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This 8,9-metre limousine consisting of details from automobile dumps, is exposed on sale at auction eBay for the silly price under one million dollars (more precisely, for $950 thousand). Somehow to justify such sum, the owner informs that given "work of art" won the first place at the largest world festival of autoexotic Houston Texas Art Car twice. Original technical characteristics of the car constructed on the basis of two Mercedes 300TD, really impress: in the given project details from 40 different cars are used, the limousine is equipped by 86 headlights (for their food it is established three accumulators), and besides it the body has bristled up 36 mirrors. On construction left 10 years.

Affirms that the ten-local automonster in a fine technical condition. The owner informs that the car without problems transferred travel from Florida to Canada and back.

The Russian studio R.A.D. (Russian Automobile Design) has shown the first drawings of the new unique car which will be constructed on base Porsche Cayenne, transfers a portal Cardesign.ru.

The new car will be constructed in style of jotas-sorts Mercury by which use Sylvester Stallone in a film "Cobra". As always in such cases, the car will receive a unique body, however, all "mechanics" will be borrowed from Porsche Cayenne. From last car the engine will get also.

It is necessary to notice that the company R.A.D. in cooperation with studio CARDI already built unusual coupes on the basis of Porsche Сayenne. So, in April, 2007 has been created car Volga-Cayenne . This car has a body very similar to "Volga". And the interior here only reminds the well-known Soviet car. And in the technical plan is Porsche Cayenne. On hearings, such car was sold to famous russian businessman for $1 million!

In the near future on one of auctions the most expensive car on a planet can be sold by auction! It is a question about Rolls-Royce Phantom II 40/50 HP Continental 1934 which also is known as Star of India. Lately the limousine was stored in a museum of the city of Mulheim. Hans Gjuntera Zah in which garage while away the century some more invaluable cars owned a curiosity. But the ubiquitous paw of financial crisis has reached and the collector whom, trying to escape from financial difficulties, has exposed on auction some unique cars in which number it has appeared Star of India.



And now the most important thing – the price. The collector has estimated the car in 10 million euro! And, the car will be on sale at auction so, its cost can increase in times: many well-founded fans of olden time nervously swallow at a sight on Star of India. Thus, Rolls-Royce Phantom 1934 becomes the most expensive car on a planet.

Today lowrider name any low creeping on highway wheelbarrow. And meanwhile, from the point of view of cleanliness of style, it is incorrect. And that is true and as it works – we will try to understand in this article. Movement lowriders has arisen to the Second World War. Already in the late 30-s in many small towns in the south of the USA the American Mexicans went on low Chevrolet.

The car was a part of youth culture and distinctive feature of the Mexican population. In many cases it were "Chevrolet", old, but perfectly restored. In certain cases they have been temporarily underestimated"by bags with sand or other heavy subjects in a luggage compartment, in others – went by short springs which either cut, or heated up until while they did not get"correct"height. The manner to go on lowriders leaves during more distant times. Till now in many Mexican villages there is a custom when unmarried young men walk round a central square, the young man in one direction, girls in other. The purpose of this action – to meet eyes about the the future husband or the wife. There is a legend that slow conveyance on lowrider on a quarter not that other, as modern interpretation of old tradition.



Unlike movement jotas-sorts, supporters lowriders (by the way, such name has been thought up only in the 60-x 20 centuries) always staked on appearance, style and beauty of the car. The present blossoming of this culture has come only in the late fifties - the beginning of 60th years. Then parkways of cities were filled with a large quantity lowriders. And further this culture only developed.



Classics

When speak «lowrider», for certain almost all recollects hardly creeping "Impala" from 60-s, on small spokes wheels. Chevrolet as a whole, for admirers lowriders is the same that Ford – for jotas-rodderov. In pre-war years luxury models of 39th year used special popularity. After war in honour there were cabriolets Chevrolet of 48th modelling year: Fleetline 48th, "Chevy" hard top 50th and, of course, Mercury 49th – 50th years. In those days there was no yet a division, and all was called jotas-sorts. And, if the presents of jotas-childbirth became to "go", lowriders were under construction to prove to be. At this time pioneers of lowride-movement began for the first time to reflect as to make the cars even more low. The first that was used for this purpose – wheels of small diameter. A certain standard for classical lowriders is 13-inch wheels. They also cost cheaper huge skating rinks which used jotas-roddery, and allowed to make the car at least on pair inches more close to the earth. But the maximum understating was reached by radical intervention in a suspender and a body. Frame pieces were for this purpose cut out, places of fastening of a suspender were digested, short springs and non-standard springs were used. Not expensive paints for a body and plush interiors were last elements of style.



