Vintage Sportscars!

[Aldo]

EDIT: it was huge so ill post it later when i have time to resize
A 300SL I do believe taken through the window of the RACV building in Melbourne

 

[speed junkie]

I like the vintage race car theme better anyways

This page doesnt allow people to copy the image URL so Ill just post the link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelwardphotos/page605/

Lots of great vintage car photos from page 605 to around 613 or so.

 

[exigeracer]

Masterpiece:

 

[Boffin]

OOOOOOffffft to the whole thread.

Favourite car of the era has to be the '62 250 GTO. Anyone with me in saying the '63/'64 one is not nearly as nice?

 

[Duke of Pendle]

Can't be missing the Birdcage Maserati from this gallery

 

[exigeracer]

Bernd Kammerer:

 

[Stotty]

Great thread 👍 How have I never noticed it before!

Porsche 917

Porsche 550 Spyder

Ferrari 375M Scaglietti

Ferrari 340 America

911 RSR

Ferrari 250GT SWB

Got a few more when I can get my photobucket page to open....

Aston DBR1

Alfa

Alfa Tipo 33

Aston

Ferrari 166 Barchetta

Ferrari 250 GTO (Nick Mason's)

Ferrari 512

Ferrari 312

Jaguar C Type

Jaguar D Type

Jaguar XJ13

Jaguar E Type

Porsche 356

 

[homeforsummer]

Racing Maserati up there is absolutely gorgeous - pity most of the shots are massively over-produced. The first, head-on shot is stunning. The rest are too much.

 

[exigeracer]

Racing Maserati up there is absolutely gorgeous - pity most of the shots are massively over-produced. The first, head-on shot is stunning. The rest are too much.

Yeah, no kidding. It was still looks like it was a fun set, taking out a freshly restored car in the streets in the middle of the night...

 

[Cano]

aaaah I had forgotten about this thread entirely. Why had I fogotten about this thread entirely? Because I suck? And why is it only two pages long? Because we all suck?

We need to amend that.

screw the muscle cars thread.

Jag-powered Lister:

How small is the Elan? small enough to make an Austin Healey seem big:

Chevron B8:

to end this:

link to REALLY BIG VERSION

I'll be posting around for sure.

 

[YSSMAN]

A little American flavor. We always seem to be forgotten in this era.

 

[Cano]

you're missing something, bud:

The ONLY other American sports car for quite some time.

 

[YSSMAN]

I had no idea that anyone campaigned a Thunderbird. Honestly, I don't associate the car with sporting motives whatsoever. Well, aside from the later NASCAR Thunderbirds from the '80s and early '90s.

 

[Cano]

yeah the Battlebird (white one, above) was even factory backed. It looks pretty damn awesome if you ask me. Pity that we do not have a Mopar sporty car from that era.

Err... pity we dont have any other american sports car with the exception of the Vette from that era and on until... omg, until the 80s? 90s?

 

[Cale]

 

[Boz Mon]

I love this thread! And I want it to be known that the ugliest car in this thread, whatever it may be, has more character than any car made in the last 30 years. IMO I was born into the wrong era as far as cars and music goes.

 

[exigeracer]

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[Cano]

super post Exige, that Napier-Railton is all kind's of vintage awesome. I'll give it a good follow up:

and an amazing modern rehab by Dan Webb:

power from a 4-cilinder Ford with ITB's on alcohol producing 400 hp!

also:

1934 Duesenberg SJ custom made for Abbot Jenkins, nicknamed "Mormon Meteor", with a supercharged straight-8 that developed 300+ hp and set a lot of speed and durabilty/endurance records, some of which stand to this very day or at least pretty recently. And just look at the thing.