Classic Cars

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1959 Cadillac Cyclone XP-74 Concept Car

 

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1963 Chevrolet Corvair "Testudo" Concept car

 

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1961 Pontiac Tempest

 

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Jaguar E-Type (Convertible)

 

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1965 DODGE A 100 pickup

 

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1965 DODGE Deora pickup

 

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Gone, but not forgotten, American classics

1931 Duesenberg SJ Convertible-Coupe


1935 Auburn 851 Speedster


Cord 812 Supercharged Phaeton (Sorry, couldn't find year)


1940s Tucker Torpedo


1951 Nash Healy


1952 Hudson Hornet


1954 Kaiser-Frazer by Darrin


1956 Continental Mark II
(before Continental became a subset of Lincoln)


1956 Dual Ghia


1962 Studebaker Avanti

 

[jeanlouis]

Front Wheels Drive before the traction Citroën


The first automobile "fardier de Cugnot", a steam machine, was already a front wheels drive. (1769)

Latil 1899 : a traction with cross engine and transmission by cardan, this small car was too in advance for it time.

Miller 1925

Ruxton 1930

Cord L29 1930

Cord 810 1936

DKW F1 1931 from the Danish JS Rasmussen, the first Front Wheels Drive made in serie (before the Citroën). At this time he was known essentialy as a motorbike constructor.

Donnet 2 liters - 6 cylinders - 1931

Adler Trumpf (Germany) 1932 was also the Rosengart Supertraction built under license the same year

Chenard-Walcker Super Aigle 24 - 1934

Bucciali TAV 12 - 1932

Citroën 7A - spring 1934, not the first but it special feature was to assembly on one car numerous modern technicals for it age.

 

[jeanlouis]

It was "only" a problem of coupling !


To make a front wheels drive, the main difficulty is to realize an efficient transmission between the differential and the front wheels that are steering too. To get a good steering, the immediate speed must be the same at the entrance and at the exit of the transmission. This coupling is named homocinetic.

Left : the simple coupling invented by Girolamo Cardan (16th century) who let his name to this transmission. Not homocinetic.
Right : the double coupling homocinetic


Jean Albert Grégoire and Pierre Fenaille invented this homocinetic coupling and created their own company named Tracta in 1926. Then they became cars constructors and they made one of the first marketed front wheels drive. They sold the license of their coupling to DKW and Adler.

Tracta 1930

Balls coupling Rzeppa

During a long time front wheels drive were equiped with double coupling Cardan type. In seventies balls couplings became at last efficient and replaced the old double cardans.

 

[golfdelta21]

It was "only" a problem of coupling !


To make a front wheels drive, the main difficulty is to realize an efficient transmission between the differential and the front wheels that are steering too. To get a good steering, the immediate speed must be the same at the entrance and at the exit of the transmission. This coupling is named homocinetic.

Left : the simple coupling invented by Girolamo Cardan (16th century) who let his name to this transmission. Not homocinetic.
Right : the double coupling homocinetic


Jean Albert Grégoire and Pierre Fenaille invented this homocinetic coupling and created their own company named Tracta in 1926. Then they became cars constructors and they made one of the first marketed front wheels drive. They sold the license of their coupling to DKW and Adler.

Tracta 1930

Balls coupling Rzeppa

During a long time front wheels drive were equiped with double coupling Cardan type. In seventies balls couplings became at last efficient and replaced the old double cardans.

Bravo Jeanlouis! Une leçon technique très intéressante.
Bravo, Jeanlouis! A very interesting technical lesson

 

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1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo (concept car)

 

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JAGUAR


1936 - SS one

1948 - Mk IV

1949 - Mk V

1951 - Mk VII

1966 - 3.8 L S

1966 - Mk II 3.8 L

1970 - XJ6 4.2 L

1972 - XJ6 4.2 L


1980 - XJ6 4.2 L serie III

 

[jeanlouis]

JAGUAR


1949 - XK 120 roadster

1952 - XK 120 coach

1955 - XK 140 coach

1959 - XK 150 roadster

1965 - Type E 4.2 L

1952 - monoplace type HK

1952 - Type C

1955 - Type D

1967 - XJ 13

 

[jeanlouis]

At this age (1968), if you didn't add "chrono" just after the announced speed nobody believed you !

Between Ami 6 and Ami 8 here is the new Citroën Ami 7

 

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1930s Mercedes SSK Count Trossi

 

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1935 Mercedes 540 Streamline Roadster...

 

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1938 Hispano- Suiza H6B Xenia

 

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Custom Surf Wagons

 

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Hugot - 1897

Hurtu - 1903 - 2E

Jeanperrin - 1897 - monocylinder

Electric car Krieger - 1908 - type 4

Lacroix de Laville - 1898

Léon-Bollée (son of Amédée Bollée, the pioneer of the steam car) - 1913 - G2

Lorraine-Dietrich - 1911

Autobus Lorraine-Dietrich - 1911

Lorraine-Dietrich - 1912 - type SLF

Motobloc - 1902

Motobloc - 1910 - 12HP type O

 

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1956 Golden Hawk