Sentences with phrase «coachbuilders of»

The main idea there was to take the platform underpinning such vaunted luxury cars as the BMW 6 Series automobiles and Mercedes - Benz SL vehicles and create custom bodies for them — much as the highly considered coachbuilders of the 1920s and 1930s did for companies like Rolls Royce and Duesenberg.

Bentley itself sold the chassis and powertrain, which would then be bodied by one of several European coachbuilders of the era.

Peugeot Racing Engineers 3: Ernest Henry Sébastien Faurès — Fustel de Coulanges continues this series of articles by focussing on Ernest Henry / Villa d'Este — Simon Moore reports from this prestigious concorso d'eleganza / Rippon Bros: Coachbuilders of Renown — Jonathan Wood outlines the story of this Huddersfield coachbuilder / Amilcar CGS: an ultra-rare Duval coupé / America, Top to Toe — Photographer Dirk Dahmer recounts an epic journey from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego at the wheel of a 1952 split window Volkswagen Beetle / Back on the Road — In the latest instalment of his series, Michael Ware reports on the restoration of a 1935 two - seater Wolseley Hornet Special

R - Type Continentals were delivered as rolling chassis to the coachbuilder of choice.

The name Mulliner — in the past a coachbuilder of highest reputation — stood for more than an echo from the bygone era of bespoke coachbuilding.

Not exact matches

An offshoot of Moloney Coachbuilders, Moloney Armor Corp. developed high ballistic standards for armored security vehicles, including serving seven U.S. presidents.

French coachbuilder Henri Chapron built nearly 1400 DS convertibles, almost all of them with the approval of the Citroën factory, between 1960 and 1971.

«These timeless Ferraris exemplify some of the most valuable and spectacular results of this famed collaboration between automaker and coachbuilder.»

While the S2 mostly came as a standard saloon, several coachbuilders mounted custom bodies on its chassis, creating some of the most unique Bentleys in all of history.

He studied architecture early on but ended up one of the first Americans to live and work in Italy, where he would design cars for some of the country's greatest coachbuilders, including Ghia and Pininfarina.

One of those coachbuilders, Park Ward, produced this 1962 S2 Continental cabriolet, easily earning its title as one of the most unique S2s to ever exist.

He surely must have done some humble bragging at the bar, as his particular car, one of only 28 dropheads produced during the 760 - unit run of the Silver Dawn from 1949 to 1955, was even more exclusive: It came with a body by noted coachbuilder Park Ward and Co..

Several of Italy's best - known coachbuilders, including Pininfarina and Vignale, all gave their own unique take on the A6G platform.

Back then, it was the DB4 GT's bodywork that was subtly resculpted by the Milanese coachbuilder and just 20 Zagato versions were produced (although an initial run of 25 had been planned).

Brighton Run 2005 / The Man Who Knew No Fear — Arthur Hyde an Amateur Driver — Part One / Vanished Coachbuilders — A Trio of Bentleys with Interesting Coachwork by Companies Not Included in the Standard Works / Bavarian Beauty — BMW 507 Touring Sport / John A Griffiths & The J A G

1932 Tatra Type 57 — Zoe Harrison tells the intriguing story of the car that came here from Austria in the 1970s / 1911 Albion 16hp — The tale of this Scottish expatriate now enjoying an active life in Australia is told by Dennis Harrison / Ice and Snow Rally 1991 — Malcolm Elder explains what it is like to take part in the Rallye Neige et Glace in the French Alps / Early 20s Fox light car — The story of this Anglo - German enterprise is uncovered by Michael Worthington - Williams / Another Golden Age of Motoring — Brian A Meulbrouck argues that the period following WW2 should be considered worthy of this accolade / 1928 Alvis 12/50 — The Editor enjoys his excursion this month in this sporting open tourer / Epps Bros. coachbuilders — The history of the London - based family firm is recalled for us by James Taylor / 1924 Turcat - Mery SG limousine — In the second part of his article Finbarr Corry writes about his impressions of driving a 1924 limousine / 1930s «graveyard» — Ray Cattle pictures a sad collection of thirties cars left in the open to rot.

-- Munro Donald on the Kent coachbuilder Maltby's pioneering work on automatic car hoods / A Right Royal Renault — The Editor gets a priviledged drive in a limousine once owned by King Edward VII / Way Down In Dixie — Michael Wortington - Williams goes stateside in search of the Dixie Flyer.

