Ken Block’s 171-foot jump in a Vermont SportsCar-prepared WRX is semi-old news, as spectacular as it was. We happened to be at the other end of the process, when they were loading up. What a fantastic rig they have…
There are two matching rigs, each one of which carries a car and everything needed to support […]
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 […]
It’s no big secret that Raymond Loewy gave Albrecht Graf von Goertz his big break when Loewy arranged for his job at the Studebaker design studio. As the story goes, Goertz used that position to establish his own business in the 1950s, through which he met Max Hoffman and eventually came to design the BMW […]
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 […]
Well, I suppose it’s possible, given enough money and enough desire. After all, Bugatti arose from the dead recently, Stutz has had its various incarnations and Duesenberg is allegedly on its way back. But alas, the reincarnated Delahaye was just a well-rendered concept sketch by a fella named Chris for the 2005 SFIC Bright Design […]
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 […]
I’ve been looking for this photo for months, and it finally surfaced just recently. To tell the truth, I had absolutely no good reason to be looking for it save to post it here, and after discovering the Beast, it just seemed natural that this would turn up. Back in ‘05, just after LaChance started […]
And you thought Leno’s car was the first to use a tank engine. Back in the late 1960s in Ol’ Blighty, Merlin engine expert Paul Jameson decides to drop a massive Meteor V-12 Centurion tank engine into a car. Finding a suitable existing car wasn’t really feasible, so he built one around the engine instead […]
What’s different about this photo I took today of my Volvo 1800S? It’s not in my garage, or in the driveway. It’s in a bank parking lot, and it got there under its own power, thank you very much. Those of you who have followed the “Bjorn to Run” series in Sports & Exotic might […]
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 […]
Porsche has a nice Christmas present for rally race history buffs - a minisite on the Targa Florio, including bits from the span of the Florio’s 1906-1977 history. Of course, it makes good mention of Porsche’s wins, but still full of excellent photos and reflections. Note: Some of the “pages” in the book don’t turn […]
Just got a nice note from a reader about the driveReport on the 1961 Fury that was in the June issue of Classic Car. He wondered about the resemblance between the Fury and the Type 34 Karmann Ghia that followed it by a year.
Lots of people have concluded that Ghia’s design for the more familiar […]
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 […]