The LMC’s first car had established the young company as one of the top new luxury brands and used its initial success to help fund a new small sports car. Utilizing a Rennen sourced 1397cc engine, the car would be fully developed in just a year and a half to be released in 1952 until LMC could create a smaller engine of its own. Down-tuned from Rennen’s racing variant for reliability and class restrictions, the RS1400 race car made 129 hp and could reach speeds near the 120 mph mark.
Here’s a little vignette of an RS1400 in action. (Heads-up, this car is loud)
The car was built for brazilian market, but the brazilians didn’t like so much… Anyway, we are here at Fruinia to show how Barato Motors know make great cars.
Steffen Bergmann returns from his terrifying crash at the 1950 Mille Miglia with a brand-new car, his heavily-modified CMW S946 “Bergmann Special”. While the bodywork generally resembles the roadgoing CMW S946, under the skin the Bergmann Special shares nothing in common whatsoever, with its custom-built tube-frame chassis built around a unique 799cc boxer-six derived from a CMW motorcycle engine.
For their first race, the Rubbish Vehicle Siblings are bringing a 1951 Type SC with the 3.2 v8 to the Corso di Fruinia. The SC is a lively, nippy and reliable machine, and the brothers expect to do well in this rally with it. Their car number? Pi.
Background: Betty and Phyllis are two wealthy daughters of US businessmen. Betty’s dad is a furniture king and Phyllis’s dad makes telephones. They both met at boarding school where they shared a common interest in the second wave feminist movement and have joined the local Suffragettes in Detroit.
They’re entering the race to show men that women are just as capable as men at driving a car fast. The Puttzalong was given to Betty by her dad. Betty then had it modified by Leeroy Customs not long after delivery as she was an enthusiastic driver who didn’t want to waste money to purchase a second, wastefully extravagent, European sportscar. As an added bonus it REALLY annoyed her dad!
Leeroy Racing had done a number of much needed changes to the Puttzalong. Braking performance was improved, suspension settings were refined and the engine was massaged to provide a little more flexibility. But the biggest change was wrought when the Leeroy brothers chose to install a prototype Bogliq Cargostar 4spd FWD gearbox instead of the inflexible Puttzalong 3spd. This conversion was undertaken because in the Puttzalong, like the Cargostar, the suspension had to be either too neutral, which made it nervous on the ragged edge, or too soft, which made the roll angle way too excessive and contributed to roll oversteer at the limit. The FWD conversion solved all these issues, made the car feel confident to push harder and saved weight in the drivetrain… Perfect for a road rally car that had to deal with all manner of unforgiving conditions!
(And yet Bogliq USA waited until 1991 to finally convert to FWD themselves… The Cargostar was the only one w/ L-FWD and it was the best handling Bogliq for a very long time as well! )
Puttzalong will be entering. They put a call out to a customer who had been showing some skill with modifying cars, and he agreed to participate. If either car makes a good showing in class, they marketing team will be able to spin it to the brands advantage. We have a near-stock production car (red, 2.2-3.29L), and a customer car that has had a Blue Oval engine transplant, pushing it up into the next competition class. The customer has asked to have his identity withheld until just prior to race day, and the factory team have not yet been named.
FAO International And FAO motorspors Presents 1948 Lollypop 1100 Montecarlo
Here with base platform Lollypop1100 Lux
This weighting 684Kg (production version weights 700) nimble car was developed specially for rallying
how ever from standard model it differs only in interior (2 seats instead of 2+3 config)
and tuned up engine reaching 58hp and 81NM (production Version reaches 40hp and 70Nm).
Producing one montecarlo lollypop costs only 2300 dolars. Factory track testing
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