SCD Motors - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Market
SCD Motors offers sports cars, race cars, barn finds, concept cars, one-offs and other significant automobiles for sale.
Once upon a time, Ford's Thunderbird was a somewhat sporty machine in pretty much direct competition with Chevrolet's Corvette. Alarmed by the response to GM's sporty two-seater convertible in 1953, Ford rushed to produce something similar, but played more to the American desire for luxury and less to the desire for sportiness. Ford marketed it as a "personal car" rather than a true sports car in the European sense, and the T-Bird flogged the … [Read more...]
Produced from 1967 to 1969, the L88 was, for all intents and purposes, king of the Corvettes. Not for the cruising types, RPO L88 was more a racing package than a simple performance one. Solid lifters, aluminum heads built to Can-Am specs, and high compression gave the 427 big punch, but Chevrolet apparently wasn't too keen on revealing just how big that punch was. GM hardly marketed the L88 at all and claimed something like 430 horsepower in an … [Read more...]
Legendary race car builder Frank Kurtis actually did build some customer sports cars, and one of them was his Kurtis Sports, a machine that beat Corvette to the sports car game by several years. Kurtis was often strapped for cash, though, so in 1950 he sold the rights and tooling to successful businessman and Kurtis customer Earl Muntz. Renamed the Muntz Jet, it was an altogether less pure driving machine than the original Kurtis, but still a … [Read more...]
Do you own a monster truck arena? Are you shooting a post-apocalyptic action film set in the deserts of the western United States? Do you have a spare six or seven lifetimes to tackle a few hundred restoration projects? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then have a look at this lot of 550 vintage automobiles resting in peace out in Apache Junction, Arizona. A family owned towing and storage lot that was started way back in the 1960s, … [Read more...]
Southern California hot rodder Doane Spencer's contributions to car culture were very important. A big name in the postwar hot rodding scene, Spencer built, raced and constantly developed the 1932 Ford roadster he bought as a teenager before the war. In the early 1990s, he had begun work for his friend Darrell Brunn on an updated version of his famous roadster, one that would follow in the first car’s footsteps while benefitting from the … [Read more...]
In the 1950s, California was full of companies making fiberglass kit bodies for cars. Developed during World War II, fiberglass had immediate usefulness of building boats, and specialist car bodies weren't far behind. Some of these bodies were rather awkward, but there were others arguably as beautiful as anything coming out of Europe at the time. Surprisingly, few people talk about them today other than the relatively small number of die-hard … [Read more...]
1967 was the last year for the original Sting Ray Corvettes. America's sports car actually should have looked different that year, but its planned replacement wasn't quite ready in time, so a few quick revisions to the 1966 model made for a subtle but acceptable update. Most noticeable were the five small vents behind the front wheels in place of the three large ones on the '66 car, as well as the rectangular reverse light on the center part of … [Read more...]
Among the cars in Texas enthusiast Don Davis's great collection, which will all be sold 'without reserve' by RM Auctions on April 27, 2013, there are plenty of big and beautiful American machines. Most are incredibly rare and all are spotless, but the red lettering down the sides of one particular car draws the eyes immediately. Perhaps it is appropriate that our eyes should follow Davis's 1941 Chrysler Newport. It did, after all, serve as the … [Read more...]
Another fine example of what the Italians and the Americans can do when they join forces was the short-lived Ghia 450 SS. Ghia had done bodywork for various American companies during the 1950s, one of the most memorable of which was the Dual-Ghia, a car that made extensive use of Chrysler components. The idea for a Ghia-bodied Chrysler came up again in the mid-1960s, this time from Hollywood producer Burt Sugarman. … [Read more...]
For Chevrolet enthusiasts, the Pennsylvania speed shop operated by Don Yenko was a holy site, and the Chevys produced there are today some of the most lusted after GM products of all. Yenko first really made a name for himself with the modified Corvair called the Stinger, but when the Camaro entered the picture in 1967 to go up against the Mustang, Yenko got even more ambitious. There was no big-block version of the Camaro on offer from … [Read more...]
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