Classics
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For those hard-core Bullitt fans out there, your car has arrived. Gateway Classic Mustang is building a limited-edition 1968 Steve McQueen Signature Mustang. The hand-built car looks like a 1968 'Stang, but under the hood lies a modern Roush small-block V-8 that generates 450 horsepower. Suspension up front consists of an adjustable strut coil-over setup, while the rear suspension is a three-link adjustable coil-over unit with a watts link. Steering chores are handled by a power rack-and-pinion unit. The body is an original unit donated from a '67 or '68 Mustang. Power reaches the rear wheels...
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Rotary-Powered 1967 Datsun 311 Up For Grabs At BaT
Pairing small, light roadsters from the 50s and 60s with rotary engines is nothing new. It's been done with complete and utter ferocity by people like Jeff Kiesel, whose turbo rotary Sprite is an autocross terror and wonder (see the video below for proof). But this particularly clean example of...
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1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Sells For $4.3 Million At Amelia Island Auction
The 2011 Amelia Island vehicle auction in Florida has come and gone and this year’s event has proven to be a record breaker, with more than $24.3 million going under the hammer for an assortment of classic performance and luxury cars. A sizeable chunk of that $24.3 million total was courtesy...
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Video: Vintage Racing Crashes Compiled Into 4 Furious Minutes
If you had any doubt that racing safety has come literally light years ahead in the past century, this video should erase it. Horrific, brutal, and often deadly crashes in the days before seatbelts, safety cells, and fire suppression systems were an accepted, if feared, part of the sport. The music...
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Deal Or No Deal: M20-Powered 1974 BMW 2002
BMW's 2002 is often taken as the benchmark for true Bimmerphiles. It's outdated in technology and performance, but there's a purity to its small dimensions and simple aesthetic that many refer back to in judging the cars since. This example, a 1974 2002 Turbo outfitted with an M20 six-cylinder...
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1902 Mercedes-Benz Simplex 28 Live Photos: 2011 Geneva Motor Show
Not to be outdone by Porsche's resurrection of the Semper Vivus, Mercedes-Benz trotted out its 1902 Simplex 28 at the Geneva Motor Show today. A sports car in its day, the 35-horsepower car demonstrated some of the virtues that would later become commonplace in performance four-wheeled hardware...
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Recreating the past isn't something you often think of when hybrid or electric vehicles are the topic of discussion, but Porsche did exactly that for the Geneva Motor Show, unveiling a painstaking recreation of the 111-year-old Semper Vivus, the first fully-functional full-hybrid car ever built. In-wheel motors, two mid-mounted engines, and true series-hybrid drive, like the 2011 Chevy Volt or Fisker Karma, put the Semper Vivus, its name Latin for "always alive," well ahead of the technological curve for 1900. Then as now, however, the problem with such technologically advanced hybrids was...
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Relive The Thrill Of The 'Bullitt' Car Chase, At 1:32 Scale
At last count, there were at least five reasons to love the internet: 1. [REDACTED] 2. Cat videos. 3. The Oatmeal. 4. The lovely and talented High Gear Media family. 5. The opportunity it provides crazy obsessive people to show off their handiwork. And in service of #5 comes news that graphic...
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Porsche Recreates The Original Full Hybrid, Semper Vivus, For Geneva Motor Show
In-wheel electric motors, a full-hybrid drivetrain, and a Porsche logo: it sounds like a modern car, but it's 111 years old. It's the Porsche Semper Vivus, and it has been recreated in time for the Geneva Motor Show. Porsche says it was the first fully-functional full-hybrid car in the world...
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Porsche Restoring Classic 911T For Fan Giveaway
Porsche wants to "Revive the Passion" for its classic cars, and it's using its restoration and antique maintenance arm, Porsche Classic, to turn up the heat. The end result will be a fully restored 911T Coupe to be given away to a Porsche Club of America member. Seen above in its rough starting...
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Stolen Mustang Has Been Recovered And Is Being Rebuilt
Right as Mike Gomez put the finishing touches on the 1969 Mustang he and his wife Sheri were restoring, a thief hopped in and attempted to steal it. Gomez tried to stop him, suffering a broken foot in the process. The thief crashed into a brick wall, and the car was totaled. Gomez's insurance...
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Chrysler Registers Cuda Name, Dodge-Brand Car In The Works?
Since the rebirth of the Dodge Challenger, custom houses and rumor mongers have had a field day with reinterpretations of the Barracuda, or 'Cuda, name. Now Chrysler has put a more official stamp on the subject, apply to register a trademark for "Cuda" with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office last...
