EUROWHEELZ Feature: Polished VW Teardrops.

Next on the list is these 14" OEM VW Teardrops. Bolt pattern is 4x100.

A little extra detail is that the recesses are painted flat black, replacing the not-so-universal grey they were originally.


Price: $SOLD


Their horrible unpolished condition:

Once polished:


Completed:







For a set of custom Porsche 7Slot wheels, click on the next feature...

Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale - The forgotten Sports Car

Whenever talk about Italian mid-engined supercars of the 60s, most people remember Lamborghini Miura and De Tomaso Mangusta, or even Ferrari Dino. In fact, Alfa Romeo produced a ground-breaking supercar in 1967. It was Tipo 33 Stradale, or "Type 33 Street" in English.

Alfa Romeo's history can be divided into pre-war and post-war period. Before WWII, the marque concentrated on producing the world's fastest and best road/racing sports cars. After the war, under the guidance of the Italian government, Alfa turned to produce mass production cars. Although the likes of Giulietta SZ and Giulia GTV dominated touring car racing, Alfa lacked a supercar to enter higher level racing. In the mid 60s, Alfa's racing department Autodelta started the Tipo 33 project with the aim to re-enter endurance sports car racing. This resulted in a series of Tipo 33 race cars as well as the street version, 33 Stradale.

Many car stylists regard the 33 Stradale as one of the most beautiful designs of all time. Its bodywork was designed by Franco Scaglione, a freelance designer previously headed Bertone studio. Like the contemporary Lamborghini Miura and Ferrari Dino, the 33 Stradale emphasized a wedge shape front and wave shape side profile. This made it very sexy to eyes. However, Scaglione's design was even more futuristic than Gandini's Miura and Fioravanti's Dino. It had a bubble roof with T-bar structure and butterfly doors which hinged upward and outward simultaneously (this feature was copied by McLaren F1 many years later). Today, we still can't help amazing the car's clean and sexy lines.

The racing version of Tipo 33 weighed around 575 kg. The street car was heavier of course, but it still tipped the scale at only 700 kg in dry. Like the race car, its chassis was made of aluminum frame while the bodywork was lightweight glassfiber reinforced plastic. Suspensions were racing-style double-wishbones all around. Ventilated discs brakes were used for the first time in Alfa.

33 Stradale was Alfa's first mid-engined road car (and still the only one until today). Its all-alloy, quad-cam V8 sat longitudinally behind the cockpit and drove the rear wheels via a racing-style 6-speed gearbox and limited slip differential. The 90-degree V8 was designed for racing, this can be seen by its dry-sump lubrication, oversquare combustion chambers (78mm bore x 52.2mm stroke), twin spark plugs per cylinder (a usual technology for Alfa's racing engines), mechanical fuel injection, 10.0:1 compression and small capacity at 1995 cc to comply with the regulation. No wonder it produced 230 horsepower at a sky-high 8800 rpm and 148 lbft of torque at 7000 rpm. (The race car with 11.0:1 compression could even squeeze out 270 hp). That's 115 horsepower per litre without forced induction !

According to Alfa, the Stradale could top 162 mph, making it a real supercar then. However, its performance could not match the contemporary Ferrari Daytona, whose 4.4-litre V12 produced 352 horsepower and powered the car to 174 mph. Due to extremely lightweight, the Alfa Romeo's acceleration (0-60 mph in an estimated 5.5 seconds) was competitive, but drivability from the race-biased V8 was questionable, as were the build quality and reliability from Autodelta. In addition to sky-high price, 33 Stradale was not a great commercial success.

Alfa built only 18 Stradales in total. Among them, only 13 were delivered to customers, 1 kept at Alfa Romeo museum and the remaining 4 were running chassis delivered to Pininfarina, Bertone and Ital Design to create styling concepts. For its rarity, beauty and exotic technical design, today it became the most desirable post-war Alfa.

Source: Autozine

Ayrton Senna Karting Footage!

A new Ayrton Senna karting vid from back in the day has popped up on Youtube and is definitely worth a look. It’s a short clip from 1982 in what is believed to be the pan-American championship.

Have 100kUSD to spare?

This beauty was taken from the AutoKennel site:

1978 Porsche 930 RSR/934 Recreation

1. ✓Less than 10,000 miles since complete restoration.
2. ✓Original Cashmere Beige with Black interior
3. ✓Well documented records and history.

This is a rare opportunity to own an incredibly special car with a fantastic history for a fraction of it’s build price. This car was an unrestored concours original 1978 930 with only 4,500 miles in a storage facility in Nevada up until 7 years ago when an accomplished fabricator who had worked with Dan Gurney got hold of the car. This 930 was then transformed into a tribute to ‘70s Porsche racecar icons . There are many unusual details on this turbo that are done with the highest level of quality.

