Hi Jani,
paint looks great. Agree that we need to see the bumpers finished to decide if they worked. But ultimately it doesn't matter whether we like them or not, as long as you do.
It is nice though to see someone nearly finished! My pantera is in for paint at the moment and I hope to be able to have a 1st drive of it soon!
best of luck with the finishing
Peter
Bumpers are finished and I´m pretty happy with the looks.
Unfortunately there is a stuck valve in the engine, so I´m pretty pissed. It seems that the machine shop that my mechanic uses had an employee (now an ex-employee) that didn´t quite cut it, so the heads are coming off again... Hopefully for the last time.
Only silver cloud is that the machine shop is willing to fix the situation ASAP, so everything should be fine by early next week.
Still frustated and depressed, though.
Unfortunately there is a stuck valve in the engine, so I´m pretty pissed. It seems that the machine shop that my mechanic uses had an employee (now an ex-employee) that didn´t quite cut it, so the heads are coming off again... Hopefully for the last time.
Only silver cloud is that the machine shop is willing to fix the situation ASAP, so everything should be fine by early next week.
Still frustated and depressed, though.
My Longchamp has a collapsed lifter, so stationary as well. You're not alone :-)
Mikael,
Pretty good luck that it didn´t happend on the trip to Italy..
Pretty good luck that it didn´t happend on the trip to Italy..
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Fire at will...
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Jani,
Great to see your car finished. The bodywork looks very well done, especially noticeable in the front overhead photo.
Makes me think I should do some work on my LC, but after following your trials and tribulations, it does make one think twice before starting!
I did an experiment on my car the other day, ducting cold air into the intake. It helped performance more than I was expecting. I think Longchamps do get hot under the low bonnet and do benefit from this relatively simple mod.
Stuart
Great to see your car finished. The bodywork looks very well done, especially noticeable in the front overhead photo.
Makes me think I should do some work on my LC, but after following your trials and tribulations, it does make one think twice before starting!
I did an experiment on my car the other day, ducting cold air into the intake. It helped performance more than I was expecting. I think Longchamps do get hot under the low bonnet and do benefit from this relatively simple mod.
Stuart
Long time no post..
Bought a house made in 1952, so Longchamp has been neglected. After installing proper tires I have been able to expertiment with the performance a bit more, and now I feel that my first speeding ticket is just around the corner... Pretty happy with the tires(Michelin XWX 215/70 VR15). They definately transformed the the driving experinece. Highly recommended.
Bought a house made in 1952, so Longchamp has been neglected. After installing proper tires I have been able to expertiment with the performance a bit more, and now I feel that my first speeding ticket is just around the corner... Pretty happy with the tires(Michelin XWX 215/70 VR15). They definately transformed the the driving experinece. Highly recommended.
Great news!!
I am going to have chance to show my car to the Mr. Tom Tjaarda himself, when he visits Finland in may.
I am going to have chance to show my car to the Mr. Tom Tjaarda himself, when he visits Finland in may.
Long time no hear...
Well, since my last post I had the best day ever as a classic car enthusiast. My Longchamp was entered in to the largest classic car show in Finland as entry by the main sponsor. This was due them finding out the story behind my car and the fact that Tom Tjaarda was the guest of honor. They kept my car as a suprise for Tom, so you can imagine his suprise when he saw it... "What the... But this car doesn´t exist anymore?..." When interviewed in the show Tom engouraged everyone to check out his favourite car on the show, my Longchamp.
I met Tom after the official program, and I showed him how I made the my clone via all the pictures I managed to gather. Tom was flabbergasted how I was able get it so right with only magazine pictures("It´s perfect"). He had some great stories about some of them (especially about the drawings..). He signed the original promodraft of the Longchamp for me, and we spoke quite a bit about flying (Tom´s an enthusiast, I´m a pro), and then we wished the best for both of us when we departed (Tom requested proper photos of the car, which I naturally complied with). After Tom departed, I was left standing by my car trying to take it all in, all the blood, sweat and tears finally validated by the authority unlike anyone else, when an unknown beautiful woman woke me up from my stupor By saying "It can´t get better that that, can´t it?".
It sure can´t.
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.
.
Unfortunately, the role I planned for my Longchamp did not materialize (As a Grand Turismo between Helsinki and Lago Di Como), so I was planning to sell it, when a teenager rear ended(200 meters from my garage) it while a friend of mine was driving it back from a car show that I had created (with my friends). The end result was that the car was totalled by the insurance company, for the price of the paint job, exhaust system and some body work. I got a fair price for it ( a fraction of my investment, though), and the insurance company sold the car in less than a day...
Unfortunately the insurance company managed to break the front bumper too while transporting the car to the new owner, so the prototipo was no more, as the new owner bought my 3000-series bumpers, and restored the car back to stock (with the exception of the front end modifications, that you have to be an expert to notice).
So the 2133 lives on, but not as a prototipo clone, and I´m a Maserati and a Lotus man nowdays. The reason that I´m writing this post is (in addition to the Seagrams VO), that I couldn´t never have accomplished what I did without the help of this bb (+Roland, who is no longer here, and Santiago).
I really do hope that you appriciate the special community that you have here. I sure do, even though I´m not a part of it anymore.
Thank you.
