Wonderful Classic Car Show.

[Hybrid Ambassador]

Yeah, the plastics is showing its glow! More like the best replica of a Ferrari Testa Rosso below.

 

[Hybrid Ambassador]

Are you familiar with any Photo apps? You need to reduce the size. If you're on a PC, you can use Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/) and Save As with a different file size (and quality).

Joe-san , I have no clue ! WAs just clicking on a pic in the libruary and dragging it to open page but it keeps trying to upload for ever.
How do I exactly do this ?

 

[ghost]

If you spend some time hanging around the Pompeii area of Buenos Aires you be amazed at what is zooming in and out of garages and warehouses.

 

[Ries]

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Panteras have never excited me.
If I wanted a Ford engine, I would get a GT40 instead.
Panteras are for the rich children of ogliarchs, who cant afford real Italian cars.

But this garage, in an unmarked storefront in Nueva Pompeya, hints at the automotive richness of Argentina.
Mini-cars- now you are talking.
Argentina probably has more Heinkels, Messerschmidts, and Isettas than any other country.
Oh, and in this photo, in the dim light at the left, there is a doorway, with a bit of car showing- thats a Justicialista, a red coupe, one of less than 20 known to still exist.

 

[Joe]

Once Hybrid-san opens the first authentic Izakaya in BA (and perhaps all of the Southern Cone), I expect he'll park his newly restored Justicialista out front.

BTW, How many Justicialistas were produced?

 

[Hybrid Ambassador]

I only park my 39 Chevy or the awesome twin turbo Supra out in front.

These two are in my collection but soon for sale to prepare for my expatriation to South America!

Have to borrow from google search for the time beeing till mustering how to use Picasa photo tool, in other to get it from my album..

 

[ghost]

Panteras have never excited me.
If I wanted a Ford engine, I would get a GT40 instead.
Panteras are for the rich children of ogliarchs, who cant afford real Italian cars.

But this garage, in an unmarked storefront in Nueva Pompeya, hints at the automotive richness of Argentina.
Mini-cars- now you are talking.
Argentina probably has more Heinkels, Messerschmidts, and Isettas than any other country.
Oh, and in this photo, in the dim light at the left, there is a doorway, with a bit of car showing- thats a Justicialista, a red coupe, one of less than 20 known to still exist.

My reference to Pantera was because deTomaso was Argentine and part of the Pantera's logo is the Argentine flag. It was never my goal to excite you. Ford went on to produce the GT40 because of the Pantera.

 

[Ries]

Different displacements for different folks, I guess.
I saw this amazing car, the Yruam, at the ACA museum- in fact, I got to help push it out of the museum and into the parking lot one day- built decades before either the Justicialista or the Pantera, it was a one of a kind prototype built by an engineer named Maury (spell that backwards) and it is quite nice looking, as well as pretty advanced mechanically for its time.
http://archivodeauto...auto-argentino/

I grew up in Seattle, in the golden age of sports cars- they were plentiful and cheap. Seeing a Pantera, or a Ferrari, or an E type Jaguar, was no big deal. I was further spoiled by having my studio for some years up above a couple of Ethiopian mechanics who specialized in Italian cars, and exotics. The same 12 cylinder cars would come back every 6 weeks or so for carb syncs- 6 carbs would get out of sync, and they would retune em.
They had an Abarth body hanging on the wall like a bearskin rug.
In those days, 60's italian sports cars were often available for under ten grand US. We took them for granted.
As the prices boomed, many of those cars left town, or were sold into private collections of millionaires, and never again saw the streets. You do not see them on the streets of Seattle anymore, thats for sure.
In the early 70's, I was picked up hitchhiking by a Lotus Europa, an E type, and various triumphs and austins.

Nowadays, the autos in Seattle are pretty boring.

In Argentina, you mostly see modern euro boxes, but every once in a while you spot something cool.
I am fond of the early 70's Fiat coupes, like the 124's and the 850's, neither of which have I ever seen in the USA.

 

[Ries]

Once Hybrid-san opens the first authentic Izakaya in BA (and perhaps all of the Southern Cone), I expect he'll park his newly restored Justicialista out front.

BTW, How many Justicialistas were produced?

Approximately 170 were made of the gran sport coupe.
Of those, about 20 are known to still exist.
There is one in the Museo Bicentenario, next to the Casa Rosada.

There were also Justicialista sedans, and pickups, of which many more were made, mostly powered by Wartburg Diesels. They were not as swoopy. The Furgon pickup led to the classic Argentine vehicle- the Rastajero.

 

[ghost]

Sorry Ries, That is one ugly POS. And it's got bad genes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAME_Justicialista