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I took this picture about nine years ago. The car is branded with the name Think. But that’s about all I know about it. Anybody care to leave a comment about it?
Month: August 2010
1974 Jensen Healey
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Click on pictures to Z O O M in.This is a fairly rare car. According to Wikipedia, there were about 10,000 sold over a four year period from 1972-1976.
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Click Here for Wikipedia Entry
The Jensen Healey was powered by a 144 horsepower Lotus 907 engine that moved the car from 0-60 in 8.7 seconds.
1948 Buick Super; Let The Experts Tell Us. (they did)
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This is an exceptional car in pretty good shape. I’m pretty sure it is a 1947 but I’m not too sure. Anyway, you can tell this car is a post WWII because it looks like its built like a tank. In retrospect, this car had nice lines and was a popular model after the war.
Here is a bit of information I could find on this car and era.
The Buick Super was a full-sized automobile produced from 1940–1942, and from 1946–1958; it was on Buick’s longer wheelbase shared with the Roadmaster. It and the Roadmaster were replaced by the new Electra in 1959. The 1950 Super came with a single two-barrel carburetor on a 263 cid I8. This setup produced an HP rating of 112. The car was able to achieve speeds over 90 miles per hour (140 km/h) with its Dynaflow automatic transmission which, rather than changing through gears, used the torque converter to couple the motor to a single gear ratio.
If you do know the actual year of manufacture for this car, please leave a note in the comments below. We all would appreciate it.
© Fred Winograd copyright 2010
Qvale Mangusta ~ 2001
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The name of this site is Cars You Don’t See Everyday and this car certainly qualifies, although it’s the newest car on the site. From what I can gather, there were only 270-272 cars made with this logo. I had never heard of the car and looked it up on Google. There is a Wikipedia entry for it but it is really sparse but it does tell you how to pronounce the brand name.. Click Here for Wikipedia Entry
A little poking around and I did find some interesting items, like the first Qvale crash aftermath. Click Here to View
© Fred Winograd copyright 2010
1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk, Wow!!!
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I was walking in the one of San Francisco’s biggest tourist areas, Fisherman’s Wharf, and spotted this sleek 1957 Golden Hawk. To me, it still looks like more modern design than most of the other cars of its time. After all, this car is 53 years old. From what I have read, it was not very well engineered and had a very heavy front end that hindered its handling and kept sales figures down. Too bad for Studebaker that went out of business a few years after the Golden Hawk was discontinued.
Just look at the front of this car, very neatly done for a ’57.
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Here’s a little history on the Golden Hawk.
From 1956 to 1958, Studebaker’s top-model was the Golden Hawk, which was available only with the Paxton supercharged 289 cubic-inch overhead valve V8 that offered 275 horsepower at 4800 RPM. There was a Flight-O-Matic automatic transmission and four-wheel hydraulic drum brakes. The hardtop versions of the Golden Hawk, Sky Hawk, and Flight Hawk were based on the original 1953 Starliner body.
The five-passenger Gold Hawk was Studebaker’s sports car putting it in competition with Chevrolet’s Corvette and Ford’s Thunderbird.
© Fred Winograd copyright 2010