With the 3rd round pick in the draft, Koenigferrarilamboseggviking, picks in the Coupe category, the icon of all sports cars, the beautiful and amazing Lamborghini Miura
If you think Ferrari would be the daddy of the sports car, you'd be wrong, this is the daddy. I promised myself when I first saw one that I would own one some day. Sorry, but there is no car better looking than this.
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With the 3rd round pick in the draft, Koenigferrarilamboseggviking, picks in the Coupe category, the icon of all sports cars, the beautiful and amazing Lamborghini Miura
For our 3rd selection, Arsenal's Loaded Guns is going to select from the 90's the Bugatti EB110.
It was unveiled on September 15, 1991, exactly 110 years after Ettore Bugatti's birth (and exactly 14 years after my birth).
The car featured a 60 valve quad-turbo V12 engine, powering all 4 wheels. It had a top speed of 213 mph. The SS version of the vehicle, had a top speed of 216 mph.
With an MSRP of $350,000 USD, it is a little on the expensive side, even by today's standards.
With its third round selection Lemelin's Lemmings are pleased to select from the 1930's the Ford Model B, also commonly referred to as the Model 18 or Ford V8. This car is going to be parked in our Pre-war stall.
Built by Ford between 1932 and 1935, this car was a beauty in its own right but it is probably most recognized as the "grandfather" of hot rods. The 1932 "deuce coupe" is the quintessential hot rod. When most people think of hot rods this is the car.
With their third pick, Team Barnes selects in the Race Car Category The GT40 Mk-II.
he Ford GT40 was a high performance sports car and winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans four times in a row, from 1966 to 1969 (in 1967 with a different body, though). It was built to win long-distance sports car races against Ferrari (who won at Le Mans six times in a row from 1960 to 1965). The GT40 GT-40P 1075 was the first car to win at Le Mans twice (in 1968 and 1969). That car used the Gurney Weslake engine with the special alloy heads made by Weslake. The car was named the GT (for Grand Tourisme) with the 40 representing its overall height of 40 inches (1.02 m, measured at the windshield) as required by the rules. Large displacement Ford V8 engines (4.7 L and 7 L) were used, compared with the Ferrari V12 which displaced 3.0 L or 4.0 L.
Early cars were simply named "Ford GT". The name "GT40" was the name of Ford's project to prepare the cars for the international endurance racing circuit, and the quest to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first 12 "prototype" vehicles carried serial numbers GT-101 through GT-112. The "production" began and the subsequent cars, the MkI, MkIIs, MkIIIs, and MkIVs, numbered GT40-P-1000 through GT40-P-1145, were officially "GT40s". The name of Ford's project, and the serial numbers dispel the story that "GT40" was "only a nickname."
With the last pick in the 3rd round, team Not Rice B*tch proudly rolls the Triumph TR6 into the 1970s Position (Car was started in 69 but went into the 70s)
In the 80's category, Team Barnes selects the Ferrari F40.
The Ferrari F40 is a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive, two-door coupésports car produced by Ferrari from 1987 to 1992 as the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO. From 1987 to 1989 it held the title as the world's fastest street-legal production car, and during its years of production, was Ferrari's fastest, most powerful, and most expensive car.
The car debuted with a factory suggested retail price of approximately US$400,000, although some buyers were reported as paying as much as US$1.6 million. A total of 1,315 F40s were produced.
I found this to be a very difficult pick. There are so many cars I would love to have in my garage and so many picks between this one and my next one.
With the fourth round pick Lemelin's Lemmings has decided to fill the 1960's stall in the garage with the Chevrolet Camaro.
Everyone has their list of dream cars with many of those cars never being a realistic possibility to actually own. Well this car has been on my list for as long as I can remember and is one of those cars that I would realistically love to own one day. The Camaro may not be as trendy as the Mustang's of the same era but I would choose the Camaro over the Mustang every time.
When you think of cars from the 80's, there are 2 that predominantly stick out in my mind. One has been selected already,
and I am proud to select in the 4th round, my 80's car, the Ferrari Testarossa.
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The Testarossa name, which means "red head" in Italian, comes from the red-painted cam covers on the flat-12 engine.[7]
Of course, the double entendre with a red-headed woman was intentional; in fact, Ferrari and Pininfarina regularly use descriptive
terms related to a female's body when describing the style of their automobiles.
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As the car became synonymous with 80s yuppies and nowadays plays a part of the 80's retro culture,[12] such popularity
meant that the Testarossa has made appearance in numerous video games, most notably the arcade games Out Run, OutRun 2,
and Hard Drivin', and also in the TV series Miami Vice, as Sonny Crockett's undercover car from season three and on.
Yeah, my heart sank a bit when the F40 was picked. I'm personally not a big fan of the Testarossa, never really like it for some reason, but it is a true 80's car and a good pick as well.
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