I have literally 1000s and 1000s of photos of my favourite car ever, the Alpine A110. I am slowly dispersing these through IEDEI so others can enjoy them. Many of these are very rare, and I have collected them over the past 5 years or so. I don’t have a lot of information on some of them—but when I have info I will pass that along as well. The more vintage and grainy—-the BETTER.
from 1976
a nice blue series-1 Lancia Fulvia
i love these vintage programs from the original races; this one is from 1969 Lime Rock….from Progcovers
i love most TVRs—i think the new ones were brilliantly insane, and the older ones were brilliantly insane. Whenever i’ve been to the UK i keep one eye peeled out for them rumbling by….fantastic.
i found this nice little lo-fi website with little tidbits of history:
http://www.tvr-grantura.de/Meine-Grantura-Seite/Meine-Granturaseite.html
I love photos like this, at the same I hate photos like this. Lots of dead old british cars, including some TVRs.
Vintage TVR Grantura manual.
Old-school TVR-Grantura
Quattroholic has put up some fantastic scans from an Audi AG book about the 1991 Audi Avus Concept. Hard to believe this was 20 years ago. A lot of the design cues from this car directly influenced future products like the Bugatti Veyron, Audi TT, and Audi R8. The Avus was heavily influenced by the legendary Auto Union race cars of the 20s and 30s—and represented a turning point in modern Audi design.
check out the full scans at:
http://www.quattroholic.com/2011/04/hi-res-scans-of-original-1991-audi-avus.html
What do an Avant with 4 rings and an (almost) normal E-class Mercedes have in common? Well…these 2 were series production cars built by Porsche. The RS2 is one of the holy grail cars round here, and the 500E might be one of the unsuspecting sleepers around…
Articles from the July 2002 issue of GT Purely Porsche
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1955 Maserati A6G/54 Zagato. all types of lovely.
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Walter Rohrl is part of the team behind the Porsche 911.
just the logo…just the badge….but the stuff my dreams are made of.
a BMW Classic short film. (thanks to Arman for the tip!)
Great stuff on display in Germany at this year’s Techno Classica.
see the rest of the pics at Audi Passion:
http://www.audipassion.com/news/741/51/Le-stand-Audi-Tradition-au-Techno-Classica-2011/
Surely it won’t happen….but quite a nice design daydream!
http://www.andrewmorandi.com/2010/02/quick-winter-break-project-auto-union.html
IEDEI prefers small coupes over everything else in the automotive world—-and part of the reason I get so obsessed with the idea of small rounded coupes is because they have so much character. This one is no exception! the Abarth Simca 2000.
Capable of handing the Porsche 904 it’s own ass as well! Impressive. 202 hp in such a tidy little package.
Most people associate Abarth with Fiat, but a very successful liaison was also formed with Simca. The French company was partly owned by Fiat, and when they wanted to appeal to a younger market with a more sporting image, they turned to the Italian giant for help.
Fiat in turn went to Abarth, who received sponsorship from the larger company. A deal was struck whereby Simca shipped floor pans of their 1000 Sabour to Abarth, who then cut 4″ out of the chassis and built handsome lightweight aluminum bodies around them.
The engine was an all-Abarth 1300cc four-cylinder twin-cam unit which produced up to 140 bhp and was mounted in the rear, while suspension was nearly stock Simca 1000, incorporating a transverse front leaf spring with telescopic dampers and upper wishbones and rear semi-trailing arms a la Porsche.
With this car, Abarth won the World Championship for Makes in 1962. The racing version of the Abarth Simca was developed throughout the 1960s, and the winning design was found to be more than a match for its competitors. In two-liter, 202 bhp specification, the Simca Abarth was easily able to beat the Porsche 904 on the track and won the European Mountain Climb Challenge outright.
http://www.sportscardigest.com/car-profile-abarth-simca-2000/#ixzz1IgpH7KNo
One of my favourite Alfas—-and in a beautiful owner. Nicely narrated introduction to the Alfa Romeo Montreal
Wow. Never thought these would be in auction; apparently Bertone is really suffering…and are supposedly liquidating their museum. How sad.
Included are the unbelievably cool father-of-the-Lamborghini-Espada—–the Lamborghini Marzal—– as well as the Original Lancia Stratos Zero Concept. The Lamborghini Bravo concept has also always been one of my favourite ‘lost’ concepts from the 70s wedge-shaped revolution.
list of the 6 cars:
1967 Lamborghini Marzal
1963 Chevrolet Testrudo
1974 Lamborghini Bravo Concept
1978 Lancia Sibilo
1980 Lamborghini Athon
1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero
source: http://www.rmauctions.com/PressRelease.cfm?PressID=771
more of it! love this car, don’t see/read/hear much about it at all either.
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