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Bonhams auction house this weekend sold The King's 1970 Mercedes-Benz 600 at Mercedes-Benz World near Weybridge, Surrey, U.K. for a price of $187,390 including the buyer's premium. Elvis Presley's former super cruiser will now reside in Germany--a homecoming, of sorts. Presley owned the car, a powder blue Salon Limousine model, for two years before giving it to a friend, James Leroy Robertson. The car was exported from the U.S. in 2005 when it was sold by Robertson Motors Memphis, though fans attempted to stop the export. This isn't the only Mercedes-Benz 600 Presley owned, however: he had...
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Video: How Porsche Classic Helps Keep Vintage Cars On The Road
Over 70 percent of all Porsches ever built are still on the road--or at least in running condition in a climate-controlled garage. Porsche Classic is the company's in-house restoration and parts unit, and in this video, they walk us through what they do. Aside from the very interesting snippets of...
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Black Beauty Now On Display In Los Angeles (Bring Bionculars)
Looking for some nifty car art but can't make it to Miami this weekend? No problem -- well, not as long as you live in Los Angeles. The Petersen Automotive Museum has just put a beautiful, sleek, thoroughly tricked-out Chrysler Imperial on display. And this isn't just any Imperial (as if there were...
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Morgan Plus Four Plus: 1 Of 26 Made For Sale In California
There are some years in the history of the automobile that stand out as particularly good ones, and 1964 is near the top of the list. The first Mustang was introduced that April, the Pontiac GTO was born as an option package to the LeMans, and Morgan began building the Plus Four Plus. Only 26 Plus...
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Video: Jay Leno's Garage Hands-On With The Rossi SixtySix C2-Styled C6 Corvette
Pairing the classic looks of the split-window C2 Corvette with the mechanical might of the C6 Corvette platform is the brilliant idea behind the Rossi SixtySix, which made its debut this summer at the EyesOnDesign event in Detroit. We brought you a first look at the car back in 2008, but now we...
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Black Beauty Builds Buzz For Green Hornet On National Tour
In January of 2011, Sony will release The Green Hornet, starring a leaner, meaner Seth Rogen and one very fine Chrysler Imperial that is not so different from the one that Jon Hamm drove on Mad Men, except Seth's has guns. Big ones. If you're familiar with the Green Hornet storyline, you know...
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Charity auctions are curious things. Some of the goods are what you'd expect: artwork, jewelry, Botox gift certificates. But when celebrities get involved, the Wow Factor can shoot through the roof. Or not. We once saw Gregory Hines auction off a tap lesson for one lucky bidder and three of her friends. (The class was taught by Mr. Hines, obvs.) We've heard rumor that Julia Child once did the same with cooking lessons. And then there's Ralph Lauren. Mr. Lauren (nee Lifshitz) is hosting an impressive online auction to raise funds for the Ralph Lauren Pink Pony Fund, a charity dedicated to...
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Video: Reborn Lancia Stratos Testing At Balocco
The Ferrari F430-based new take on the legendary Lancia Stratos is well underway, and this video gives us a better look at exactly what to expect as it undergoes chassis tuning at the Balocco test track in Italy. As an added bonus, we also have video of the car undergoing its final wind tunnel...
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Jaguar Turns 75 Today, Celebrates With Tour Of Historic Models
Today, the 23rd of September 2010, is a very important date for Jaguar as it marks the 75th anniversary of the legendary British marque. To celebrate the milestone, a group of 75 individually-numbered, iconic Jaguars from across the years embarked on a two-day journey from Coventry to Goodwood. The...
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Delorean-Designed 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee Prototype On eBay
John Z. Delorean and Pontiac: two names lost to the vagaries of time but which still live on through their sometimes awkward, sometimes brilliant progeny. Today, one car up for auction ties both legacies together in one surprisingly impressive package: the 1964 Pontiac XP-833 Banshee prototype. And...
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What's Your Favorite Empty-Garage Dream Car?
Few rites of passage get landmark status in a car fan's life. There's nothing in a car life like the birth of a first kid or the signing of a first mortgage--unless you have to do both just to get that "classic" Zimmer QuickSilver back on the road after Granddad left it to rot in a barn in New York...
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Muscle Car Collector Arrested For Sales Tax Evasion
If you've got the cash to buy 150 classic muscle cars and house them in an immense garage, you ought to have the cash to pay the sales tax on them, right? Not if you're Mark Pieloch, according to Nebraska authorities. Pieloch has been arrested for "felony willful avoidance of sales tax" on more...
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