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1947 Cadillac Series 62 Barn Find

Ben Branch July 8, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
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This 1947 Cadillac Series 62 barn find is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, I know it’s not the rarest Cadillac ever made and it’ll never be worth millions, but…

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Mercedes-Benz 300SL Roadster

Ben Branch July 7, 2014
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Engineering
  • German
  • Luxury
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Vintage

The Mercedes-Benz 300SL is one of those hugely significant cars that’ll forever be remembered as one of the top 10 greatest vehicle designs of all time – no matter what extraordinary vehicles may be released in the future. The…

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American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR – Part 2

Ben Branch July 6, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Films
  • Racing
  • Retro

This is part 2 of the 3 part series American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR, we featured part 1 last Sunday (you can click here to see it if you missed it) and…

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Tucker 48

Ben Branch July 5, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Design
  • Engineering
  • Luxury
  • Rare
  • Vintage

The Tucker 48 is a car that’ll forever live as an American legend, the extraordinary panache and guts shown by Preston Tucker in the post-war period is astonishing and the fact that he succeeded…

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Vintage Drag Racers

Ben Branch July 4, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Drag Racing
  • Photography
  • Vintage

These early drag racers popped into our email inbox last week with a request to find more information on them. It’s thought that the photograph was taken in Sanford, Maine by friends of 1960s…

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Porsche 911 x Singer Vehicle Design

Ben Branch July 2, 2014
  • Cars
  • German
  • Luxury
  • Porsche
  • Retro

I sometimes wonder what car designers would turn out if they were given carte blanche to create whatever they wanted – with no thought given to affordability, ease of production or CO2 emissions. Every now…

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1963 Lola Mk6 GT

Ben Branch July 1, 2014
  • British
  • Cars
  • Design
  • Le Mans
  • Racing
  • Vintage

The Lola Mk6 GT is a car that may look vaguely familiar as it would eventually become the basis of the iconic and hugely successful Ford GT40. Similar to the GT40, the Lola Mk6…

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American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR

Ben Branch June 29, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Films
  • Racing

American Stock: The Golden Era Of NASCAR is a 3 part series that covers the early years of NASCAR – that all-American racing series that formed from the beach racers of Daytona and the…

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August and Fred Duesenberg – 1925

Ben Branch June 28, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Engineering
  • German
  • Photography

August and Fred Duesenberg were two of the leading lights of the American automobile revolution, the men were self-taught engineers who started out building motorised bicycles, within a couple of decades they had become…

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1955 Ford Thunderbird

Ben Branch June 26, 2014
  • American
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Ford
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

The 1955 Ford Thunderbird was the first generation of the European-inspired sports car from Ford that overwhelmingly outsold the Chevrolet Corvette, 23 Thunderbirds were sold for each Corvette in 1955 – a total of…

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1958 AC Ace Roadster

Ben Branch June 25, 2014
  • British
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Luxury
  • Vintage

Those unfamiliar with AC Cars might look at the AC Ace and immediately see a strong resemblance to both the Ferrari Barchetta and the AC Cobra. The truth is that the AC Ace is…

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1964 Ferrari 250 LM by Scaglietti

Ben Branch June 23, 2014
  • Cars
  • Classic Cars
  • Design
  • Ferrari
  • Italian
  • Rare

As far as I’m concerned, the Ferrari 250 LM by Scaglietti is the single most beautiful Ferrari of all time. Some will disagree with this, preferring Enzo’s front engined models but the mid-engined 250…

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