Ben Branch
October 8, 2021
This Lola T70 MkI Spyder has remarkable double-barreled former ownership, having been previously owned by both Carroll Shelby and Dan Gurney, two larger-than-life legends of American racing. Lola is a former British carmaker that…
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Ben Branch
October 7, 2021
Although the DeLorean DMC-12 is the undisputed automotive lead character in the Back to the Future series, the jet black Toyota SR5 Pickup Truck that appears in all three films as a key plot…
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Ben Branch
October 6, 2021
The Nash-Healey is a British/American sports car that was thought up over dinner and drinks aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth ocean liner on a journey between the United States and Great Britain. By pure…
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Ben Branch
October 5, 2021
In the early 1960s TV Tommy Ivo and a small crew set out to build a four-wheel drive dragster with four Buick nailhead V8s. It was designed to be the fastest dragster in history but…
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Ben Branch
October 4, 2021
Of all the classic Land Rovers that were built the Series IIA is arguably the most popular, it sits between the earlier Series II and the later Series III, long before the Defender came along…
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Ben Branch
October 3, 2021
The cars built by Allard directly influenced the thinking of both Zora Arkus-Duntov, the father of the Corvette, and Carroll Shelby, the father of the Shelby Cobra. Both men were racing drivers for company…
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Ben Branch
October 3, 2021
What’s Under Your Hood? is a 1973 film that was created to teach people how various mechanical systems in their cars work. It runs just 10 minutes in length, but despite its relative brevity it…
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Ben Branch
October 2, 2021
This is the 1935 Auburn 653 Phaeton that was discovered in a barn in season 12 of the popular TV series American Pickers. The car had been sitting in storage for decades in South…
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Ben Branch
October 1, 2021
The first running of the Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive occurred this past weekend, a global event that sees men and women dress up in their Sunday best for a group drive to a secret destination followed…
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Ben Branch
September 30, 2021
This is the “Drag-U-La,” a coffin-based drag racer that was designed by Tom Daniel then built by George Barris for The Munsters, a 1960s era TV series about a family of relatively benign monsters…
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Ben Branch
September 29, 2021
It’s believed that just four examples of the Jaguar XK140 were bodied by Ghia, an Italian coachbuilding firm responsible for some of the most beautiful cars of the era. Of the four cars that…
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Ben Branch
September 27, 2021
The Daimler SP250 is a V8-powered British sports car famous for a number of things in classic car circles, the three most common of which are that the car is powered by an excellent 2.5…
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