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When the BN2 version of the Austin-Healey 100 came out in 1955, it was a significant but not drastic improvement over the BN1 that had been launched in 1953. There was now a four-speed gearbox, eye-catching two-tone paint and other detail changes, but otherwise the car had the same good looks and lively feel. 1955 was also the year that Healey decided to give the customer a hotter version of the 100 for the road. They had already built fifty … [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...]
A few weeks back, we featured an Alfa Romeo 2000 Spider that was a bit of a basket case. This car, a later 2600 Spider located in San Clemente, California, is pretty much a complete 180 and a machine that's seen a lot of love. The seller is the third owner, but has a personal history with the car that goes back to when it was new. A friend of his father's first bought it in Oregon, and drove it for about a decade before actually selling it … [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 world of collector cars, if the top goes down, the price goes up, right? In the case of the famous 300SL Mercedes, the answer is not exactly. The 300SL Roadster is a strange case in that the closed version is more unique, more eye-catching, and therefore more desirable and valuable. The very photogenic doors on the coupe version, the 300SL Gullwing, have always stolen the show, but the Roadster is no ugly duckling. It's still a drop dead … [Read more...]
On April 27, RM Auctions will sell 'without reserve' the enviable collection owned by Texas enthusiast Don Davis. The group is a nice mix of American and European classics, most of which are low production and recipients of expensive restorations. Undoubtedly, each car is special, but one stands out among the Western machines by way of its badge: Toyota. Overshadowed by the later and much more prevalent Datsun 240Z, the Toyota 2000GT represents a … [Read more...]
Renault certainly has a long and storied history, but one of their high points has got to be when Alpine built the Renault-powered A110, a car that won numerous rallies and won the hearts of many with its graceful but aggressive styling. Unveiled at the Paris Motor Show in 1963, the A110 took a page from the book of Lotus and used a steel backbone chassis underneath a fiberglass body, and with tweaked Renault/Gordini motors it was a potent car. … [Read more...]
Not long after Porsche introduced the 911, they realized that an open version of the car would be a necessary addition to the lineup. There was some disagreement within the company as to what form the open 911 would take on, but the 911 Targa that was introduced in 1967 eventually proved to be a hit. The distinguishing feature of the original Targa was its exposed, brushed stainless-steel roll-bar, designed to maintain the lateral rigidity that … [Read more...]
The lifeblood of Ferrari, particularly in the early years, was competition. It is a widely held belief that the creation of road-going versions of the competition sports cars existed almost solely to support Il Commendatore’s racing effort. In many instances, engineering advances developed for battle can be traced directly to the road cars, such as the pioneering, weight-balancing use of the transaxle from the 275 series GTs. … [Read more...]
If you squint it almost looks like a Porsche 550, but this is actually an Enzmann from Switzerland. From the late 1950s until some time in the mid-1960s, Enzmann built a few dozen sporty-looking roadsters based on the Volkswagen Beetle platform, and supplied the fiberglass bodies for people to do their own assembly as well. Switzerland is never the first country that comes to mind when we think performance cars, but as we saw with the … [Read more...]
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