Just A Car Geek - Top 10 Cars of 2010, Part 1, 10-6

For New Years Eve and New Years Day I thought I'd look back on the cars I posted in 2010 and pick some of my my favorites. This was not easy to do. I tend to find some good in all the cars I post and want to own most of them.

I know I missed a few that should have made the cut. Oh well, there's always next year.

Everything is a matter of opinion, of course. Feel free to disagree with me, pick your own Top 10, whatever...

10. 1988 24 Valve Alfa Romeo Verde - A Milano with a 24 valve 3.0 liter 6 in it. It just doesn't get a lot better in my mind.

9. 1968 Lamborghini Islero - I believe that an old car (or any car, for that matter) should be driven as often as possible. I don't really admire trailer queens. This is a car I would drive as often as a I could. Then I'd park it in my living room so I could sit and stare at it the rest of the time. Damn, this is a gorgeous car.

8. 1990 Citroen XM - As soon as they are old enough to import legally, I will own one of these. The XM is everything that is good about Citroen wrapped in a very cool Bertone wedge body.

7.1995 BMW M5 Touring - A federalized M5 Touring. A station wagon that will out perform and out handle most sports cars. What's not to like? (The price, I guess.)

6. 1982 Renault Le Car Sport. What can I say? I like the Le Car / R5. This one has some neat features and looks great in black. It sold for just $500.00.

Babak baru tinggal diluar Depok

Setelah beberapa lama menimang tawaran tugas luar, akhirnya kami sekeluarga meninggalkan Depok untuk bertugas di luar. Negara tujuan adalah USA, spesifiknya adalah di Houston Texas. Kami mengucap Bismillahirohmanirrohim untuk tugas baru kami bertiga ini (dengan istri dan anak).

Entah kebetulan atau karena lain hal, pada saat kami mendapatkan mobil yg disewakan oleh kantor, Chevrolet Impala lah mobil nya. Wah artinya saya bisa merasakan impala di 2 jaman. Yg pertama keluaran tahun 1964, sekarang dapat impala tahun 2009. Mobil bertenaga 5.8 liter v8 ini memang menjadi ciri khas mobil2 Amerika yg mermesin besar. Bagi saya yg biasa nya pakai Ford Everest dan Honda Jazz di Jakarta pasti ada sedikit perbedaan dengan tenaga mesin mobil ini. Dan yg lebih spesifik lagi....disini kursi kemudinya di sebelah kiri. Wah orientasi dulu nih:)

1984 Land Rover Wrecker

You know what I would do if I bought this truck? I'd also buy a late model Honda Civic and just tow it around. The irony of an old British truck towing a "broken down" Honda Civic would be lost on 99.9% of the population, but to the .01% that got it, it would be pretty amusing.

This truck has just 52,000 miles on it. I'm not sure of what use it would be as most people I know prefer flatbeds, but it would be cool to own.

Located in St. Augustine, FL, click here to see the Craigslist ad.

1962 Corvair Monza Wagon - A Major Project

This is not a car that you could make presentable and get back on the road with a weekend's worth of work. It's a major project, but one that I hope someone takes on.

The Monza version of the Corvair station wagon was built for just one year, 1962. The Corvair station wagon in general was not a huge seller for Chevy (they built it for just two years; 1961 and 1962) and not many people ponied up the extra cash for the Monza version. Out of a total of close to 300,000 Corvairs built in 1962, just over 2300 were Monza wagons. If I remember correctly (I used to own a bunch of Corvairs, including a Monza wagon), that makes it the second rarest Corvair model ever. (The 1969 Convertible being the rarest.)

This car is a basket case (more like a "Rubbermaid case" as many parts are in rubber bins), but it's all there and looks to be fairly solid.

The asking price is an extremely reasonable $500.00. If you start working on it right away you could have it finished in time for its 50th birthday.

Located in Oakland, CA, click here to see the Craigslist ad.

A Pair of Humbers on eBay - Your Choice; Sedan or Wagon, East Coast or West Coast...

Humber was part of the Rootes Group. These cars were officially sold in the US, but not very well promoted. Rootes chose to emphasize its line of economical Hillman cars and the sporty Sunbeam brand.

The most interesting of the two is the station wagon. It is one of the few British station wagons we officially received in North America. The engine is a straight 6 (most likely a 3.0 liter, as my best guess is this is a Series II Super Snipe). It wasn't Jaguar-straight-6 powerful, but it made the car better suited for US driving than most of the 4 cylinder imports of the day. The car has an American look to it on the outside, with lots of chrome and small fins and a distinctive British luxury look on the inside, with chrome surrounded gauges, leather, wood and the uniquely British picnic tables in the back.

The sedan is a Series III. It is in better shape than the wagon. It, like the wagon, has an American look on the outside and British luxury on the inside.

These cars are in rough shape, but certainly restorable. The sedan wouldn't be too tough, but the wagon would take someone with a real passion for Humbers and a lot of patience, time and money. Humbers are not worth a lot of money, so anyone taking on these cars would be doing it as a labor of love. They'd get a ton of "car geek points" in my eyes.

