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Manufacturer: Wiener Automobilfabrik A.G., vorm. Gräf & Stift, Wien-Döbling - Austria
Type: C 12 Limousine
Engine: 4036cc V-12 flathead by Lincoln
Power: 110 bhp / 3.200 rpm
Speed: 125 km/h
Production time: 1937 / 1938
Production outlet: only 1 (one)
Curb weight: 2500 kg
Special:
- Gräf & Stift Wien was an Austrian manufacturer of automobiles, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, founded in 1895 by the brothers Franz, Heinrich and Karl Gräf, participated by Wilhelm Stift.
- The brothers first car, powered by a De Dion-Bouton engine, was the first front-wheel drive car in the world.
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo in a 1911 Gräf & Stift Double Phaeton 28/32 PS (car no. 287 owned by Count Franz von Harrach), which incident ushered World War I.
- Gräf & Stift made very luxury automobiles for "Kings and Emperors", but hadn’t developed a passenger car since 1929.
- Bundeskanzler (Chancellor) Kurt Alois Josef Johann (Edler von) Schuschnigg had a Gräf & Stift SP 8, with whom he had an accident in 1935. Thereafter he used a Steyr 530 as official vehicle. The government “pushed” the Kanzler to purchase a Mercedes, to spawn Hitler, who desired the “Anschluss” of Austria.
- Schuschnigg did not liked that idea, and ordered the Gräf brothers in 1937 to build a typical Austrian official vehicle.
- The brothers “bypassed” the costly development by using stock parts, like SP 8 axles, suspension, ZF gearbox, etc. and ordered a V-12 Lincoln engine in America.
- They did not even bother to convert the 6-Volts Lincoln engine to 12-Volts, what was common at Gräf & Stift. Therefore, it is also the only Gräf & Stift automobile with a 6-Volts electric system.
- The chassis and body were handmade at there own plant in Wien.
- The C 12 was not yet finished when Bundeskanzler Schuschnigg resigned and the car survived WWII as company car of the Gräf & Stift company.
- It has a four-speed manual ZF gearbox (third and fourth synchronized and top was a geared-up "overdrive" ratio) + reverse with vacuum servo assistance, steering column shifter, a 6-Volts electric system, a 110 liter fuel tank, multi-plates discs clutch, shaft drive and rear wheel drive.
- The chassis (with centralised lubrication system) with steel body (L550xW190xH175cm, track width front 153cm, track width rear 135cm) was handmade, has a 138.58 inch wheelbase, hydraulic shock absorbers all around, longitudinal semi-elliptic front and rear suspension and vacuum powered hydraulic drum brakes all round.
Rue Henri Pape. Is it the car? The color? This Trabant 601S produced by a former East German car manufacturer just made me happy.
Manufacturer: Carrozzeria Bertone, Turin - Italy for Alfa Romeo Automobiles S.p.A., Turin - Italy
Type: Giulietta Sprint Veloce Bertone Tipo 101.06 (“Second Series”)
Production time: mid-year 1959 - mid-year 1962
Production outlet: 3,058
Engine: 1290cc straight-4 AR 00120 DOHC Veloce-specification twin, chain-driven camshafts
Power: 90 bhp / 6.500 rpm
Torque: 112 Nm / 4.500 rpm
Drivetrain: rear wheels
Speed: 180 km/h
Curb weight: 870 kg
Wheelbase: 93.7 inch
Chassis: all-steel unibody, part alloy-panelled (by Bertone)
Steering: worm & sector
Gearbox: four-speed manual / all synchromesh / floor shift
Clutch: single dry plate disc
Carburettor: twin Weber 40 DCOE2 2-barrel sidedraft with electric Bendix fuel pump
Fuel tank: 80 liter
Electric system: Marelli 12 Volts 38 Ah
Ignition system: distributor and coil
Brakes front: hydraulic finned Alfin three-shoe drums
Brakes rear: hydraulic finned Alfin drums
Suspension front: independent double wishbones (double A-arms), transverse linkage, trapezoidal triangle crossbars, stalilizer bar, coaxial coil springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Suspension rear: independent trailing arms, longitudinal thrust arms, upper triangular trust rods, lower radius rods, stabilizer triangle, coil springs + hydraulic telescopic shock absorbers
Rear axle: live
Differential: hypoid 4,10:1
Wheels: 15 inch steel discs
Tires: 155 - 15
Special:
- The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as Società Anonima Italiana Darracq (SAID) in 1906 by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan, in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. In 1910 the company was renamed A.L.F.A. (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili).
- In 1920, the name of the company was changed to Alfa Romeo (new owner Nicola Romeo, added his surname).
- The Sprint Veloce 2+2 Coupé was designed by Franco Scaglione, inspired by the mid-1950s Bertone’s Berlina Aerodinamica Technica (BAT) aerodynamics show cars.
- Not only designed at Bertone, but also built by Bertone in Grugliasco, a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Turin.
- A prototype had her debut at the Turing Auto Salon on October 30th. After two more prototypes were presented in car shows, the official presentation of the production version for the press was on 24 June 1959 on the Monza race track.
DB Cargo UK 66207 stands at Ely whilst working the 1352 Brandon Down Goods Loop to Brandon Down Goods Loop.
The Dodge Dart is an automobile originally built by Dodge from 1960 to 1976 in North America, with production extended to later years in various other markets. The Dart nameplate was resurrected for a Fiat-derived compact car introduced in 2013. The Dart name originally appeared on a 1957 show car featuring a body designed by the Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Ghia. The production Dart was introduced as a lower-priced, shorter wheelbase, full-size Dodge in 1960 and 1961, became a mid-size car for 1962, and finally was a compact from 1963 to 1976. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Dart]
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