Wednesday, March 12, 2014

NEWS: ATS Sport Downforce Monster Track Beast Is Coming – Fast!














Keen Road readers may have spotted the news on our Facebook page that the Automobili Tourismo e Sport (ATS) – the "fondly remembered F1 and sports car manufacturer of the 1960s – brand has been re-born. Good news! The team say they "are working to ATS's original ethos of extremely light weight vehicles utilising high efficiency, compact power-plants." And they are about to launch three exciting new models throughout Europe – as well as re-launching the cult De Tomaso brand, which they hold the rights to.
The first of these new models is this ultra-lightweight, downforce-inducing track day special – the ATS Sport, and here's the brief lowdown:
  • Dry weight only 470kg.
  • Develops 1,150kg of downforce.
  • 4g cornering forces on slicks.
  • 3g cornering forces on road legal semi-slicks.
  • Up to 540bhp/ton.
  • Stainless steel chassis.
  • 6-pot Tarox callipers, front and rear.
And a road going model will also be available, alongside the track day special.
Discover more at: www.ats-autosport.com 
Looks awesome to us! You like?

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

car guy humor... thanks to Duane Johnson!

Interview with a metal worker... (but check out his shop! Helicopter hanging from the roof, motorbikes, and an Austin Healey!)

Bars should all have a semi built in

incase of zombie poca lypse.. get this started, point toward zombie, hold on for dear life

Someone deserves "dad of the month" for this backyard tank he made for his kids

Video of the 1967 East African Safari... because the Diamond Reo trucking company decided to run the rally course to check it for feasibility

owner/drag racer sells off his barn kept 57 Chev dragster to move to Florida from Pennsylvania





parked in the 70s, and out of the weather ever since, this was a Bel Air, but he tossed the Chevy parts and planted a 426 max wedge with an 8 3/4 and a B&M trans. Now he's heading for warmer weather and the the new owners are in vintage racing heaven!
photos and info from http://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/bangshift1320-drag-racing-feature/gasser-barn-find-the-surprise-package-1957-chevy-bel-air-dgas-426-max-wedge-mopar-power-epic/

Monday, March 10, 2014

comparison from B 17 to B 29 to B 36

B 17s



above, moving vegatables from the Bahamas to Florida, and maybe some smuggling too


wrecked in New Guinea in 1943


Victory red and white stripes?


and as a Coast Guard rescue with a lifeboat ready to drop

Found on http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0

B 29s on Tinian in the Marianas

WW2 airfields in the Pacific


Isley Field Saipan


Catalina Island


Hellcats at Tarawa


Iwo Jima airfield


Above, Iwo Jima


Found on http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0

did you hear about the B 25s that were caught in the volcanic ash fall from Mt Vesuvius in 1944?



I thought I'd posted about this some years ago, but nothing popped up when I searched for it 

a good variety of WW2 airplanes

About everything there is to know about the B25... including where all of the known ones are that fly, are on display, are getting restored





All this is just a small part of the info at http://www.skytamer.com/North_American_B-25D.html

they even wrote that Indonesia was flying B25s until 1979