It's cool that he drives it but I would be fucking TERRIFIED that someone would run into me... did you notice that not only are there no lic plates but no brake lights, or turn signals??? people don't pay enough attention while they drive the way it is.... let alone no brake lights....
There is an article about this car in the July, 2018 issue of Hot Rod. What really hits home for me is that the last driver mentioned as trying to put the car in the show at Indy was Billy Earl who was a long time friend of mine.
Yes,For me it would need lights an at lest some nerf bars all around . But really scary, is him telling us it hunts=its not line up right,setting are wrong{ lucky he at lest knows enough to know it feels wrong,most don't { just think it's the way it should be. And maybe he too thinks that. Well for sure can be adjusted too drive way better,hell just a set of tire would help some{what is on it are crap! It's cool anyway !!
It's probably hunting because of the bias tires on the silly (I cleaned that one up) grooved streets. After a few years I learned not to grip the wheel so hard – let it find its way.
Strange what you can find on the internet. I was the first employee at B&G just after they went in business in 1952. They were the only cam grinding and automotive balancing show in town at the time. John Bianchi was in grade school then. The company was recently bought by H-E International, a holding company. Contrary to the H-E website, the company was NOT started by John Bianchi. The company was started by Bill Fennell and Gail Gaskill, hence B&G. The original name was B&G Machine and Welding and started out in a gas station lube room on Airport Way. A year later moved to a 20 x 40 ft. building across the street from the present location. Bill Fennell lasted one year and was replaced by Ralph Kirkwood. Later in that video, it shows Marshall Woolery's shop. I have been there many times and he works on some of the neatest old race cars in existence.
Beautiful car. The grille, the colors, the graphics are wonderful to look at. It has unity as all the parts come together.
a true historic beauty - when much younger, friend had a modified '29 roadster that he bought & hid without telling his parents - we would take it out at night, sometimes lights worked , good scary fun - lucky never stopped by Cops or in a wreck
Awesome transportation! The little red car seemed like the "odd man out" in the car collection shown near the beginning of the video. Then, when I saw the Owner's name, it all became clear! Bianchi is the oldest bicycle manufacturer in the world (c1897), and has been building motorcycles over a similar time frame. In the fifties, the Bianchi factory started a joint venture with Fiat, and marketed a car based on the current Fiat 500 platform and mechanicals (rear mounted 2 cylinder air-cooled engine). Car was called the Bianchi Bianchina.
My youngest son lives in Seattle and I have been out there a few times to visit him. Let me apologize in advance to the fine folks in Seattle, but your traffic sucks and there seems to be a higher density of nitwit drivers there than some other places I've traveled. I say all that because there is absolutely no way that I would drive that car out there in rush hour traffic. It looks like it would be a blast to drive, but I would be scared to death to get rear ended by some soccer mom who was texting on her cell phone or some hipster cutting me off in his Prius. And yes I do know that soccer moms and hipsters are everywhere and not just in the great northwest...we have 'em here too.