Continuation Atalanta Bluebird for sale

Are youthful folks into it too, or is it just us outdated fogeys who love the perspective down a very long auto bonnet? How did that ever turn into a thing? Was it down to the impact of Noddy’s multicoloured motor in our black and white childhoods, or was it a stability matter stemming from the experience that you would be further absent from a head-on incident in a vehicle that shape than you would be in a Mini?

Whatever it is, the prolonged bonnet/brief cabin design most absolutely has severe attraction for a major share of the motoring populace. Odd, then, that so couple firms have witnessed healthy to supply solution for that market. If you lower price package cars and trucks produced out of pungent fibreglass and previous Marina drivetrains – which you really need to – you would have to confess that Morgan has been covering it pretty significantly solo.

Except if, that is, you were informed of the Atalanta Bluebird which is currently for sale in PH Classifieds. The remarkable story of Atalanta is nicely defined in the ad so we are going to skip above most of that for now, touching only briefly on the marvel of a business that started off in 1937 and went in double-fast time from race-aggressive 1.5- and 2.-litre fours (to begin with built for Frazer Nashes) to a 4.3-litre Lincoln Zephyr V12 before switching to the manufacture of pumping equipment for the Next Environment War.

The 22 or so autos they did deal with to make before war intervened featured ground breaking engineering like totally independent suspension all spherical, twin-spark heads and light-weight supplies such as duralumin and electron. They arrived out quite very well in present-day highway checks and loved a amount of success in each rally and pace trial occasions that was amazing considering how young the business was. They even ran a will work entry at Le Mans in 1938 only to be sidelined by a damaged driveshaft.

The automobile you’re seeking at in this article is just one of 3 continuation cars and trucks built so significantly by Atalanta Motors, a business established up in 2011 to custom made-establish cars and trucks blending the authentic 1930s Atalanta art deco vibe with the appreciable gains of additional modern tech, materials and approaches. So the two-seater bodies are typically worked in aluminium in excess of ash, but the chassis is a light-weight welded and bonded aluminium composite.

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

What is actually the motor however? Well, it really is a 2.5-litre in a natural way aspirated 4 with variable timing ‘developed in home by Atalanta’ to deliver 214hp with 198lb ft of torque. We’re going to allow you beardy sorts check out to establish it from the engine pic on DK’s internet site.

The Atalanta’s VIN plate tells us it weighs 1,127kg. Excitingly, which is the exact same as the Lotus Exige Sport 350. Admittedly the Lotus experienced 345hp so it would maybe be unreasonable to anticipate Exige-like degrees of performance from the Atalanta, particularly if you discovered yourself driving into the enamel of a robust wind, but supercharged choices are out there to everyone commissioning their possess Atalanta.

The sprint has that Morganesque ‘let’s toss some clocks at it and see where they conclusion up’ seem to it, which of study course is just as it ought to be. Not positive what wood they utilized to maintain them in put but PH’s resident carpenter tells us it really is not walnut or maple.

A car just like this (or precisely like this if it was the very same motor vehicle) was on display in the rotunda of the RAC Club in Pall Mall a couple of several years back again. It may well however be there for all we know, we haven’t been back because the exclusion get was made. Position becoming that the RAC wouldn’t stick any aged hack in its rotunda. This is a pukka equipment.

Frustratingly you have to use to DK to find out the cost. What could possibly that be? Perfectly, when the initial continuation was constructed five years back we consider that rates commenced at £150,000 and there may properly be a desirability top quality on major of that now. Indeed, you can get a applied Aston DBS Superleggera for the identical money, but how numerous of them do you see on the streets on an common day? Fifty or sixty? Okay, maybe that was not a fantastic instance, but you get the drift. And you practically undoubtedly will get the drift on an Atalanta’s Blockley tyres.

in case you might be wondering, Atalanta was a mythological Greek huntress blessed with tenacity and pace. As we are guaranteed you know, there was a further car with Atalanta in its title, the unforgettable Sizaire-Berwick 20CV Atalanta Sporting Torpedo of 1915. Unfortunately, no pictures seem to exist of that automobile but with a identify of that magnitude you would like to think that the bonnet was absolutely significant.