1922 Bugatti type 23 Brescia

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The crazy mid 70s... they were the time of a lot of odd designs, this is a 76 Ferrari Rainbow by Bertone

see a gallery at http://swissstash.tumblr.com/post/12171398029/1976-ferrari-rainbow-by-bertone

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1923 Avoin Voisin factory research race car, the C6 Laboratoire, simply a most amazing innovative and obscure try at a racecar from airplane engineers

 Quite odd looking, maybe the strangest I can recall ever seeing

 Why it has a prop on the nose, I'd only guess that it's for airspeed. Boardtrackfan commented that he thinks its for a water pump

 and I was astonished to see it has the actual "Windscreen" that I've only heard of but never seen before

Click on the above gauges and get a good look at the full size... those are pretty unusual

 and a square-ish steering wheel... boardtrackfan reminded me that this isn't so uncommon, it's so the driver has a better view when driving straight, and more legroom

  here is the big indication of the aeroplane style engineering they brought to their race car... cable brakes. But not connected to the brake pedal, this is independant front and back brakes for a racing advantage

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1953 Ferrari 250 Mille Miglia Berlinetta with an unusual windscreen or bug deflector

found on http://driven.urbandaddy.com/

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A Chromos bumper, the toughest, heftiest, biggest piece of octagon steel I've seen on a car, and it's carried by an elegant 1929 Talbot Lago and looks really nice

And the back bumper is split, here is just one side

I did a quick, brief check on Google and it has nothing on Chromos bumpers

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A woody Bugatti... from the Schlmpf Reserve Collection, and now part of the Mullin Museum display. Woody + Bugatti + barnfind = wow

for photos of this woody in the Schlumpf warehouse and purchsed from Shakepeare and on the way to http://theoldmotor.com/?p=36666 

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374,000 mile Toyota, original owner, and it has not been rebuilt (except replaced timing chain) even has the original alternator still working as planned

One new starter, one new timing chain because of the plastic guides that got brittle and broke (stupid idea that a lot of companies have used... morons. No plastic in the engine! Heat kills it!) one change of the spark plugs at 250,000... and that is about it. Remarkable.

I remember posting a true story about some woman who kept a car for decades, and kept track of all the replaced parts, number of batteries, number of mufflers, etc etc.. but this Toyota hasn't needed that long list of replacements.

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Emperor Nicholas II and his Imperial Train

 Above, the Saloon car

 Above, his study. Below, hers

Thanks to Mary for keeping me included in her research for her book taking place around private luxury train car ownership

If you'd like to read about the Russian Emperor's abdication, and why it took place aboard the royal train, and how the royal trains were constructed and decorated into luxury travel accomodations for the head of the Russian people check out these links:
http://www.angelfire.com/pa/ImperialRussian/royalty/russia/train.html
http://www.rautatie.org/web/en/collections.asp#3
http://www.rawsonplace.esmartdesign.com/notebook/Commissioner-08/notebook.htm

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