what a weird film…ha! featuring a 1960 Alfa Spider and a 6C 1900…and a Moto Guzzi!
Category Archives: vintage
foto of the day. TR6
why is today…all of a sudden….i felt compelled to lust after a Triumph TR6?
sometimes my petrolhead brain puzzles me…..
Pietro Frua’s 1971 Porsche 914 design proposal.
Pietro Frua is one of my favourite designers ever—-mainly because he created weird, mysterious, and often rejected-by-manufacturer designs which were generally better than the manufacturers ended up producing. I think car companies used him for his brainstorming, and then ditched his designs in the end only to steal them. BMW surely stole many of his ideas when they plagiarized his ideas from the Frua ‘concept’ BMWs on all their production cars of the 70s and 80s. I’m looking at this photo of a 1971 Hispano Aleman Porsche 914 design study and seeing all sorts of stuff going on. I see some De Tomaso Pantera, i see some Lamborghini Urraco, and I see lots of Frua cues. What i don’t see is a 914. Obviously Porsche did not use any of his ideas for their eventual collaboration with VW on the 914.
As far as I can tell, the car was seized by customs in 1971 after being shown at Geneva. The car was in ‘exile’ until 1976 and is currently put away in a private collection, having not been driven since 1977. Production of the real production Porsche 914 ended by the time the design was even recovered. Frua was paid $200k to make the design study. (source, Frua website cited below)
There are TONS of amazing pictures here on the Frua.de website (with copyrights so i cannot post them here)
Alfa Romeo 6c 2500 Frecchia D’oro
Yes, the first real production car after WW2 for Alfa Romeo—-and it’s a pretty sweet design. A swoopy coupe with some classic proportions. Not that many were actually made—between 550 to 600 from what i’ve been able to search up. I think it’s one of the ‘lost’ Alfas in time.
foto of the day. 100 Coupe S
more than one! Oh lovely.
Audi 100 Coupe S.
art of the day. D-Type.
the legendary Jaguar D-Type…..in blueprint form
Bugatti Type 101 Antem Coupe
The last ‘original’ Bugatti (referring to the original family run company) to be produced was the Type 101 and one of these 101s went to coachbuilder Antem and was transformed into something weird and somewhat charming. The Bugatti T101 Antem Coupe is an unusual looking design, smothered in mystery and uniqueness. In those days, plenty of ‘one-off’ cars existed, but the significance of this being of the final 8 cars Bugatti ever built before disappearing and being resurrected by an amped-up Volkswagen make this car even more interesting than it already is, in my opinion.
Only eight Type 101s were ever built. The chassis 101 504 would then be sent to Antem of Paris and become the unique Type 101 C Antem Coupé, arguably the most striking and beautiful Type 101.
more info here: http://www.supercars.net/cars/4296.html
video of the day. Fulvia orgy.
I have tried for many years to shake my desires to want a Lancia Fulvia—-but nothing works. It still creeps up in my head all of the time.
This video doesn’t help my lust for one. Wow.
foto of the day. Fulvia Zagato.
photo from Rally Pix
the beauty of the TT.
The MK1 Audi TT is just all types of wonderful. I’m not just saying that because I have one in the garage—-but because before I got my car—-i fantasized day and night about it, sort of how I fantasize day and night about the Alpine A110 and ur quattro now. The TT is more than a car, it is true art—-representing a point where history met with the modern world—–technology fell in love with the vintage. It could have been produced in 1965, or it could have been produced in 2005.
These photos are not of my car, however I stumbled across them looking at photos on Flickr. These are taken by Chun Yi of his impeccable 2000 225.
commercial of the day. Ur quattro.
the hotness.
40 porsches for 1 photo.
at the Rennsport Reunion IV
video of the day. 2002 DTM @ Norisring
Laurent Aiello (Audi TT-R) and Bernd Schneider (Mercedes CLK) going balls to the wall against each other, no commentary. no BS.
hey BMW. why?
why can’t you just go back to making timeless cars with crisp, distinctive styling? What in the world is this front end? Was it designed by 25 people following drinks and sandwiches? This is overstyled, cluttered, and schizophrenic looking.
the new F30 BMW 3-series. I can’t even get myself to post more photos of it…
foto of the day. coming ’round full circle.
BMW. they were crappy in the 50s and early 60s…went to being cool in the late 60s, 70s, and 80s….now back to being crap again.
ad of the day. Lancia
i dig it, even though the Lancia Beta could never live up to this amount of hype!
foto of the day. stuck star.
an incompetent woman driving a winter-deprived SL into a snow bank and having a W123 E-Class estate hatch her escape plan!
foto of the day. the depressing difference in size.
btw, the car on the left is the Alfa Romeo Mito, which is currently the smallest car that Alfa Romeo sells.
Porsche museum collages.
I love the mash-up collages made on the Carfreax site—–here are some they posted from the Porsche Museum. You can see more at the link below.
SOURCE: http://www.carfreax.com/carfreax/2011/07/porsche-museum.html
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