Sports Cars
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A fiberglass cold-air box went on just 43 fuel-injected 1957 Corvettes
Of the 6,339 Corvettes Chevrolet built for 1957, just 43 left the factory with a fiberglass cold-air box. Enthusiasts call it the 1957 Corvette airbox.…
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Why the Sunbeam Tiger died in 1967: Chrysler bought Rootes and wouldn’t build a car with a Ford V8
Sunbeam Tiger production lasted barely three years, and its ending came down to a corporate takeover. Rootes built the V8 roadster from 1964 to 1967,…
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Gordon-Keeble built 99 GK1s with 300-hp Chevrolet V8s, then assembled a 100th from leftover parts
The Gordon-Keeble GK1 was a British grand tourer with an Italian-designed body and an American heart. Its makers built 99 of them in the mid-1960s,…
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6 European GT cars built around American V8s, from the AC Cobra to the Monteverdi 375
Several European GT cars of the 1960s ran on engines from Detroit. British, Italian and Swiss builders paired their own chassis and bodies with Ford,…
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Chevrolet built 199 Corvette Z06s for 1963, and only 63 got the big fuel tank
Chevrolet built 199 Corvette Z06s for 1963, and only 63 of them got the Z06 big tank. That oversized fuel tank held about 36 gallons,…
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8 mid-engine production cars on sale before 1975, from the Matra Djet to the Fiat X1/9
A mid-engine car carries its engine behind the seats but ahead of the rear axle, which puts most of the weight near the middle. Between…
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Porsche built nine 356 SL race cars, and only the 1952 car never left the company
Porsche built nine 356 SL race cars, five in 1951 and four more in 1952. One of the 1952 cars never left the company. Porsche…
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8 cars Abarth transformed, from a Porsche and a Simca to a Mazda-built roadster
The Abarth name sits on plenty of small Fiats, yet the Fiat Abarth story runs well beyond them. Over six decades, Abarth reworked a Porsche,…
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9 Lotus road cars from the 1957 Seven to the Turbo Esprit
Lotus road cars went from a bare 36-horsepower roadster to a 210-horsepower turbocharged wedge in 23 years. Colin Chapman’s company kept chasing low weight the…
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8 De Tomaso road cars ranked by production, from the 41-car Pantera Si to the 7,000-plus Pantera
Alejandro de Tomaso founded his car company in Modena in 1959, and De Tomaso production stayed small for nearly every model that wore the badge.…
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