In The Little Corsican, Tom Clarke tells the story of Corsica, the enigmatic coachbuilder which produced some of the most exotic British bodywork of the 1930s, clothing chassis from Bentley, Bugatti, Mercedes and others

Triumph moved up - market in the 1930's, but the Dolomite proved to be their final fling / Douglas Blain explains why Ecurie Crapaud has been absent from the headlines — Toad: continued adventures / Bucciali TAV 12 memories — Part two / History of William Arnold (Manchester) Ltd, a leading coachbuilder in the north of England / Michael Bowler looks at post-war cars that emerged from the ashes of the immortal 328 — Out of BMW / Vauxhall 30 - 98, 1926 — Back on the Road / Wolseley 6/90, 1956 — Back on the Road / Austin Pearl Cabriolet, 1933 — Back on the Road / Suffolk SS100 — Motorhouse / Students who passed through Colchester Institute's restoration course — Workshop

In Hooray Henry, Paul Darke charts the car's difficult gestation and eventual success / David Burgess-Wise shares his personal highlights from the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run and the Regent Street Motor Show / In The Little Corsican, Tom Clarke tells the story of Corsica, the enigmatic coachbuilder which produced some of the most exotic British bodywork of the 1930s, clothing chassis from Bentley, Bugatti, Mercedes and others / A disused locomotive works with no road access seems an unlikely location for a car factory but, as Giles Chapman explains in The Brighton Bubble, that's where thousands of Isettas were assembled in the 1950s and»60s / Matthew Bell visits the Frazer Nash Archives, the largest collection of documentation relating to the marque in his article Archie and Aldy's Archives / In Birds of a Feather, the little - known makes Victor, Metro - Tyler and Economic all operated from the same village in Kent during the cyclecar boom.

Anthony Pritchard and Guy Griffiths tell us what we were missing / Stockport Century — Tom Clarke tells the story of Hollingdrake the motor agents and former coachbuilders who celebrated their centenary last year / Glorious Goodwood — David Venables reports on another successful Festival of Speed / The Wooden Lanchesters — Charles Bulmer describes a series of most unusual experimental 1920s Lanchester models made largely from wood / Young at Heart — Brian Heath tries out a 1931 Lagonda Speed Model bodied by James Young.

Sandy Skinner tells the story / 1933 Frazer - Nash TT Replica — This month the Editor describes his encounter with a fine example of this chain - driven car / «Magical» body for a Mercedes — How coachbuilders A.H. Mulliner built an incredible body on a Mercedes chassis — Alan Burman explains / The Seabrook brothers — Michael Worthington - Williams reveals the story of the brothers who produced the Seabrook car from 1920 to 1928.

Bertone's Bet: Arnolt MG TD — Jeroen Booij tells the story of how the ailing Turin coachbuilder was saved by an unlikely alliance with an extrovert American businessman / Brighton Run 2014 — David Burgess-Wise reports from another wet London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, focussing on the many «new» entries that appeared this year / Amilcar's jewel: the C0 and C6, part one — Simon Moore begins his treatise on the famous six - cylinder racers of the»20s, looking this time at their competition record / Killed by the War: the Marshall Arter — Michael Worthington - Williams delves into his archives to research the Marshall Arter cyclecar and its spring - drive arrangement / Back on the Road — Michael Ware visits a 1930 Austin Seven Swallow saloon, the subject of a long restoration undertaken by two separate custodians

Stefan Ittner delves into the history of this renowned Parisian coachbuilder in Carrosserie Vanvooren

20hp Hautier 1903 Tonneau De Lux — Exploded diagram of mechanics and chassis / The Resurrection of «Babs» — The prowler reviews the massive achievement of Owen Wyn - Owen / A Trio of Primitives — Michael Worthington - Williams reveals three of the most exciting automotive finds of his life / Bean: The Giant that Never Grew — John Mullins relates the story of an attempt to build a major motor manufacturer almost overnight / 1905 De Deitrich 30hp Type de Sport — Michael Brisby savors the delight of a 5 - litre gentleman's racer / A Country Coachbuilder — The story of E. D. Abbott Limited

Michael Worthington - Williams recounts its eventful history / Carrozzeria Riva — Alessandro Sannia tells the story of one of the less well known of the small Italian coachbuilders that flourished post-WW2 / East Meets West — Delwyn Mallett visits a fascinating recent exhibition of post-war German competition cars from both sides of the Iron Curtain at Hamburg's Prototyp Museum / Back on the Road — The sole - surviving 1914 Wilton has been restored by the grandson of its manufacturer.

Alessandro Sannia tells the story of one of Carrozzeria Riva — the less well known of the small Italian coachbuilders that flourished post-WW2.

