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Manufacturer: Bugatti Automobili SpA, Molsheim - France
Type: Tipo 50 T (Touring or Tourismo) Coach Profilée
Engine: 4972cc straight-8 supercharged
Power: 200 bhp / 4.000 rpm
Speed: 160 km/h
Production time: 1930 - 1933
Production outlet: only 2 Coach Profilées
Production outlet: 65 (incl. Tipo 50, Tipo 50T (2 units) and Tipo 50 Grand Sport Le Mans racers (3 units)
Curb weight: 1150 kg
Special:
- The progressive design of this "Coach Profilée" is made by Jean Bugatti, Ettore's sun, only 23 years old at that time.
- The "Profilée" body style became inspiration for the later Ventoux body type found on the Type 57 chassis.
- The Tipo 50 is an improved Tipo 46, especially the Roots supercharged engine.
- The Tipo 50 was the first road-going Bugatti with Bugatti's double overhead cam (DOHC / 2xOHC), 2 valves/cyl. straight-8, inspired by Harry Miller's design. Also an idea of Jean, dying in a car crash (Tipo 57 racing car test drive) in 1939, aged 30 years.
- The Type 50 was designed to be a high performance, daily driver automobile.
- This fixed-head Coupé has a three-speed manual gearbox (bolted onto the transaxle) with shaft drive, a dry clutch, cable operated drums all around and rear wheel drive.
- The front suspension has a solid axle and 1/2-elliptical springs while the rear suspension has a solid axle with reverse 1/4-elliptical springs.
- The windscreen has an extremely low slope angle; less than thirty degrees.
- The aluminium disc-wheels (with cooling fins) are one of the most characteristic Bugatti features of the day.
- The road-going Type 50s were delivered as a "running" / "rolling" chassis ready to be bodied by only the finest of coach builders (like Levallois-Perret Million Guiet and Van Vooren) of the customer's choice.
- Tipo 50 was available in two steel ladder frame chassis:
* Tipo 50T: a long "Touring" version with 2 Schebler carburettors, a Roots Supercharger and torque 386 Nm/ 2.800rpm.
* Tipo 50: the "sport" version, with a 40cm shorter wheelbase and 2 Zenth carburettors and a slightly stronger engine (a higher capacity Roots Supercharger) producing 225bhp/4.000rpm, torque 420 Nm/ 2.800rpm and a top speed of 192 km/h, the most powerful production engine Ettore ever designed.
- The Tipo 50 was trend-setting, big, impressive and easy to drive but also expensive to buy / restore and mechanically complex.
- As far as known, this is only one of two "Coach Profilée" survivors.
* photo taken at the Louwman Museum in Raamsdonksveer - The Netherlands.
A nice welcome to the start of my long weekend away.
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Czechovalkyria's new Self Propelled Gun. Packing a 75mm Howitzer, the CT Type II can support allied troops or defend a position.
Green 1968 Jaguar, C-Type I think - 777 UOX - seen at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show and Classic Motorbike Show held at The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, England, November 2017.
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Car: Jaguar E Type Series 1 Coupe.
Year of manufacture: 1962.
Date of first registration in the UK: 10th July 1985.
Region of registration: Kinrossshire.
Latest recorded mileage: 68,115 (MOT 18th January 2019).
Date of last V5 issued: 3rd April 2019.
Date taken: 8th March 2015.
Location: Queen Square, Bristol, UK.
Ngl, I'm impressed I actually finished this. It probably didn't help that I used the console unit in two builds, then forgot which one was the main one, then misplaced the one that had promise, but we got there in the end.
And after all that, I don't even like the finished product. If you've got a good memory, you'll recognise the console unit from a WIP I showed off....over a year ago. Here it is for anyone who isn't familiar with it...so everyone probably: flic.kr/p/2jmn8S5
So before I elaborate on why I don't really like it, let's do a virtual walkthrough. The Tardis spans several floors, though only two are populated. The empty space between them is...well empty space. In Universe, you'd access the top layer through a lift, or a magic "enter here, exit there" door. The middle layer is just blank space.
The structure itself isn't too elaborate, it's got all the usual guff, a door, hundreds of round things, pitch blackness cos you can't do lighting in Stud.io, the usual stuff. But the central bit, that's where things get interesting. At first, I was content with just having the gear ball on top of the time rotor but when I put everything together it looked a bit odd. So I did the human thing and made it bigger. It's now got two spinny rings that fill in the space at the top rather nicely. The console too has changed a fair bit since I shared the WIP pic. It's now got a boxy bit at the top, just to help separate the control unit from the timey wimey stuff. And the whole thing is encased in a sort of inner sanctum, with large cut out sections at the bottom. There's also what I'll call "Viewing slits" at the top, so people can sit up there and be mesmerised by the spinny rings.
Now that's out of the way I'll list off what I don't like. I don't like how Stud.io renders copper, so that's gonna have to be changed or gotten rid of. It also seems to have rendered the gunmetal pipes as shiny black, so they're gonna need changed too. I'm also going to have to remove the ceiling of the lower level to let more light in, as the whole lower level's in complete darkness, probably teeming with Vashta Nerada to boot. I should probably also have added a little more to the whole build to make it a bit more interesting, as it's a bit bare bones at the minute. Might also change the floor colour to make it wood instead of...stone, or whatever you interpret the grey as. Should also do multiple renders as well, to show off some of the details that are obscured by darkness, or just plain old bad picture angling.
Think I'd better cut myself off there before I give myself too much crit and wind up demoralising myself. Still, at least now I'll remember what to do next time. Tbh, the only reason this is getting uploaded is cos it took over two hours to render, and I've not got a great deal of other builds to upload.
Right, that's your lot, you can go back to your day now.
All change in the field.
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This car competed in one of the races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005. It's shown in the programme of the event as the 1933 MG L Type of Rob Stansfield and was driven in the race by Wayne Stansfield. Originally built as an MG Magna L1, chassis L0472, with a 1,087cc straight-6 engine it was converted to K3 Magnette specifications by Peter Gregory in the 1990s and has a Marshall supercharger.
Epic! At least 1.5 mi distant, one of our group members seawatching on the stern spotted a huge splash followed by a pink spray of blood; the captain turned the ship around for it. A pod of Antarctic Type A orcas had just made a kill, probably a fin whale calf. Happywhale has identified 15 different individual orcas in the pod. The kill in turn attracted a swirling swarm of seabirds, including our only Gray Petrels (a cetacean-following specialist).
Orca taxonomy is complex. There are 4 main Antarctic 'ecotypes'. Type A roam the open ocean and specialize in baleen whales. They are a large, black-and-white form with a medium-sized white eye patch and a short-tipped, light gray saddle.