P.s. Oh, I almost forgot... Thank you George!!! I am perfectly aware that there are almost no Longchamps and Deauvilles in the States. Thank you for providing the platform for these discussions. I am certain that you have saved quite a few of these cars from oblivion..
P.p.s. The main sponsor was the premier classic car magazine, that did a lead story about my car car and Tom Tjaarda on the following issue. So my car is immortal. Especially, as a local modelling enthusiast made a perfect replica of my car from an eighties Thunderbird in 1/24 scale...
Well, since my last post I had the best day ever as a classic car enthusiast. My Longchamp was entered in to the largest classic car show in Finland as entry by the main sponsor. This was due them finding out the story behind my car and the fact that Tom Tjaarda was the guest of honor. They kept my car as a suprise for Tom, so you can imagine his suprise when he saw it... "What the... But this car doesn´t exist anymore?..." When interviewed in the show Tom engouraged everyone to check out his favourite car on the show, my Longchamp.
I met Tom after the official program, and I showed him how I made the my clone via all the pictures I managed to gather. Tom was flabbergasted how I was able get it so right with only magazine pictures("It´s perfect"). He had some great stories about some of them (especially about the drawings..). He signed the original promodraft of the Longchamp for me, and we spoke quite a bit about flying (Tom´s an enthusiast, I´m a pro), and then we wished the best for both of us when we departed (Tom requested proper photos of the car, which I naturally complied with). After Tom departed, I was left standing by my car trying to take it all in, all the blood, sweat and tears finally validated by the authority unlike anyone else, when an unknown beautiful woman woke me up from my stupor By saying "It can´t get better that that, can´t it?".
It sure can´t.
.
.
.
Unfortunately, the role I planned for my Longchamp did not materialize (As a Grand Turismo between Helsinki and Lago Di Como), so I was planning to sell it, when a teenager rear ended(200 meters from my garage) it while a friend of mine was driving it back from a car show that I had created (with my friends). The end result was that the car was totalled by the insurance company, for the price of the paint job, exhaust system and some body work. I got a fair price for it ( a fraction of my investment, though), and the insurance company sold the car in less than a day...
Unfortunately the insurance company managed to break the front bumper too while transporting the car to the new owner, so the prototipo was no more, as the new owner bought my 3000-series bumpers, and restored the car back to stock (with the exception of the front end modifications, that you have to be an expert to notice).
So the 2133 lives on, but not as a prototipo clone, and I´m a Maserati and a Lotus man nowdays. The reason that I´m writing this post is (in addition to the Seagrams VO), that I couldn´t never have accomplished what I did without the help of this bb (+Roland, who is no longer here, and Santiago).
I really do hope that you appriciate the special community that you have here. I sure do, even though I´m not a part of it anymore.
Thank you.
P.s. Oh, I almost forgot... Thank you George!!! I am perfectly aware that there are almost no Longchamps and Deauvilles in the States. Thank you for providing the platform for these discussions. I am certain that you have saved quite a few of these cars from oblivion..
P.p.s. The main sponsor was the premier classic car magazine, that did a lead story about my car car and Tom Tjaarda on the following issue. So my car is immortal. Especially, as a local modelling enthusiast made a perfect replica of my car from an eighties Thunderbird in 1/24 scale...
Jani,
Thank YOU for YOUR contribution to this community. We have all enjoyed following the progress of your Longchamp and I am surely not alone in feeling sad that it ended in a crash, but happy that she will live on in another set of hands.
I wish you the best in your future projects and really hope we see you back here again. Maybe with a Pantera, or other DeTomaso.
Mark
Thank YOU for YOUR contribution to this community. We have all enjoyed following the progress of your Longchamp and I am surely not alone in feeling sad that it ended in a crash, but happy that she will live on in another set of hands.
I wish you the best in your future projects and really hope we see you back here again. Maybe with a Pantera, or other DeTomaso.
Mark
I concur with what Mark said. We will miss you but I too hope that your deTomaso days are not over.
Please pop in from time to time to check on us.
William
Please pop in from time to time to check on us.
William
There are three (3) different 351-C pans sold as stock. All the pans hold 5 qts and all are front sump. One is a simple bucket used on trucks. #2 has a rudimentary baffle around the pump pickup. The 3rd type used on Boss-351 and 351-HO has the baffle around the pickup as well as a simple scraper on the sloping rear part of the pan.
Not sure how hard you guys drive your sedans but in a stock Pantera with narrow tires, cornering forces are high enough to slosh oil away from the pump pickup, starving the crank bearings and eventually causing engine failure. So we use a 10-quart fully baffled pan from Aviaid; some engine shops in the U.S will not sell an engine with a stock pan to Pantera owners due to the large number of engine failures. It fits as stock. In the case of a 351-W, Aviaid has a similar pan for that engine too.
Not sure how hard you guys drive your sedans but in a stock Pantera with narrow tires, cornering forces are high enough to slosh oil away from the pump pickup, starving the crank bearings and eventually causing engine failure. So we use a 10-quart fully baffled pan from Aviaid; some engine shops in the U.S will not sell an engine with a stock pan to Pantera owners due to the large number of engine failures. It fits as stock. In the case of a 351-W, Aviaid has a similar pan for that engine too.
Your Longchamp now found a new home in Modena, it will be restored to the prototipo look. Prototipo Bumpers are already in the process of being restored to fit #2133 again. It's her second chance, not to be missed ;-)