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Ferrari 250 LM

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" Of all the noble designations of the 250 Ferrari our fave is the 250 LM. I was gobsmacked this weekend to see one ON THE STREET. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough on the draw to get an original pic. The racing beauty "

Friday Bike Crush: Crowe Customs BMW R80

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" We've been on the verge of buying a BMW motorcycle for a couple of years now, with a view to stripping it back and slowly creating a piece of custom loveliness for hard-ish duty travel missions on the backroads. Stumbling "

Pontiac GTO

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" We've said before how there's something strangely un-American about the designation GTO. And the fact that the Gran Turismo Omologato tag has been given to such a broad spectrum of cars of all shapes, designs and profiles is testament to "

Alfa Proteo Concept

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" This wickedly appealing design study of course, became the successful Alfa Romeo GTV ( the only Alfa we at Influx towers have ever owned). It was designed by Alfa Romeo's in-house pensman Walter de Silva. It was first shown at the "

Le Mans Classic 2012

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"Images: Magneto for Influx There's probably been more motoring column inches dedicated to the Ford GT40 than to any other racing car of the last half a century. There's a reason why. At the Le mans Classic, to see these "

The floppy Volvo P1900 Sport

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" We're a big fan of Volvo here at Influx towers, and have even been known to tinker with a lovely p1800E every now and then. We think the design integrity and stylish twist on a shooting brake that is "

Renault Alpine A442/3

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" Call it a Porsche baiting hare, an impractical bubble-top fantasy or the greatest Renault ever to race : but the Alpine A442/3 was definitely the fastest Renault ever to put rubber on a circuit - clocking 238MPH in qualifying trim in "

Citroen H Van

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" The Citroën H Van was produced between 1947 and 1981. Amazingly perennial and instantly recognisable, 473,289 were produced in 34 years in factories in France and Belgium. The engine, gear box and many smaller parts are well known from other Citroën models "

Alfa Giulia Berlina

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" This year the Giulia's iron-steady, three box stalwart celebrates its 50th birthday. And for all its very un-Italian, simple stoicism, we think it's a classic that needs to be celebrated. Though the sexier, more svelte 105s, GTs and Spiders through "

Ferrari 246 GT Dino

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" It might have been a ill conceived attempt at making a mini-Ferrari, but the cute, six cylinder 246 GT Dino is for us much more than that. It is, in our opinion, one of the prettiest cars ever to wear the "

The Wolfrace Sonic

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" The creator of Wolfrace's promotional vehicle was Nick Butler, who was an aerospace engineer for Hawker Siddley, who built a series of one-offs in the Hot Rodding 1970s - and who went on to create the Cirrus - which almost "

Fiovaranti F-100

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" This lovely Barchetta concept from 2000 was commissioned within Fiovaranti to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Enzo Ferrari's birth. Based on the 360 Modena format: it spookily prefigured the 430 and 458 Italia cars that would eventually be released by the Modena factory itself. "

Mercedes 220 Coupé (111)

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" A neighbour of mine used to own one of these beauties. There's something amazingly sculptural about the curvature of the glass in the rear three-quarter that made me sigh. Never having been a particular Mercedes fetishist, the way this coupé "