{"id":491563,"date":"2010-11-01T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=38050"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T20:46:58","slug":"1947-weinberg-roadster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1947-weinberg-roadster\/","title":{"rendered":"1947 Weinberg Roadster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Matt Jones is one of the neatest car guys I\u2019ve ever met. His love and enthusiasm for Italian automobiles is palpably contagious, and he\u2019s fluent in the language. So, it was natural that Jones launched Re-Originals in 1991, a company that provides both new-old-stock and remanufactured parts from original suppliers for everything Italian\u2014from Abarth to Zagato and the rest of the dictionary in between.<\/p>\n<p>However, Jones is much more than an Italianista. He\u2019s had British cars and German cars and French cars, and yes, even some very American jobs. Visit Jones\u2019 shop in picturesque Livingston, Texas, and you\u2019ll find hundreds of brand-new, never-mounted Pirelli Cinturato 185\/70VR15 Porsche 911 tires piled high at one end of the building, a complete new Alfa TZ-1 chassis at the other end, and a clapped out TVR Grantura Mark III \u201963 Sebring racer out back. But there, in the middle of the madness, is one of the most alluring American one-offs I\u2019ve ever seen. The car is known as the Weinberg Roadster, and this nifty jewel box meshes the best elements of 1940s sports cars and hot rods. The result is an optical stunner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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He\u2019s had British cars and German cars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":577483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17177],"tags":[17178],"class_list":["post-491563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chassis-histories","tag-chassis-histories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1947 Weinberg Roadster<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1947 Weinberg Roadster\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/1947-weinberg-roadster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" 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