If you haven’t heard of the Dutch Safari Company yet, you might want to check these guys out if you’re shopping for a vintage 4×4. ‘Guys’ is a generic term of course, in reality it’s spearheaded by two fellow life-long vintage car enthusiasts Erica Plumlee and Nick van den Akker. Based out of Austin, Texas, […]
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Jul
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Typical evolution in sports car development is a race to tout the best horsepower and 0-60 numbers. By 1976 Porsche was already pushing 155mph and 245hp in their first gen 930 turbo. Ferrari wasn’t necessarily producing the big HP numbers in the 308 comparatively speaking, but they had the V8 exhaust note to make up […]
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Jun
Earlier this week, we brought you the Volvo P1800 which began production at the British Kelvin Factory owned by Jensen Motors. Jensen had room to give during that time as they were still about 6 years away from building the 2+2 coupe that would eventually secure their place in GT coupe collectible history. Plush leather […]
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Jun
Jun
In case you missed it, the 34th installment of the Great Race kicked off this past Saturday (June 24), and this year’s starting point? Jacksonville, FL…the fourth time the city has seen the race in its 34 year tenure. The Great Race is an antique, vintage, and collector car competitive controlled-speed endurance road rally on public […]
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Jun
Jun
LAND ROVER or SANTANA So which is it really? Is it a Land Rover or is it a Santana? Well, technically both until the early 1980’s. The Santana company was founded in 1956 as “Metalurgica de Santa Ana” and, just like Lamborghini, originally manufactured agricultural equipment. Three-years later they reached an agreement with Land Rover, […]
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Jun
The Land Rover Defender…certainly one of the most (if not the most) iconic vehicles of all time. Granted, we are little biased here at SD Headquarters but nevertheless, what better vehicle to feature in our first post than the benchmark for 4×4 off-road enthusiasts abroad. What you know today as the Defender was made by Land Rover […]