The Ford XC Cobra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmVnzageLMo You may be looking at the below picture of this blue and white car and wondering how you never came across this particular…
Cars
The Forgotten 1962 Ford Mustang
If the Ford Mustang I Prototype had seen the green light for production things would have turned out very differently. In October ’62, when the first Mustang I debuted at the United States Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York, the Formula One driver Dan Gurney lapped the circuit using the prototype. His lap times were only slightly off the pace of the Formula 1 race cars.
The Porthos 8 Litre
Between 1905 and 1914 a car company called Porthos was created in France, it saw great success and then just as quickly great failure….
1925 Auto Races – Laurel, Maryland
Imagine a 1⅛-mile NASCAR track made entirely from wooden planks. It sounds insane but it’s how motor racing got started in the US. This…
Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé (W196)
The iconic Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR was based on the 1954-1955 Formula 1 Mercedes-Benz W196 race car, it used an advanced space-frame chassis and magnesium-alloy…
1973 Lamborghini Urraco
For $17,750 USD this Lamborghini Urraco almost seems too good to be true, that said the Urraco is probably the most affordable member of…
Datsun 240Z Cutaway Drawing by Shin Yoshikawa
Well-drawn cutaways are always mindblowing to me. The sense of perspective and innate engineering knowledge required to produce something like this from scratch is…
Land Rover Defender X-Tech
The Land Rover Defender X-Tech was unveiled at the Brussels Motor Show in January, it’s a step up from the current generation Defender in the luxury…
Vintage Crashes – NASCAR Edition
So far as vintage crashes go this one’s a doozy (to use period appropriate phraseology). Daytona International Speedway in early 1960 saw the single…
Sharknose Ferrari – Nürburgring – 1961
Phil Hill in the Sharknose Ferrari 156 doing what he did best. Ben BranchArticles that Ben has written have been covered on CNN, Popular Mechanics,…
Board Track Racing Car #5
Building a motor racing stadium out of a highly flammable material, strapping on a leather helmet, climbing into a vehicle with no discernible braking…
The American Aston Martin
I had never seen an Aston Martin Bertone DB2/4 before this week, it turns out only 3 of them were ever made and this…