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Hugely popular on the Peking to Paris Rally (where all but one event to date has featured a La France entry) and on every running of the West to East Road Race in the USA, the Speedster is guaranteed to turn heads and get people talking wherever it goes. With the capacity to draw as much attention as any £1-m supercar, the LaFrance Speedster is also the ideal car for anyone who fancies embarking on an adventure. All systems 12volt with alternator, new rod bearings and mains adjusted at restoration. With its massive torque, a gearbox has little relevance other than to accomplish greater vigour and panache, with three forward gears capable of propelling the Speedster to a heady pace, 150 kph being typical for Speedsters used in competition. 1924 American LaFrance Speedster, S/N 4445, 126 wheel base.
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Starting is by hand crack (although for the less physically adept, the push-button provided is surely a better choice). The car weighs in at 3.5-tonnes and a measures of its gargantuan proportions is in the fact that the six cylinders in the 14.5-litre engine displaces 2.4-litres, more than the total engine capacity of an average family saloon car.
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Driver and passenger sit up high, resplendent in a 'Roi de Belge' blue leather bench seat with wicker finish, a long polished aluminium bonnet stretching out before them and a period touring trunk to the rear, with superb artillery wooden wheels giving a distinctly sporting stance.īut it's not just the style of this car that is larger than life. Kerb presence is what your get aplenty with this magnificent vehicle. It was used extensively on tours and rallies before it received a complete overhaul, bringing it to its impressive current-day standards. The model on sale at Historics, SV 5636, was imported into the UK in the mid 1980s. Da beast or, ' il Bestione ' A wonderful creation by master crafter Gary Wales of California. These were based on their fire truck chassis, and hence the significant and sturdy proportions of the LaFrance Speedster. 1919 American LaFrance Speedster for sale in Fort Lauderdale, Florida 192 Share it or review it. But they also applied their talents to the build of a number of passenger vehicles from their New York premises. With roots that go back to around 1830, American LaFrance was, and remains, a manufacturer of fire trucks. From hand-drawn to horse and steam-powered fire engines, American. Established in Elmira, New York around 1873, the American LaFrance Fire Engine Company would soon become a leader in the industry building all types of fire engines. Speedster, a superb example of which comes to auction at Historics at Brooklands, Surrey, on June 1. Sold for 118,250 at 2014 RM Auctions - Hershey. It would be frowned on as a fuel-guzzling, eco-ignorant behemoth if manufactured today but, as the Roaring Twenties approached, what better way could there have been to celebrate and impress the neighbours than in a mighty 14.5-litre, 1918 LaFrance Open