Английская Википедия:Cunningham C-3
The Cunningham C-3 is a Grand tourer, designed and built by the B. S. Cunningham Company beginning in 1952.[1] Intended primarily as a road car, enough C3 were meant to be built to homologate Briggs Cunningham's racing cars, making them eligible to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.[2]
History
To have his namesake cars homologated as a manufacturer for Le Mans, Cunningham needed to build 25 examples of the C-3.[3][4][5][6]
Two pre-production cars similar in appearance to the C-2Rs were built at the company's West Palm Beach location; a roadster with chassis number 5205, and a coupe with chassis number 5206X. A third chassis, number 5206, was sent to the workshops of carrozzeria Vignale in Turin, Italy, where it received a new coupe body styled by designer Giovanni Michelotti, then working at Vignale.[5][7][8][9] The factory considered chassis 5026 the official prototype, and subsequent cars received the Michelotti body style.[10][11]
Twenty-seven C-3s were built. One reference reports eighteen coupes and nine convertibles.[3] Others report twenty coupes and five convertibles with bodies by Vignale, plus the two cars bodied at the West Palm Beach factory.[12][7] While early factory pricing was US$8,000 (US$Шаблон:Inflation in Шаблон:Inflation/year dollars) for a Sports Convertible, and US$9,000 (US$Шаблон:Inflation) for a Coupe, the cost of a C-3 had risen to US$15,000 (US$Шаблон:Inflation) by 1951.[7]
The New York Museum of Modern Art named the C-3 Continental Coupé one of the "10 Best Contemporary Automobiles".[13][3][14]
When production of the C-3 ended, fourteen chassis in various states of completion remained. In 1955 during a disbursement of parts by Hilltop Trailer Sales, Chassis #5235 was purchased by Jack Shakespeare of Indiana. In 1957 subsequent owner John Hanley of Wisconsin commissioned a custom body designed by someone from Brooks Stevens Design Associates, which was fabricated by Bob Jones of Indianapolis.[15][16]
Technical details
The engine in the C-3 is the Шаблон:Convert Chrysler FirePower V8 that Cunningham had first used in the C-2Rs, but now with a new intake manifold and four Zenith single-barrel carburetors, and a dual exhaust system. This raised power to Шаблон:Convert from the factory version's Шаблон:Convert.[7]
The majority of cars received one of two different transmissions offered; the first four cars had a three-speed manual from Cadillac, while subsequent cars used Chrysler's Presto-Matic semi-automatic fluid-coupled two-speed with electric overdrive, for an effective selection of four forward ratios.[17][18][16] An exception was chassis 5223, which received a Chrysler PowerFlite transmission.[16]
The C-3's large-diameter tube chassis was similar to that of the earlier C-2R, but the racing car's De Dion tube rear suspension was replaced by a coil-sprung live axle located by an upper and lower trailing arm on each side.[19]
Gallery
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1951 prototype 5206X
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1952 C-3 Coupe
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1953 Cabriolet, rear three-quarter view
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1954 C-3 Cabriolet
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1954 Coupe, rear three-quarter view
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C-3 5235 by Brooks Stevens Design Associates
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