This 1st series E-Type has arrived to us from the early days of rock’n’roll: watching those very old tires it’s clear that this former car has been abandoned somewhere many years ago and then cannibalized of its engine and transmission. Now it’s just a rolling chassis. Someone could say that it’s just a parts car as restoring… Read More Rock and rolling: 1963 Jaguar E-Type Coupé
Dellow was a little company born in 1946 near Birmingham, UK, founded by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe: the brand is indeed made by their combined surnames. The company was specialized in selling and installing performance parts for the cars which went to trial races. In 1954 they started to use the new Ford 100E engine in both… Read More Aircraft inside: 1954 Dellow MK-V
It’s odd seeing a 1958 car sold directly by its first owner, but this seems just the case. Indeed the owner (and seller) says that he bought this car new in Germany (probably he was in the army back then) with a Le Mans engine kit. It is a four seat BN4 L with black interior, overdrive, disk wheels.… Read More One owner did 162K miles: 1958 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4L
The Banshee was the female forest spirit in the irish popular tradition, in this case her name was borrowed by the fiberglass producer who dressed this 1957 MGA chassis. Many of these cars have been over-used during the years so many of the remaining cars got enormous wheels, V8 powerplants and many incorrect modifications: this… Read More Road spirit: 1957 MG A Banshee
The seller of this one-off fiberglass berlinetta based on a 1957 Triumph TR3 chassis is a usual Classic Virus reader and he’s a true classic cars enthusiast. He submitted to us this nice car which body was made probably in the early sixties in the U.S.A., during the “Fiberglass era”. The photo above shows the… Read More Seller submission: One-off 1957 Triumph TR3 “Berlinetta”
Actually “barn” is a sweet word used in the title but this car looks to be stored somewhere more likely to a container than a barn. However, the point is that this car has been stored since many years and, if the period photo provided by the seller is one of the last taken before… Read More Farewell barn, hello world: 1953 MG TD
We’d never imagine that a little economy car could have such stance if properly lowered like this MG 1100. And, that’s even more surprising as we’re talking about a one owner, exceptionally preserved car. The seller says that this car was sold new in San Francisco, CA. and that the owner has always kept this vehicle indoors… Read More Stancefully yours: 1966 MG 1100
After a two years production (1958-1960) and a little more than 2000 cars made, the MG A Twin Cam came out of the production lines, both because the engine used to give much troubles to the owners and for its high selling price. However, just after the end of the production, the cause of such… Read More Rough diamond: 1958 MG-A Twin Cam
If we must be sincere, we don’t like the Cortina so much under the aesthetic point of view. It has a quite bulky look but no one can say that it hasn’t temper. Moreover this car, cute or not, “gives its opinion” in every classic cars race it joins, thanks to its lightness and the… Read More Like Jim Clark: 1965 Ford Cortina Lotus
We are used to see many rebodied italian cars but rarely we’ve seen a rebodied AH 100/6: this car is said to have been rebodied during the sixties and, for sure, who made this was both influenced by the Ferrari California and the Corvette C3. Indeed the nose looks like a Corvette C3 while the… Read More Total crossbreed: 1957 Austin Healey 100/6 “The California”
