eBay Find: Model A Rat Rod
Rat Rods are one of those things that I love in spite of myself. I’d be embarrassed to drive one around town but I’d love to race them on dirt roads, up windswept beaches or across the Bonneville salt flats.
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Ayrton Senna Arrives – The 1984 Mercedes Nürburgring Race
The 1984 Mercedes Saloon Car race at the Nürburgring was meant to be a casual affair, quite who thought it actually would be a casual affair is unclear. It seems naive to think that a race track stacked with some of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, all in identical cars, would be anything other than a four-wheeled version of a bare knuckle fist fight.
Vintage Corvette Poster
This retro Corvette poster just made my day, the ’58 Corvette is one of the best looking American cars ever made as far as I’m concerned and the gorgeous minimalistic graphic design of this late-50s advertisement does it ample justice.
Porsche Le Mans Poster Circa 1970
The Porsche 914/6 GT was produced between 1970 and 1972, 3360 were made in total and all used the 2.0 litre flat-six Porsche engine….
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…
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…