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.
Like its stablemate the 240Z, the Datsun 510 just made sense. It had sensible but pleasing styling, and reliable but sporty mechanicals. With a solid motor, good weight distribution, and fully independent suspension, it was a good performer and a practical, daily-drivable sedan all in one affordable package. Of course, it wasn't long after the 510's introduction in the late 1960s before people started to wonder how it would fare as a racing car. … [Read more...]
Even a run-down Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale is a beautiful thing to behold. The impossibly curvy lines of that Bertone coachwork are the stuff of dreams, and it makes you wonder why it took so long for these to become highly valuable collector cars. But getting valuable is exactly what these little gems have done, with good examples reaching well into six figure territory. The only bargain examples left are therefore the rough kind, which brings … [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...]
The new Fiat Multipla that thankfully left us in 2010 finishes near the top of several "ugliest car ever made" lists, but the original Multipla version of the Fiat 600 was actually a charming, if odd, little machine. The old car sat the driver pretty much right over the front axle, which allowed it to seat six people at least somewhat comfortably, so it's no wonder that in Italy during the '60s Multiplas decked out as taxis were a common sight. … [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...]
Moretti got started in the 1920s as a motorcycle manufacturer and is probably best known to sports car people for their wonderful little machines of the 1950s, but the company survived well into the 1980s by making cars with heavy use of Fiat parts and running gear. Their most celebrated model would have to be the 750, introduced in 1953. Morettis featured a frankly dizzying array of bodies, all of them beautiful, and the twin-cam versions of the … [Read more...]
Many tend to forget about the 912, but during the mid-1960s this four-cylinder version of the legendary 911 outsold its bigger brother by a margin of two to one and sometimes even higher. More or less the Boxster of its day, the 912 was labeled by the German magazine auto motor und sport "the bread and butter Porsche" and was priced at around $1,000 less than the 911 that we all know and love. Of course, the attractive price came with some … [Read more...]
For the 1958 model year, Jaguar replaced their graceful XK140 with the aptly named XK150. Styling was less dramatic and therefore less interesting than the 120 and 140 that came before it, and although the "120" in XK120 stood for the car's impressive top speed, the same could definitely not be said of the XK150. The very hottest versions could only manage around 130. That said, it was still a step in the right direction mechanically, with … [Read more...]
Designed by Orazio Satta, the 1900 was a big step for Alfa Romeo in that it was their first postwar design, first series-production car, first unibody, and first model with left hand drive. It also represented Alfa's wise move towards the more affordable end of the performance car spectrum. Several changes were made to the twin-cam engine over the years, the most notable of which was the enlargement to 1,975 cc for the 1900 Super. An even hotter … [Read more...]
Lotus Europas can be kind of a mixed bag. Rougher driver quality examples can be had for dirt cheap, and even the very best Lotus Twin Cam-powered cars will barely crack $30,000. And for whatever you end up paying, you're getting the legendary Lotus name, one of the best handling road cars of the 1960s, and one of the first mid-engined sports cars ever put on sale. … [Read more...]
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