The 240Z no longer needs much introduction, but cars like these are not interesting simply because they wear the badge. What matters now is the condition in which they survive. Many have already been restored, modified, repainted in brighter colours than they deserve, or rebuilt from weaker foundations. A pair of complete, title-bearing cars still… Read More Full red: Two 1972 Datsun 240Z
The TE27 Trueno belongs to the early phase of Toyota’s small rear-wheel-drive performance coupes, before the AE86 fixed that lineage in wider memory. That is part of what makes it interesting today. It is an early, compact and mechanically simple car, tied to the 2T-G twin-cam engine and to a period when Toyota competition-derived road… Read More Eastern green: 1972 Toyota Sprinter Trueno Coupé
This is a 1972 TVR Vixen 2500, one of those light, direct British sports cars that isn’t about perfect numbers so much as pure feel. The compact fiberglass body and the straightforward layout (simple chassis, accessible mechanicals, low weight) are exactly why these TVRs still make sense today: very little stands between the steering wheel,… Read More Lighter and cheaper: 1972 TVR Vixen
Produced in only 3,925 units between 1970 and 1977, the Alfa Romeo Montreal represents one of the most distinctive coupés developed by Alfa Romeo during that era. The model originated from a prototype unveiled at the 1967 Montreal Expo and was later commercialized with Bertone bodywork and a V8 engine derived from the brand’s racing… Read More Black magic / 2: 1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal
The Fiat Zagato 132 Aster Coupé Prototype is a fascinating symbol of 1970s Italian automotive creativity. Presented at the 1972 Turin Motor Show, the Aster was the work of Carrozzeria Zagato’s head designer Giuseppe Mittino, who reimagined Fiat’s new 132 sedan into a striking two-door coupé. Mittino gave the car a bold wedge profile, a… Read More Green one-off: 1972 Fiat 132 Aster by Zagato
And here is one of the many puzzles we enjoy, namely a car of uncertain origin and practically unrecognizable from the photos. Clearly, it is a 1972 911, specifically an E series (also known as Oelkappe, with the oil tank filler cap on the outside, precisely on the right rear fender, later removed due to… Read More Question mark: 1972 Porsche 911 Targa
Finding a Montreal for sale is easy: they come in all years and colors (and prices), but finding one like this is a different story. In fact, the seller says that this car has had only one owner from 1972 and has always been stored indoors: judging by the amount of dust deposited on the… Read More One owner: 1972 Alfa Romeo Montreal
It is an Italian with an American heart, and perhaps this is why it was very successful in the USA, much more than other supercars produced in the same period. After all, having an engine full of torque, power and cheap to run like the Ford 351 was not a bad advantage, especially when compared… Read More Bare metal: 1972 De Tomaso Pantera L
The Citroen SM has always been little considered in the world of classic cars, perhaps for the fact that it was a Citroen in itself, perhaps for the fear of facing the maintenance or restoration of a “complex” car, perhaps for both reasons. Yet when this car was unveiled in Geneva in March 1970, the… Read More Code S: 1972 Citroen SM
It’s been 49 years since Rick McCloskey (aka RickMack), fresh out of photography school at San Fernando Valley State College in Northridge, spent every Wednesday night throughout the summer of 1972 photographing a generation of boys and girls in first half of their twenties, cruising and meeting with their cars – stock, partially modified or… Read More The vanished world
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