Sentences with phrase «for coachbuilders»

The first post-war Rolls - Royce, the Silver Wraith was often sold as frame for coachbuilders.

Previously responsible for one - off coachwork commissions on existing models like a two - door Bentley Mulsanne coupe and the distinctive Mercedes - AMG G 63 - based X-Raid, Project Panther represents the most substantial project yet for the coachbuilder.

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

There are at least 20 secret projects happening here at Centro Esperienze Costruzione Modelli e Prototipi, or CECOMP, a coachbuilder that has quietly been creating next - level concept cars for Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, and Porsche for more than 40 years.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coachbuilder Weymann was famous for its fabric bodies.

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.

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.

1971 Volkswagen Karmann Cheetah In the early 1970s, German coachbuilder Wilhelm Karmann GmbH was already responsible for building the slinky Karmann Ghia and drop - top Beetles for Volkswagen — but it also helped build a small, conceptual sports car for VW and Italdesign.

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

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

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.

R - R Silver Wraith, 1952, #LWOF35 A special coachbuilder's drawing how to attach shield and flag for use on formal occasions is available from the archive

Hence it was no wonder that Bentley did command coachbuilders to restrict themselves to two door coachwork only for the Continental variant.

We frequently lament the end of an era when coachbuilders sold their auto show cars to the general public, but every once in a while a modern, running one - off or prototype goes up for auction without decades passing first.

The vehicle is set to be built by Dutch coachbuilder RemetzCar, with a launch targeted for 1 March 2018.

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.

Norfolk - based coachbuilder Qwest is behind the car, and while it's a one - off project for now, we may well see more conversions.

In addition to Harold Radford, another independent coachbuilder also offered a shooting brake conversion for the DB6.

It was built for a Scottish laird with a love of fishing, ordered through the AML and general car dealer, HR Owen and built by coachbuilders, FLM Panelcraft.

For better weight distribution Rolls - Royce encouraged coachbuilders to suggest the rear - mounted instead of side - mounted spare wheels.

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

We frequently lament the end of an era when coachbuilders sold their auto show cars to the general public, but every once in a while a modern, running one - off or prototype goes up for auction without...

For one thing, in cross-section its center depression or «trough «is reminiscent of certain GT coupes of the Italian coachbuilder Zagato in the Fifties and later.

Designed by a young Ercole Spada as his first project for Zagato, the DB4 GTZ (as it is also known) had the body modified at the coachbuilder's factory in Italy and featured more flowing and more elegant lines than the donor car.