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1965 Sunbeam Tiger Mk I Convertible
Inspired by Carroll Shelby’s success in shoehorning a Ford V8 into the AC Ace to create the Cobra, British carmaker Rootes asked Shelby to perform the same trick with its Sunbeam Alpine sports car. Ford’s 260-ci V8 engine was chosen, and... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1955 Austin-Healey 100S
These cars were almost lost in the limelight of the Jaguars, Aston-Martins, Mercedes-Benzes, and Ferraris that raced in the same grids
Not long after the stunning Austin-Healey 100 debuted, Donald Healey began planning a high-performance vers... [ read more] |
Gary Anderson |
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1959 Austin-Healey 100-6 Jamaican
In light of its popularity, and taking into consideration the potential of its rigid and low-frame chassis, the 4-cylinder Austin-Healey gave way in 1956 to the first 6-cylinder version, the 100-6, which boasted a BMC C-Series engine with a cubi... [ read more] |
Gary Anderson |
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1967 Jaguar E-type Series 1 Roadster Race Car
This month’s column is a tale with both tragic and cautionary threads for those who play in the vintage racing car hobby
This Series 1 E-type roadster was purchased from its second owner in 2005 after being discovered in a garage where it h... [ read more] |
Thor Thorson |
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1949 Jaguar XK120 Alloy Roadster
The few alloy-bodied cars were essentially prototypes sold to raise desperately needed foreign currency for the factory design team
During the difficult period after World War II, Jaguar Cars became the United Kingdom’s biggest U.S.-dollar ... [ read more] |
Gary Anderson |
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1964 Aston Martin DB5 “James Bond”
We don’t need to introduce the Aston Martin DB5, the epitome of British style and performance in the 1960s, and the catalog description ran to a couple thousand words, so here is the quick version:“The Most Famous Car in The World” as arch... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1960 Aston Martin DB4 Series II Sports Saloon
Classically proportioned and instantly recognizable from the moment of its introduction in 1958, the Touring-styled DB4 established a look that would survive, with only minor revisions, until 1970. A new design by Tadek Marek, the DB4’s all-al... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1962 Austin-Healey 3000 Mk II Rally Car
The last surviving 1962 team car has rally provenance in abundance, but it doesn’t have an original chassisThe Big Healey’s first major success was in 1960, when Pat Moss and Ann Wisdom made history by winning the grueling Liège-Rome-... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1937 Jaguar SS100
The new cars were assembled from parts from many suppliers, and they might have looked more hand-finished than this piece of perfection.This absolutely stunning SS100 stands today as what must be the finest example anywhere in the world. The qua... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1930 Bentley Speed Six Le Mans Tourer
The sale price is the result of multiple well-heeled bidders, all of whom value immediate acquisition of a handsome toy more than fiscal prudence Walter Owen Bentley began his career as a railway engineer before going into automobiles (then airp... [ read more] |
Jerome Hardy |
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1957 Austin-Healey 100-6 BN4 2+2 Barn Find
Introduced for 1956, the 100-6 represented the most radical step forward in the “Big Healey” sports car development. Despite its initial success, sales of the original Austin-Healey 100 had begun to decline by the mid-1950s, so the model was... [ read more] |
Gary Anderson |
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1950 Aston Martin DB2 Vantage Coupe
Too many times in today's car market, potential buyers let the perception of imperfections get in the way of what is truly more important.This superb DB2 was sold new to William "Bill" Spear, wealthy amateur American racer and a close friend of ... [ read more] |
Steve Serio |
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1961 Lotus Elite Series II Coupe
The vagaries of the Elite's construction-however brilliantly featherweight and low drag-mean it's expensive to prepareWith the Lotus 14 of 1959-better known as the Elite-Colin Chapman demonstrated that his skills as a racing car designer and con... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1956 Bentley S1 Continental Sports Saloon
It is dead straight, even six years on, and you could have used its flanks as a mirror by which to wet shaveBentley's magnificent Continental sports saloon has been synonymous with effortless high speed cruising at its grandest since its introdu... [ read more] |
Paul Hardiman |
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1965 Aston Martin DB5
Compared to the DB5, the Maserati Mistral is just too low-rent and gummy looking, while the Lamborghini 400 GT is simply too weird"Opinions vary greatly-and inevitably-on which is the 'best' of the new breed of Aston Martins. Sir David Brown pu... [ read more] |
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