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This One-of-Six Ferrari Sergio Can Be Yours For $5.1 Million

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Project Car: The Chenard & Walcker Type Y8 “Tank”

The Chenard & Walcker Type Y8 Tank was released at the 1927 Paris Motor Show where it attracted no small amount of attention – the design was intentionally tank-like and compared to the automobiles of the era it was surprisingly advanced.

Unlike most of the cars being built in the 1920s with largely seperate fenders and headlights, the Chenard & Walcker Type Y8 Tank incorporated all of these elements closely together. Although the end result must have looked somewhat unusual to the eyes of a person in the 1920s, it was a design that would become commonplace in the decades to come.

Chenard & Walcker was a French automaker perhaps most famous for winning the first 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1923, in fact the company took 1st, 2nd, and 7th place with cars of their own design. The winning car was driven by René Léonard and André Lagache, both engineers employed by Chenard & Walcker.

It’s likely that the Type Y8 Tank was somewhat inspired by the Bugatti Type 32, commonly referred to as the “Tank Car”. However whereas the Type 32 was a pure racing car the Chenard & Walcker Type Y8 was designed for both regular road use, as a result it had a windscreen, a folding convertible top, headlights, and some other features added to make it better suited to regular road driving.

The Y8 Tank was accompanied by the Y7 Torpille with a higher body and torpedo-like styling, both vehicles shared fundamentally the same drivetrain however the lower Y8 was more sporting due to its lower centre of gravity. This was achieved by attaching the rear axle above the chassis rather than below, semi-elliptical leaf springs and friction shock absorbers were fitted front and back.

The engine was a Chenard & Walcker-developed four-cylinder water-cooled unit with a 69 mm bore and 100 mm stroke, and a Ricardo turbulent cylinder head. The engine featured a pressurised lubrication system, an oil cooler, overhead intake valves and side exhaust valves, a Solex carburettor, and it was capable of reaching upwards of 4,000 rpm – a significant figure at the time.

Power was sent to the rear axle via a 4-speed transmission with a reverse gear, the drum brakes were larger than normal at 320mm, and the car had a listed top speed of 135 km/h (84 mph). The structure of the car was typical for the time, with a steel chassis and seperate a steel body, the steel body uses a wooden frame and the car has a simple folding roof for use in inclement weather.

The Chenard & Walcker Type Y8 you see here is clearly in need of a full restoration, it’s been carefully stored indoors for decades so it presents in reasonably good condition. The original engine is missing so a replacement unit will need to be sourced by the new owner. It’s not known exactly how many of these were originally made however the car is exceedingly rare and completely unknown to most.

If you’d like to read more or register to bid you can click here to visit the listing on Artcurial, it’s due to cross the auction block with them on the 1st of November and the price estimate is between €20,000 and €30,000.

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For Sale: A Beautiful 1961 Aston Martin DB4

The Aston Martin DB4 was a critical model for the British automaker, it was a clean slate design that left the previous Aston Martin DB Mark III in the past and it would form the foundation of many future Aston vehicles.

The Aston Martin DB4

The DB4 had a new platform that would be used by the later DB5, the DB6, the Lagonda Rapide 4-door saloon, and the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato – a car that now changes hands for sums in excess of $11 million USD.

The executives at Aston Martin knew that they needed a new design before the 1960s began to launch the car into the new decade. The engineers undertook the development of what would become the first all-new Aston since David Brown had bought the company in 1947.

Although the styling of the DB4 was related to the its immediate forbear, it was more modern and it set the trend for Aston for the next 20+ years. Legendary engineer Tadek Marek developed a new iteration of the Aston Martin straight-6 for the car, with a swept capacity of 3670cc and double overhead cams, the block and head was cast from R.R. alloy – a high-temperature aluminium alloy developed for aircraft use by Rolls-Royce.

A variant of this engine would be fitted to the Aston Martin DBR1/300 that was driven by Carroll Shelby and Roy Salvadori to a popular win at the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans – the DBR1 also won the World Manufacturer’s Championship that year providing the Aston Martin and their new DB4 with invaluable free advertising around the world.

