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Alfa 8C And Porsche 911 Hooning In The Snow

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:01 AM PST

Chrises Cars - Alfa 8C And Porsche 911 Hooning In The Snow

Check out this video showing the beautiful Alfa 8C and Porsche 911 playing in the snow.

Winter is a time of hibernation, not just for bears, but supercars as well. Or is it? Well, it depends on the owners of the super car. They can lock them away, or they can bring them out for some proper winter fun, like these cool Boston boys who hit the snow with an Alfa Romeo 8C and a Porsche 911.

The fact that they took an 8C out in this condition is pretty impressive, because this baby is a rare and expensive Italian super car, and unlike its Porsche 4S company, it is rear wheel drive. Many things can go wrong in situations like this, but that’s part of the fun, isn’t it!

Would you take your Alfa 8C or Porsche 911 for a bit of fun in the Snow?

Source: Motorward

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Rare Two Seater Mustang To Appear At Amelia Island

Posted: 22 Feb 2013 05:34 AM PST

Chrises Cars - Rare Two Seater Mustang To Appear At Amelia Island

Due to the success of the Mustang during the 1960s Ford tried out a few two seater Mustang designs over the years, one of which has survived and will appear at next month's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.

According to owner Bill Snyder, Ford itself built this experimental two seater Mustang from a pre-production chassis shortened 16 inches and stuffed with a 260-cu.in. V-8 bored and stroked to 302 cubic inches.

Designer Bill Vince Gardner came up with the fastback profile to fit the shortened wheelbase, which Dearborn Steel Tubing – the same company responsible for the Ford Thunderbolt – rendered in fiberglass with a prominent fuel filler above its small ducktail spoiler.

Snyder said the Mustang then traveled the country with Ford, which is how Snyder first encountered it, but Gardner apparently felt too strongly attached to the car to let Ford crush it afterward, so he stole it and walled it up in a warehouse in Inkster, Michigan.

As the story goes, Gardner then didn't pay any rent to the warehouse owner and Ford already filed the stolen car claim and collected the settlement from the insurance company, so the Mustang ended up in the hands of the latter six months after Gardner hid it away. Snyder eventually bought it from an executive with that insurance company, fulfilling a nearly 50-year dream to own this particular car after seeing it advertised in a 1968 issue of Hemmings Motor News.

According to Gary Witzenburg's Mustang: The Complete History of America's Pioneer Ponycar, shortened two-seaters almost perennially appeared in the course of Mustang history even though Lee Iacocca and his product planners had settled on a four-seat configuration almost from the beginning. One of the earliest such Mustang-based two-seater concepts came about in 1964 when designers toyed with different implementations of the fastback body style while a more radical fastback appeared in October 1966 as a proposal for the 1969 model year refresh.

"We went through a period where we were chopping about six inches off the back," Gail Halderman, the Mustang's design chief at the time, told Witzenburg. "But then we went to two inches and finally back to where we had started because we still had to package a spare tire, fuel tank, and some luggage room back there." None of these other shortened two-seater Mustang design studies appear to have progressed beyond the clay model stage.