In 50 the law against lowriders has been passed. This law defined what height of a suspender should be, that the car could go legally on streets. And we never would see more than cars lying on the earth, if not the invention made in 1959. Then for the first time on the car, namely Corvette, the hydraulic struts have been established, allowing to regulate suspender height. Racks and valves have been borrowed from the written off bomber «B-52». It was break: such suspender allowed to be at legal height before policemen and to lie on the earth during trips with friends.



Hydraulics

The principle of work of hydraulic struts not strongly differs from principle absorber works. In one part of the cylinder the pump forces oil which shifts the bucket downwards, thereby hoisting the car over road. Accordingly, to lower the car, it is necessary to make return action. All system consists of four hydrocylinders, the pump, a receiver with oil and several highways with steering valves, and as several additional accumulators for steering of pumps. The mode of installation of cylinders depends on type of a suspender of the concrete car. For example, if the car has behind a beam axle with springs hydrocylinders are established over the truncated spring. Thus one end of system - the cylinder-spring is attached to a body, and the second rests against the bridge. The similar scheme is applied in standard 2х to a lever suspender, with A-shaped lower arms. Similar types of suspenders have Chevy Impala, MonteCarlo or Buick Regal. For cars with a spring rear suspension the scheme is even easier: the cylinder one end fastens to a frame over a spring, the second fastens to the spring. Thus the quantity of sheets in a spring as much as possible decreases. If the car has a suspender of type of MakFerson then the standard absorber is subject to replacement by the hydrocylinder. The original spring thus remains. As the top part of the cylinder fastens to a body through a standard bearing part at car lowering, the cylinder simply compresses a spring. There is still a second scheme when the spring is above the cylinder. In this case the hydraulics in no way does not influence a spring compression ratio.





Other important device – the pump forcing oil in cylinders. To press in principles of work of the pump it is not meaningful within the limits of given article. It is necessary to notice only that the pump submits oil under the big pressure to working area of the cylinder. There are some schemes of installation of pumps. The most simple is the unique pump. In this case to hoist the car it will be possible only at once all. In the second case the system has two pumps – on one on a lobby and a rear axle. At such scheme it is possible to steer separately a raising of a lobby or a car rear. And the most advanced scheme are four pumps, on each cylinder the pump. Here it is possible to steer a raising of any "corner" of the car in independence of all the others.



It is necessary to notice that lowering, in any their three cases, occurs independently for each cylinder. Each of them has the "target" valve. An element of a food of pumps are additional accumulators, which incorporate consistently to receive various pressure. The above pressure, the is more speed of pumps. That it to reach, unite to 6 accumulators, receiving on an exit 72 Volts. It allows to hoist the car almost instantly. Repeatedly repeated to hoist leads to that the car starts to jump. The following element absolutely unessential, the receiver is. It is the small cylinder usually established in immediate proximity from the hydrocylinder. Is better directly over it. The receiver is necessary when it is necessary, that the car could rise and fall smoothly and without jerks. On a design it is a cylinder divided by a diaphragm. From above there is a gas under pressure, from below – oil. As a matter of fact it is a receiver which supports pressure of oil in system at any constant level.

