SCD Motors - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Market
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If you can fit inside, one of these diminutive Turner sports cars, built from the 1950s until the early 1960s, would make a very tempting small-bore vintage racer. They make for a more interesting alternative to a Sprite, but most Turners still have familiar BMC components. Jack Turner started making a few sports and racing cars in the late 1940s, but in the mid-'50s started selling a more serious production car with Austin A30 running gear … [Read more...]
In 1964, Car and Driver proclaimed that the Lotus Elan "fits like a Sprite, goes like a Corvette and handles like a Formula Junior". The Elan celebrated its fifty year anniversary in 2012, and for these five decades people have been singing the car's praises. Even by today's standards, the Elan's speed and sharp handling are quite impressive. One quality of the Elan's that no one has been celebrating, though, is its fragility. Chapman probably … [Read more...]
This 1964 MGB Vintage Race Car is listed here on eBay, where the “Buy It Now” price is set at $27,950. The owner's website also offers a considerable amount of information and photos about the MGB's current condition, in addition to highlighting the recent restoration and more. Seller Comments: 1964 MGB ‘Huffaker’ Vintage Racer in Roadster and Sebring Style configuration … [Read more...]
A company that enjoyed a long but almost forgotten history, Riley is a significant name in the story of the British motor industry. Riley started as a bicycle manufacturer in the late nineteenth century, and moved to motorcycles soon thereafter. Founder William Riley did not want to give his already successful company any distractions by moving into motor cars, but his sons eventually pooled their resources and formed their own engine, and later … [Read more...]
Yet another of the fruitful collaborations between Lotus and Ford was the Cortina. On both sides of the Atlantic in the early 1960s, Ford wanted to boost its performance image. When Walter Hayes arrived at Ford of Great Britain in 1962, he headed a public affairs department that pitched the idea of a sporty version of their upcoming saloon car, the Cortina. Given Lotus's incredible success in racing and their adoption of Ford's own Kent engine … [Read more...]
The Peerless GT, built in Slough between 1957 and 1960, is rare car indeed, but the lesser known Warwick GT is an even more obscure sports car. The original Peerless was a fairly advanced car for its time, with space frame chassis and a fiberglass body. It was also a gorgeous car to look at, and had two extra seats in the back. The Peerless, though, was expensive to produce and not competitively priced. Some disputes at the top resulted in the … [Read more...]
Sometimes overshadowed by the McLaren F1, the Jaguar XJ220 is still one of the wildest cars of the '90s and one of Jaguar's most memorable, most ambitious projects. The XJ220 name was originally used on a V-12 powered, all-wheel-drive concept car displayed at the Birmingham Motor Show in 1988. When Jaguar considered the idea of a production version, Tom Walkinshaw Racing reworked the plan and proposed a car with a turbocharged V-6 and rear-wheel … [Read more...]
Morgan announced the Plus 4 in 1950 as the larger, more powerful version of their 4/4. It was altogether a more modern sports car but, this being Morgan, the Plus 4 was still charmingly behind the times. Styling and construction was not all that different from what it had been or what it would continue to be. To rework the 4/4 into the Plus 4, Morgan lengthened the wheelbase, added hydraulic brakes, and fitted the 2088 cc engine from the Standard … [Read more...]
Lotus had helped in the revolutionary thrust toward mid-engine construction in Formula One and Indy in the first half of the 1960s, so it was only natural for the ambitious British company to introduce that technology to the world of road cars as well. Known internally as the P5 project, the Europa was introduced in 1966, therefore predating the Lamborghini Miura, Porsche 914, Matra M530, and Ferrari Dino. The new Europa used a steel backbone … [Read more...]
MG's J-Type, in its various guises, had a relatively short lifespan from 1932 to 1934. When compared to the impressive run of the T-Series or the incredible eighteen years of the MGB, the J-Type seems like a flash in the pan, but it was nevertheless an important contribution to the MG story and really one of the quintessential small sports cars of the 1930s. The J2 especially was a nice representation of what MG as most of us know and love it was … [Read more...]
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