No ‘pure engine sound’ alas, but it’s still a trip seeing not one, but two RS200s on US public roads.
Nice video— we just wish there was more of it.
RS200s (yes, plural) playing in the Pacific Northwest
•June 15, 2012 • Comments Off on RS200s (yes, plural) playing in the Pacific NorthwestNot something you see every day— E36 M3 Touring
•June 14, 2012 • 7 CommentsImages by Stephen Hall for Total BMW. Lovely car— nice color, just really well done.
Build thread here.
German print ads of cars we know and love
•June 13, 2012 • Comments Off on German print ads of cars we know and loveWe may not sprechen German, but the language of awesome cars is universal. We’re sure you’ll agree.
Inspiration
•June 12, 2012 • 6 CommentsAmazing. We *will* own an aircooled 911 someday.
URBAN OUTLAW is a portrait of Magnus Walker, the rebel Porsche customizer who turned a hobby into an obsession, and an obsession into a successful business. From a workshop in downtown Los Angeles, Magnus obsessively harvests fragments from donor 911s, grafting them onto vintage frames to create one-off automobiles with the spirit of Ferdinand Porsche but an ethos entirely his own.
A few selections from the man’s website:
Hat tip to Bump steer
Ferrari Dino 246 GT and Aston Martin DBS in “The Persuaders”
•June 8, 2012 • 3 Comments
The Dino for us, please.
“The Persuaders!” is a 1971 action/adventure series [starring] Tony Curtis as Danny Wilde, and Roger Moore as Brett Rupert George Robert Andrew Sinclair, 15th Earl of Marnock, referred to through most of the series by his courtesy title of Lord Brett Sinclair, two international playboys. Sinclair is an English aristocrat who attended Harrow and Oxford before serving as an officer in a Guards regiment and then becoming a Grand Prix driver and race horse owner. Wilde is an American who grew up in poverty in the Bronx before serving as an ordinary seaman in the US navy and then making (and losing) several fortunes on Wall Street, at least one of them in the oil industry. Both are jet-setting, London-based multi-millionaires at the time of the series…
The protagonists drive signature cars: Danny Wilde drives a Red left-hand-drive Ferrari Dino 246 GT, Brett Sinclair drives a UK-registered Bahama Yellow right-hand-drive Aston Martin DBS with V8 wheels and markings. As with Simon Templar (Roger Moore’s character from The Saint television series), Lord Brett Sinclair’s car has personalised number plates of his initials; Templar’s were “ST 1”, Sinclair’s are “BS 1” (Except for one scene in the episode “The Gold Napoleon” where the car had its original UK registration number PPP 6H instead). In fact, the true owner of the plates at the time, Billy Smart, Jr permitted their fictional use. The Aston Martin from the show was sold by the factory after filming ended, via HR Owen in London, to its first private owner. It was restored to a very high standard in recent years by the Aston Martin factory and is still in private ownership in the UK. Danny Wilde’s car bears Italian registration plates, 221400.MO (the ‘MO’ component represents the city of Modena, which happens to be the headquarters and manufacturing base of Ferrari). The exact whereabouts of the Dino today is unknown but it is reliably believed to be alive and well in Italy with a private owner (source).
This is how you see Italy
•June 6, 2012 • 2 CommentsNot the usual from us, but we can’t resist a beautiful film, be it four wheels or two. We’ve never wanted to ride on cobblestone roads so badly.
Exquisite.
Seriously handsome: Peugeot 504 Coupé
•June 5, 2012 • 13 Comments
Totally crushing on this car right now. This Pininfarina-designed coupe sort of looks like a cross between an Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint and Fiat Dino (albeit with a French twist), at least to our eyes.
Though it doesn’t appeal to us nearly as much, the cabrio is also a looker:
And given that it’s Peugeot, it’s also been campaigned in motorsport! Thus completing its MCB bona fides 🙂
If you’d like to buy one, $10k seems to be an approximate baseline (though good luck finding one if you’re in the States, like us).
Images via the Blenheim Gang, Peugeot 504 on Flickr, drinhelk, and Google Image Search
Motoring Con Brio 