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Vintage Roadcar Gallery 0273 Roger Dixon
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Mid-winter in England is probably not the ideal time to be out driving an 80-plus year old vehicle, but that’s what’s expected by the Vintage Sports Car Club of its members who attend the New Year’s day meet at the Queen’s Head Pub in Hawkedon, Suffolk, UK. Driving through the foggy and frosty Suffolk lanes, early on January 1st 2020, things did not look promising for a busy morning of vintage vehicles. By 10:30 the Queen’s Head car park was only graced by three vintage contenders. Perhaps more stalwarts would arrive after your correspondent had sampled the coffee served in…

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Debuted at the 1978 Turin Auto Show, the Lancia Bertone Siblo was a concept car designed by Marcello Gandini for Bertone using a 4-inch elongated Lancia Stratos as its underpinnings.

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Ray Petros is a dedicated Studebaker collector. It is natural that he focuses on that marque, since his family were Studebaker dealers for many years. Two of his cars, and two of Studebaker’s most iconic vehicles, have been featured in this magazine. His Avanti R1 was the subject of a “Driven” article in December 2017...

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Vintage Roadcar Gallery Bugatti Aerolithe - just incredible!
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The fourth year of The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance was held at the newly opened Tyler Perry Studios just south of Atlanta.  The studios are located on the former US Army Fort McPherson, and the show field was the base’s parade field. It was a lovely venue, with the grassy field flanked by officer’s quarters on one side and barracks on the other, all built in the late 19th Century.  Saturday was the day for the “Invitational Classics and Coffee at the Concours” – a selection of interesting local automobiles.  Seven of them would be selected to attend the Concours the next…

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The Alfa Romeo Caimano was a design concept executed by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Italdesign, for the 1971 Turin Motor Show. Giugiaro was given the 1300-cc Alfasud, with its Flat-4 engine as a starting point and then told there would be no boundaries…other than the final concept would never be put into production. The project would remain purely a design experiment. According to Italdesign: After the boundary imposed from Alfasud project, Caimano represents the chance to free creativity. It is based on Alfasud platform, produced in 1971; only the wheelbase is lightly shorted and the inclined pillar allows an extended…

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When you think of Volkswagen you don’t often use of the word rare, but in this case, with a 1958 Karmann Ghia Lowlight Coupe, it is the right word. Volkswagen wanted to be a part of other markets. They needed something other than their ubiquitous Beetle, something with more flair, something that would capture the...

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