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When An F1 Team Takes On Tin-Tops: The Williams BTCC Laguna

Chaydon Ford — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:30:10 +0000

With over a million people tuning in on a Sunday to watch their favourite drivers battle it out in the British Touring Car Championship, few other live sporting programs came close. To have Williams run Renault’s works team showed just how serious the French automaker was about winning. Williams had plenty of driver and constructor championships to their name in […]

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A Mk2 Polo Breadvan Builder’s Finale. For Now…

Alen Haseta — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 05:30:15 +0000

This is where I met Thomas Owczarski from Chemnitz, Germany. Thomas is a former carpenter who studied automotive engineering in Zwickau, and is now a development engineer in the rail industry. He’s also an expert on modifying and tuning old Volkswagen Polo 2Fs, with a few examples under his belt. Thomas’s 1992 Polo 2F Breadvan – […]

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Simple Stance: A Rare ’68 Datsun 510 On Air

Vladimir Ljadov — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 05:30:25 +0000

Luckily, I was able to catch up with its owner, George Kostopoulos from Kefalonia Island in Greece, who had a great story to tell about how the build came to be. It began with George’s fascination with the Datsun 510 coupe. George had embarked on a long quest to find one, but after years of searching in Europe without an […]

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Porsche Restomod Or Art? The Nardone 928 Is Both

Vladimir Ljadov — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 05:30:04 +0000

In such a setting, this Porsche 928 S4 – now transformed into a tailor-made contemporary GT – fit right in at Ultrace 2023. The Nardone Automotive 928 prototype was displayed next to an original car, so it was easy to see the huge amount of work that’s gone into its transformation. Thierry Nardone, a French entrepreneur and fan of transaxle […]

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A Datsun 280Z Reimagined By DCW Classic

Vladimir Ljadov — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 05:30:10 +0000

I’m glad it did too, because as it turned out all three were built by DCW Classic in Lithuania, and the company’s founder Romas Tamulevicius is no stranger to Speedhunters. We featured Romas’s first-ever Z build more than a decade ago, and in the time since he’s created no less than 16 more S30s. With every new project he’s […]

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Putting A Japanese Twist On A German Classic

Chaydon Ford — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:30:43 +0000

Producing 118hp in the 2002 Tii (and a stonking 170hp in the Turbo) the 2002 packed performance far greater than its diminutive proportions suggested, so motorsport success came quickly. Automotive technology has evolved considerably in the 50-odd years since the 02’s heyday, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have the best of both worlds. Joe Priest‘s BMW 2002 is […]

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Interceptor: A Wild BMW E28 For The Road

Alen Haseta — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 05:30:02 +0000

Mikael Wrzos has been cooking up this BMW E28 5 Serie for the past 13 years, taking a very different approach to the norm. Five different looks and four engine combos later, Mikael has finally hit Swedish streets in his now road legal (yes, really!) tube-framed creation. Mikael had zero car-building knowledge when he picked up […]

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Don’t Let This Ford Escort’s Looks Deceive You…

Mario Christou — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 05:30:08 +0000

If you’re from the land of freedom and cheap gasoline, you’ll probably picture V8 Ford Mustangs and Gran Torinos laying down rubber at a moonlit Detroit intersection. If you’re from a land down under, you might be imagining an XB Ford Falcon thundering down the Gold Coast Highway with a man wearing some thongs behind […]

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Built For SEMA, Debuted At Elmia: Magass Design’s Infiniti G37 Coupe

Alen Haseta — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 05:30:26 +0000

Christian Magass of Magass Design in Gothenburg, Sweden has a goal: SEMA 2023. And this is the 2010 Infiniti G37 Coupe (aka G60) he hopes can take him there. Christian is a design engineer who’s spent the majority of his adult life building cars. For a long time they were exclusively European makes, but in 2021 he finally decided to […]

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P1800 Saint: The Ultimate Volvo Restomod

Alen Haseta — Tue, 30 May 2023 05:30:43 +0000

These are the words of Swedish car builder Torbjörn von Braun as he described the main challenge of his latest creation – a Volvo P1800 restomod nicknamed the Saint – ahead of its unveiling at this year’s Elmia Custom Motor Show. As it turns out though, this was a challenge not only accepted, but totally overcome. The original P1800 was […]

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