SCD Motors - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Market
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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 twenties and thirties, Alfa was equivalent to today’s Ferrari, and more, supplying not only competitive rides for the best drivers, but also a steady stream of beautifully engineered and constructed cars for private entrants. When the company, which employed thousands of artisans, mechanics, and functionaries to build only a few cars, encountered the inevitable financial difficulties, it was bailed out by the State. Instead of being … [Read more...]
At first glance it might look like some sort of coachbuilt Italian machine, but underneath this car is all Porsche 356, and the sumptuous body on top is the work of the Beutler brothers out of Thun, Switzerland. While this car dates from 1959, Porsche's relationship to Ernst and Fritz Beutler goes back to the carmaker's humble beginnings in Gmünd, Austria in the late 1940s. When Porsche was looking for someone to do the bodies for the soft-top … [Read more...]
Like so many of the great names in the automotive industry in Continental Europe, Alfa Romeo could not escape from the grim political and economic realities surrounding the Second World War. The company was technically controlled by the Mussolini government from 1932, and the factory fell victim to Allied bombing during the war. Alfa struggled in the immediate postwar years to find a proper niche for itself in terms of road car production. The … [Read more...]
In a discussion of classic French luxury cars and the swoopy, flowing cabriolets of the 1930s Peugeot is usually not the first name to come up, but Peugeot is actually a company with a long and fascinating history. They didn't always make cheap little hatchbacks. For example, Peugeot was one of the major players in Grand Prix racing during the teens, and the sporting Darl'mat cars made a name in sports car racing during the 1930s, all the while … [Read more...]
Lea-Francis was another one of those small, positively classy but in the end financially unsound British carmakers in the years surrounding World War II. The company, named after its two founders, started as a bicycle manufacturer around the turn of the century but by 1911 had expanded into the automobile and motorcycle markets with impossibly cool model names like the Hyper and the Ace of Spades. … [Read more...]
On the list of great French automakers, Delahaye is certainly near the top. Like plenty of other great carmakers, Delahaye also had no coachworks of their own so therefore had to outsource the bodywork to individual coachbuilders. … [Read more...]
Long Beach native and WWII veteran Jack Calori was searching for a tow car for his famous Clay Smith-prepared 1929 Ford Model A racer when he discovered a 1936 Ford three-window coupe for sale by its original owner in 1947. It was not long before Calori’s friend, local body man Herb Reneau, convinced Calori that the Ford needed the custom treatment, and one of history’s most stunning custom 1936 Fords was born. … [Read more...]
Named to celebrate Fangio and Behra's 1957 triumph at Sebring, and styled by Vignale, the Maserati 3500 Sebring is one of the most purposeful, if less celebrated, Italian GT cars of the 1960s. The Sebring was based on the commercially successful and equally handsome 3500 GTI. … [Read more...]
It’s loud. It’s original. And it comes from one of the greatest eras in American auto racing. … [Read more...]
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