Cork, Ireland, 1970
Date: January 1970 Location: St. Patrick’s Hill, Cork, Ireland Source: James O’Dea, courtesy National Library of Ireland What do you see here?
Date: January 1970 Location: St. Patrick’s Hill, Cork, Ireland Source: James O’Dea, courtesy National Library of Ireland What do you see here?
Bentley 4.5 liter. Photo by David LaChance. More than 240 years after the founding fathers met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to sign King George’s walking papers, the Simeone Foundation Automotive M...
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Documented factory-built 1958 Lotus 7 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This Lotus Seven was Factory Assembled and one of the first 4 Imported to the USA in 1958. Lotus Cars, 7...
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1971 Lotus Elan S4 , with $10k worth of receipts from recent work, for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: The elan has been well taken care of with an extensive amount of work done ...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1984 Mini 25TH Anniversary …Stunning !!!!! 100% restoration, with full photographic documentation and receipts. No expense spared, $10,000 spent on bodywork a...
Longtime single family-owned 1964 Peel P50 for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: Family owned vehicle bought in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada in 1968. Dad saw it in the ...
Jaguar’s E-type Zero, now production-bound. Photos courtesy Jaguar Land Rover. Last September, Jaguar debuted a concept car it called the E-type Zero, which swapped a 1968 E-type Series 1.5 roadster’...
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All images courtesy of and copyright Bryan McCarthy of Bearded Mug Media, except as noted. A few years back I wrote about the need to take your kid to a vintage rally. If you didn’t heed my advice th...
Vintage raced 1963 Elva Courier for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This 1963 Elva Courier MK3 was sold new in the UK and was used as a street car in Kansas until 1994. It was co...
Mechanically sorted and sympathetically restored 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 for sale. From the seller’s description: This Lotus spent 10 months being rebuilt by Barry Spencer of Spencer Motorsports in Rohn...
Race-ready 1969 TVR Tuscan for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: In 1969, the TVR Tuscan had an all round tube chassis, which was not strong enough to endure the challenges of raci...
The lower section of the left-front fender on my 1955 TR2 needs to be replaced, but with six spare left-side front fenders on hand, it will allow that damaged fender to be repaired with authentic Tri...
From the seller’s description: 2004 Caterham Super 7. This car was produced by Caterham and is a right hand drive. Extensive engine work done by some of the best performance engine shops in the West ...
From the seller’s description: 1988 Jaguar XJ.SC V12 : Rare limited production one owner car with only 19,067* miles. Jaguar produced just 3,800 V12 XJ.SC “targa’s” between 1985 and 1988. This 1988 e...
Raced in-period 1958 Lotus Seven , powered by a Coventry Climax 1.2-liter engine, for sale. From the seller’s description: This Lotus Seven was Factory Assembled and one of the first 4 Imported to th...
1959 Rover 90 four-door sedan , from the much beloved P4 series, for sale. From the seller’s description: Great car.great compression,peppy 6 cyl. rides very smoothly, shifts, corners, and stops, as ...
Inexpensive and affordable are often two distinctly different things, particularly when it comes to entry-level collector cars. While it can be tempting to plunk down $5,000 on a well-worn sports or ...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1985 TVR 280i in excellent condion, garage kept with 35,000 miles. It is 1 of 239 produced in Blackpool, England in 1985. It has a German Ford 2.8 liter V-6 w...
Date: circa 1960s Location: York, England Source: via “ Wheels Around Yorkshire ” What do you see here?