The sedan is located in Florence, MA. (That's just a few miles from where I live. I hope after photographing it the seller put it back in the barn. We got a lot of snow the other day.) Click here to see its listing.

The station wagon is located in Northridge, CA, click here to see its Ebay listing.

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Mobil Hybrid

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Saat ini teknologi Hybrid lagi gencar-gencarnya dipopulerkan. Hal ini dikarenakan makin maraknya isu global warming. Toyota dan Honda meupakan pabrik mobil yang lagi mempopulerkan Teknologi Mobil Hybrid sebagai solusi menghemat BBM dan mengatasi pencemaran lingkungan. Cara kerja mesin listrik dengan prinsip regenerative (isi ulang/recharging saat kendaraan sedang beroperasi) pada mesin hybrid, berbeda dengan mobil tenaga listrik penuh. Mobil tersebut tidak bisa mengisi ulang listriknya. Bila listriknya habis, Batterai/aki harus di-charge secara khusus dengan waktu 8 hingga 12 jam (untuk teknologi charger onboard). Khusus mesin hybrid, mesin listriknya bisa mengisi ulang ke aki dengan memanfaatkan kinetic energy saat mengerem (regenerative brakeing). Bahkan sebagian energi mesin dari mesin bensin/solar/bio fuel saat berjalan listriknya bisa disalurkan untuk mengisi batterai/aki. Dengan sistem operasi seperti ini maka akan terjadi penghematan BBM. Di Kota Tokyo Jepang, truk dan bus sudah banyak yang memakai tenaga mesin system hybrid karena dinilai amat efisien/hemat BBM dan mengurangi polusi. Jenis mesin hybrid secara umum ada yang memakai sistem paralel dan sistem seri, namun yang paling umum adalah parallel. Mesin listrik pada kendaran hybrid sebenarnya hanyalah sebagai penunjang atau bisa disebut booster, pada mesin utama yang memakai bensin ataupun solar. Mesin listrik yang kecil pada kendaraan jenis hybrid tak akan kuat menjalankan mobil secara normal. Perkembangan teknologi mesin hybrid memang kini semakin pesat. Begitu pula dalam pengisian ulang listriknya yang semakin canggih, cepat, dan tenaga mesin listriknya semakin besar.

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Volvo Air Motion Open Air Car Design Concept Futuristic Car

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Sport futuristic car Volvo Air Motion design concept presented at Los Angeles Auto Show Car Design Challenge Competition, Volvo car Maker Company. Unique open air car design technology whole innovative level with its “lighter than a Formula 1 racing car” study vehicles development. New Volvo Air Motion’s aerodynamic car body mirrors design the look of a clam shell and are built from an ultra light carbon fiber material that tips the scales at less than 1,000lbs. In addition its strong however ultra-light body kit structure, the Volvo Air Motion car concept auxiliary adds to its superlatives eco-friendliness, as it is not using a single drop of gasoline while driving wild.

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 Volvo built Volvo Air Motion concept car through fewer components and replaced the heavy internal combustion engine with powerful, nevertheless simple minimalist, compressed air motors. To compress the air wanted for the centrally mounted air tank, Volvo came up with a design for Air Replenishment Sites. Intended at enthusiast, Volvo Air Motion can be seen at the show in 1/4 scale model displayed in the area that connects the South and the West Halls. It fully showcases the beauty and purity of Scandinavian vision and further delivers a guilt free, raw driving experience.

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Porsche 997 V-RT Car Edition Turbo Engine Refined Vorsteiner

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Take a look at this new car design Porsche 997 V-RT super sport car with new innovation Turbo engine official photos gallery shown below. If you not yet see the Porsche 997 V-RT specs before, read the car press release when the car tuning package and test drive performance report also included. Porsche 911 Turbo was refined by Vorsteiner which make some creative car modification with installing an aerodynamics vehicle body kit and a set of huge luxury alloy wheels. Vorsteiner Porsche 911 V-RT car model features new body kit consisting of larger carbon fiber air intakes exclusive of fog lights as in the Porsche GT2 vehicle version. At the rear view, the tuning specialists installed, presented to buy new car font bumper with a twin-finned carbon fiber rear diffuser for the quad exhaust system.

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 The Porsche 911 V-RT race car rims are three-piece V-306 20″ fitted with Michelin Pilot Sport PS2 tires for maximum grip at the race track as well as the public roads. The Porsche 911 V-RT engine is 3.6 litre twin-turbocharged flat-six with 480PS (353 kW) and 620Nm of torque. It catapults the car 100 km/h in 3.7 seconds (manual) and the top speed is 310 km/h (193 mph). There is an optional Sports Chrono overboost package, which increases torque to 680 Nm (500 lb-ft). More information, visit Porsche official website.
 

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1980 BMW 735i Touring... Available Again

It's back...

The 735i Touring that caused such a stir when it went for up for auction last month is now being offered on eBay. (See my original posts here, here and here. - At the time this car was listed as a 733, but a check of the VIN showed that it was built on a 735 platform.)

No car in the history of Just a Car Geek got as much attention as this one did.

