amnesia schreef:
Ik heb den indruk dat het ne amerikaanse auto is door naar de vormgeving te kijken.

Bruce Willems schreef:

amnesia schreef:
Ik heb den indruk dat het ne amerikaanse auto is door naar de vormgeving te kijken.

met deze uitspraak kunnen de makers niet lachen

Bruce Willems schreef:

amnesia schreef:
Ik heb den indruk dat het ne amerikaanse auto is door naar de vormgeving te kijken.

met deze uitspraak kunnen de makers niet lachen

amnesia schreef:
1951 Buick LeSabre Concept Car
Meer ga ik ni vinden !!!!!!

Bruce Willems schreef:

Bruce Willems schreef:

amnesia schreef:
Ik heb den indruk dat het ne amerikaanse auto is door naar de vormgeving te kijken.

met deze uitspraak kunnen de makers niet lachen

wie kon er in die tijd niet lachen met den Amerikaander?
ze gebruikten deze auto ook om te racen: voluit rechtdoor, keren en terug, spannender werd het daar achter het gordijn niet...

The ZIS 112/1, or simply ZIS 112, was developed to compete with the GAZ SG-1 (Pobeda Sport). As usual for ZIS (later ZIL), the 112 was designed incorporating styling elements common to American cars. In this case, the styling of the Buick LeSabre show car was mimicked. The design of the car was carried out by Valentin Rostkov, who had also worked on the ZIS 101 A Sport.
The car was built on production chassis taken from ZIS 110 that was almost 6 meters long, featuring a round grille and a single headlight in the middle, the 112/1 was called 'Cyclopus' or 'Single-eyed' by the workers. By the way, the 112 became the first car to carry ZIL's white-and-blue livery.
At the beginning, the car had 140hp from production ZIS 110 limousine, but for the 2450kg car it was 'a bit' weak, so within a year of it’s construction in 1951, a new experimental engine was installed in the car. Developed by Vasili Rodionov, the inline-eight engine displaced 6005cc and provided 182hp at 3500rpm. The new unit pprowered the car to 204km/h. But, along with more power, the new engine added much more weight to a front axle, so the 112/1 was very hard to handle. Hard to say how the car would have handled curvy tracks, as that time, races were held on straights, but the 112/1 was hard on its brakes and the car was very unstable. The ZIS 112 tried its best at straight-line line races on the Minskoe highway, but soon it became clear that it was not well suited even for such competitions.
In 1954 the wheelbase was decreased by 600mm, along with the body length, so the weight fell by almost 500kg. The engine was modified, too - power grew up to 192hp at 3800rpm, and the 112/1 could now reach 210km/h – making it the fastest Soviet car ever, up to that time. The same year saw the 112/1 without its roof for the first time, as well.

In 1955, the 112/1 participated in Soviet championship again, now held at new circuit in Minsk - two highways were connected by smaller roads, and the lap distance equaled 42 kilometers. But, just as all the previous seasons, 112/1 was uncompetitive, and finally found its way to factory's boondocks.