General cars and vehicles thread.

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Nissan Silvia CSP311 

 

Car was in production from 1965 to 1968, with 558 cars build.

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Mercedes-Benz T80, was in development in 1937-39.

That car was meant to achieve a world speed record on land. The development of the machine was carried out under the direction of Ferdinand Porsche and Joseph Mickley. Trials of this race car were planned for 1940, but by then the circumstances have changed dramatically and the project was cancelled.

 

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Prototype of the GAZ-63 (was in serial production from 1948 until 1968) on trials, 1943-45.

 

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   The car was developed by specialists of the Gorky Automobile Plant since 1952, the year. the first prototypes were produced in 1956 (and this vehicle is shown in the photo).

 

   Work on the car continued until 1962, after which the project has been coancelled, despite the need of the economy in this car - car plant in Gorky had already been fully loaded, and the organization of production at the Ulyanovsk plant prevented the high cost of production reorganization

 

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ZiL-E133VYaT truck prototype, designed in 1979-1982, was intended to work as truck-"train" (up to 35 tons), but serial production never was launched.

 

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Plymouth XNR concept car.

 

   Plymouth XNR was created in 1960 under the supervision of the American company Chrysler engineer Virgil Exner. The car was involved in a number of road/car shows the beginning of the 1960s, and was then bought by the Shah of Iran.

 

 

 

 

 

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Soviet GAZ-65 prototype/testbed of the wheel-tracked truck 

 

   The vehicle (which was just a serial GAZ-MM, equipped with a tracks mounts on top of the standard rear wheels drives) has been developed in the 1939-1940. In 1940 a first test batch of these machines arrived to the test facilities in the army and in the state civilian testing grounds. During the tests it was revealed that new layout did not gave significant increase in cross-country capabilites, while the fuel consumption increased significantly. As tests have shown that the use of this propulsion increases the load on components and assemblies of the car, which led to frequent breakdowns and failures.

    At the end of the test operation of the propulsion device manufacturing was canclled, and has all trucks with this systems were converted back to normal GAZ-MM....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Willys Interlagos prototype. 

 

 

   Interlagos is a variant of the French sports car Alpine A108, modified for the production in Brazil. Under agreements between companies, the production of this car was started on the plant of the American company Willys-Overland in Sao Paulo. Serial production of sports cars was from 1962 to 1966 and during that time 822 cars of this type were build.

 

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Polski Fiat 125p, a simplified version of the Fiat 125, was in production from 1968 to 1991.

 

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MAZ-543 in AtomMash factory.

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Ikarus 270, prototype of bus for long range lines between cities, early 1970s.

 

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Fiat Turbina, concept car from 1954. Gas turbine showed not very good results (problems with cooling system/overheating and higher fuel consumption rates)

 

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Tatra T25, a tractor/truck for artillery units of the Czechoslovak army. Designed in 1925-26, but only adopted for production in 1933 as Tatra T25/58, with 28 made.

 

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MZKT-79291 at prooving ground.

 

Minksiy Zavod Kolesnykh Tyagochey - MZKT, Belarus company that produce heavy duty trucks.

 

MZKT-79291 is 12x12 truck for ICBMs.

 

 

Probably a Platforma-O competitor.

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When I was a kid if you didn't want a Grand National, you were wrong.

 

Of course the same is true today.

 

 

 

 

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When I was a kid if you didn't want a Grand National, you were wrong.

 

Of course the same is true today.

 

 

 

 

It's missing part of lights, this car was in a street fight? 

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It's missing part of lights, this car was in a street fight? 

If you ever see a car with an intercooler like that one that just so happens to be missing a headlight, do not bet against it in a drag race.

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The Toyota ESV concept car 

 

   Toyota ESV was created in 1972-1973 according to the program of the Japanese government "Car safety". As part of this program, the car was equipped with upgraded brakes, airbags and front bumper made of silicone rubber.

 

 

Terrible looks was not part of state requirements.

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In the USA, we did something similar (well, twice actually)... but we actually made it:

 

 

The Bricklin SV-1:

 

 

 

 

They were designed in 1971 and built in 72-76.

 

The name stands for "Safety Vehicle 1" and it had a roll cage, safety bumpers, etc.

 

The cars had 351Ws in them so they could have been cool, but they are smog era cars.

 

 

The concept of the safety car was not really new though. Preston Tucker (read about this guy! They even made a movie about him.) wanted his cars to be safe as hell and designed a pretty bitchin car:

 

 

 

 

He wanted safety to be central to the design, and installed seat belts (which was weird at the time), an additional headlight that lit up when the wheel was turned more than a few degrees, and it had safety glass and a windshield that would pop out if compromised.

 

A few years ago at the Barrett Jackson I saw that car above roll across the auction block. Beautiful vehicle: