One of many styling experiments built for day-to-day use by GM styling Chief Bill Mitchell, the XP-700 was built on a standard 1958 283/230 Corvette chassis but received “Grand Prix-inspired” styling cues such as wire wheels, side exhaust and an extended snout, rumored to have been inspired by a one-off Ferrari 250 Special by Pininfarina. After going though a couple of iterations, it is believed that XP-700 was cannibalized to build the XP-755 “Mako Shark” concept car.
There have been a number of British manufacturers who have taken their smaller, less powerful motors out of their sports cars and dropped a nasty, fire-breathing V8 in its place. We know what “Texas Carroll” did first to the AC and then the Sunbeam Alpine. Small car + big engine = fast and fun. MG...
Thanks to the local newspaper, I learned about Bug-a-Palüza. It is an annual event that draws VWs of all types from far and wide. I don’t know how many VWs were in attendance, but they advertised that the first 300 entrants would receive goody bags! It is likely that many entrants came too late for those goodies. It was a fine spring Saturday in East Tennessee, so it was an opportunity to venture to a park I had not yet visited and see how VW enthusiasts expressed themselves through their automobiles. The fact that the park was named “Camp Jordan”…
Fitting that a classic car show is staged at a classic venue and with its move from London’s Millennium Excel centre to the Victorian splendor of Olympia, the London Classic Car Show has achieved just that. Situated in Kensington, home to London’s “Smart Set”, Olympia with its arched spans of filigree ironwork provides an unhindered exhibition space and hosted the British International Motor Show during the 1920s & ’30s. With the change of venue came a change in the show experience, gone is the Grand Avenue that unique feature of the Show at Excel where vehicles provided a moving motorcade.…
In 1959, Buick introduced the Invicta line of full-size sedans, as an evolution of the Buick Century married to a larger 401-cu.in. V8 engine. While the production 4-door model maintained much of the prototype’s design cues, one feature that was lost was the centrally-mounted “dorsal fin” on the rear deck lid.
Photo Gallery from the Feb 9, 2020, Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance.
Photo Gallery from the opening of the 2020 Retromobile, in Paris, France.
Photo Gallery from the Jan. 22–26, 2020, Cavallino Classic, Palm Beach, Florida.
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These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring the use of turbo technology with their racecars in the late ’60s and by ’72 they were developing a turbocharged 911. Originally, they were doing this to comply with homologation regulations similar to the ’73...
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…