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By the end 50 existence of lowriders becames more difficult. In some cities all new and new laws against custom-cars were passed: suspender versions, too loud exhaust, races on streets, – much was put under an interdiction. And your glovebox was quickly filled with penal receipts if you wished to show all the pride and hobby. Shortly movement lowriders has fallen outside the limits one national group and has turned to public idea. And children of ancestors of style could see, how has been much added to initially low suspender. It and considerable versions of a body, and the special painting even more often simulating an old paint or easier first coat.« Chevrolets »any more were not an icon, as earlier. There were no Any more restrictions. For construction lowrider it was possible to use not only a coupe, but also sedans. Understating was an indisputable rule, mouldings for tyres (whitewalls) became a certain standard, exhaust pipes and fog lights were very desirable elements. In a fashion there was a maximum disposal of the car of chrome. It was already a certain mixture completely individual kastom-cars and classical lowriders. Use included concept a strit-sort. This environment was very popular to remove from the car all chrome, emblems, to smooth down door handles and other acting parts. On the other hand, supporters of classical style to differ, tried to leave all as is. Shortly the fashion included use of numerous original accessories. The beginning 60 was not the most successful time therefore as America was at war in Vietnam, and much had no time for development of automobile culture. But the end 60 – the beginning 70 became the next stage in development lowriders. At this particular time many start to understand that manufacture of components for a hydraulic suspender can bring good money. Before the assembled samples were such systems by own hands. On the decision to do components in professional masterful people have jogged some incidents with lowriders: in several failures because of suspender breakages have suffered and people were lost. Competitions start to develop in the same period because of use possibilities of a hydraulic suspender. And "dances" - ability to steer a raising and lowering of each wheel, irrespective of others become the first type of competitions. From the midpoint 70 development of lowrider-movement already was not possible to stop. And, probably, even more mass this phenomenon became with the advent of a pneumatic suspender. Not such expensive and difficult, as hydraulic.





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Ulster — one of the most esteemed premilitary models Aston Martin. This copy is esteemed doubly: it concerns a rare series from 21 cars, the factory command exhausted in honour of a victory on race Tourist Trophy of 1934 when cars of this mark have come to finish of the first, the second and the third in the class! Price for now: $600 000



The refined lines of racing body Aston Martin Ulster not implicate with anything: it cardinally differs from all analogues of time as the hound differs from race horses. Especially impresses a long cowl, with headlights Lucas «King of the Road». Under facilitated cover of a cowl reliably fixed by leather belts "four" with a dry crankcase and two carburettors. Engine power — 80 h.p. Today it it seems a little, but to measures of 1936 it there was an impressing indicator for the motor in volume of 1,5 litres.

There is a set of factors to which you should get used, steering Aston Martin Ulster. First of all it concerns a non-standard arrangement of pedals: an accelerator in the centre, a brake — on the right. To switch drives too it is necessary to get used: the first is stuck upwards and to the right, and the fourth in an opposite direction — downwards and to the left. Besides the box is not equipped by synchro units, therefore at each transition to a hill-climbing gear clutch should be squeezed out twice.

The front panel is overloaded by devices Jaeger and scattering of every possible switches, to understand which appointment is not present either time, or desire.You get the motor and as the adjuster of a firing point located on a steering wheel you force the antediluvian power unit to work with full kickback. The mixture of shrill squeal of the engine and angry sound an exhaust pipe sideways creates sensation of flight on the rare car First World War times. In process of dispersal you pass through the whole procession of noise and sounds: whining, a clunking, a trumpet roar. Not every day you will hear such cacophony of sounds on a public road!



On the move the car has surpassed all your expectations: delay between turning movement of a steering wheel and turning movement of wheels for so ancient design is marvellously insignificant. And to "make friends" with a gear box it has appeared not too difficult. The main thing — not to forget to squeeze out clutch the necessary quantity of times. If correctly to carry out all necessary actions, dexterously bossing a wheel, the transmission lever, and also clutch pedals and an accelerator, Ulster will answer you with the same confident and accurate movement on the necessary speed and in the necessary direction. Naturally, all occurs on much lower speeds, than with what it is necessary to consult modern sports cars, but the behaviour of this sport car on road all the same impresses. Probably, all these modern , taxiing up, witholds and supervising systems are not too necessary. After all this Aston Martin, not equipped with them, gives such pleasure from driving! Technical progress? You dont need this progress using such beautiful car!



For collectors Ulster — the most desired model from all premilitary men Aston Martin, therefore for the privilege to possess this car it is necessary to lay out the considerable sum. There are two categories "Ulsters". The cars belonging to official command Aston Martin or private commands of race in Le Mans, cost about one million dollars. Road versions unprepared for races (bigger from these cars have rich history too of performances in races) are estimated in $600 000. Such cars has been exhausted very little, therefore to buy Ulster — the big good luck.