Recently (August 2004), the car was a feature cover story in Excellence magazine. I have copies of the article I can email to you. Excellence wrote a 5-page article that goes in depth with the builder of the car and his motivations/thought process in developing this beast. Furthermore, 911 & Porsche World magazine just featured this car in a their latest issue. All in all, this car has appeared in over a dozen magazines as well as several TV shows.

Well over $120,000 has been invested into this car in just the past couple of years. And, much of the work was hand fabricated by the prior owner with no specific dollar figure assigned to his time and expertise. Here is a list of all the details/work done to the car:

Body/Exterior:

Filled in mirror holes, sunroof, antennae hole

Custom fit 934 front and rear flares

RSR rear bumpers

934 custom front bumper with splitter

RSR Oil Cooler with cut out in engine area to fit RSR trunk floor

Custom fabricated duck tail to fit over 930 intercooler

Concours level repaint that was color sanded

Custom aluminum 917 centerlock wheels with custom centerlock adapters

911R plexiglass rear side windows

Plexiglass rear windows with custom WWII fighter plane vents

Personalized California blue plate “Mad Kuh”

Vintage F1 style side mirrors

RSR license plate lights

Interior:

Completely redone

New RSR style bucket seats with custom sliding brackets

RSR lightweight carpet kit

Backdated door locks

RS lightweight door panels with custom speaker perforation and leather wrapped handles

Delete back seats

Rear speakers hidden under carpet covered parcel shelf

Custom RSR roll bar

Custom matching Coco floor mats

Delete center console, heater box to give an earlier look

Momo Prototipo steering wheel

Hard wired V1 radar detector (V1 not included)

Hard wired Ipod connector to Factory Blaupunkt stereo

Suspension/Brakes:

New 917 floating brake rotors and Mintex pads

935 monoball coilover suspension

Corner balanced and alignment by Johnson Alignment

Dry weight is 2,565 lbs

New control arms

New upper and lower shock mounts

New spring plates

New Bilstein shocks

Engine/Exhaust:

Twin plug conversion by Andial:

Updated Tensioner Kit

New injection lines

New cam and oil lines

Intake manifold work

Cylinder head work

Valve job

Modify scavenger pump

New sport valve springs

Port and polish intakes

Cut valve seats

Bore intake blocks to 36mm

Bore Plenum to 36mm

Ollies rocker arms

Powdercoat fan

Further engine/turbo work by Vision Motorsports:

964 cams

New custom Borla exhaust

New BTR clutch and pressure plate

Modify wastegate

Devlar head studs

Kolken ceramic bearing turbo

Passes California’s strict smog test

Runs on 91 octane.

The motor is detuned to 0.5 bar of boost. Designed to run at 1.1 bar of boost. Even so, the car recently dyno tested at 315hp and 287 lb ft of torque to the rear wheels. At full boost, estimated crank hp is nearly 500hp!!

As you can tell, a lot of time, thought, and money went into this 930. It is a very special car with a well-documented history. It is a true head turner. This R Gruppe hot rod is becoming very well known in the Porsche world.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Paul at 714-668-0345 or paul@autokennel.com






Source: AutoKennel

'68 02 Racer... 10 000USD!!

This early 2002 is well prepared and an experienced VARA racer in Southern California. It has been for sale for $16k for some time, and just yesterday the price was dropped to $9999 including spares and trailer! Find it here on Craigslist out of Los Angeles.


We love seeing the early cars with the short rear bumpers and round taillights. Chamonix white is one of our favorite colors for street or track, and we like how this example has maintained a clean look and stock fender openings. We might clean up the checker/number scheme a bit, but overall the exterior looks very good.
The interior prep on this car is beautiful, from the textured flooring to the aluminum door panels. We have not seen photos of the underbody or engine, but we have seen the build sheets on the car and th parts used are all top quality. This is a ton of racecar for the price, especially if the spares package is of high quality.

Source: Bringatrailer

Sweetness: Restored Porsche 914 on eBay

This clean 914-6 has a great looking body, some interesting accessories, and a RS-Spec 2.7L engine. We like the look and think the price may stay reasonable since the color is not factory and the engine is not numbers matching. This could be an opportunity. Find it here on eBay out of Las Vegas, Nevada.

We really like the silver-gray color on this one, it seems to compliment the Fuchs and chrome bumpers very nicely. The car comes with the factory top and also a rare tinted Panorama top. We like the stance, the grille badges, and the orange turn signals, but wish that those round front marker lights would have been shaved off during the paint job.


We could take or leave the front spoiler, but it probably adds some stability at higher speeds. The interior has some cool original cues like the checkerboard seats and a clean 3-spoke wheel.


The engine was rebuilt 10k miles ago and pumped up to RS specifications. We like the rain hats and the green engine cover, and the whole package could look really great with some easy detailing.


Source: Bringatrailer