Sold – $30,250 (plus fees) Also coinciding with the 911’s 996-generation model refresh of 2002, was a new variant debut: the Carrera 4S. It was a revisitation of the original concept that launched during the previous 993 era. As such, the 996 C4S was similarily upgraded: wider Turbo bodywork, all-wheel drive, special wheels, upgraded brakes,…
(For sale, if interested please contact us) Wheeled out by Porsche in 1978, the new 911SC brought the until-then exclusively European 3.0-liter Carrera engine to the entirety of the market. After four years of issues with the magnesium 2.7-liter cases, the “new” three-liter unit ushered in a favorably resurgent sentiment toward Porsche reliability. Aside from…
Sold – $48,500 (plus fees) It is challenging to come up with superlatives for Acura’s super sports car, the NSX. So remarkable was it when new that today nearly every aspect of the vehicle has been covered in multiple ways. Almost uncompromising attention to detail, novel manufacturing techniques, world-toppling performance figures, and a prosaic price…
Sold – $71,000 (plus fees) Just as Ford’s Boss 429 was built and designed for NASCAR dominance, the Boss 302 was put into production with aimed success in the Trans-Am series. A focus on handling and more stable engine performance, instead of merely high-speed capability, was what primarily set the Boss 302 apart from its…
I am convinced that car guys have the same life as doctors and lawyers. Not in any responsible sense, but in the advice column. Go to a dinner party with any of those three people and inevitably, someone beside you will lean over and either present their mole, their legal woe, or their car problem. …
(For sale, if interested please contact us) Caught in the conflicting crossfire of the all-dominating performance campaign of the sixties and the incipient corporate reinvention of the Mustang as a luxurious grand touring sports car in the seventies, the 1970 model year resides directly amidst an extremely titular time for the preeminent pony car. However,…
Sold – $17,000 (Plus fees) Initially going on sale in America three years after its world premiere in 1992, the E36 M3 was designed and engineered to uphold the legacy of the E30 M3. Employed upon the new E36 chassis, the car was now longer and more powerful thanks to a larger straight-six engine. When…
Sold – $46,000 (Plus fees) Porsche’s venerable 911, through its first entire evolutionary stint, underwent advancements for twenty-five years. Near the conclusion of this development, the 3.2-liter Carrera variant was introduced. It was a beautiful blend of old and new with a purely analog operation and a technologically potent powerplant that was nigh indestructible thanks…
Sold – $54,999 (Plus fees) With the wild popularity of the Testarossa still surging from the eighties, Ferrari smartly elected to endow their next entry-level V8 model with some of the redhead’s charm. Succeeding the 328 was the 348, launched in 1989. With a requisite new engine and suspension to coincide with its big brother…
Sold – $8,500 (Plus fees) Penned by the exceptionally talented Tom Tjaarda, built by Pininfarina, and debuted in 1966, the Fiat 124 is an embodiment of the halcyon days of sublime driving in southern Europe throughout the sixties and seventies. Front-engined, rear wheel drive, lightweight, and low to the ground, the 124 Spider is a…
Sold – $43,500 (Plus Fees) Alfa Romeo allocated a mere five hundred units of its new 4C to be sold in the United States in 2015 as Launch Editions. The 4C was not only heralding the return of the Italian brand to the US shores but also showcasing their first mass-produced sports car offered here.…
As long as we’ve been using the idiom “don’t judge a book by its cover”, we’ve been doing just that. We can’t help it, we’re visual creatures with a deep-seeded tendency to observe a person, place or object and make a quick judgment. It stems from our fight or flight impulse and to some degree…
Sold – $45,500 (Plus Fees) Originally conceived as the alternative to building a cabriolet model, the 911 Targa’s unique open-air experience can quickly become besotting to both drivers and passengers. Add to that the exhilarating aural experience of an air-cooled flat-six motor with the charming, high-quality construction of Porsche’s legacy car, and it is easy…
Sold – $65,000 (Plus Fees) Simply put, it set a precedent. When the 308 GT4 arrived at Geneva in 1973, Ferrari had already produced several mid-engined sports cars. However, the conservative company had never done something so dismissive to their traditional paradigm for performance. Formerly branded under the Dino moniker, it was a Ferrari in…
Bid to – $18,750 Before MG began production of the MGA in 1955, their old sports car, the TF 1500 was the final successor in a lineage that first started in the 1930s finally concluding in the 1950s. To say it was outdated scarcely even covers the reality of how uncompetitive it was against contemporary…
Sold – $49,250 (Plus Fees) The 964 generation of 911 is a big deal in the Porsche world. For twenty-five years, Porsche made and directly built upon the original 911 platform first available in 1964 but that almost all changed in 1989. At the time of unveiling, much of their stalwart subscription to the sixties…
Sold – $12,500 (Plus Fees) Designed in 1968 and launched in 1971 to replace the original SL’s W113 platform, the R/C107 chassis took the best aspects of the previous model and adapted them to the seventies. A powerful engine, low-slung ride height, sophisticated styling, and convertible roof were all characteristics chosen from the SL model…
Sold – $86,000 (Plus Fees) The younger sibling to the much larger Aston Martin DBS and Rapide models, the V8 Vantage was first created in 2005 as an answer to the growing populace of smaller, nimbler sports cars. Throughout its thirteen-year life span, the evolution of exterior and interior designs working along with continually advancing…
Sold – $24,600 (Plus Fees) Morris Garages (MG) began drafting a replacement for their TF 1500 Midget only in the 1950s. We note “only” because of nearly an entire three decades including a World War that took place throughout the MG T-generations that ultimately resulted in the TF. However, the MGA was worth the wait…
Sold – $32,000 (Plus Fees) BMW’s Motorsport division has won many accolades for its engine designs and near-flawless execution of vehicle enhancement without exuberant excess. While concocting the fourth generation M3 coupe (E92), BMW’s M Masterminds seemingly took their work home with them to make sure it came out of the oven perfectly. A new…
Sold – $45,069 (Plus Fees) The fourth generation Mercedes SL (R129) was shown with much aplomb to the world in 1989 and not without sound reasoning. The SL was not only a torchbearer to their entire sports car heritage but was now bristling with new technology and mechanical engineering to tackle the nineties. Standard features…
Sold – $61,000 (Plus Fees) When the GT3 was released to American markets, it effectively silenced the multitudes that bemoaned the transition to the 996 generation. Complaints about the lack of robust, purposeful engineering that standard Carrera models received could not be said about the track-focused, race-ready GT3 variant as its entire drivetrain was effectively…
Sold – $47,000 (Plus Fees) Last week we told you about an upcoming Porsche auction to prepare yourself for and the time is finally here! Aside from being a particularly exceptional example of a well-kept Porsche, the 3.2 Carrera is a genuinely incredible magnum opus to the original 911. First entering production in 1984, the…
Sold – $10,800 (Plus Fees) Nissan set their focus on 1990 as the year for the rebirth of their Z sports cars, that had slowly slipped into complacency during the past two decades. The original Z car was quick on its feet and punchy; with the Z32 generation, Nissan sought to not only revive the…
