Archive for the ‘Classics’ Category
Carnival Spirit – Vintage cars vie for attention at A’Famosa
FOLLOWING its successful Mean Machines Juru Autocity show in Penang for five consecutive years, organiser Intrenasionale brought the Mean Machines show to Malacca for the first time last month. The event, held in conjunction with the National Crime Awareness Carnival at Dataran Pahlawan in the centre of the city, also featured a segment for historic [...]
Mercedes SL Legends
Having an opportunity to meet a bona fide legend face-to-face is a rarity very few individuals can boast of. So you can imagine how meeting five on a single occasion would bring about fits of delirious glee. Such an opportunity presented itself when Mercedes-Benz had its world debut of its new SL Roadster in Spain [...]
Dr Sedhu’s DeTomaso Pantera GTS
Perlis, with a population of slightly over 200,000 people, is presumably the state with a modest or least number of automobiles, judging primarily from the vehicle registration numbers. According to the Road Transport Department’s web portal, it is the only state in the peninsula which still registers new vehicles with two alphabets preceding serial numbers. [...]
Jaguar Launches Heritage Racing Programme
Jaguar is taking its precious historic racers out of storage and from the usual beauty contest circuits, and back into the competitive world of motor racing where they belong. Under the Jaguar Heritage Racing, the company will support historic racing events like the 2012 Mille Miglia retrospective in Italy, AVD Nürburgring Oldtimer Grand Prix and [...]
Aston Martin DB6 Increasing in Value
According the H&H, one of Europe’s specialist auctioneers for classic and collectors cars, the Aston Martin DB6 has been on a run of ever increasing prices since last year. This year, a new record was broken when a 1969 Aston Martin DB6 Mark 2 was auctioned off for 242,000 British Pounds, double the original estimate. [...]
Cisitalia gets reimagined for Geneva
The Geneva Motor Show has not only been the annual event for exclusive high-end cars, but also a place for one-off, design-study, or what-not concepts to make their debut. Master of Arts in Transportation Design students of the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) of Turin, Italy will be presenting their modern reinterpretation of the 1947 [...]
250GTO sells for RM96.2 million
It has been reported that a Ferrari 250 GTO exchanged hands secretly for an astronomical sum of £20.2 million (RM96.2 million) According to sources, the deal was secretly done over the past fortnight though which of the 36 250 GTOs ever built was it, they couldn’t verify. Rumours are circulating that the 250 GTO in [...]
Tag Heuer Gulf Edition and Gulf Oil Le Mans Racers
Tag Heuer makes the most famous Formula 1 watches. The brand have long been synonymous with motor racing, some of the earliest time keeping instruments used by both team managers and drivers were made by Tag Heuer. The 1916 Mikrograph series was the first stopwatch that can measure 1/100ths of a second. Obviously one of [...]
A short history of F1 safety cars, and the Porsche link
We all saw the freak accident that nearly took the life of F1 World Champion contender Felipe Massa during the 2009 Hungarian GP. He has the well trained track marshalls and medical crew to thank. When Massa’s freak accident happened, caused by flying debris, fast acting track marshalls, together with a very fast medical car [...]
Quest for the Best
Events at the Monterey Car Week in California, North America, last August could be seen as a sign that the world is set for its next classic car boom after a vacuum of more than 20 years. It was indeed a significant occasion for us to have witnessed live, the historic sale of two rare automobiles [...]
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