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Look at you, sitting at the beach in all your original hotness. #fordtruck #trucknextdoor #f100 #classictruck #original (at Carpinteria State Beach)
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1960 BMW Isetta Engine OHV 1 Cyl 2.83" (72mm) bore x 2.87" (73mm) stroke 298cc 13 bhp @ 5800 rpm Price when new: $1048 Body/Coach builder BMW Munich, Germany Manufacturer BMW Munich, Germany The BMW lsetta is truly a unique automobile. However, its design served a very functional purpose when it was first introduced. Before the lsetta, many people were content with riding a motorcycle around town, not minding the heavy, weather-resistant clothes necessary for such travel. As time passed and transportation became more necessary, people's attitudes changed and most wanted a way to travel without facing the elements. That's when BMW introduced the 770 lbs. lsetta to the world and it received rave reviews. A combination of Italian design and German engineering, the lsetta features a streamlined body with a door that opens in the front with the steering wheel and dashboard swinging out with it. With the lsetta, you can truly walk straight into the car and drive away. Later on, different models came out such as a convertible, limousine and even a mini van. This particular model sports a sun roof. By 1947, 40,000 lsetta's were sold making it one of the most successful vehicles ever made and sold in Germany. #BMW #isetta #blackhawkmuseum #carmuseum (at Blackhawk Museum)
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1960 BMW Isetta Engine OHV 1 Cyl 2.83" (72mm) bore x 2.87" (73mm) stroke 298cc 13 bhp @ 5800 rpm Price when new: $1048 Body/Coach builder BMW Munich, Germany Manufacturer BMW Munich, Germany The BMW lsetta is truly a unique automobile. However, its design served a very functional purpose when it was first introduced. Before the lsetta, many people were content with riding a motorcycle around town, not minding the heavy, weather-resistant clothes necessary for such travel. As time passed and transportation became more necessary, people's attitudes changed and most wanted a way to travel without facing the elements. That's when BMW introduced the 770 lbs. lsetta to the world and it received rave reviews. A combination of Italian design and German engineering, the lsetta features a streamlined body with a door that opens in the front with the steering wheel and dashboard swinging out with it. With the lsetta, you can truly walk straight into the car and drive away. Later on, different models came out such as a convertible, limousine and even a mini van. This particular model sports a sun roof. By 1947, 40,000 lsetta's were sold making it one of the most successful vehicles ever made and sold in Germany. #BMW #isetta #blackhawkmuseum #carmuseum (at Blackhawk Museum)
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1960 BMW Isetta Engine OHV 1 Cyl 2.83" (72mm) bore x 2.87" (73mm) stroke 298cc 13 bhp @ 5800 rpm Price when new: $1048 Body/Coach builder BMW Munich, Germany Manufacturer BMW Munich, Germany The BMW lsetta is truly a unique automobile. However, its design served a very functional purpose when it was first introduced. Before the lsetta, many people were content with riding a motorcycle around town, not minding the heavy, weather-resistant clothes necessary for such travel. As time passed and transportation became more necessary, people's attitudes changed and most wanted a way to travel without facing the elements. That's when BMW introduced the 770 lbs. lsetta to the world and it received rave reviews. A combination of Italian design and German engineering, the lsetta features a streamlined body with a door that opens in the front with the steering wheel and dashboard swinging out with it. With the lsetta, you can truly walk straight into the car and drive away. Later on, different models came out such as a convertible, limousine and even a mini van. This particular model sports a sun roof. By 1947, 40,000 lsetta's were sold making it one of the most successful vehicles ever made and sold in Germany. #BMW #isetta #blackhawkmuseum #carmuseum
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1940 Aston Martin Speed Model Type C Engine four-cylinder SOHC inline engine 78mm bore x 102mm stroke 1,949 cc 125 bhp, four-speed manual transmission, Wheelbase: 102 in. Manufacturer Aston Martin Ltd. Victoria Road Feltham, Middlesex England Price when new; £ 775 Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London. Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles. The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder CoventrySimplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 lsotta-Fraschini By the mid-1930s, Aston Martin was indeed one of the most admired of British sporting marques, under the design and technical direction of Augustus "Bert" Bertelli. Undeniably pretty, they were purposeful, solidly engineered, hand-built, quick, and agile. In early 1936, a new engine was being developed by the company's brilliant young engineer, Claude Hill. Two liters in capacity, it was producing about 25 percent more power than the previous 1½-liter engine. The performance was so encouraging that the decision was taken to design a new chassis into which the new engine could be fitted. This was to become the legendary Speed Model, the first two purpose-built in 1936 to uphold the extraordinary successes for Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1934 and 1935. But, due to a labor action by French workers, the 1936 24 Hours of Le Mans race did not take place. Work did progress on more than half of the remaining chassis required to homologate the car for Le Mans. The new cars also had an advanced hydraulic brake system by Lockheed which had two separate circuits, front and rear, with built-in redundancy for safety. The cost was enormous, allegedly almost 15 percent that of the whole car. However, it did work superbly well, and few cars with drum brakes, right up to the advent of discs, had better braking than a Speed Model Aston Martin. The remaining cars being built had a mix of coachwork styles, and for the first time, there was not a single readi (at Blackhawk Museum)
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1940 Aston Martin Speed Model Type C Engine four-cylinder SOHC inline engine 78mm bore x 102mm stroke 1,949 cc 125 bhp, four-speed manual transmission, Wheelbase: 102 in. Manufacturer Aston Martin Ltd. Victoria Road Feltham, Middlesex England Price when new; £ 775 Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London. Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles. The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder CoventrySimplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 lsotta-Fraschini By the mid-1930s, Aston Martin was indeed one of the most admired of British sporting marques, under the design and technical direction of Augustus "Bert" Bertelli. Undeniably pretty, they were purposeful, solidly engineered, hand-built, quick, and agile. In early 1936, a new engine was being developed by the company's brilliant young engineer, Claude Hill. Two liters in capacity, it was producing about 25 percent more power than the previous 1½-liter engine. The performance was so encouraging that the decision was taken to design a new chassis into which the new engine could be fitted. This was to become the legendary Speed Model, the first two purpose-built in 1936 to uphold the extraordinary successes for Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1934 and 1935. But, due to a labor action by French workers, the 1936 24 Hours of Le Mans race did not take place. Work did progress on more than half of the remaining chassis required to homologate the car for Le Mans. The new cars also had an advanced hydraulic brake system by Lockheed which had two separate circuits, front and rear, with built-in redundancy for safety. The cost was enormous, allegedly almost 15 percent that of the whole car. However, it did work superbly well, and few cars with drum brakes, right up to the advent of discs, had better braking than a Speed Model Aston Martin. The remaining cars being built had a mix of coachwork styles, and for the first time, there was not a single readi (at Blackhawk Museum)
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1940 Aston Martin Speed Model Type C Engine four-cylinder SOHC inline engine 78mm bore x 102mm stroke 1,949 cc 125 bhp, four-speed manual transmission, Wheelbase: 102 in. Manufacturer Aston Martin Ltd. Victoria Road Feltham, Middlesex England Price when new; £ 775 Aston Martin was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The two had joined forces as Bamford & Martin the previous year to sell cars made by Singer from premises in Callow Street, London. Martin raced specials at Aston Hill near Aston Clinton, and the pair decided to make their own vehicles. The first car to be named Aston Martin was created by Martin by fitting a four-cylinder CoventrySimplex engine to the chassis of a 1908 lsotta-Fraschini By the mid-1930s, Aston Martin was indeed one of the most admired of British sporting marques, under the design and technical direction of Augustus "Bert" Bertelli. Undeniably pretty, they were purposeful, solidly engineered, hand-built, quick, and agile. In early 1936, a new engine was being developed by the company's brilliant young engineer, Claude Hill. Two liters in capacity, it was producing about 25 percent more power than the previous 1½-liter engine. The performance was so encouraging that the decision was taken to design a new chassis into which the new engine could be fitted. This was to become the legendary Speed Model, the first two purpose-built in 1936 to uphold the extraordinary successes for Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1934 and 1935. But, due to a labor action by French workers, the 1936 24 Hours of Le Mans race did not take place. Work did progress on more than half of the remaining chassis required to homologate the car for Le Mans. The new cars also had an advanced hydraulic brake system by Lockheed which had two separate circuits, front and rear, with built-in redundancy for safety. The cost was enormous, allegedly almost 15 percent that of the whole car. However, it did work superbly well, and few cars with drum brakes, right up to the advent of discs, had better braking than a Speed Model Aston Martin. The remaining cars being built had a mix of coachwork styles, and for the first time, there was not a single readi (at Blackhawk Museum)
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