Sentences with phrase «coachwork cars»

But these sorts of low - production coachwork cars aren't really about performance are they?

Not exact matches

Undiscouraged, he shoehorned a Chevrolet V - 8 under the handsome Italian coachwork to keep the car mobile.

Often featuring custom coachwork and tuned engines, some of these cars are very much sought after by car collectors today.

Arguably the Finest Ettore Bugatti - Designed Touring Car Early Type 49 with Matching Numbers Engine and Sporting Original Coachwork Displayed on the Bugatti Stand at the 1931 Olympia Motor Show Exceptional Provenance, Just Two Registered Owners from New Beautifully Preserved, Largely Original Leather Upholstery and Canvas Top

Other featured classes for 2018 include Motor Cars of the Raj, Rollston Coachwork, OSCA, Sporting Vintage Cars, and Tucker.

In second place, just eight penalty points behind the victor, the stunning 6C 1500 Super Sport dating from 1928 with coachwork by Stabilimenti Farina, an official car from the FCA Heritage collection, which is normally on display at the Museo Storico Alfa Romeo.

Coachwork for most of these cars was completed by H. J. Mulliner & Co. who mainly built them in fastback coupe form.

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

Finally, the Bentley Bentayga can be thoroughly customized into a fully bespoke vehicle, the company boasts, by its Mulliner coachworks division, like the marque's cars.

Based on the 2016.5 MY Aston Martin V8 Vantage S Coupe, each car features Lightning Silver coachwork with Gulf Orange highlights.

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

Later, I meet Paul Jones, Product Line Director for the Continental, whose gentlemanly English accent makes it seem like he represents the car's fine coachwork, its diamond - pattern two - tone leather upholstery, chromed organ - pull vent controls and Breitling clock set into the dashboard.

The Good Luxury coachwork and a powerful yet economical V - 8 engine make the 2016 Bentley Continental GT V8 S a choice car for long drives.

Both of these cars have survived, V8 / 11470 / RCAC now carrying UMJ71R repainted with Tourmaline Blue coachwork and V8 / 11563 / RCA carrying RYK1R, still in period Lonsdale Yellow can be seen occasionally at UK events.

The number of independent coachbuilders had dwindled to but few companies by this time - moderately successful were Park Ward, Hooper, H.J. Mulliner and James Young, by whom the vast majoritiy of Bentley S2 Continental were bodied plus those few standard cars whose owners had decided to order a rolling chassis for custom coachwork.

Lists of individual cars by chassis number with details of coachwork, original owners and original registration numbers are part of the book.

As so much had been borrowed from a glorious past it came as no surprise that the new model was by a certain margin more expensive than any other Bentley motor car - there had been the case with its famous ancestors too like for example the Gurney Nutting Sedanca Coupé on Bentley Mark VI chassis, the most expensive coachwork on Bentley during the early post-war period...

Adding polished chrome rails to the sills were another cleverly executed attempt to make the car's massive coachwork appearing lighter than in fact it was.

Following the unveiling of the first V8 Vantage Zagato with Volante coachwork at the Geneva Motor Show in 1987, AML took the decision to produce the car as so but to placate the owners of the original Vantage Zagato, the Volante Zagato would receive the less powerful fuel injected V585 V8 engine.

Unfortunately, the XJ6's mechanical components can not elicit the same praise as the car's coachwork.

It is now obvious that the Project AM310, shown a few weeks previously at Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este was indeed exactly the same car although with arguably less flattering red coachwork.

This prototype car, is however not actually based on a Vanquish at all; Thunderbolt is actually based on a 2009 DBS coupe, a less expensive base car for a project needing totally bespoke coachwork.

It was not the first time that Cadillac utilized Pininfarina, having farmed out body production for the 1959 Eldorado Brougham and design and coachworks for several one - offs, customs, and concept cars.