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Nash - Metropolitan - US 1955 by klaus.br In den 1950 hat AMC die Idee für einen kleine Zweitwagen, smarte Optik. Aus Kostengründen wird dieser bei Austin in GB mit den Technikkomponenten des A40, später A50 versehen. Quelle PS-Speicher Einbeck. https://flic.kr/p/2jrsQfK

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Aden’s Hot Rod by Retromotive Magazine

This is an excerpt from Volume 5 of Retromotive Magazine titled “Aden’s Hot Rod”, it was written and photographed by Nathan Duff. We’re working with Retromotive Magazine to showcase their work to Silodrome’s large global audience, hopefully sending them some additional subscribers.

Aden Jacobi rummages through drawer after drawer brimming with artwork that should be framed and mounted on the walls. ‘I’ve got a unique filing system, really should sort this out one day.’

His first published work leans against the wall behind a cabinet. ‘I didn’t realise my parents had kept this.’ He disappears behind a glass counter-top filled with scale model GTHOs, Buicks and assorted ‘Frankenstein’ creations from his mind.

He reappears with a framed, faded newspaper clipping of a young Aden Jacobi and his winning drawing from the 1977 Geelong Advertiser Christmas art contest. The drawing by the then 14-year-old looks refined, like someone who has been drawing for their entire adult life. ‘Since I was five actually, but every kid draws when they’re that age I guess.’

‘My dad brought me a copy of Custom Rodder magazine and I ended up tracing a picture of a Custom FJ Holden over and over again. I traced it so much that the picture fell out of the magazine. So, I just started drawing it free-hand. I can still draw that car to this day on the exact same angle – I guess it’s muscle memory.’ Once Aden drew that FJ, he found he could draw anything.

One of his many specialties is patina and painting cars to look like period racecars. He cut his teeth on a ’46 Ford. ‘It had original paint and I added the flames which looked out of place against the original paintwork so I weathered them, added the number 46 and pinstriping and weathered that too – people thought it was a genuine old race car. This was 30 years ago now. Kind of before it was cool, I guess.’

It will come as no surprise then that Aden’s own car is a rolling work of customised art. Originally owned by friend and fellow artist, James Corbett. Aden had seen the project in James’s garage and bugged him for a year to sell it to him. ‘It was about three-quarters finished – no interior, wiring, brakes, wheels or tyres.’

It took Aden about four months to finish this car off with a mish-mash of parts sourced from mutual friend and Studebaker authority, Harold Island.

You’re looking at a 138 grey engine out of an EJ Holden, Series I Land Rover steering wheel, Alfasud pedals, Hillman grille, Standard Vanguard taillights, Iveco truck centre console and seats, a handmade dash with Holden instruments including a ZB speedo mounted in a 1939 Chev headlight bucket. The headlights are Studebaker buckets with Harley indicators and the only original Model A parts are the front and rear leaf springs, the klaxton horn and the brake light.’

‘It’s gone from black to turquoise to a dusty sand colour.’ The green paintjob it currently wears is only about three weeks old at the time of my visit. Took him the best part of the day to do.

‘Once it was done, I took James out for a drive and let him have a steer, too. His wife wanted to go out so I let them take off. He left me on the side of the road for a while. I was worried he wasn’t coming back. But he did – grinning from ear to ear.’

Read the full article in Volume 5 of Retromotive Magazine.

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There’s A 533hp Ferrari 612 Scaglietti V12 Engine For Sale On eBay

This is a complete Ferrari 612 Scaglietti V12, it’s listed as being a running engine from a car with 40,637 kms on the odometer (which works out to approximately 25,250 miles) and it’s all yours for the not insignificant sum of $21,911 USD.

The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti was released in 2004 and sold until 2011, the car is a grand tourer with comfortable seating for four adults, a reasonable amount of room for luggage, and styling influenced by the one-off 1954 Ferrari 375 MM that Roberto Rossellini had built for his wife, Ingrid Bergman.

The 612 was named for Carrozzeria Scaglietti, one of Ferrari’s most prolific coachbuilders in the 1950s and 1960s. The car was designed by Ken Okuyama at Pininfarina, Okuyama is an influential Japanese industrial designer who also designed the Enzo Ferrari and a slew of other projects including trains, tractors, and road cars.

Above Image: The Ferrari 612 Scaglietti – courtesy of Ferrari

The V12 fitted to the 612 Scaglietti has a displacement of 5,748cc (or 350.8 cu. in.), it’s a 65° V12 with a bore x stroke of 3.50 x 3.03 in., a cylinder displacement of 29.2 cu. in., a compression ratio of 11.2:1, and 533 hp at 7,250 rpm, with 434 ft lbs at 5,250 rpm.

This engine was originally mated to either a manual or semi-automatic 6-speed gearbox and the car could reach 199 mph with a 0 to 62 mph time of 4 seconds – not bad numbers for a car with a kerb weight of 4,134 lbs that can carry four adults with luggage.

It’s most likely that the engine you see here will be bought by a current Ferrari 612 Scaglietti owner who needs a new engine or by a garage that wants to strip it for parts. That said, there are a few people out there with the technical chops to drop Ferrari engines into unlikely donor cars, so you never know where it might end up.

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