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Northshore Sportscars

1225 Rockland Rd., Rte 176 Lake Bluff, Illinois

60044

Northshore Sportscars

The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 until 1967. It is the best known of the "big Healey" models. The car's bodywork was made by Jensen Motors and the vehicles were assembled at BMC's MG Works in Abingdon, alongside the corporation's MG models. During its production life, the car changed from an open sports car, albeit with a child-transporting 2+2 option, ...

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7 Nov 2023
United States

The words “flat rad” has special meaning when applied to the Morgan Plus 4 sports cars of the early 1950s. The phrase refers to the flat, upright radiator shell that these classic models wore until 1954. When the Morgan Plus 4 roadster was built, it was actually state of the art for small-displacement sports cars from the UK utilizing a 2088cc Standard Vanguard engine. It was installed on a widened, ...

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4 Nov 2023
United States

The MGB is a two-door sports car manufactured and marketed from 1962 until 1980 by the British Motor Corporation (BMC), later the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland, as a four-cylinder, soft-top sports car. It was announced and its details first published on 19 September 1962. Replacing the MGA in 1962, production of the MGB and its variants continued until 1980. Sales for the MGB, MGC and ...

96,456
3 Nov 2023
United States

The TF Midget, launched on 15 October 1953, was a facelifted TD, fitted with the TD Mark II engine, headlights faired into the wings, a sloping radiator grille concealing a separate radiator, and a new pressurised cooling system along with a simulated external radiator cap. This XPAG engine's compression ratio had been increased to 8. 1:1 and extra-large valves with stronger valve springs and ...

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24 Oct 2023
United States

The MG-TD has a 1250 cc 4-cylinder engine with two one-barrel carburetors that puts out just 54 horsepower. History points to MG (which stands for Morris Garage) offered a TC roadster in the states in the 1940 decade that sold fairly well even considering it was a right-hand drive English sports car. Then in 1950, MG technicians took a 1949 Y-Type MG Touring model, cut five inches from the chassis ...

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22 Oct 2023
United States

In 1971, the Type 74 Europa Twin Cam was made available to the public, with a 115 hp 1558 cc "big valve" Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine, a new Renault 4-speed gearbox and a re-designed bodyshell to improve rearward visibility. Mike Kimberley, who rose to become chief executive of Group Lotus, then a new engineer at Lotus, was appointed Chief Engineer of the Europa TC project. 1, 580 cars were shipped ...

46,820
26 Sep 2023
United States

The TR6 is adored by British sports car fans as the last of the traditional hairy-chested English roadsters. While it’s possible to argue with the precise wording of that statement, the TR6 was certainly antique in many ways when it was introduced in late 1968. Karmann of Germany had done a masterful job of updating the TR4 body shell while actually changing very little. The 2. 5 liter straight ...

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19 Sep 2023
United States

The 356 was created by Ferdinand Porsche (son of Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the German company), who founded the Austrian company with his sister, Louise. Like its cousin, the Volkswagen Beetle (which Ferdinand Porsche Sr. had designed), the 356 is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive car with unitized pan and body construction. The chassis was a completely new design, as ...

90,006
13 Aug 2023
United States

The concept of a lightweight, military Land Rover isn't easy to absorb at first. The Land Rover was already light by military standards, it's about as basic as a small 4x4 can be, especially with aluminum skin, but once upon a time, the automaker adopted the Lotus formula of simplifying, then adding lightness to permit several of them to be stuffed into a cargo plane. The wings had to go, ...

85,140
17 Apr 2023
United States

With just 506 examples built, any Nash-Healey is a rare find indeed. These Anglo-American hybrids, with straight-six engines from Nash, chassis from Donald Healey and, in their second generation, stylish bodies from Pinin Farina, were long ago accorded milestone status as one of the first production post-war sports cars sold in America.

Records estimate a mere 62 of this particular body ...

60,123
13 Apr 2023
United States

In 2019, Road & Track named the GT one of the "16 of Pininfarina's Most Beautiful Designs That Aren't Ferraris." The fixed-roof MGB GT was introduced in October 1965. Production continued until 1980, although export to the US ceased in 1974. The MGB GT sported a ground-breaking greenhouse designed by Pininfarina and launched the sporty "hatchback" style. By combining the sloping rear window ...

4,061
7 Apr 2023
United States

The Sunbeam-Talbot 90 was a series of mid-size cars introduced in 1948. The 90 was offered as a four door saloon, or two door drophead convertible, and was fit with a 2. 0L (2. 3L after 1952) inline four engine. The 90 was built in three generations: Mk I (1948-1950), Mk II (1950-1952), and Mk IIA (1952-1954). The Sunbeam-Talbot 90 continued production until 1954, when the company name was shortened ...

35,219
5 Feb 2023
United States

This 1965 Innocenti 1100 S Spider is a Ghia-designed roadster based on the MK2 Austin-Healey Sprite with a modified chassis, 1, 098cc Austin A-series engine, and 4-speed manual gearbox. Purchased new at the Palo Alto dealership of import car distributor Kjell Qvale, the car reportedly spent the next 29 years with its original owner. It remained in California for 17 additional years with its second ...

66,351
22 Dec 2022
United States

The 3000 sports convertible Mark III was announced in 1964. Upgrades included 136 bhp to 150 bhp increase due to a new higher lift camshaft. SU HD8 carburettors replaced HS6 units increasing the choke size from 1. 75 to 2 inches. Power-assisted braking became standard instead of optional. The new display included the speedometer and tachometer directly in front of the driver. The Mark III BJ8 remained ...

91,708
10 Dec 2022
United States