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.
The 356 had already been around for a decade when Porsche introduced the 356B, a move that Jesse Alexander called "a rather drastic face lift that will come as a shock to Porsche owners all over the world." There were a lot of little detail changes, the most visible of which were the raised headlights and bumpers. Performance again was another gradual improvement, as is the Porsche way, but there was still a demand for a Porsche road car with … [Read more...]
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...]
Today, we primarily know the Brabham name from Formula One. Australian racing hero Jack Brabham had a stellar career as a driver, winning the World Championship in 1959, 1960 and 1966. The last of those was of course in a car bearing his own name, and he will probably always remain the only person in Formula One to ever accomplish such a feat. Later, during the 1970s and 1980s, the Brabham Grand Prix team soldiered on under the ownership of … [Read more...]
Survival numbers of the earliest generation of truly lavish dual-purpose supercars, both in percentage and absolute terms, are miniscule. One would be hard-pressed to justify any other single surviving car's ability to better match the distinction of the 60HP FIAT, in its various forms, as the world's first cost-no-object road going supercar for supremacy on both public roads and the fastest racing circuits. Chassis 3003, this 1905 FIAT 60HP … [Read more...]
This 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione is offered for sale at the upcoming RM Auctions Villa d'Este sale, scheduled for May 25, 2013 in Cernobbio, Italy as part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este weekend. Combining rarity, powerful mechanical specifications and important racing history, chassis 0320AM is one of three 340/375 MM works race cars that Ferrari entered at the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans in its efforts to counter … [Read more...]
Throughout the 1930s, Turinese textile industrialist Piero Dusio indulged his passion for motorsport. After winning his class on the 1937 Mille Miglia, he began to explore the possibilities of building his own racing cars. In 1946, the D46 single-seater appeared, built using readily-available Fiat mechanicals within a tubular steel space-frame chassis crafted at Cisitalia’s bicycle factory. The lightweight car swept all before it in the hands … [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...]
Alfa Romeos labeled 6C seemingly came in all shapes and sizes from their introduction in the 1920s to their demise as the company shifted its focus in the 1950s. "6C" referred to the wonderful straight-six engines fitted in so many Alfas, and the last of that series, introduced in 1938, was the 6C 2500. The hottest version of the 6C 2500 was the triple-carb 2500 Super Sports (SS), and the car featured here, located in Surrey, United Kingdom, is … [Read more...]
New Zealand has certainly had an interesting run of sports cars over the years. Especially as fiberglass was becoming more accessible in the 1950s, tons of small shops sprang up to build bodies, kit cars, and complete automobiles. Almost none of them are very well-known outside of the North and South Islands, but many are quite intriguing. Just one of New Zealand's obscure little sports cars was something called the Puma Sports from Frank … [Read more...]
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...]
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