now the 924 we all know is a Porsche in name only, what with it being a Volkswagen and all like its 914 predecessor;   the 356 was merely a larger VW bug;   the true Porsches of the time were the spiders like Dean perished in;   Porsche in fact, was an afterthought in auto racing until the FIA outlawed the 7-litre beasts because Enzo couldn’t compete with them even with the marvelous 330 P4s;   Enzo pulled the same stunt with the big block Cobras one year; ... View more

only the GN looks sufficiently sinister;   the rest just look like pre-coats waiting outside the factory paint line; ... View more

nice, but i’m afraid it’s the same old shoot-em-up in the same old rodeo;   we’re talking about a mid-1960s design that descended from the 356 bathtub Porsche which itself descended—postwar—from Hitler’s people car..plus or minus a Tiger tank or two;   all that seems innovative is the over-engineering rationalisation to justify the continually stratospheric price;   rather buy a TVR and pocket the difference in cost after picking up a good used 993 Ducati and a vintage Spitfire watch; ... View more

a solid axle ox cart suspension carb per cylinder twin ignition system dog that was outdated even in its day and never won so much as a pit stop and this is what the idle rich sink their money into just because it’s red; ... View more

count your lucky stars;   remember, the C3 was a rushed out version of all that GM could do wrong to the C2, even after forestalling its introduction by a year;   it rode like a howitzer, rusted like East German bloc dental fillings and could get tail-happy at the most inconvenient moment;   many had wood in the floors like a Morgan and the overhang and unsprung weight over both axles made it generally handle like pig, albeit a very fast one;   i, too, lusted for an owned both an E-type and a C3;   i always want to buy another, til i get up close enough to remember the daily living nightmares;   ... View more

because Colonialism means SLAVERY; ... View more

perhaps this should better be titled the best Japanese bikes at this dollar level;   really, nothing from England or Italy? ... View more

i owned a TR-6;   when it ran, it leaked oil like a Type-VI German sub and rusted twice as fast;   any sustained amount of hard driving would see the rear suspension produce a permanent sag drawing the rear wheels in like on so many BMWs, with same disastrous handling effects if the cracks in where the upper suspension mounts were affixed didn’t rust them entirely free;   GIs in WWII pitched better tents than the top you will try—and ultimately fail—to pull over your head and seal to the flexing windscreen frame;   one good thing about it..it wasn’t anywhere near powerful enough to eat a clutch so one could miss a gear on occasion;   say British Leyland and i start to laugh uncontrollably;   ... View more

buy it but don’t even think of driving it fast;   the pictures with this article show how the thing porpoised down the road, the front end dredging down under braking like its looking for oil and then popping up at the first sign of acceleration;   the whole body had slightly less lift than a Spitfire;   hard to tell who made more dangerous sports cars back then, Ford with their ladder-chassis Cobras and imitation Lolas or Chevrolet with their back door racers like the widow-maker Cheetah; ... View more

what mid-engined sports car? ... View more

I’m, the C5 and C7 models still had proper MANUAL transmissions, which meant you had to drive them;   this amalgamation from the Camaro parts bin (a model rumoured to be rendered extinct in future) drives you;   it’s not that we’re resistant to change;   we just don’t like being taken for a ride; ... View more

should’ve started with the first, biggest and insurmountable flaw...no manual transmission;   that removes it entirely from the realm of sports cars into a four-wheel video game;   no excuse for it;   RIP Corvette, 1953-2019;     ... View more

most of these cars are slugs; cannot believe there a market for Triumphs, particularly at those prices—they’re kit cars pretty much save for the Stag, which was basically a British Edsel;   now the Lola-Ford GT with trailer queen miles i can see, but the SLR requiring service after only 11K miles?   that has to set off alarm bells;   ... View more

good thing you’re only talking dashes because that Doug Nash Monster Mash transmission was only slightly more useless than the Bosch pseudo-fuel injection borrowed from the last C3;   come to think of it, that dash was none-too-popular as well, particularly when it needed repair;   ... View more

hail, hail, rock’n roll! ... View more

quite probably because he can... ... View more

probably because he can... ... View more

now this here is a collection i’d pay money to see...axes to axles;   ... View more

and if your love is an E-type?   only one answer will do...TEL rode the most famous one, sadly to his demise;   ... View more

wasn’t there a Chrysler-powered Italian or two in this era? ... View more