How quickly has the year gone by? We’re already coming up on the home stretch (not yet, but soon).
Here’s another grab bag.
What we're listening to now: All Hallows' Eve edition
•October 31, 2010 • Comments Off on What we're listening to now: All Hallows' Eve editionSubtly (and suitably) spooky for this occasion— listen to it loud to fully appreciate its sonic brilliance. Happy Halloween!
Guest contributor: Otis Blank on his 1966 Mercedes-Benz W108 250SE
•October 29, 2010 • 75 Comments
I have always had a love for what I once called “stacked-headlight” Benzes. Every time I’d see one, my heart would jump just a little bit. We even had one in the family— a slightly worse for wear 1962 W111 220SEb owned by my father. I’d always adored the looks of that car, though I never actually considered owning one for myself. I always thought of myself as the kind of person who would drive something a bit smaller, a bit sportier.
Your moment of zen
•October 28, 2010 • 7 CommentsWhat a mesmerizing thing, watching the Alleggerita Maggiorata lifting a leg as it takes a corner. We could probably watch this over and over.
And one that’s well known, included here because you can never have enough of a good thing.
911 in the Australian outback
•October 28, 2010 • Comments Off on 911 in the Australian outbackAustralian photographer Chris Benny took this stunning shot while on assignment for a local magazine.
Autumn “M2”
•October 27, 2010 • 11 CommentsOne of those M2s – a 2002 with an S14 engine – that we love so much. A really nice example, too, from the rally lights on down to the Panasports and Willwood calipers. Colorado Orange paint? Heck yeah. We love it.
Images by Kris Clewell
250-hp, Cosworth-engined 1929 Ford Model 'A'
•October 26, 2010 • 2 CommentsThis is, without a doubt, one of the craziest, most badass, and quite frankly, most unexpectedly entertaining things we have come across in recent memory. And it should come as no surprise, given the same folks were also the brains behind this beast. Turn it up loud for the full experience:
The second movement of Beethoven’s Ninth could not have been a more appropriate soundtrack. And with notes like the following, you just know this is not going to be your average sports car build:
- Wire or steel wheels would have been easier, but Kari wanted the absolute stealthiness of a wooden wheel.
- Of course wooden wheels will not hold up to this combination, so MAT built its own mold to cast the wheels in aluminum, then painted them to look like wood.
- How well does it stick? It’s the only ‘A’ we’ve ever seen corner fast and hard enough to lift the front inside tire without a catastrophic result.
- Factory Model A seats may not provide a great deal of confidence during aggressive driving, but that’s what the Simpson race harness is for. The belts are mounted discreetly and can be tucked out of sight.
We never imagined we’d ever find ourselves in awe of a Ford that was manufactured only shortly after the invention of the assembly line. Well, that assumption has just been turned upside its head.
La déesse
•October 26, 2010 • 12 CommentsLa déesse in a stunningly beautiful shade of metallic brown. Zen— no, lustworthy. Our younger selves might have called us crazy, but we really do think so.
Motoring Con Brio 