208 were the Sabra Sports built with the soft top, so that’s a rare car, other than being the only – more or less – known car built in Israel. These cars, built for three years from 1962 to 1964, were commmisioned by the israeli company Autocars, to UK’s Reliant Motor Company of Tamworth as they… Read More Smells like Reliant: 1965 Sabra Sports Roadster
Although being named with “Sports”, this model was actually a tourer (not even fast) built by Jensen with an aluminium skin: few of these survive today. Jensen built the bodies of these little cabriolets, then send them to Austin which completed the assembly of the car: it is said that 4,000 of these car were… Read More Jensen touch: 1952 Austin A40 Sports
The 1968 edition of one of the cutest roadster ever made, the Fairlady/Sports 2000, had some changes over the previous year among which, the most visible is a taller windshield. The seller says that this car was his father’s and now both him and his sister own this car, so he can’t accept any trades… Read More Tall windshield: 1968 Datsun Sports 2000
What matters for a classic car nut is limited to a nice body, seats, wheels, engine, gearbox and few other things: that’s exactly what this car offer; no more than that. This car is indeed a Mark II by Falcon Shells: this factory was founded by a former firm of Ashley, Peter Pelladine, who left Ashley Laminates… Read More What matters: 1958 Falcon Shells Mark I
This is a car which, honestly, we didn’t know the existence of. Ok we’re not so skilled about british cars (and that’s not a good thing), but we’re quite surprised to have ignored such beautiful car so far. It has not the legendary allure of some italian sports car of the same period which, to… Read More Cherry and cream: 1953 Daimler Special Sports by Barker
We are not aware of how many of these cars are still running around but we are pretty sure that no one could be better than this one. Indeed the previous owner did a superb – and clearly expensive – restoration, probably knowing that he could never recovered the cost of it; often it happens that… Read More Best in the world: 1952 Austin A40 Sports Convertible
The Toyota Sports 800 was one of the first production cars featuring a lift-out roof panel, or targa top, pre-dating the more famous Porsche Targa. This car was unvealed during the 1962 edition of the Tokyo Motor Show but then it had a weaker engine 700 cc engine than the definitive one installed on production… Read More Tiny targa: 1965 Toyota Sports 800 LHD
This model was known as Fairlady but that was the home model name: outside Japan the official name was “Sports”. This car belongs to the last series produced which had some major improvements like a five speed manual transmission mated to an inline four, 2000 cc, SOHC engine producing 133 hp. It was raced in… Read More Italian wannabe: 1969 Datsun Fairlady/Sports 2000
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