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The Crane Custom Triumph Scrambler Motorcycle by Ton-Up Garage

“Ton Up Garage” is a popular workshop based in Portugal. Earlier we looked at some of the projects specialists TUG, and all have a good estimate. The new work is called the Portuguese masters “Crane” and it is based on a Triumph Scrambler motorcycle.

Pedro and the team Ton Up Garage had a unique opportunity to make a second bike with elements of off-road vehicles. Previous similar project called “Gold Digger”, but, this time, in front of the Portuguese was slightly different task. First, they used as a basis for Triumph Scrambler 2007 release. Secondly, the aim was to collect luxury off-road bike as well as for driving on the roads. In the end, it turned out really great. Bike looks good and expensive.

Custom Triumph Scrambler Crane Details:

Donor Triumph Scrambler
43 mm inverted fork, adjustable shock absorber
Continental TKC 80 tires
New lighting, taillights Lucas
Miniature tidy
Engine repainted in black
LSL sprocket cover
Repainted the tank, powder coating wheels
Digested frame, installed a new saddle
Custom exhaust, heat-resistant shield

Why motorcycle called the “Crane”? The fact that the customer is in his youth was a tall young man, and it is often referred to that way. He asked the cutomizers to build a tall bike, so over the title did not have to think long.

Ferrari F12 Berlinetta tackles an Airbus A320 for charity

178,820 EUR raised

Air Malta organized a drag race between an Airbus A320 and a Ferrari F12 Berlinettato raise funds for a charity.

The race was held on December 9, 2012 at the Malta International Airport with the purpose of raising money for the Paqpali Ghall-Istrina charity organized annually. Although weather conditions were far from being ideal, hundreds of people gathered to see the interesting race and helped the organizers raise 178,820 EUR. One of the star visitors was 2008 Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton.

Behind the wheel of the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta was Christopher Sultana while the Airbus A320 was piloted by Patrick Calleja, with the assistance of Mark Attard and Alan Farrugia

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for sale : Bugatti Type 37 A

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colour		Blue
drive		LHD
type		other
year		1927
price		P.O.R.
VAT		No
city		London SW7 5BQ
country

There was no end to the breadth of competitive events that the Type 37A was entered in. From conquering more powerful machinery in Grand Prix to endurance races such as Le Mans, Mille Miglia, Brooklands Double Twelve and Targa Florio, the 37A was in them all. The artistry and engineering, as with all Bugattis, was breathtaking and only 76 of the much rarer supercharged Type 37As were ever built.

Leaving the famous Molsheim factory in September 1927 with engine 182, 37283 was the second supercharged car, sold new to Omnia in Munich, before being acquired in 1932 by avid Bugatti enthusiast Belgian Alex Paul to join the T40 already in his stable. Paul kept a hand-written record of what he did to and with the car for the next 18 years.

After competing in the 1937 Grand Prix des Frontieres a Chimay, Paul added a headrest and unique luggage to the Bugatti, and using a single Solex carburettor instead of the supercharger, in 1938 he and his wife took the Bugatti on an epic 4,000km tour of France, keenly keeping a diary of their adventure which was later created into hardback book form.

In 1940, the Paul’s were forced to flee to the south of France. The journey was slowed due to refugee crammed roads, and the Bugatti was impounded by the armies of Marshal Petain. Paul, very concerned as to the safety of his beloved Type 37A, one night bribed a guard who was supposed to be looking after it, disappearing off into the night. Not wanting to risk losing it again, he drove it through the night with fuel they had bought from a pharmacy! For the rest of the war, the Bugatti was hidden away in Brussels.

The 1946 Grand Prix de la Cambre saw the Bugatti’s final competitive outing, before being sold to M.R. Hamers in 1950. Hamers used the Bugatti on local rallies, parting with it in 1951 to another avid Bugattisti Stephane Falise who owned 37283 until 2009! For 22 of those years the 37A was kept company by the Leopold T59.

Recently inspected by Bugatti historian David Sewell, whose report will accompany the Bugatti, the 37A is the perfect mixture of road and race car – encompassing the Grand Prix character, but not the highly strung nature, of the Type 35. With four owners, the last for nearly 60 years, this Bugatti Type 37A is certainly one of the most original and probably the last un-restored example in the world.

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