In road-going trim as it was fitted to the DB4 this engine was capable of 240 bhp at 5,000 rpm and 240 lbs ft of torque at 4,200 rpm. Thanks in part to the 1,308 kg (2,883 lb) curb weight of the car it offered excellent performance for a GT car of the late 1950s, with a 0 to 60 mph time of 9.3 seconds and a top speed of 139 mph.

Aston would replace the DB4 with the DB5 in 1963, the DB5 is of course famous for its appearances in the James Bond film series however many of the Aston faithful prefer the lighter weight of the DB4.

The 1961 Aston Martin DB4 Shown Here

The car you see here found its way to Australia over the course of its long life where it was bought by a senior member of the New South Wales government named Dennis.

He would keep the car for decades and unlike many collectors he liked to work on the car himself – so much so that he enrolled in TAFE (an Australian technical college) to learn as much as he could about the bodywork, the mechanical elements, and the paintwork. The car’s engine has been previously rebuilt by Repco, the famous Australian Engineering company based in Melbourne.

It was at TAFE that he met Vaughan Ryan and Georgio Rimi, together the men would complete a wide array of work on the car to bring it up to its current condition. Tragically Dennis died unexpectedly this year and his family has entrusted it to Vaughan and Georgio for some minor finishing work and to then present it for sale.

The car is now ready for its new owner, it’s in excellent condition throughout as you can see from the images, and it’s now available for sale until Christmas. Offers above $650,000 AUD (approx. $458,000 USD) are welcomed, and you can contact them via – enquiries@motorretro.com.au

MotoRRetro in Sydney

Vaughan Ryan and Georgio Rimi met as apprentices at Ultimo TAFE in 1989, and were constantly vying for pole position in class. While at TAFE Georgio won a coveted spot in the NSW TAFE smash repair team at Bathurst in 1991, and Vaughan won first in state at the NSW apprenticeship awards in 1989 and 1990. Despite their competitiveness, they became lifelong friends.

They started MotoRRetro together in 2015, before this time they both owned their own restoration businesses, and they have over 20 years of industry experience, including a stint in the USA where they worked for The Pit Stop in San Francisco, restoring vintage Ferraris and Alfa Romeos.

MotoRRetro was founded to offer approachable, hands-on classes in the restoration of classic cars and motorcycles, and they provide classes in metal shaping, welding, and related skills. Visit the MotoRRetro website here.

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A Lamborghini Countach 1:1 Replica Chassis – Need A New Sculpture For Your Living Room?

This is a 1:1 replica of the original Lamborghini Countach chassis, as you can see the Countach was based around a tubular spaceframe chassis rather than unibody construction, with its V12 engine mounted longitudinally behind the driver and passenger.

The Lamborghini Countach was released in 1974 and is now revered as one of the most famous of the “wedge-shaped” cars of its era. The car was designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, it would go on to become one of the most influential supercar designs of all time and it still has a strong influence on Lamborghini’s design language in the modern day – 46 years later.

By the decade after its release many of the world’s supercars were showing some influence from the sharply-angled Gandini design, with the notable exception of the Porsche 911 Turbo and the 959. The Countach would stay in production from 1974 until 1990 – an impressive 16 year run that saw the car transform from a relatively simple design to something far more complex by the end of its life cycle.

The spaceframe chassis developed by Paolo Stanzani and the Lamborghini engineering team was constructed from welded round-section steel tubing, it formed an incredibly stiff cocoon around the driver and passenger, and was noted for both its stiffness and its lightweight – at just 90 kgs (198 lbs).

The chassis was clothed in a body of unstressed aluminium panels, though later models also used some fibreglass and carbon fibre elements. The first Countach, known as the LP400, was powered by a 3929cc V12 engine capable of 370 hp, and later models were fitted with larger engines capable of ~450 hp.

Over the course of its production run 1,983 examples of the Countach were made. They’re now prized by collectors and values have climbed significantly in recent years.

The 1:1 scale replica chassis you see here is being offered for sale by RM Sotheby’s, it has a price estimate of £7,500 to £12,000 ($9,690 to $15,500 USD) and it’s being offered with no reserve. If you need a new sculpture for your living room or a chassis to build a Countach in your basement you can click here to visit the listing.