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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. This week we’re looking at how the Volkswagen Beetle was put together over the course of its life. With more than 21-million built over the course of its 58-year production run, the…
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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. This week we get to see how BMW’s M Factory assembled the legendary S54B32. Considered at the time to be one of the best engines in the world, BMW’s 343-bhp S54B32 helped…
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The 1994 Toyota Camry Coupe and the 1976 Mercedes-Benz 280CE are virtually the same thing
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Mercedes-Benz unveiled their W123 body cars 40 years ago, in late January 1976. The coupe version, carrying the model code C 123, followed suit in the spring months, and despite having a very attractive hardtop coupe roof, both the front end and the rear matched the saloon’s design. With Mercedes-Benz coupes of yesteryear, this is…
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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. This week we’re looking at how the Continental was reborn. At the time of its debut in 1956, the Continental Mark II was the most expensive production car built in America.…
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Magazine Time Machine: Motor Trend March 1952
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It’s been a couple of weeks since the last one, so lets break back into the archives for another Magazine Time Machine. This issue of Motor Trend featured a lot of information about “The Mexican Road Race” also known as the Carrera Panamericana. There is also some stuff on the 50s era hot rod culture…
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Retro Heaven on the A127
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Just outside Basildon, on the A127 arterial road linking London with the coast, there sits a pub and roadside eatery which, it feels, hasn’t really changed since the early Eighties. This made it the perfect venue for a weekend meeting of the South-Eastern chapter of the UK’s notorious group of aficionados of The Worthless Car.…
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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. This week we’re looking at how the last of the Citroën 2CVs were built.
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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. This week we’ve found some rare factory footage of the 1953 Chevrolet Corvette being cobbled together.
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Throwback Monday: Famous Factories
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Welcome to Throwback Monday where we take a look at how things once were, or at least how certain famous cars were once built. We’re starting off with the Alfa Romeo Montreal as its construction had a rather interesting and convoluted path.
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Magazine Time Machine: Motor Trend October 1952
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It’s been a couple of weeks since the last one, so now that the holidays are done and over, lets get back to the good-old-days of automobiling. The early 1950s were still heady days for car makers, and many manufacturers we know today didn’t even exist back then. Don’t worry, though, as there are dozens…