Stefan Ittner delves into the history of this renowned Parisian coachbuilder in Carrosserie Vanvooren / David Burgess-Wise reflects on just a few of the countless Wayside whimsies — hare - brained schemes from the early days of motoring / Derek Buckler built some 400 cars with spaceframe chassis between 1947 and 1962, but remains relatively obscure compared to his brilliant contemporary Colin Chapman.

In August 2008, after an insanely labor - intensive restoration worthy of the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, the transporter — built on a Fiat truck chassis and customized by an Italian coachbuilder — trundled through the teeming paddock at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

The so - called N.A.R.T. (North American Racing Team) Spider is based on the 275GTB / 4 coupe, and is one of only 10 droptop versions ever built by coachbuilder Scaglietti.

A full - sized wooden styling buck, made by coachbuilder Scaglietti for low production racing variants of the Dino, also features - as do two modern wind - tunnel scale models from Ferrari's more recent past.

Gene Langmesser, CEO of n2a Motors, a California - based retro coachbuilder, served as a project engineer for Porsche from 1988 to 1992.

Not long after the lowly 700 helped save BMW, long - time partner and coachbuilder Karosserie Baur of Stuttgart undertook to remove its roof and create this much more special and rare 700 Cabriolet.

Contrary to previous assumptions that Aston Martin will name its next flagship sporting GT the Vanquish, the British marque has since confirmed that it will carry the DBS Superleggera nomenclature instead, harking back to the DB4 and DB5 Superleggera that donned the name of their Italian coachbuilder, Carrozzeria Superleggera.

/ Gordon England Coachwork — A.B. Demaus discusses the work of the Wembley coachbuilders and illustrates that they did more than fit special bodies to Austin Sevens / Nick Baldwin presents news and events from the pre-war commercial vehicles scene / The Crouch Quickly off the mark by Michael Worthington - Williams.

Pininfarina's name is included because this car is intended to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the design house and coachbuilder.

During a lifetime in automobile design on both sides of the Atlantic, Darrin had his share of setbacks, but Karl Ludvigsen reckons his successes as both coachbuilder and stylist - for - hire outshone these by far / Stamina, Status And Style — Around the Delaunay Belleville a web of myths has been spun: am ultra-conservative car for the wealthy, unsporting and with a bonnet shaped to remind one of a boiler.

Like Touring's other creations since its rebirth as a serious concern in the mid-Noughties, most notably the Bentley Continental Flying Star of 2010, and 2013's Alfa 8C - derived Disco Volante, the Berlinetta Lusso will offer customers extensive latitude in colours, materials and detail execution, as per the great Italian coachbuilder's tradition.

Based on a shortened Chrysler New Yorker platform, this concept was a joint design project between Virgil Exner, Chrysler's noted chief of design at the time, and Italian coachbuilder Ghia's star designer Mario Boano.

It's not like Duesenbergs or Cobras, where every piece of the car is argued over and lawsuits are filed as to whether Fred and Auggie, or the coachbuilder, or Carroll Shelby ever really used that particular hood widget or muffler bearing.

Even an espresso machine has been integrated into the luxurious cabin, which has more in common with a mobile office from a coachbuilder than the interior of a work truck.

Italian coachbuilder ARES Design took the wraps off its most ambitious model recently, codenamed «Project Panther,» a modern interpretation of the classic De Tomaso Pantera but based on a Lamborghini Huracan instead of a V8 Ford.

The 2018 Bentley Bentayga SUV blends «sport» and «utility» in a way that actually doesn't make a liar of the famed British coachbuilder.

For buyers looking for a more distinctive car, a decreasing number had custom coachwork available from the dwindling number of UK coachbuilders.

Audi enlisted German coachbuilder Baur to build 214 examples of the Sport Quattro for homologation purposes.

Italian supercars are typically stop - and - stare - worthy, but ARES Design, a coachbuilder out of Modena, Italy, just dropped something we might be staring at a bit longer than usual.

Custom - built project vehicles from five coachbuilders showcase different expressions of the full - size Ford Transit van, which has replaced the venerable Econoline van that was part of the original custom van movement.

The Italian coachbuilder created one of the greatest and truly most beautiful cars of all time with the DB4GT Zagato back in 1960.

At that time, the factory was way too busy just making the regular DB5, so David Brown made an arrangement with the coachbuilding firm of Harold Radford (Coachbuilders) Ltd. to make further shooting brakes to meet the demand.

Superleggera, with is Italian for «super light» is a method for car coachwork construction developed by Felice Bianchi Anderloni of Italian coachbuilder Carrozzeria Touring.