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Jimmy Dean and The Curse of Little B***ard

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" There’s been a lot of spooky stuff written over the half century that has passed since James Dean’s  fatal car crash. Whichever way you choose to look at the glamorous cult of death surrounding the star of Rebel "

Radical Ferrari Render

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" These days the world of digital car  design can inspire the imagination whilst confusing the senses. The render technology  jockeyed by students in hi-end design academies is so powerful and the execution of design projects so exact you would swear "

MG EX-E Concept

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" The MG EX - E was rather ahead of its time. Used as a test bed for future AR platforms, you can still see the embryonic MGF embedded deep in its spacey lines. And you don't have to squint to "

Renault 5 Turbo

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" You're a family man. You're used to chugging around in a variety of wagons. Your automotive lot is transporting the nippers around betwitxt football training, school and ballet classes. You fantasise every now and then about the joys of irresponsibility "

Your Car Was Born in the Seventies

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"Your car was born in the 1970s. Car-nerds will argue about this, but the seventies mark the start of the modern era for the motor car. The economic and energy crises of the decade shook the car-world hard. It had "

Stars of the Seventies

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" 1970 Plymouth Superbird A few more muscle cars trickled out in ’71, but the Superbird’s massive rear wing marks the literal high-point of muscle car design, and also its swan-song. 1971 Lamborghini Countach concept Why are all the best supercars – McLaren F1, "

Influx people: Seventies Stylists

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"Chris Ryan Chris Ryan is Cornish based surfer, musician and collector of offbeat vehicles. His Beach Buggy is a creation from the early 70s - with fibreglass frame strapped onto a ’61 beetle chassis. The motor is your standard 1500 VW job. ""

All Hail The Wedge

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"If any single design concept is synonymous with the 1970s it must be The Wedge. Redolent of an imagined space-age future, the design was conceived at the end of the 1960s by epoch making designers like Giugiaro and Gandini. It "

Maserati A6G Zagato

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" Sometimes a car stops you in its tracks through its sheer beauty. It happened this morning, and we had to share. This latest aesthetic epiphany occurred in the midst of a discussion about whether or not Zagato had made any "

Alfa Romeo – an Anniversary

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" If you're even vaguely interested in car culture, you must have realised by now that Alfa Romeo has recently celebrated its Centenary. There's already been an acreage of coverage of stuff about the great marque, whose fortunes of late have "

Porsche Tapiro – Concept Car

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" Fans of Giugiaro's Lotus Esprit like to imagine that all design roads from the sixties and the seventies lead to their beloved. But whether or not the evolution of car design would inevitably get the Esprit's wedge-like sleekness or not, "

Mini 1275 or Super Compact?

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" We at Influx towers are in the middle of a practical car debate. Sometimes you need a little runabout. And we at Influx towers are in need of a runabout in the shape of a Mini 1275 GT. There are a "