Power is channeled through a one-off Sadev transmission and all-wheel-drive system, meaning that Block has basically married a NASCAR stock car with a WRC racer. Yes, that's a NASCAR engine, and it produces 845 horsepower.Ī NASCAR-powered Mustang would be news in itself, but it's the other powertrain changes made by Block and Co. How heavily modified is it? Well, Block's Hooligan Racing Division, ASD Motorsports and Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s RTR, spent two years working on it, ditching the standard engine and rear-wheel-drive layout and replacing it with a 410-cubic-inch Roush Yates V8. Rather than the cutting-edge rally racers of past videos, Block will pilot a heavily modified 1965 Ford Mustang, called the Hoonicorn. His next video, though, Gymkhana Seven, kind of goes back in time. Gymkhana king Ken Block has had a pretty simple car history in his trademark videos, starting out with Subaru Impreza rally cars before moving into Ford Focus racers for the past four installments. Ken Block's 1965 Ford Mustang Hoonicorn RTR and CR Supercars Villain are retro done right Wed, 20:20:00 EST Hell, our list has a friggin' Batmobile on it, how can it go wrong?įollow on below for the top ten cars that are red, white, blue and a whole lot of green. Long story short: we think a list of the most expensive American cars ever sold at auction is a lot more entertaining to read. Sure, a nearly $30-million Mercedes-Benz W196 racecar might be the new top dog as of last year, but it's even possible that Ferrari could take that title back in Monterey this weekend. Trouble is, once you get past the splendor of everyone's favorite Italian sports car maker, that list is pretty boring.įerrari dominates the all-time auction sales list seven of the top ten most expensive cars sold wear the Cavallino Rampante badge, as well as more than half of the top fifty.
With the Pebble Beach festivities kicking off this week, including any number high end car auctions, we thought it would be entertaining to compile a list of some to the most expensive cars ever sold with the bang of a gavel.
#AUTO ORDNANCE 1927 A3 FOR SALE PRO#
Here's a Pro Tip for all you would-be classic car investors out there: buy Ferraris. History on their website explaining development of the tommy gun is pretty interesting as well.The 11 most expensive American cars ever Tue, 12:45:00 EST I gotta figure this one is worth maybe $600 to $1200 if not something special about it, maybe more if fairly rare, tho' I'd rather have the. Page has links to left showing more info on different models available. 45 as far as I can tell - retails at $1000 to $1600 according to model. Should say they still make it, but onlyin. They might have all said that on them? They made a Model 1927 A1 that they acknowledge, but not A3. These are rare tho'.Įven the Auto-Ordnance website does not have info on this exact gun, and I cannot find any info on "model of 1927 A3." I can't determine if that means it was intended as a non-functioning replica or what. You CAN get the 50 round drum magazine which makes it look much more like the typical gangster gun. Yeah, it definitely has cool factor - it should, since it is a fairly faithful replica of the famous Tommy Gun, Chopper, or Thompson submachine gun. I'll have pix posted momentarily, but you've probably all seen this before and there are better pix online already.Ĭomments? Interest? Junk? Valuable at all? One time, when engaging the safety, luckily I pointed it in a safe direction, as I do with any gun, and the damn thing discharged by engaging the safety. More something I'd hang on the wall than shoot. I've shot it, and it works fine, except that I do not trust it much. In the meanwhile, I thought I'd throw this one out for discussion, thinking one of youse guys might already know something more than I do about it.
I haven't found much good info, mostly forum threads where someone was trying to sell one for $1250, but I am trying some variations on my search terms to try to find more. I've got an Auto-Ordnance 1927 A3 (actually, it says "Model of 1927 A3" on the gun.) This appears to be a very old, working weapon (if you could call it that) and I am still researching it, so please don't tell me to