter, I remember reading a article about it many years ago and I do believe that one of those Maserati engines somehow found its way into that car. Having been owned by a number of race drivers and owners It got tweaked a little on the way.
There's a Citroen around here and every time I see it, it's just the goofiest looking car coming down the road, with the rear so much narrower than the front. It looks like reversed aerodynamics...
The specs on those are just staggering:
One tire is 12' tall, 5' wide, and weighs around 12,000 pounds
And... Each has it own 4,000-horse diesel to drive it
The Tempest / Lemans were very nice cars they kinda got over shadowed by the GTO crowd but the survivors usually have better bodies especially the post bodies because they didn't get all twisted by the torsional twist,,great find:thumbup::thumbup:
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