Apropos of our recent post, and just in time for Halloween, too. The movie looks so tepid and hokey compared to more recent fare from the genre, but it’s still fun to see the ‘rocco in this blatant bit of late-’70s product placement. At least the hatch is put to good use.
Here’s a selection of classic race cars broken out by marque— well worth watching during weekend downtime not spent driving.
Have a good one.
Motorin’ and snappin’. And an old school Canon F-1 and Datsun are certainly not a bad way to do either— unpretentious and yeomanly, yet still plenty capable.
We don’t know who took this wonderfully evocative photo, but we would certainly love to credit them if we could.
Jamiroquai, in case the name doesn’t ring a bell, is the band led by frontman (and celebrity car guy) Jay Kay— sort of Britain’s answer to Leno, but with slightly more focused taste (given the latter’s far-reaching love of weird and wacky automotive esoterica).
The car looks absolutely fantastic, as you might expect. The music? We’ll try to be diplomatic and say that there is better music, but also worse. Or put another way, while we wouldn’t exactly “recommend it to family and friends,” we didn’t end up turning it off, either.
The video looks good, in any event.
Earlier (and very much in the same vein of ‘supercars on awesome roads in distant lands’)..
On the heels of our post on the Volkswagen Scirocco comes this look at the car on which its based, the Golf GTI. Some entertaining stuff here, as presenter Quentin Wilson regales us with his memories of street racing one against a Mercedes saloon (nice kill! /Internet forum) and so forth. Long-ish, but worth watching— especially if you love these little cars (as we do).
Earlier..
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You don’t ever think of an SM as having ‘stance’, but here we are. Very curious to see what it looks like in profile, because the head-on view is nothing short of amazing. Easily the most aggressive-looking SM we have ever seen (at least as suggested by the photograph).
Okay, so we don’t have a cool half mil to play with. Heck, we don’t even have a tenth of that. But let’s say we did— still plenty generous (by most yardsticks), and not altogether outside the realm of possibility. What would you have?
For us there is one constant: we must have an aircooled 911 (and longtime readers of this blog will likely already have figured that one out). A 964 (like Carby’s stunning example above) probably strikes the most realistic balance of looks and budget, although an ’80s Carrera might net us a nicer overall example (if only we can get past those big regulation-compliant bumpers). And with perhaps the exception of basketcase or very high-mile examples, 993s and those pretty long nose early 911s (while arguably more desirable) are probably just a tad beyond reach if we wanted to budget for a second car.
Which leads us to its hypothetical stablemate, a role that could be ably filled by a revolving door of disparate – if almost all equally tantalizing – candidates. A step nose Alfa GTV, likely the most charismatic choice. A Lotus Elise— the most trackable straight out of the box and, incidentals like tires and brake pads notwithstanding, the one probably needing the least. An E30 M3— pretty self-explanatory (but in case it isn’t..). Even another Porker, though this time in the form of a front-engined 944 S2, 951, or 968— cars that have a reputation for being beautifully balanced drivers.
So that’s our short list. What’s on yours? Pick a car, or two (or even three), and hit us up in the comments. Just keep it south of $50,000, in aggregate.
And of course, if you are lucky enough to have already assembed your [reasonably priced] dream garage (or you have commenced acquisition of pieces thereof), let us know about that, too.
Making it a day of these cars. You hardly ever think of wedding photos as being ‘cool’, but these manage to achieve just that. This is the way to do it!
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