Ben Branch
August 15, 2021
This is believed to be one of three pre-production examples of the Ford Capri RS2600, a car that would become a legend in its own lifetime after taking on all comers in the European…
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Ben Branch
August 15, 2021
The Ford Mustang is one of the most famous cars in the world, it sits alongside other luminaries like the Beetle, Mini, 911, Jeep, and Land Rover as vehicle design that almost everyone in…
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Ben Branch
August 14, 2021
Although you may be looking at the car pictured above and wondering what it is, you almost certainly have seen one before. Well you’ve seen a vehicle based on it at least, it was…
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Ben Branch
August 13, 2021
The Alpine A610 would be the last hurrah of the small but celebrated French automaker, it would represent the ultimate evolutionary iteration of the car that started out as the Alpine A310, before being…
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Ben Branch
August 13, 2021
The Ferrari 275 GTB Competizione is a car that very nearly never existed, it was hurriedly developed from the standard 275 GTB road car after the FIA refused to homologate Ferrari’s mid-engined 250 LM…
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Ben Branch
August 12, 2021
This is the Chevrolet Aerosedan, it’s a one-off hot rod built by the legendary Ken Fenical, aka Posies, of Hummelstown, Pennsylvania. In the world of hot rod building, the name Posies is well-known, it’s…
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Ben Branch
August 12, 2021
This is an exact reproduction of what is widely regarded to be the world’s first production automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. It was built by John Bentley Engineering of England to exacting standards, so exacting in…
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Ben Branch
August 11, 2021
Although we most often associate James Bond with the Aston Martin DB5, in the 1961 Ian Fleming novel Thunderball his automobile of choice was a Bentley R-Type Continental, which he had rebodied from a wreck…
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Ben Branch
August 8, 2021
While today we often think of Subarus as being either championship winning rally cars or tough all-wheel drive station wagons, the first car ever imported into the USA by the Japanese marque was the…
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Ben Branch
August 8, 2021
This short film offers an excellent 15 minute history lesson into one of the internal combustion engine’s simplest but most important parts: the humble spark plug. The first patents for what we would today…
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Ben Branch
August 7, 2021
The Dodge Firearrow II was one of four influential concept cars built by Italian coachbuilders Ghia under the direction of Virgil Exner, one of the most celebrated (and most copied) American car designers of…
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Ben Branch
August 6, 2021
This is one of six GT40s built by RCR for the Oscar winning film Ford v Ferrari starring Christian Bale and Matt Damon. The car was built to 1966 Ford GT40 specifications for the movie with very…
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