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Image 1 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 2 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 3 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 4 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 5 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 6 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
Image 7 — The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.
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The 1955 Hagemann-Jaguar Special is a one-off racer commissioned by Northern California’s Babe Sulprizio. Jack Hagemann formed the body and while Jaguar now provides the power, it originally ran with a Jimmy Six. Originally painted Rosso Corsa, it's been British Racing Green since 1976.

u/Maynard078 — 22 hours ago
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Pontiac's new Fiero was an instant hit, and soon there were aftermarket performance and styling options aplenty. It became a popular IMSA GTU attraction and was used as the Official Pace Car for the CART PPG Indycar Series. In the end, plummeting sales fed by poor quality spelled its doom.

u/Maynard078 — 22 hours ago
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1970 was the final year for the 1st gen AMC AMX, Dick Teague's unique, Javelin-based two-seat American muscle-car-cum-Corvette-fighter. The idea backfired: it wasn't different enough from the Javelin, and the lack of a back seat cooled its sales prospects. Only 4116 were made.

u/Maynard078 — 1 day ago
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In the 1950s, Ferrari was in search of its design language. Vignale, Touring, and Pinin Farina were all vying for Enzo's attention, as seen by Giovanni Michelotti's evocative 1953 Ferrari 250 Europa for Vignale. The design is positively bursting with Italian enthusiasm and flair.

u/Maynard078 — 1 day ago
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1977 Triumph Spitfire 1500 with Hardtop - truly underrated car

I bought this car 1 year Ago and couldnt be happier :)

Its also a lot more reliable then I expected it to be!

u/Fragrant-Effort-7262 — 2 days ago
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Giugiaro's 1984 Lotus Etna was one of Italdesign's most exciting new concepts. A planned V8-powered successor to the Esprit, it debuted at the 1984 British International Motor Show. Chapman's death in 1982 and Lotus subsequent sale to GM in 1986 scuttled the project, but it was a clear way forward.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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Unveiled at the 2004 Geneva Motor Show, the Renault Wind was a 2+1 roadster concept with a streamlined design. It was fitted with a 136bhp 2.0-liter V6 engine and weighed less than 1900 lbs., or just 859kg.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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Bruce Pascal, owner of the world's most valuable Hot Wheels car, the 1969 Pink Rear-Loading Volkswagen Beach Bomb prototype, had legendary Hot Wheels graphic designer Otto Kuhni create this artwork for his collection of more than 4,000 Redline cars.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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The 1963 Fiat 2300S Lausanne Speciale by Pininfarina was powered by a robust 2.3-liter straight-six and was an exercise in aerodynamics as an art form. Unveiled at the National Exhibition in Lausanne in 1964, this luxurious two-seater could have elevated Fiat’s premium ambitions.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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Developed to take on the likes of Porsche, Ferrari, and Aston Martin, the 300 Atlantique is one of the more successful production cars to ever emerge from the French automaker Venturi. Built between 1991 and 2000, the Venturi 300 Atlantique was powered by the PRV V6 in boosted or non-boosted form.

u/Maynard078 — 2 days ago
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Lengthy, low, sleek and sexy, the Bitter CD started life as an Opel concept and was refined into the reality of a Corvette-powered luxury GT, albeit one built to German standards of quality and reliability. Although a recession and twin OPEC oil embargoes hammered its prospects, its beauty remains.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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The Ford Capri "Swaymar" featured a 3.2L 260 bhp V6 stroker crank, Cosworth pistons, six port big valve heads, high lift cam, steel straight cut timing gears, and Janspeed T5 box. Zero to sixty came in a quick 6.0 seconds, with 160 mph top end. It is one of two built.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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The Méga Monte Carlo was ahead of its time. With one of the first carbon-fiber chassis made and a wholly bespoke 3.5-liter twin-turbo V12 designed by famed Alfa Romeo former chief engineer Carlo Chiti, it should have been a hit. When it finally came to market, it was powered by a Mercedes-Benz V12.

Méga's proposed V12-powered supercar showed so much promise from an upstart French automaker. Regrettably, that promise would fail to come to fruition.

After a frustratingly long five-year development period, multiple ownership changes, a premature introduction (on the cover of Road & Track no less, with no less than Phil Hill behind the wheel. The car would not start.) and an entire powertrain swap, the Méga Monte Carlo would finally be unveiled in its final production-ready trim at the 1996 Geneva Motor Show, this time with the well-proven Mercedes-Benz 6.0 liter V12 living amidships.

After that, details regarding the fate of the Méga Monte Carlo are few and far between. It is unclear how many examples of the French V12-powered supercar were produced. Some reports claim as few as three, while others claim no more than five, with one going into the garage of Prince Albert II of Monte Carlo, a purported investor.

Production of the Méga Monte Carlo was suspended in 1999.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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Glas may have skidded into obscurity since its acquisition by BMW, but it shouldn't: Hans Glas was one of the most innovative car manufacturers of the 50s and 60s. Its four-cylinder 1300 and 1700 coupes and cabriolets produced in unison with Pietro Frua were particularly handsome.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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The Mercedes W196 streamliner of Karl Kling sits quietly while admired by press and public at Silverstone for the 1954 British Grand Prix.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago
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Yes, The Opel Coupe Diplomat Concept was actually designed in Germany. It was the first creation of newly-hired design director George Gallion, and the first to emerge from Opel's new design house at its Russelsheim HQ. The design facility was an exact copy of GM's design center in Warren, Michigan.

u/Maynard078 — 3 days ago