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A lovely XK 150 Fixed Head Coupé 3.4 litre from 1957 with British Heritage Certificate First delivery to California until 1988 when imported to Belgium. The car became restored and dismantled completely by a Jaguar specialist who tried to keep as much as possible original. Engine rebuilt by Retro Car in Namur. Since 15 ..

The American road-racing scene in the post-war period was a time of abundant creative energy. As Detroit pumped out cheap, readily available V8 engines, many aspiring engineers, designers, and racing drivers experimented by blending those American engines with sophisticated European chassis and svelte, easily reproduced fiberglass bodywork. The per..

Chassis BC 21 AFEngine BC 20 ARegistration RKO 222 BackgroundRolls-Royce bought the Bentley Company in 1931 in order to be able to produce a smaller sports model for the owner/driver to sell alongside their traditional limousines. The austerity that followed the 1939-1945 war..

Rather than ditch the pre-war designed cars altogether, the brains at Ford decided that they still needed a cut-price new car offering to undercut the boxy 100E. It was a simple set-up, much of the chrome disappeared, the dashboard, as a Bakelite unit, also went and it became, as a result of its now much reduced price, highly desirable. Today, the ..

The Mercedes-Benz W136 was one of a range of inline four-cylinder cars from the mid-1930s into the 1950s. The model 170V made its public debut as successor to the W15 Type 170 in February 1936 and between 1936 and 1939 it was Mercedes-Benz top selling model. During the war the plant suffered very severe bomb damage, the manufacturer nevertheless em..

The Land Rover Defender was developed in the 1980s from the original Land Rover series that was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show in April 1948. This four-wheel drive vehicle was the British equivalent of the American Willys Jeep. Built using a steel ladder chassis and aluminium bodywork the Defender gained a worldwide reputation for ruggedness ..

This very good Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith Six Light Saloon by Park Ward, design number 144, body number N. 186 was built for Major Horace E. Dodge Jr., the party-loving playboy heir to the Dodge Motor Company in Detroit. At that time, he was living at St. Leonard’s, Windsor, Berkshire the 18th century house which was purchased by his mother and remo..

Although Cadillac had invented the tailfin in 1948, by the late 1950s, others were offering their own take on the theme. In fact, the 1959 Cadillac fins were a response by Cadillac to the 1957 Chrysler line, which had borrowed Cadillac’s own idea and took it one step further. According to the late David Holls, former design director at GM, the famo..

Having visited Robin Beech in Sussex and seen his Handlye Special (an enormous 27-litre, un-supercharged Merlin V12 one-off car that sounds just like a Spitfire), the vendor decided he ‘had’ to have one. Construction of this unique car commenced in Cape Town, South Africa around 2001 and after a year's search, a Meteor engine was found in Johannesb..

The Jaguar D-Type was produced by Jaguar Cars Ltd. between 1954 and 1957. Designed specifically to win the Le Mans 24-hour race, it shared the straight-six XK engine and many mechanical components with its C-Type predecessor. Its structure, however, was radically different, with innovative monocoque construction and slippery aerodynamics that integ..