I’m a big fan of the old Sunbeams, my grandfather rode one and used to regale us with tales of the carburettor occasionally spewing out flames and setting his trousers on fire.
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Noémie Marmorat is an artist and product designer with an already expansive portfolio of art that belies her two years of work in the automotive space. She draws all manner of motor vehicles including motorcycles,…
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Introduction The Austin-Healey Sprite’s most famous and perhaps most endearing feature was its uncanny resemblance to Kermit the Frog: and in fact both the car and the puppet were created around the same time with…
The Lynx Eventer was a special shooting brake version of the Jaguar XJS built by Lynx Motors for 16 years from 1983 onwards. The Eventer was far from just a new roof welded onto a…
I’m a big fan of the old Sunbeams, my grandfather rode one and used to regale us with tales of the carburettor occasionally spewing out flames and setting his trousers on fire.
