As AUTOWEEK puts it: Retracing Steve McQueen’s Los Angeles in his Jaguar XKSS, or The King of Cool meets the coolest car ever
Category Archives: Cars
JAGUAR XJ SERIES 2 DAIMLER COUPE
Superbly enhanced (non-standard) but beautiful car!
The Bobby Darin 1960 Dream Car
For those old enough to remember Bobby Darin and his wife, Sandra Dee, or who are classic custom car fans, you’ll enjoy this. Here is a blast from the past from Don Henry via Jack Humphrey.
The 1960 DiDia 150 was a luxury, custom-designed iconic, handmade car also known as the “Dream Car” forever associated with its second owner, singer Bobby Darin. The car was designed by Andrew Di Dia, a clothing designer who Bobby Darin had met whilst on tour in Detroit in 1957. Darin told Di Dia at that time he would purchase the car if he ever “hit it big”.
Here are Bobby and Di posing with Bobby’s Dream Car.
For seven years, from 1953 to 1960 the DiDia 150 was hand-built by four workers. The body was hand-formed by Ron Clark and constructed by Bob Kaiser from Clark Kaiser Customs. Its metallic red paint was made with 30 coats of ground diamonds for sparkle.
2015 Jaguar F-Type Coupe drive review — AUTOWEEK
“… the V8-powered F-Type R Coupe lapped the Grune Hoelle in 7:39, a full six seconds better than the XJ220, making it the fastest production Jaguar ever.”
Hmmm, wonder if ReinCARnation can retrofit a 1957 Chevy to do this? I wouldn’t be surprised, based on our visit there a couple weeks ago. They seemed to have everything but a rocket engine there, and I seem to recall them indicating they maybe could order that!
OK, so I do websites, not sophisticated muscle cars.
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140401/carreviews/140339988#ixzz2xf89yqtJ
Follow us: @AutoweekUSA on Twitter | AutoweekUSA on Facebook
F1 Pit Stop Action
Don’t blink or you will miss it. The overhead view is of a work of art, as good as anything you’ll see at the MET. Check out the third short video for a stark comparison of car class performance.
Tesla Motors – How the Model S is Made
The body shop’s 3,000 employees and 160 robots fabricate complete body units, forming body parts from scratch at the rate of 1 body part every 6 seconds. A complete Model S rolls off the assembly line in 3-to-5 days.
Jaguar XE & XFR-S Sportbrake at Geneva Motor Show
Pretty pics by AUTOWEEK of the Jaguar XE & XFR-S Sportbrake. While the aluminum framed XE should become available here in 2015, the XFR-S high performance wagon is not for our market. Darn! At $135K each, you’d have to live near Washington D.C. or along the west coast of CA to see them.
Tank auction! Get Your Military Vehicles Here!
OK, you don’t see this every day! AUTOWEEK reports on the upcoming Littlefield military vehicle collection to cross the block in a Massive armored vehicle auction that features more than 200 military vehicles of (practically) all types.
Read more: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20140228/carnews01/140229813#ixzz2udfmntrP
Follow us: @AutoweekUSA on Twitter | AutoweekUSA on Facebook
Jaguar XJ40 Owner’s Club Coventry 2012
Showing their cars and telling why they love them.
See 13-car accident on lap 145 Daytona 500
Leave a reply
Watch from inside Danica Patrick’s car as it develops and takes her out with a pretty good bump. The crash sequence appears to have been initiated when Kevin Harvick #4 Budweiser drifted coming out of the turn into the left front quarter panel of car Brian Scott #33 Nationwide.
The comical thing is this photo showing diminutive Danica among those big, big boys.
With appreciation to AUTOWEEK. Read AUTOWEEK’s report here.