Time for your misbegotten, forgotten concept car of the day: Giugiaro’s Porsche Tapiro.
Italdesign did the car for VW in 1970. 914/6-based, it used the 914/6 2.4-liter flat-six, chassis & running gear. There were four gullwings altogether, two for the passenger compartment and two for the rear-mid engine.
TO our eyes, it’s Giugiaro does […]
Here’s another goody from Vermont SportsCar. For a few years, they’ve been making their own carbon fiber trim. They started with small things, but they’re getting more ambitious with time, and now make large dash pieces.
I’d always assumed that the same level of technology they use in aerospace applied to anything you’d want to make, […]
Soon, we will have an answer. An answer that will get us through the coming months, that will bring us aid and succor in our dark times, our times of desperation and hunger: How much does Barry Gibb’s celebrity provenance add to the selling price of a Countach?
Yes, thanks to the epochal efforts of Coys, […]
Wallpapers are back for this Friday. As I mentioned this morning, I was inspired to put up an abandoned auto I shot last year. We can’t quite figure out what it is, other than a full-sized Buick. We’ll take any thoughts you might have on the subject.
You’ll be redirected; if it’s not obvious, you’ll need […]
We’ve been running an Abandoned Autos feature for years, and selling calendars since 1991, if you can believe it. Our “aesthetically abandoned” photos, usually with commentary from Dan, are little elegies for cars that have done their best, and are slowly going to their well-deserved rest.
Now, this isn’t an unusual theme, and plenty of folks […]
I’ve still got the scars from my childhood explorations into the melting point of copper, and to this day it’s my material of choice when the need to bend some metal strikes. I’m not the only one, with copper choppers and hotrod detail work showing up among those who don’t mind a streak of green […]
Well, the TVR Typhoon may be on the way…but it’s not going to be called a TVR.
When Nikolai Smolenski offered the assets of TVR for sale last month, they included something known as Blackpool Automotive. The creation of this entity by Smolenski was part of some corporate shuffling and restructuring last summer, and includes the […]
Monday, when our weekend dreams of glory metamorphose into workaday humdrum. Any wonder, then, that more than once a driver’s fancy has imagined the view out of their human transport pod as something a little more…lively?
Paul E. Smith is one. He’s been working on his 1989 Dodge Caravan SE for years now, and now runs […]
Apparently, Nanjing Automotive, owners of MG, are aware that certain persons may have slight reservations about the future of the soon-to-be-Chinese-built cars. To that end, the company is soliciting questions that they will then discuss in a Web chat this Thursday. Answering what will undoubtedly be a flood of invective are NAC’s Stephen Cox (European […]
This just in: Stolen from the house of the owner on Thursday night, a 1969 Camaro, white with orange SS stripes, black interior, big block, four-speed, and aluminum wheels. It has California blue plates* 963JWZ.
We’ll pass along any leads…
UPDATE: February 06: The car was stolen in Fremont, California, near Dumbarton Bridge (San Francisco area). […]
No picture yet, but David Traver Adolphus’s wife, Beth, gave birth yesterday to their first son, Xavier Traver Adolphus. He weighed in at eight pounds, 10 ounces and measured 20 inches long. Baby, mother and father are doing well. Congratulations, David and Beth.
The March issue of Sports & Exotic Car will be on newsstands momentarily, and includes my feature story on the 1974 Lotus Europa. I wrote two sidebars on the Lotus racing cars related to the John Player Special edition of the Europa, but they were cut for length.
Since Gary Critcher provided this wonderful photo of […]
Maybe you missed it when ogling the Rinspeeds and Sbarros at last year’s Geneva show, but Roland Belz spent two years of his life to bring his Aaglander to life. Possibly those years were 1896 and 1897, but either way, he succeeded. Get ‘em while they’re old.
Maybe Dan’l read the German website and give […]
We don’t quite have the internets set up to upload large images for the blog yet, but we couldn’t let you face your family without a little something to come back to.
So here are our first Friday wallpapers, enjoy. You’ll be redirected; if it’s not obvious, you’ll need to click the ‘download photo’ link on […]
Oh, someone please, please, put the genie back in its lamp. The web is an all-access media. Little children could see this. Look away now, or be forever changed. I take it back. Sweet mother, I take it all back. I’ve found my unicorn, and it hurts so very, very much.
Gallery after the jump.
So help […]
Sadly, the Real Russia Project has neither links nor larger images for their gallery of Russian auto, um, sure, we’ll call it “art.” Why not?
Yes, there are some horses, but not one unicorn? Come on, comrades, get with the times. We’d settle for a Frodo/Gandalf montage, or even Led Zeppelin. And a Defender 110 is […]