This is one of the original cars built for the 2000 film Gone in 60 Seconds, a car famously nicknamed “Eleanor” by Nicholas Cage’s character Randall “Memphis” Raines. Eleanor, Chip Foose, and The Dream Car 11 examples of Eleanor were either fully or partially built for filming and 5 were destroyed during stunt sequences, all…
Ferrari Dino 246 GTS was the larger-engined, and targa-roofed version of the original Dino 206 GT. Many in the classic car community attach the Ferrari name to the Dino even though technically Dino was its own marque. The reason the Ferrari name is added is because the cars were built by Ferrari, and it helps to…
The Aston Martin Lagonda Series 4 was the final iteration of what was almost certainly the British automaker’s most controversial production vehicle, and one of the most controversial wedge-shaped production cars of all time. The Aston Martin Lagonda Wedges The 1970s saw the “folded paper” automotive design language roar into the mainstream, largely led by…
A Farm Cart And The Citroën 2CV Legend has it that the germ of the idea that would become the Citroën 2CV was sown in the mind of the Vice-President and Chief of Engineering and Design of Citroën, Pierre-Jules Boulanger, one rainy afternoon when as he drove along a narrow French lane he found himself…
The Airstream Excella 280 motorhome is one of the less common Airstream models – most Airstreams were travel trailers (also known as caravans) that lacked a motor and required a tow to get from each location to the next. It was these sleek, aluminum trailers that have made the company famous. The Excella was designed…
This Datsun 240Z has had its DNA spliced with that of a Nissan Skyline, it’s a fitting combination of genetic material from one of Japan’s most important automakers that includes double helixes from the 240Z family as well as the R32 and R33 Skyline families. The build started life as a US-delivered, left hand drive…
This is the last 1953 Chevrolet Corvette that was built, 1953 was the first year the Corvette was offered for sale which makes this car the last of the first Corvettes. Chevrolet first showed the Corvette concept car to the general public at the 1953 Motorama display at the New York Auto Show. The overwhelmingly…
This 1975 Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 Safari was built to answer a single question – what would the 308 GT4 have looked like if Ferrari had opted to take it rallying to compete with its fellow Gandini-designed, wedge-shaped sibling, the Lancia Stratos? The Dino and the Stratos Although there are some obvious engineering differences between…
Cortina: The Story of Ford’s Best-Seller is a definitive book about one of the most important British Ford’s in history and a staple of the British working class from the 1960s into the 1980s. If you grew up in the England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa it’s almost certain that either…
This film shows the first Corvettes being built in 1953, just 300 were painstakingly made by hand that year as Chevrolet ramped up for larger production figures in 1954. All 1953 Corvettes were Polo White with a red interior, they were fitted with a 235 cu. in. (3.9 litre) Blue Flame inline six cylinder engine,…
The 1993 SVT Mustang Cobra R would be the first of its kind, it was designed to be the ultimate version of the Fox Body Mustang before the introduction in 1994 of the new fourth generation Mustang (Fox-4). The team at Ford’s Special Vehicle Team (SVT) didn’t pull any punches with the Cobra R, they…
The Yenko Stinger was developed by Don Yenko, a former race car driver and worthy rival of his on-track nemesis – Carroll Shelby. Both men started out as racing drivers before moving into performance car production, Yenko did this before Shelby, starting his first performance garage in 1957. Despite this head start, Don wouldn’t release…
