A Rare Chance To Own A Unicorn From Pontiac

A 1979 Pontiac Trans Am With 65 Miles On It Could Be Yours For $159,900

Nearly four decades ago, 18-year-old William Leland Jr., a distant relative of Henry Leland, the founder of Lincoln and Cadillac, bought a highly well-equipped 1979 Pontiac Trans Am for $10,095. The Trans Am wasn’t to be driven or even washed, Leland ordered. When Leland died at the age of 42, his father took over ownership, and preserved the car according to his son’s wishes as a shrine.

Now, after being passed on to a third owner, the car is on sale, having been preserved in pristine condition 39 years after it emerged from GM’s manufacturing facility in Norwood, Ohio.

The car, according to RK Motors, has “never been washed, never been rained on, and [benefitted] from yearly fluid changes that included fresh oil and distilled water.”

It was also fired up once a month, and worked through its gears. It’s hard to imagine a 1979 Trans Am in any better shape.

(Jalopnik.com)

Not Really, Because Someone Just Had To Have It

Paying $10,000 For A Bugatti Chiron Model Engine Seems Rather Silly

Life is full of silly things, a lot of which would be cool if they weren’t so silly. Take this model of a Bugatti Chiron engine: It’d be a great conversation piece on your LED-backlit display wall of rare, expensive automotive memorabilia dusted with diamonds for extra shine, but maybe not for $10,000.

Then again, if a display wall dusted with diamonds is your kind of thing, maybe a starting price of $9,365 for this model isn’t a big deal.
Personal feelings about the worth of material objects serving no purpose other than to look at aside, this 1:4 scale of a Bugatti Chiron engine and gearbox is pretty mesmerizing. The company that makes it and other expensive vehicle replicas, Amalgam Collection, said there are 1,040 individual parts and all of the special finishes Bugatti puts on the actual car’s 1,500-horsepower W16 engine packed into a model that’s only 18 inches long and 9 inches high. 

(Jalopnik.com)

There's No Replacement For Displacement (Yet) For Lamborghini

Lamborghini will keep naturally aspirated V10 and V12 engines as long as it can

Maurizio Reggiani, development boss of Lamborghini, further explained to Autocar that the naturally aspirated V10 and V12 engines on models like the Huracan and Aventador will remain for quite some time, and they mean for as long as possible. So don’t expect to see these models to have newer and smaller engines anytime soon, or as long as Reggiani is the development boss. He then says that it provides “a sense of emotion in a super-sports car”.

Reggiani once said that a Lamborghini’s DNA is made up of design, emotion and performance – elements that define a new car. The company then puts these elements in a scientific way by making them physical things so that the new cars can be compared to an old one, or perhaps, its competitors. Other factors that matter include sound, speed, acceleration and design.

(4WheelsNews.com)

A Proud Moment In American History

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Did You Know - Basic Conversational Skills

Use the FORD method when you don’t know what to say in conversation

F  –  Family (Their S/O, kids, siblings, pets, family traditions)

O  –  Occupation (What do they do? How did they get into it? Where did they go to school?)

R  –  Recreation (What do they like to do?)

D  –  Dreams (Ask about their goals, dreams, and aspirations)

(CavemanCircus.com)