Continuation Atalanta Bluebird for sale

Are young people into it far too, or is it just us outdated parents who appreciate the see down a extended vehicle bonnet? How did that at any time grow to be a thing? Was it down to the impact of Noddy’s multicoloured motor in our black and white childhoods, or was it a safety point stemming from the feeling that you would be even more away from a head-on incident in a auto that condition than you would be in a Mini?

No matter what it is, the prolonged bonnet/shorter cabin style and design most undoubtedly has critical attraction for a significant proportion of the motoring inhabitants. Odd, then, that so number of companies have viewed healthy to supply product or service for that market place. If you price cut kit cars built out of pungent fibreglass and aged Marina drivetrains – which you definitely should – you would have to confess that Morgan has been masking it pretty a lot solo.

Unless, that is, you ended up conscious of the Atalanta Bluebird which is currently for sale in PH Classifieds. The incredible tale of Atalanta is properly discussed in the advertisement so we will skip more than most of that for now, touching only briefly on the surprise of a firm that started off in 1937 and went in double-swift time from race-competitive 1.5- and 2.-litre fours (in the beginning made for Frazer Nashes) to a 4.3-litre Lincoln Zephyr V12 prior to switching to the manufacture of pumping equipment for the Second Planet War.

The 22 or so autos they did handle to make ahead of war intervened showcased progressive technological know-how like thoroughly independent suspension all round, twin-spark heads and light-weight elements these as duralumin and electron. They came out quite effectively in contemporary road tests and liked a level of accomplishment in both equally rally and pace demo gatherings that was extraordinary contemplating how youthful the organization was. They even ran a functions entry at Le Mans in 1938 only to be sidelined by a broken driveshaft.

The auto you might be hunting at in this article is one particular of three continuation vehicles constructed so considerably by Atalanta Motors, a organization established up in 2011 to personalized-construct automobiles blending the first 1930s Atalanta artwork deco vibe with the considerable rewards of far more fashionable tech, elements and approaches. So the two-seater bodies are customarily labored in aluminium in excess of ash, but the chassis is a lightweight welded and bonded aluminium composite.

The Borg Warner T9 five-velocity gearbox harks again to the authentic cars’ Warner synchro overdrive bins but is up-to-date with an aluminium-cased constrained slip diff. The suspension is the initial unbiased structure but has upgraded castings and tailored, 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 fashion. The steering is unassisted rack and pinion with a absolutely collapsible column.

What’s the engine while? Properly, it can be a 2.5-litre by natural means aspirated four with variable timing ‘developed in house by Atalanta’ to create 214hp with 198lb ft of torque. We’re heading to allow you beardy forms consider 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 is the exact same as the Lotus Exige Activity 350. Admittedly the Lotus had 345hp so it would perhaps be unreasonable to expect Exige-like concentrations of general performance from the Atalanta, particularly if you located by yourself driving into the enamel of a powerful wind, but supercharged options are readily available to everyone commissioning their possess Atalanta.

The sprint has that Morganesque ‘let’s toss some clocks at it and see the place they conclude up’ appear to it, which of course is particularly as it really should be. Not positive what wood they utilised to keep them in spot but PH’s resident carpenter tells us it is really not walnut or maple.

A auto just like this (or specifically like this if it was the identical car) was on display screen in the rotunda of the RAC Club in Pall Shopping mall a few of years back again. It may still be there for all we know, we haven’t been back again since the exclusion purchase was designed. Issue getting that the RAC would not stick any old hack in its rotunda. This is a pukka device.

Frustratingly you have to apply to DK to discover out the cost. What could that be? Effectively, when the 1st continuation was crafted 5 a long time in the past we feel that prices began at £150,000 and there may well be a desirability high quality on top rated of that now. Indeed, you can get a made use of Aston DBS Superleggera for the same cash, but how a lot of of them do you see on the streets on an average day? Fifty or sixty? Ok, probably that wasn’t a superior instance, but you get the drift. And you virtually absolutely will get the drift on an Atalanta’s Blockley tyres.

in circumstance you’re wondering, Atalanta was a mythological Greek huntress blessed with tenacity and speed. As we are positive you know, there was an additional auto with Atalanta in its title, the unforgettable Sizaire-Berwick 20CV Atalanta Sporting Torpedo of 1915. Sadly, no pictures appear to exist of that car but with a name of that magnitude you’d like to feel that the bonnet was totally massive.