Continuation Atalanta Bluebird for sale

Are younger folks into it much too, or is it just us previous parents who delight in the watch down a extensive automobile bonnet? How did that at any time develop into a factor? Was it down to the affect of Noddy’s multicoloured motor in our black and white childhoods, or was it a security matter stemming from the emotion that you would be more absent from a head-on incident in a car or truck that condition than you would be in a Mini?

Regardless of what it is, the extended bonnet/short cabin style most surely has severe appeal for a sizeable proportion of the motoring population. Odd, then, that so couple corporations have seen in shape to offer product or service for that industry. If you low cost kit automobiles designed out of stinky fibreglass and previous Marina drivetrains – which you really really should – you would have to admit that Morgan has been masking it very substantially solo.

Until, that is, you have been knowledgeable of the Atalanta Bluebird which is presently for sale in PH Classifieds. The incredible story of Atalanta is nicely defined in the advert so we’ll skip about most of that for now, touching only briefly on the wonder of a company that commenced in 1937 and went in double-quick time from race-aggressive 1.5- and 2.-litre fours (originally developed for Frazer Nashes) to a 4.3-litre Lincoln Zephyr V12 just before switching to the manufacture of pumping devices for the 2nd World War.

The 22 or so cars and trucks they did control to make just before war intervened highlighted ground breaking engineering like thoroughly impartial suspension all round, twin-spark heads and lightweight products this sort of as duralumin and electron. They came out pretty well in modern street exams and liked a amount of good results in equally rally and velocity trial gatherings that was remarkable taking into consideration how young the firm was. They even ran a works entry at Le Mans in 1938 only to be sidelined by a damaged driveshaft.

The motor vehicle you’re hunting at here is a single of 3 continuation cars created so significantly by Atalanta Motors, a agency set up in 2011 to tailor made-develop cars mixing the first 1930s Atalanta artwork deco vibe with the sizeable added benefits of additional fashionable tech, components and approaches. So the two-seater bodies are traditionally labored in aluminium about ash, but the chassis is a light-weight welded and bonded aluminium composite.

The Borg Warner T9 five-speed gearbox harks back again to the first cars’ Warner synchro overdrive packing containers but is up-to-date with an aluminium-cased minimal slip diff. The suspension is the initial unbiased design but has upgraded castings and tailored, remotely adjustable coilover shocks. Braking is by disc with 4-piston calipers on all corners but the 18 x 4 painted wire wheels are pure Rudge Whitworth style. The steering is unassisted rack and pinion with a thoroughly collapsible column.

What is actually the engine while? Nicely, it is really a 2.5-litre in a natural way aspirated four with variable timing ‘developed in property by Atalanta’ to produce 214hp with 198lb ft of torque. We’re likely to permit you beardy varieties test to discover it from the engine pic on DK’s web-site.

The Atalanta’s VIN plate tells us it weighs 1,127kg. Excitingly, that’s the very same as the Lotus Exige Activity 350. Admittedly the Lotus experienced 345hp so it would possibly be unreasonable to hope Exige-like amounts of efficiency from the Atalanta, in particular if you found on your own driving into the enamel of a robust wind, but supercharged choices are readily available to any person commissioning their very own Atalanta.

The sprint has that Morganesque ‘let’s throw some clocks at it and see in which they stop up’ seem to it, which of program is just as it must be. Not absolutely sure what wood they used to keep them in location but PH’s resident carpenter tells us it can be not walnut or maple.

A car or truck just like this (or exactly like this if it was the exact same car) was on display in the rotunda of the RAC Club in Pall Mall a few of a long time again. It may well still be there for all we know, we haven’t been again due to the fact the exclusion purchase was produced. Issue being that the RAC would not stick any old hack in its rotunda. This is a pukka machine.

Frustratingly you have to implement to DK to come across out the value. What may that be? Perfectly, when the 1st continuation was created five yrs ago we consider that selling prices began at £150,000 and there could perfectly be a desirability quality on major of that now. Yes, you can get a utilized Aston DBS Superleggera for the identical money, but how a lot of of them do you see on the roads on an ordinary working day? Fifty or sixty? Alright, probably that wasn’t a fantastic illustration, but you get the drift. And you just about definitely will get the drift on an Atalanta’s Blockley tyres.

in circumstance you might be wanting to know, Atalanta was a mythological Greek huntress blessed with tenacity and pace. As we are confident you know, there was a further motor vehicle with Atalanta in its identify, the unforgettable Sizaire-Berwick 20CV Atalanta Sporting Torpedo of 1915. Unfortunately, no illustrations or photos look to exist of that motor vehicle but with a name of that magnitude you’d like to feel that the bonnet was totally substantial.