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1958 Golden Austin-Healey 100-6
1951-1960 | Austin-Healey | England | I-6

1958 Golden Austin-Healey 100-6

History/driving impressions originally published in AutoWeek July 14, 1986 Have you ever held a steering wheel of solid ivory? Have you ever sat in bucket seats finished in mink? Have you ever looked out on the road over a bumper…

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Triumph 2000 roadster: It was anything but a Triumph
1941-1950 | England | I-4 | Triumph

Triumph 2000 roadster: It was anything but a Triumph

History/driving impressions originally published in AutoWeek June 17, 1985 If ever there was an automobile company with a death wish, it was Triumph. Seldom has a manufacturer so eagerly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, run headlong into blunders,…

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1985 Rotus 7: Custer takes his last stand…
1981-1990 | I-4 | Rotus | USA

1985 Rotus 7: Custer takes his last stand…

Contemporary review/driving impressions originally published in AutoWeek  March 11, 1985 The big room is quiet on a Saturday afternoon as the December sun slants in through the skylights and the ceiling-high frosted glass windows and our voices and footsteps echo…

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Jaguar SS 100: It takes a rare kind of loyalty
1921-1940 | England | I-6 | Jaguar

Jaguar SS 100: It takes a rare kind of loyalty

History/driving impressions originally published in AutoWeek February 11, 1985 In Syracuse, New York, halfway up the hill in a quiet neighborhood of older homes, is a house much like the ones on either side. Its yard is neatly kept, and…

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Cobra 289: Born to run
1961-1970 | Shelby | USA | V-8

Cobra 289: Born to run

History/driving report originally published in Special Interest Autos August 1990 Timing is everything, or at least as important as talent or skill. Being there at the right time means as much as having the right stuff. Just ask any Acapulco…

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Kermit the Bentley: It’s not easy being green
1921-1940 | Bentley | England | I-4

Kermit the Bentley: It’s not easy being green

History originally published in AutoWeek December 10, 1984 “Back in the mid-1950s a young man in England named Collin Hiley was apprenticed to Rolls-Royce Aero as an apprentice aero engineer,” Phil Brooks spoke with the practiced ease of one who…

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Porsche Boxster: Highballing the trunk line
1991-2000 | Germany | H-6 | Porsche

Porsche Boxster: Highballing the trunk line

Contemporary review originally published in Road & Track Sports & GT Cars 1998 I was on the way home from taking my 14-year-old daughter to music camp at Mansfield University when I stopped at a Texaco station in the little…

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Volvo P1900 1956-1957: Volvo’s first sports car
1951-1960 | I-4 | Sweden | Volvo

Volvo P1900 1956-1957: Volvo’s first sports car

History originally published is Illustrated Volvo Buyer’s Guide (1993) by John Matras It left as quickly as it had, leaving hardly a ripple to mark its passing. Yet for an exotic Volvo, one would be hard-pressed to find a better…

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2006 Pontiac Solstice
2001-2010 | I-4 | Pontiac | USA

2006 Pontiac Solstice: A solstice-tested Pontiac Solstice

Contemporary review in CarBuzzard on December 23, 2005 We indulged ourselves one afternoon. We put the top down on a 2006 Pontiac Solstice. That’s not an unusual thing to do with a roadster, but when the temperature hasn’t yet cracked…

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1966 427 Cobra: More powerful than a locomotive, yet well-mannered at rest
1961-1970 | Shelby | USA | V-8

1966 427 Cobra: More powerful than a locomotive, yet well-mannered at rest

History originally published in Autoweek February 8, 1988 I had watched the morning mist rise and seen the sun come up, casting first light and shadows over the bulging, primitive shape of a 427 Cobra. I had heard the idle…

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