Again, we’ve found a car which we didn’t know the existence of: it’s a kit car based on the VW Beetle (the platform of many kit car, basically the main platform for almost every kit car ever produced) and it was built by Vopard Industries in Suisun City, CA. As the period advertising says, Vopard… Read More Topless beetle: 1967 Vopard Vokaro
This is the first time we publish a Corvette C3 and that’s because of a good reason: this is one of the 80 Corvette L88 produced in 1968 and one of the 216 ever produced between 1967 and 1969. The story about this model is quite odd: basically Chevrolet never promoted this car and somehow… Read More 10 seconds club: 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88
Machines like this one are not much popular in Europe nor among the young classic cars enthusiasts but they’re actually a very important chapter of the american post war automotive history. Long story short: after the WWII a lot of american boys back from the battlefields wanted basically one thing: to forget the hell they faced during… Read More Bonneville heritage: 1948 Tank Belly Racer
Bill Devin was actually a car nut and, like many others dreamers of his era he wanted to build the sports car of his dreams: he did it and so he leaved his mark in the automotive history. Of course the easiest way to do it was to rely on an qualified and versatile chassis… Read More Gold digger: 1960 Devin D
This hand-built car has been, almost 60 years ago, the absolute peak of the american automotive production: it featured a lot of gadgets and it was more expensive than its contemporary competitor, the Rolls Royce Silver Cloud. Its price tag was $13,000 (back in 1958 the average yearly wage in the U.S. was $4,600) It… Read More Space age ship: 1958 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham
This angl0-american-italian roadster was produced from 1951 to 1954, but only from 1952 it had this aspect shaped by Pininfarina coachworks. And, because the components of this car had to go around a third of the world before being put together, this roadster had a very expensive tag price: in 1955 it costed almost the double… Read More Buried emerald: 1953 Nash Healey Roadster by Pininfarina
Of course this recreation is pretty coherent with the original concept of the Bizzarrini Gt Strada: a Chevrolet engine mated with italian body and chassis. Ok this car hasn’t the same fine tubular chassis of the original car: the aluminium body here wraps around a 1967 Chevrolet Corvette chassis which, even for the time, was… Read More Bizzarre ‘Vette: 1967 Bizzarrini GT 5300 Strada recreation
This Kellison J6 is said to be one of only 500 made and it clearly shows a psychedelic paint which for sure dates back sometimes between the late sixties and the mid seventies. It’s the first time we see a Kellison with its roof chopped, and we must say that we like it. It is… Read More Psychedelic paint job: 1962 Kellison J6 Roadster
To the eye of many this could seem on of the many big american station wagon of the fifties, but in fact this is maybe the rarest of them all. It’s called New Yorker Town and Country and the first thing you see is that this is pushed by a mighty 331 c.i. Hemi V8: this… Read More Steel, vinyl & wood: 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Town and Country
These little fiberglass cars were called, when built in this configuration, “Cobra killers” and that’s not hard to figure out why. Less than 200 of these little monsters were made for the US market: this is a 50 years old car but that’s nothing old in its performance: thanks to its low weight mated to a… Read More Cobra killer: 1966 TVR Griffith Series 200
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