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Aston Martin Le Mans: In general, driving pre-war sport cars is always much more complicated for different reasons; then, if we look for the perfection of the passage over the pressure switch, everything is even more complicated. Neverthless, I adapted myself qucikly to this car, finding me totally confortable once I sat down at the driving place and since the first test passages.
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Construction year: 1933
Cubic capacity: 1500 cc
Cylinder number: 4
Gears: 4 gears + reverse gear
Drive: rear-wheel drive
Brakes: line system with brake drum
Frame: iron and wood
Suspension: leaf spring + shock absorber
Top speed: 137 km/h (at the origin, now around 120 km/h)
In general, driving pre-war sport cars is always much more complicated for different reasons; then, if we look for the perfection of the passage over the pressure switch, everything is even more complicated.
Neverthless, I adapted myself qucikly to this car, finding me totally confortable once I sat down at the driving place and since the first test passages.Sweet engine, which work all in all well at the lows though with an energy supply more (too much) slow but luckly progressive and constant; to the features of these "queen cars" we adapt and behave in consequence.
The gear, absolutely no synchronized, it is the real joy or pain of this car. Indeed, to insert the gears both to come up and get down, we must be "excellent musician" to guess perfectly with the famous double-declutching (that real with the double clutch movement) the right revolution number for the guts integration; on the contrary the gear doesn't enter absolutely with even a deafening scratch...which degrade the driver too.
But when the gear enter "alone" in that deaf sense of get sucked of the guts, the joy is a lot and the driver self-esteem grow out of all proportion!! But the best the Aston Martin give is in the curves, where with its flat frame and the sporting vintage stability, it acts as a kart; very pleasant the drive in this occasion, with a very fast insertion in the curves and a torsion of the frame which bend the car with the effect of the "boat roar" due to the creak wood...everything for the drive pleasure, but above all, considering the low engine, to have a remarkable cover speed in the curves and to garantee in consequence a good speed at the end.
In other words it must enter in curves with decision and "throw it inside".
Really a beautiful emotion.
In the end I found myself well in this car, because personally I didn't have others choices, considering my 191 cm height quite every prewar car is precluded to me even to sit down in.
So it is more than perfect for me the 1993 Aston Martin Le Mans.
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