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Lucky Hungarian Drives $370,000 Viper-Engined Bristol Fighter
Detroit, 4:10 AM
Wed Dec 9
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10/13/09
I love Bristols, but I just don't get the Fighter.
10/13/09
Remelem nagyon fasza volt! XD
10/12/09
Sure, I know it's all about the engine, but why the 1988 Pontiac Grand Am switchgear?
10/12/09
Tony Crook must be a man who can appreciate a badass name. James and Jeremy obviously have this problem; maybe if the former changed his name to "Velociraptor Hawker-Hurricane May" he would have a better shot at landing himself a test drive.
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My main concern is whether or not it smells like fuel all the time. Anything that proports to be an "authentic British motorcar" gives me pause. I think it is just a euphemism for fundamentally under engineered, requires a bottle of Gin and strange proprietary tools to work on and cubic amounts of money.
...and to think, I sell vintage British cars for a living!
10/12/09
But there is more, it is very unfair to say that they eschew the engineering of the aerospace heritage. They are actually very heavily engineered. What does "neither unibodies nor monocoques" even mean? Unibodies and monocoques (although most cars that say they have a monocoque do not have true monocoque more on that later) are the same thing. Sure trucks use a body on frame construction, but so does the Corvette, all lotuses since the elise, V12 lambos, Saleen S7, and many more. The fighter is very well thought out and had lots of unique design criteria that makes alot of sense. They have stated they have concerns with composite structures lasting the 50+ years they want these cars to last.
Back to monocoques and its misuse. The word means single skin and denotes an aviation technique to use the skin as a stress member of the stucture. Unibodies use in most cars are very good examples of this. Look at bare frame of a modern car and you can see many of the body panels are part of the structure. But other cars like the McLaren MP4-12c that says that has a carbon monocoque, does not have a true monocoque. its body panels are aluminum, so obviously not a carbon monocoque. There are good reasons that true monocoques are not used for road cars, because damaging a panel would get very expensive and there are so many doors and other opening on a car that you quickly put more load on an internal frame than on the skin.
So in conclusion, I have issues with dealing with a girl I never dated in high school and I address this by ranting on the internet.
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Please tell me that prospective buyers are able to take one out for a spirited jaunt before the wire transfer of funds.
10/12/09
$370,000? I don't care how rare it is. If I want a fast car with a crap interior that goes like shit why not spend a third as much on a Viper? - and still get the same engine (not that I ever would. I would buy a used Porsche Turbo. For even less. AND get a nice interior with it.)
...Oh, and then you could use your remaining funds to buy a DBS and get probably the hottest interior known to man...as well as a 510hp V12.
...the owner's last name is 'Crook', huh?
10/12/09
for my KNEES.
/repeated eye-rolling