Car Pictures

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Lamborghini donated this 2007 Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia to the head of the Italian State Police, Prefect Antonio Manganelli; it replaces the first car from 2004 (which had accrued 87,000 miles) and will begin road service with the Lazio Highway Police Department as a vehicle to sustain security on the Italian roads and as an accident and crime prevention unit. Only thirty officers will be allowed to drive it ...after suitable training.

 

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SARD MC-8, the single street version made to homologate the two MC-8R's for LeMans (where even with a twin-turbo 4L Toyota V8 of 600 hp they were no match for the McLarens, Porsche GT1's, and Viper GTS-R's of the day). Car bounced around among private collectors for years, virtually forgotten; now in the hands of a Japanese collector who occasionally drives it and often puts it on display. Oddly, given its history, its valuation is a mere $30k.

 

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1960 Imperial Crown Convertible in Dubonnet Maroon

 

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From Goodwood a few years back

 

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Zakspeed Calibra 4x4; Cosworth 2.5L V6, 500hp @ 11500rpm. Rules changes for the 1997 DTM season meant the car was never raced, driven, displayed, or sold; it has spent the years in storage at Zakspeed facilities.

 

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Porsche 911 Carrera Speedster Race concept car

 

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Lamborghini Murcielago GT1 from FIA GT1 in Navarra 2011

 

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Opel Astra Supertouring

 

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Audi Sport Quattro S1
Rally Festival Hoznayo 2022

 

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The first Jaguar, 1932 SS1 Coupe (SS for Swallow Sidecars, the company's original products).

The SS designation and logo was dropped a few years later in favor of just "Jaguar".
I wonder why...

 

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1996 Ford F350 Super duty

 

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1957 Ford F100
(My father bought one in 1967 from a friend who had purchased six of them at a phone company auction, flat white exterior, dark green interior with all the decals about "wear your gloves!", "safety first!", etc. still in place. Ma Bell had replaced the engine with the 300ci straight six, only around 120hp but over 220ft/lb torque ...couldn't break the speed limit on a bet but could pull a Sherman tank sideways out of a mudhole; had the 3/4 ton rear end/suspension with six bolt rear wheels, read somewhere the final drive was around 6:1. After high school I appropriated this and put over 50k miles on it over the next two years, then sold it to a friend for $400, he put a camper shell on it and was going to drive to NJ. Wonder whatever happened to them.)

 

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1951 Studebaker pickup, flathead six, three-on-the-tree, non-synchro. I learned to drive in one of these, sitting in my father's lap ...he operated the pedals while I would steer and grind the gears. (Not nearly this fine condition, bought used for around $75, my father repainted it black with red bumpers, grill, and tailgate ...with a brush and a couple cans of enamel.)

 

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Volkswagen Corrado

 

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1989 Nissan Chapeau concept car (not sure what it is a concept of, looks like a toy car)

 

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Merge a Cessna 310 with a Toyota van and what do you get.....

 

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1989 Nissan Chapeau concept car (not sure what it is a concept of, looks like a toy car)

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I see some similarity with th Nissan Cube

 

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1964 350GT, the first production Lamborghini; 3.5L V12, 270hp (the prototype had 400hp but was deemed too temperamental for everyday driving). Performance was exceptional for its day; top speed 160mph, 0-60mph in 6.8sec, 0-100mph in 16.3sec (for comparison, a contemporary Pontiac GTO with 335hp did 0-60 in 7sec.).

 

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Vauxhall, DTM, year unknown

 

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13964 350GT, the first production Lamborghini; 3.5L V12, 270hp (the prototype had 400hp but was deemed too temperamental for everyday driving). Performance was exceptional for its day; top speed 160mph, 0-60mph in 6.8sec, 0-100mph in 16.3sec (for comparison, a contemporary Pontiac GTO with 335hp did 0-60 in 7sec.).View attachment 605824

Look at the similar grille treatment on the 1964 Pontiac Banshee coupe concept.

As much as I admire the Lamborghini and the V12, the Banshee COULD have been stuffed with a 389 CID V8* with the same 335 HP (348 wth 3 2-bbl Tri-Power) as the inaugural Pontiac Lemans GTO (the GTO was an option for its first two years and the last three) would have out 0-60ed the Italian. A dual 4-bbl 421 would have fit as well because all PMD V8s were dimensionally the same from introduction in 1955 to discontinuation in the late 1970s excepting the low-deck 265 and 301.

AND it's literally years ahead in styling, anticipating BOTH the 1968 debut of the production Corvette Stingray and the concept that proceeded it--the 1965 Mako Shark II.

*The small hood bulge on the Banshee coupe was to accomodate the tall height of the revolutionary (for U.S. OEMs) 3.8L Pontiac overhead cam six. Equipped with a four barrel carburetor, "Sprint" versions of the 1966-69 Tempest/Lemans and 1967-1968 Firebird would be rated as high as 230 HP. The Banshee convertible carried the 326 CID V8 with a four barrel.

PONTIAC. They built excitement.