They should have left it sitting at Pininfarina.

My brother first told me about this car when we were kids. He’s been a major fan of it ever since. Last time I tried to talk with him about it, he spoke nonstop. I couldn’t get a word in wedgewise.

This.
This and the Carabo.

I wondered whether the pictures shown by mike89 were taken that day?

From everyone, thanks for doing Raph’s work for him.

Was hoping there’d be video. Whatevs.

Thanks, Google:

Except the Boomarang wasn’t designed by Gandini at Bertone, but rather Guigiaro at Italdesign. The Marzal, Pirana, and Espada were all Gandini.

As a long time photographer, I cry for the youth of this world who will never know or understand the beauty of a perfect Cibachrome, Ektachrome or joy of joys, Kodachrome image. Yes, you can set your digital tools up to mimic them, but it just isn’t the same. I also cry for myself knowing that in my lifetime I will…

Pictured is a Corvair magnesium fan:

It’s a kind of centrifugal fan. If you look inside a typical floor vacuum it will have the same kind of pump in it with straight blades. The advantage to them is they move a lot of air while being fairly robust and resistant to foreign objects.

The vanes widen as they move outward, which creates an accelerative effect for the air at the base of the vane. It creates a high-pressure zone at the base and a low-pressure zone at the exit, which effectively sucks the air out of the wheel.

In either case, they’re not super effective for the low speeds of street…

Well, then bidness is bidness. There’s no accounting for individual tastes.

And in 20 years when a 959 starts fetching $5MM, they’ll get the cars back and charge another million to return them to stock. It’s a beautiful business strategy.

Slack cut.

I have my excellent taste to keep me company.

Firmly in the unimpressed camp. It has all the jarring traits of a resto-mod without the redeeming quality of retaining the proportions of the original vehicle. Hard pass, and without knowing the price—CP.

The 917 was pseudo street-legal from the outset. It campaigned in sports car racing, complete with required street car features like a passenger seat, spare tire, signals, horn, etc.

Hence my point about being made to look and go good.