Rolls-Royce Phantom III Cabriolet, 1939
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1929 Duesenberg Model J Convertible Coupe
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Maserati 250f Restored and Admired
Maserati 250f Restored and Admired The automotive-minded photographer Bernd Kammerer recently hit the streets of Hamburg, Germany at night with a beautifully-restored Maserati 250f, one of the 1950s most celebrated sports cars. Kammerer is a doubl…
The Glamorous Side of Riding the Bus: Greyhound on Steroids
Some of these concepts have timeless, exciting forms, some are more of the “pulp-ish” and “sci-fi” variety, but they all invariably turned heads and excited onlookers in their time, and some still inspire designers today. Some of these buses were …
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS
As we all know, Porsche designers rarely change body styles, preferring to stick to the same “good old” look for decades. However, there was one model, perhaps easily overlooked, sandwiched between canonical 911 and variations on 550 Spyder – the …
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, by Franco Scaglione – 1967
(images via)Continuing the string of enchanting designer bodies for Alfa Romeo in the 1950s and 1960s (see the Pininfarina custom body for Alfa Romeo 33, for example – revealed at Paris show in 1969 and discussed in our previous article), Alfa Rom…
Kinetic Floor Tiles – Footsteps as a Power Source
The Skoda Energy Producing Tiles Use Human Footsteps as its Source At the 2010 Paris Auto Show, Skoda’s second generation line of GreenLine hybrids called the Octavia Green E made its debut along with the new Skoda Energy Producing tiles. These ti…
3D-Printed Hybrid Uses Sunlight, Ethanol or Gas
Stratasys, the 3D-printing people, are going to print an entire car. Lest you get too excited that you, too, soon will be downloading the Lexus of your choice and having it plop out of a desktop box, this is no ordinary car. Called the Urbee, the …
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