The Ford Escort was an incredibly successful rally car in its day, this particular car is the LVX 945J and its history is quite the yarn. I love reading about the ins and outs of a cars history from conception to the current day, if you do too hit the link here to learn more about the sideways car pictured above.
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This car was sold as the Griffith Series 200 in the United States and as the TVR Griffith 200 in the United Kingdom, with some minor differences between them. It was a cross-Atlantic vehicle in…
The Datsun 240Z is one of the most popular, and arguably one of the most important, Japanese cars of its era. With the recent release (at the time of writing) of the Nissan Z…
The MGC – A Sports Car in Search of an Engine The story of the MGC is fraught with “what could have been…” possibilities. For all its good and not so desirable points the MGC…
If there were a car from any point in history that would be driven by Jules Verne, it would be this, the 1976 Citroën Indecision. Although it’s based on a French car it was actually…
This original 1948 Ford Marmon-Herrington Super Deluxe 4×4 Station Wagon was almost certainly one of the world’s first luxury 4×4 SUVs, it was constructed by Marmon-Herrington using a factory-fresh Ford station wagon, with production starting all…
The BMW 2002 Turbo is one of the most revered cars built by the Bavarian automaker in the 1970s and today it’s viewed as a highly collectible German classic – made all the more…
