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Joined: Sat Oct 04, 2014 3:49 am
Location: Tarnów, Poland
Cars: Not a car, but I own Arkus Classic Junior in black ;)
Airborne Motor Group - New York 2016
About the brand - well, it's a polish brand originated in 1948. Basicly, the story will be revealed with coming cars, I guess it's best option. However, I can write that polish guy originated the brand, but it got established in USA. In 1954, it got a factory in Spain, then in US in 1964 and more factories in Poland in 1989, after getting independence from communist politics of USSR. Nevermind, the story will continue; Now I want to present you one of more historical cars, from 1972.
1972 Airborne Valetta
This car was created in 1972 due to popularity of sports cars such like Mazda Cosmo, Datsuns: 240Z and 260Z, Porsche 914 and Lotus Europa, for example. So CEO of Airborne Automotive decided to build car like that. It was WIP from 1969, however first 1970 prototypes could be spotted on the street.
For it's times, it was very modern. It featured 2997cc Inline 6 engine producing 197 PS of power and 221 Nm of torque. With combination of 851 kilos curb weight, RWD and Manual gearbox with 5 gears it was superb combination. The car reaches first 100 km/h in time of 7.7 seconds. It's top speed is 192 km/h and in today's times it lapped Airfield Track with time of 1:38.18 and on 1/4 straight it made time of 15.54 s at 153 km/h on the finish line. I can't tell if it's very fast or slow, your opinion. It has gas mileage of 13 l/100 km.
The only disadvantage of the car was, that the materials used were very modern, it costed 9.105 $ without tax and importing stuff. It was available in three colors: White, Black and Sea Blue.
Please give me the opinions about the car; I want to design more of them, but I want to know how do you think of them
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