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The 635 CSI chassis #RA2-59 has been entered by Bavaria Automobiles, a French team based in Reims. Assembled in 1985, it was initially intended for the European Touring Car Championship (ETCC). Finally, the team led by Dominique Fornage entered the car in the 1985 Spa Francorchamps 24 Hours with Claude Ballot-Lena, Jean-Claude Andruet and René Metge. They finished in a fine 8th place. Two more participations ...

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26 Oct 2024
France

M is for MOTORSPORT
Audi has the Quattro, Mercedes the 190 Evoluzione, BMW the M3 E30: three 1980s models that marked the beginning of a fine tradition of sporty mid-size cars, equally at home on the track and on the road.
In BMW's case, however, the first M3 is considered to be not just the mother of all M3s, but of all Ms in general. For even though it arrived a year after the first ...

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20 Oct 2024
France

What is the sporty version of a sports sedan? To a race car, that goes without saying. That's exactly what the Giulia Ti Super is, which takes the qualities of the 1900 Ti Super to the extreme by pushing the concept to the extreme: lightweight bodywork, a vitamin engine, a more rigid low-profile chassis and 189 km/ h top speed. Built to only 501 units over two years, the most desired - and falsified! ...

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20 Oct 2024
France

The first Grand Touring Lotus, the Elite represented an important step in the brand's history. It brought Lotus fame, even if the car was not financially profitable. When the prototype Lotus Elite was introduced at the Earls Court Motor Show in October 1957 it created a real stir, for not only the fact it was a pretty two-seater coupe, but because it broke new ground in many technical ways. There ...

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16 Oct 2024
France

In 1894, Emile Delahaye, an engineer from Arts et Métiers born in Tours, built his first car using a combustion engine he had created for navigation. A pioneer of the French car, his car was 100% French, while Peugeot and Panhard & Levassor used engines that were also made in France, but under the German licence of Daimler. In 1898, he joined forces with two Parisian industrialists who relocated ...

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15 Oct 2024
France

In 1974 a new era began at Porsche. At the same time as BMW and its 2002 Turbo, the first production 911 with a turbocharged engine appeared. Its name: 911 "Turbo", or "930" for those who know it well. But unlike the BMW, which remained without descendants, the Porsche 911 Turbo was to be the initiator of a great lineage. 50 years later, let's take a look at this true automotive legend.

The ...

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9 Oct 2024
France

A 911 FOR RACING?
Contrary to what you might think, many Porsche 911 2. 0 T were bought for racing. The reason is simple: it's a simple car by design, which can easily be prepared for the track. Already light from the outset because it was lightly equipped, it offered good value for money for this type of use. The 2. 0-litre 911Ts only went on sale from the end of 1967 until 1969. That ...

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1 Oct 2024
France

Produced in 1957, making it eligible for the Mille Miglia, our AC Aceca Bristol was kept by AC as a demonstration vehicle, as evidenced by the nice file accompanying the car, including the original title and numerous invoices and documents from the period.
The car has been sole in September 1961 via the Leonard North dealership to T. L. Hewitt, then passed successively in the hands of R. Earthy ...

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15 Sep 2024
France

The small Bristol-powered racer, designed by John Tojeiro in the early 1950s, was a great success in competition with Cliff Davis. AC Cars, renowned for its sporty models but with an ageing range, was looking for a new model and took a keen interest in Tojeiro's small car and decided to put it into production in 1954, under the name Ace. The Tojeiro bodywork was virtually a carbon copy of the ...

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13 Sep 2024
France

Delivered new in Italy in January 1966 to Mr. PARODI, we find the car in the USA in the hands of its second owner, Mr. MACERI, at which time Borrani wire rims are fitted to the car. It was then sold to ATS of New England, and in 1992 the famous Italian collector Giuseppe PREVOSTI acquired it and brought it back to Europe. He kept the car in his famous collection for 16 years, taking the opportunity ...

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11 Sep 2024
France

1958 saw the appearance of the HK 500 coupé (type HK), regarded as the culmination of the series. Behind its now-familiar physiognomy, whose double vertical headlamps set the standard in Stuttgart, was a powerful 5, 907 cm3 Chrysler V8 engine with automatic gearbox, the Pont-à-Mousson mechanical gearbox being optional. Dunlop disc brakes were fitted as standard a year later (type HK 1), while a ...

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7 Sep 2024
France

Before crossing the path of American Carroll Shelby, the AC Ace could have been a small roadster without great ambition, if not that of saving a moribund builder after the war. But the story of a creation as striking as the ancestor of the legendary Cobra could not be banal ...
Although widely known since the 1960s, AC is one of the oldest British automakers. But his story was not punctuated ...

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5 Sep 2024
France

Of all the variants of the Porsche 356, few are as rare or interesting as the Carrera models. Right from the start, the name Carrera referred to special racing models that offered high performance and a host of mechanical differences from the standard series of factory cars.
The ambitious engine of the Porsche Carrera was first introduced in 1954, only six years after Porsche production began. ...

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28 Aug 2024
France

When Jaguar unveiled its E-Type at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1961, it was a complete surprise. It was a surprise because no one had received any prior information about the Coventry-based brand's future Grand Touring, and also because the E-Type's styling totally captivated the crowds. A line signed by William Lyons, a sporty yet comfortable chassis and first-class performance characterized ...

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27 Aug 2024
France