7/7/1956
Although Ankomst has experienced numerous delays during the past few months and has fallen behind on its production schedule, we are working hard to get the 1957 year line-up finalized. In order to reduce costs and development time, Ankomst has entered into a contract with the American automobile company Chevrolet, to purchase pre-built engines which are further tuned and refined at the Ankomst plant. By eliminating the need to manufacture our own engines, we are able to put more money towards tuning our engines and using higher quality materials throughout our cars. This results in higher quality automobiles without the same increase in price, making our cars very attractive for consumers.
This post will be updated as the line-up is finalized.
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ENGINES:
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9/14/1966
After a long delay, Ankomst Automotive has finally gotten its information together sufficiently to release missing news information from the previous two years. Stay tuned to this thread for a number of updates.
Ankomst Automotive had a poor showing in the 1966 Bavarian Racing Challenge, placing terribly at 31st place overall. Although a strong car was built for this year’s challenge, it suffered from poor road handling and lost handedly to a slew of other racers. Below is the car that we had hoped would bring victory, but only brought defeat. However, we learned some valuable lessons from this year’s race.
5/16/1976
In preparation for the BRC 1976 an intermediary race has been held by the same event organizers to shake out new rules and race formats. This race was held at Hockenheim and setup as an endurance race, going for 1000km around the track. For this race, entrants were allowed to enter 2 cars apiece, the following 2 automobiles were entered from Ankomst Automotive. They were built on the same chassis, but ran different engines to test different power/efficiency strategies that would come into play for the 1976 BRC.
The Odin, running a V12 engine was able to nab 8th place overall, and the slightly less powerful Thor, with its V8 engine only managed 15th place. Both of these cars performed worse than expected compared to the lead cars which actually lapped us, but it provided a lot of knowledge that was useful in designing for the 1976 BRC.
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1/20/1977
The 1976 BRC has just finished and what a year it was. Plenty of crashes, problems, and upsets made for a very nerve wracking and exciting race season. Ankomst Automotive built a spirited little car for this year’s race, running a turbo charger for the first time in any of our cars. This resulted in an engine that packed a massive punch, but also guzzled a fair amount of fuel. This year we had a very capable car that was able to beat out a number of opponents in qualifying and was on track to finish in the top 3. Alas, an engine explosions in the first race followed by poor placement in the 6th race forced us back into 5th overall. We feel this was a testament to our car’s ability, that it was able to still nab 5th place with two exceptionally poor races. Below is the Lopare which was built for the 1976 BRC.
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9/22/1946
A special one-off car was created for a rich buyer over the past few months and Ankomst Automotive would like to display the finished car for the general public so that they can see what we are capable of given the time and resources.
We proudly present the Bombardier '46, built with a genuine aircraft engine!
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