I'm not surprised to see it for sale. The buyer e-mailed me shortly after purchasing it and said he was going to have a problem finding room to keep it. (A problem I know all too well.) He also purchased the 1982 BMW 628CSI convertible that was auctioned at the same time.

When the car originally went for auction there were just 3 pictures posted. This time the seller has posted a link to 85 photos and some videos.

I am surprised by the opening bid price. The owner has chosen to go with a no reserve auction (I applaud him for that) with the bidding starting at $7000.00. He paid $6000.00 for the car and has done some work to it. If for some reason the car doesn't get bid up to a decent price (and I think it will, but you never know...) he stands to make virtually nothing on it.

If you missed it the first time, here's your chance to buy a very cool, historical BMW.

Located in West Newton, MA, click here to see the eBay listing.

A big thanks to JaCG reader, Rosa, for pointing out that this car was available again.

Weekend Quickies, Sunday, December 26, 2010

Riley Kestrel 1300 - If you've been reading this blog for awhile, you know that I'm a fan of the old BMC / British Leyland ADO 16 cars (ADO 16 stands for Austin Drawing Office project #16) . I even bought one at one point in my life.

The Riley 1300 Kestrel is more "upmarket" than the Austin and MG ADO 16s we got here in the US. The interior is leather and the wood dash features nice round gauges, including a tach.

This is a very nice Riley Kestrel. It's from New Zealand and right-hand-drive.

Located in Charleston, SC, click here to see the eBay listing.

1959 Vespa 400 - I've never been a huge fan of microcars, but they have a significant place in automobile history, especially in Europe.

The seller describes this one as being "in a very gray area between project and runner". He goes on to say, "I rescued this car out from under a tarp and brought it back from the dead, only now it's still sort of a zombie".

Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, click here to see the eBay listing.

A Bunch of Cars In San Jose - This guy has 4 or 5 interesting cars for sale. His Craigslist ads are fairly confusing.

Click here to find the ad for the Rover SD1 3500.
Click here to see the ad for a Mercedes Benz 560 and 380SL.
Click here to see his Triumph Stag ad.
Click here to see his Mercedes Benz 380 SEC ad.

He may also be selling a Jaguar XJS Cabriolet (a car on my Top 10 most wanted list). I couldn't find the ad, however.

The seller leaves a phone number to call for more info.

Merry Christmas!

(I'd give the owner / designer of this car credit, but I have no clue as to where the photo from. It came to me in one of those e-mails that had been forwarded about 15 times before it got to me.)

Hybrid Toyota Supra, the next Ferrari, and the Toyobaru Coupe 2011

It is time once again a popular news semi-permanent, where you can upgrade some interesting things happening in and around the world can drive, you probably will not read the article. (If you read the newspapers, that is.)
We start with two news sports cars such as Plessy Ferguson and gentlemen, are very different, but equally important.

The first message that, despite repeated denials to the public, Toyota is working on a successor Supra expensive sports cars. There are rumors that a new generation of packaging V6 hybrid drive from a total of 400 horses, but the production of hybrid versions of those life on our planet, thank you very much. RWD is almost certainly a style by the FT-HS concept car inspired by a chance to be. Hope next year's models, a concept car production in autumn 2011.

Toyota FT-HS Concept

Since the success of the Nissan was with him, it is surprising that Toyota waited so long that their average weight of a sports car. It would be interesting to see how the hybrid technology from Toyota is the high efficiency, especially because his only company exploring the possibilities of technology in sports cars. (See below).

A new sports car is being developed in Japan in the second, called "Toyobaru" cheap sports car jointly by Toyota and Subaru. After 7Tune, Sport Subaru STI variant of the device, except that Toyota has decided to offer a car engine.

The report also shows, insider Toyobaru has a style similar to the Lexus LF-A, which was a violation of the super-fans for many years, a concept car, a prototype machine, and even thinly veiled racism. Can it be assumed that the joint task Toyobaru (do not know how they will name it, I love the sound here) want to keep the price of 2 million yen today, a little 'more than $ 20,000.

The LF-A attempts to hide by closing its eyes and pretending it's invisible.

Concept Car : The Opel Ampera hybrid on pure electric power 2011

The Opel Ampera will be a plug-in hybrid with a 65 km range on pure electric power Design Sketch

This project is the first Opel amps with permission of the loss of the "European Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), where documents are stored in nature.

Opel ampere is the European version of the Chevrolet Volt from GM Hybrid will go on sale next year, the North American market.

Measured against these pictures, it seems that are available to the project, the current Opel model amps and length of the keys to the new Insignia, which recently won the European Car of the Year.

Amplifiers are Voltec GM hybrid powered concept was seen in the last Cadillac approach, which debuted at the Detroit auto show in January. It has combined an electric motor with a gasoline engine used to charge the lithium-ion batteries. It is up to 40 miles (65 km), clean power and can be downloaded for about 2-3 hours at 230 V European standard. Use of gasoline as the generator is battery operated, Ampere range approximately 500 miles (or 800 km).

Ampere expected sales in 2011 and in Europe has its official debut at the Geneva Motor Show in Geneva next month .