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Green with envy: ’74 VW Karmann Ghia-ish

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VW Karmann Ghia

Most of us know the story of why the VW Karmann Ghia came into being. Here is a short version – VW execs wanted a halo car so they hired Ghia to cloak a 111 chassis (Beetle) in a slick new design. Then they got Karmann to build them using some pretty labor intensive, old school techniques to get all the curves right. Now they had a really nice little car to sell and DDB (Doyle, Dane, Bernbach) created one of the most memorable car campaigns to sell it. And sell it they did. Read More

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Bubble Sprite: ’59 Austin-Healey Sprite

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Austin-Healey Sprite

Yesterday we featured a rather nice Austin Healey 3000 Works Rally Tribute and a absolutely dreadful 3000 restoration as part of a brief rant on taste. Then Mike M., sends us this absolutely wonderful Sprite and we decided to go Healey again.  Some background – Donald wanted a car a bloke could park in his bike shed. His own words, not ours. It was introduced to the press in 1958 and quickly became a success in sales and on the track.  Read More

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Not Bruce Wayne’s: ’65 Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale

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Alfa Romeo Giulia SS

Coachbuilders at Zagato had built a successful race car around the Alfa’s Giulietta. You would think Alfa would be dancing in the strada, but no, they wanted to build one of their own. They phoned up Nuccio Bertone and set him on the task to build a Sprint Veloce Zagato beater. Designer Franco Scaglione was given a clean sheet and he came up with the extraordinary Speciale introduced at the1957 Turin Auto Show. Read More