OT: Hawk Hill justice

[Daniel Chao]

This guy almost killed me and a couple of siteseers on Conzelman.  Misjudged the road when Conzelman turns goes to a single lane and this is what happened.  Glad nobody was hurt.  This guy got away easy in my book.  Could have been much worse had he missed left instead of right.

 

[Daniel Chao]

Sounds like the photo is not viewable by all.  Here it is again.

[Eric Altendorf]

Hey now that's some skilled driving.

Out of curiosity, what kind of car is that?

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[Daniel Chao]

eric - i wondered the same thing and glanced over the car as i passed on my bike.  couldn't find anything recognizable (emblem, make, model, etc).  my car buff friend thinks it could be a mangusta.  if so, OUCH!  http://www.qvaleauto.com/car.htm

[Nathan Davis]

With any luck the car is totalled and they guy actually learned a lesson... probably not though.

-- Nathan

[tho...@me.com]

On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Daniel Chao <daniel...@gmail.com> wrote:

eric - i wondered the same thing and glanced over the car as i passed on my bike.  couldn't find anything recognizable (emblem, make, model, etc).  my car buff friend thinks it could be a mangusta.  if so, OUCH!  http://www.qvaleauto.com/car.htm

Never really figured out the whole "put a Ford V8 into an Italian sports car" thing... (see also the Pantera...)

-- thorpej

[Scott Crosby]

But it's ok with British cars? AC cobra, Sunbeam Tiger, etc.  I'm down with the practice (and Panteras are cool imo).

Was also wondering what that thing is, weird looking.

[tho...@me.com]

On Oct 3, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Scott Crosby <scr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> But it's ok with British cars? AC cobra, Sunbeam Tiger, etc. I'm down with the practice (and Panteras are cool imo).

Ok, you got me there. Few cars are more awesome than the Sunbeam Tiger. And, yes, the Pantera is very cool. I'm pretty sure, among the saved bits of my youth stashed at my parents' house in Oregon, is a Matchbox De Tomaso Pantera.

-- thorpej

[steve armijo]

In the case of British cars 'merican motors are fine, better they take
the non-Lucas electrical systems. of course anything annointed by
Carol Shelby is just fine. interesting the Pantera/Mangusta
connection might explain the power plant decision.

i was also thinking it might be a Jag of some sort but I'm not that
familiar with their butts.

-s

[Judd Blair]

"I'm terribly sorry, I almost ran over a bunch of peds and cyclists...in my Jaaaagggg": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eWIrBOc3zE

But yeah, this is definitely a Qvale Mangusta - check out the badges to the left/right of the plate above the lights and the little lip holding the brake indicator light - it's also got the retractable hardtop: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Qvale_Mangusta_rear.jpg

Only 284 of those babies made...ouch. 

[Eric Altendorf]

Wow that's a hideous car (from the back, at least).

[John Murphy]

This begs to be on SFist !!!

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[StStein]

Damn - Judd FTW.  Concours judging next?  ISO and Bizarrini also shoved American iron into much sleeker and lighter bodies than imagined by the pocket protector crowd in Detroit.

A Limerita on Friday's party car to anyone who can name the French car that came with a Chrysler V8?

[Peter Chang]

2012/10/3 StStein <steven...@gmail.com>:

> A Limerita on Friday's party car to anyone who can name the French car that
> came with a Chrysler V8?

le car!

\p

[Lina Mårtensson]

On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM, StStein <steven...@gmail.com> wrote:

Damn - Judd FTW.  Concours judging next?  ISO and Bizarrini also shoved American iron into much sleeker and lighter bodies than imagined by the pocket protector crowd in Detroit.

A Limerita on Friday's party car to anyone who can name the French car that came with a Chrysler V8?

it probably wasn't a cv2.

[Jonathan Hunt]

Facel Vega. Made famous by being driven my the asshole protagonist of Godard's "Weekend." (cabriolet version) (the Facel, not the Weekend).

To bad I will never see the party car again....


And, regarding Mr. Mangusta: How fast would you have to be going to leave those skidmarks? Perhaps the engineers out there can figure this out.

[Steve Stein]

Nice!  Too bad you can't claim your prize.  In truth you probably don't want a Limerita anyway.

[Scott Crosby]

the other sweet Brit/US hybrid was the '60s TVR Griffith, again powered by Ford V8 power:

http://www.conceptcarz.com/view/photo/670120,13396/1965-Griffith-Series-200_photo.aspx#photo

http://bringatrailer.com/2009/03/08/power-to-weight-1965-tvr-griffith-svra-racer/

and since Lina mentioned Citroën, there's of course the unusual French/Italian combo of the early 70s, the SM, the "M" meaning Maserati.  some souped up examples have exceeded 200mph.

http://bringatrailer.com/2012/03/26/bat-exclusive-hathaway-restored-1973-citroen-sm/