"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
09/03/2015 at 17:56 • Filed to: None
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"Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
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What we have here is a face that is so instantly recognizable that I won’t even bother to tell you the make and model. Instead I’ll show you what makes this particular example unique.
It’s not this beautiful intake.
It’s not this interior with a modern radio from 10 years ago.
Nor these wheels. No, it’s what has been done to this car that can not be undone.
It’s that this one has been converted to a targa.
Seemingly done some time ago with a Sawzall.
Must of been originally a German market car but it’s now in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
rb1971 ARGQF+CayenneTurbo+E9+328GTS+R90S
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 18:01 |
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Saw this over the weekend. I could almost (almost!) deal with the targa, but why would you move the vents on the side of the car? So nuts.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 18:40 |
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It may be a rough conversion, but what a fantastic idea.
It might seem slightly odd for the change in the vents... but I don’t really mind it. Far be it from me to dissect a Marcello Ghandini masterpiece of a design with any malice, as I quite like the original design.
The B-pillar vents now end at the rear fender crest line, rather than extending down further, and the front fender vents now may actually have a heat extraction purpose from the front end of the car. I would have continued the vents, or at least faux vent slots all the way down the front fender, with two or three vent slots below the seam line, down to the sill.
Some very fine tone-on-tone pin stripes along the crest of the front fender to the up-sweep in the door, with a slight gap, and then starting under, or just aft of the B-pillar vent slot, and along the crest of the rear fender would accentuate the car’s curves so nicely, especially if the door handles were re-done in body color, or re-fabricated with classier chrome finger pulls or something.
Somewhat like the Alfa Canguro concept car, designed by Ghandini protege Giorgetto Giugiaro, then still working at Bertone, before Giugiaro went on to found ItalDesign.
It needs some classic cast wheels with the exposed cast-in webbing, (again, like the Canguro and many other period cars had) but powder coated a nice antique matte gold or bronze to go with that gorgeous green paint. painting or wrapping the sills under the doors to match might not go amiss, either.
It needs a classic-look push-button stereo with a bluetooth receiver embedded in it, or maybe a line-in, for a modern smart phone or music player input, as well as the radio.
If the roof panel has rough seams and gaps, that could be seen to by a skilled fabricator. I assume the conversion is aftermarket. I wonder if the chassis has been braced underneath to compensate for the non-fixed roof panel change.
And I wouldn’t argue, in that aftermarket sense, if the car were to use more modern replica-style wheels with modern rubber, but still a classic throwback style, and most of the car’s electrical system re-wired with a modern wiring kit, and solid state electronics, perhaps even LED lighting in the original fixtures, and LED replacement headlights, like JW Speaker or something. If it is not original, a well done resto-mod Montreal could be cool.
I just wish this car had GTV’s rear transaxle and independent rear suspension, rather than a live axle. With the screamer of a dual-cam V8 up front... it could have been like an Italian alternative to a Porsche 928.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 18:43 |
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Ultimate to each their own car.
Intake looks good, but will likely be sucking in the world’s supply up extra-how engine-bay air.
If I had the means to set up a rival company to Singer, I think it’d be with these.
Bore it out to 3.0l, possibly flat-plane crank for high-rpm tomfoolery like the 33 Stradale. If not, just EFI and tuning bits to make it damn fast. Transaxle DeDion with an LSD. Other suspension gubbins to make it hang with a 911 on track. Job done :)
472CID
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 18:54 |
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen the engine or the interior of one of these, but the they’re each flawless, maybe even better than the exterior.
pjhusa
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 18:59 |
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I might be the only one that likes those rims.
Jayvincent
> Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
09/03/2015 at 21:03 |
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Reserve not met at 30.5k ? He realizes this is an Alpha and it's not even factory original, right?