25 star cars of 1984 - Classic & Sports Car
25 cars that gave us more in 1984. The mid-1980s was an exciting time in motoring history. New models from many European and US manufacturers were regaining much of the excitement and desirability that had often been misplaced in the previous decade, plus the hot hatch had come of age and was taking the world by storm.
21 of Bertone’s greatest hits | Classic & Sports Car
4. 1962 BMW 3200 CS. Another design from Giugiaro while at Bertone, the 3200 CS was to be the last in a 10-year line of cars built off BMW’s ageing luxury-car platform, and the last to use a perimeter frame, solid rear axle and pushrod operation for its V8 engine’s overhead valves.
25 of the most luxurious classic cars ever - Classic & Sports Car
1. Packard Eight (1924) Packard ranked alongside the very best in the world for pre-war luxury cars. Much of this was thanks to insisting on the best components and build standards for its models, as well as the supremely refined 5.9-litre straight-eight engine that sat on rubber mounts to further isolate it from the car’s occupants.
Your classic: Datsun 280Z - Classic & Sports Car
Oct 9, 2024 · A stop on the Datsun 280Z road trip to explore California’s giant redwood trees. Eventually, I found my ‘roadmate’ in a 1973 Datsun 240Z that was reliable, quick and sleek.. I drove it more than 50,000 miles and it never let me down, but after three years I moved on to a 1976 Porsche 911S.. I quickly embraced the marque and over the ensuing decades I bought, sold and drove the wheels off ...
22 classic cars used as hearses | Classic & Sports Car
4. 1939 Rolls-Royce 4¼-litre Wraith hearse. Given the rarity of standard Rolls-Royce Wraith models, hearse versions are few and far between. This example is said to have started life with saloon coachwork, it was then fitted with a shooting-brake body and thought to have been used by a preparatory school, before a funeral director bought it and married it to a coachbuilt hearse body acquired ...
21 of Zagato’s greatest hits | Classic & Sports Car
Celebrating 100-plus years of bold design and questionable lines. Even among iconic coachbuilders, Italian firm Zagato is one of the most famous names in the automotive world – and for good reason: the Milanese design house has crafted shells for some of the greatest marques and machines since it was established in 1919.
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22 of the greatest Jaguars - Classic & Sports Car
4. 1951 Jaguar C-type. Inspired by the promising potential of a three-car works XK120 entry in 1949’s Le Mans 24-hour race, William Lyons consented to the creation of an XK120-based sports-racer with reduced weight, better brakes and more performance.
16 cars with 16-cylinder engines | Classic & Sports Car
Sweet 16. To paraphrase an oft-used maxim, ‘Sometimes, there ain’t no substitute for cylinders’. Throughout automotive history, four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines have been the norm for production cars, with 12-cylinder engines being on the fringe of high-end performance and/or luxury-car engineering.
A-Z of every Group B road car - Classic & Sports Car
Audi Sport quattro (cont.) The result was the Sport quattro in 1984, of which 214 were produced. Audi chopped a huge 320mm from the quattro’s wheelbase, made extensive use of Kevlar, carbonfibre and glassfibre for the body panels and introduced a new lighter aluminium engine block and four-valve cylinder head.