To Build a Porsche Camper The one vehicle type that no-one would expect Porsche to build is a camper or mobile home. Porsche's engineering mavens proved to be among the world's best when it came to designing and building sports and performance cars, but they never turned their hand to creating a camper like the Volkswagen ...
The Real Star of "Goldfinger" Do you remember where you were when you first saw the James Bond movie "Goldfinger"? I do, I was on a ship named the SS Canberra traveling from Britain to Australia. The ship was equipped with a movie theater and admission was free so you could go to the movies as ...
From the Silver Arrows to the KdF Wagen to the Porsche Type 64 Dr. Ferdinand Porsche once said "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." Dr. Porsche was involved in the design and creation of a number of sports cars ranging from the Mercedes SSK of the 1920's to ...
Introduction In his General Advice to those starting out in vintage sports car racing Winston Teague tells us that "When you put every other distraction aside, the only vintage car you really need is a hot Austin 7". It was in a hot Austin Seven that Bruce McLaren made his racing debut, and Graham Chapman of ...
A Blend of Two British Icons For car aficionados the name Land Rover needs no introduction, and their top of the line model, the Range Rover will be familiar and in all likelihood lusted after by many. The British however are a nation of many talents, some of which are largely hidden from the view of ...
The Argocat is one of those little items most hunters and fishermen would like to have in their garage ready for life's little adventures. Despite the fact that many of us could profitably do with a bit more walking to mitigate against our developing a rather more portly figure than we might prefer, the provision ...
It looks like the car that Kermit the Frog should drive. The British called it the "Frogeye" Sprite, while across the pond in the United States they settled on "Bugeye": but a Sprite by any other name is still as sweet. The Austin-Healey Sprite was made to be affordable fun, plain and simple. While Donald ...
Introduction: The Land Rover Of all the vehicles ever made the one you are most likely to encounter in the most far flung places on earth is the Land Rover. Created by Rover's Chief Designer Maurice Wilks as an Austerity agricultural vehicle the Land Rover was only intended to be a stop-gap vehicle to help Britain ...
The 1955 Chrysler C-300 was arguably the first of America's "muscle cars". The C-300 was in reality a racing car built for NASCAR competition but sold to the public as a road car so Chrysler could meet homologation rules. The heart of the Chrysler C-300 was its 331 cu. in. (5.4 liter) FirePower Hemi V8 ...
Introduction: The Ultimate Refinement of the 1950's XK Jaguars The Jaguar XK150 was the ultimate refinement of the series that started with the Jaguar XK120, which began life as a show car at the London Motor Show of 1948. That original XK120 had not been intended to become a production car: it had been a hand ...