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Volkswagen Brasilia, a Very Rare VW Model in Europe !
Posted By: Simon Sage | Posted On:
Like loads of classic car enthusiasts across the world, we love classic Volkswagens, whether it be a Beetle, a Bulli a Samba, a Splitty T1 camper van or a T2 Baywindow camper van. They're always great to see at classic car shows. What is even better is when you go on holiday abroad and classic cars and to top the lot when you see a rare classic car you've never see or even heard of before ! And this was the case when we went to Portugal on holiday a few years ago and we went for a morning walk to the local shops from the hotel. Here was this unusual Volkswagen and when we got closer could see it was a Brasilia. Looking like a sister car to the Volkswagen 412, it was developed by Volkswagen Brazil in 1970 as an additional model to the range to go with the Beetle. Taking the same 1600cc air cooled engine but with the Karmann Ghia Type 14 chassis, it proved a hit across South America, Mexico and into Europe with Spain and Portugal. Over 1 million models being made before production ended in 1982. Looking at the front, it's quite an…
The Top Seven Best Road Trips in The UK
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The United Kingdom is not many people’s first choice when it comes to great driving roads. If you were given the keys to a Porsche 2.7-litre RS, Ferrari F40 or even a humble Austin Mini Cooper S tomorrow, chances are you would blast straight down to Mont Ventoux in the South of France, the Stelvio Pass in the Italian Alps or any other European mountain pass. However, unless you’ve been living under a boulder this past year, you’ll know that international travel is currently a pipe dream shared by every petrolhead from Lands End to John ‘O’ Groats. So, if you can’t take your classic car abroad, where can you go? Well, a surprising amount of places, actually. Despite the crater-sized potholes, deteriorating driving standards and overwhelming congestion on many UK roads, there are still hidden pockets of driving nirvana to explore. Here’s our top seven best road trips in the UK: North Coast 500 Alright, so this is mentioned in so many road trip guides that it is a painful cliché, but to omit the North Coast 500 would be a heinous crime. It is a spectacular route, and the greatest road trip the UK has to offer. In…
Celebrating 70: Jaguar C-Type Joins Classic Continuation Family
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Jaguar Classic will create a limited number of new C-type Continuations to celebrate 70 years of the double Le Mans-winning legend ! Jaguar Classic is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the legendary C-type sports racer by creating a strictly limited production run of new C-type Continuation cars, which will be hand built at Jaguar’s world-class Classic Works facility in Coventry. The C-type Continuation programme will allow historic motor racing enthusiasts to purchase a new factory-built example of the ultimate 1953 disc-braked ‘works’ C-type direct from Jaguar for the first time. The C-type, which was originally made between 1951-53, was famed for its exceptionally fluid shape by Jaguar Cars designer, aerodynamicist and artist Malcolm Sayer. The C-type won the gruelling Le Mans 24 Hours on its debut in 1951, scoring the first of Jaguar’s seven outright wins at the French endurance race. From 1952, the C-type pioneered the adoption of innovative disc brake technology in motorsport, with a revolutionary system developed by Jaguar and Dunlop scoring the first win for a disc-braked car with Stirling Moss at the Reims Grand Prix in France and contesting the 1000-mile Mille Miglia in Italy. The C-type won the Le Mans 24 Hours again in…
The Ford Mustang Mk1
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The original Pony Car, a sales phenomenon and an American icon every bit as recognisable as Marilyn Monroe or the common beef burger. As a model, it sparked generations of continuous production, being subject to stylistic fads, motorsport successes, tuned to within an inch of its life and held up on the bedroom walls of car enthusiasts for five decades. he Mustang’s success stemmed from its innate simplicity and a what-you-see-is-what-you-get American ethos. It didn’t start out this way however. In fact, the roots of the ultimate Pony Car originated in a mid-engined, forward thinking concept car that fascinated motor-show attendees in the early nineteen sixties. To describe the Ford Mustang I, as it was called, is to list everything that the eventual road car was not. It was a petite, mid-engined four-cylinder two seater with no roof to speak of and an aluminium body. It came about after Ford began to consider the possibility of a small sports car to bridge a gap in the American auto market below big muscle cars such as the Corvette Stingray. Thus the plan for a low-cost, attractive, usable and fast Ford model was born by designer Eugene Bordinat. The technical configuration of…