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Where is this? I feel like I have been there before. Manchester Science Museum?
It is at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

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Porsche Fageol on the grid for the C-Modified SCCA event a Westover, Massachusetts AFB, June 13, 1954. Photo by Robert Pauley.

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Fageol Supersonic
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The Fageol Supersonic was originally designed and built by Joel Thorne and Art Sparks at Thorne Engineering Racing Shop in Burbank, California in 1938 as a Land Speed racing car.
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"The entire body was made of carbon fiber, too, and that made it about 660 pounds lighter than a Diablo. Some of the weight savings also came from the fact that it lacked the traction control and ABS that came with a Diablo. The Raptor naturally was quick as it shared the Diablo's 6.7-liter V12 and the Diablo VT's 6-speed manual gearbox and all-wheel drive. It could hit 60 mph in under 4 seconds." It will be auctioned at the end of the month in Abu Dahbi.
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Why do these unusual Triumph Roadsters have windows on their trunks? Autoweek explains
https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/classic-cars/a2150146/why-do-these-unusual-triumph-roadsters-have-windows-their-trunks-autoweek/


[IMG]The panel containing the windows flips forward to form a windscreen for rumble seat occupants.[/IMG]
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BMW 700 Sports Coupe- 1960
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The little-known and rarely seen BMW 700 Coupé is arguably one of the most important models in BMW’s post-war history. The first of the series and highest-selling variant in the 700 family (Coupé, Luxus LS, Limosin, Cabrio), the 700 Coupé was the brainchild of Austrian BMW importer and racer Wolfgang Denzel. Denzel convinced the BMW Board to allow him to have a new, more stylish body designed for the BMW 600’s drivetrain. Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti was commissioned to design this new shape in January 1958.
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Public response to the little Isetta was gratifying to BMW, but as its shortcomings were also pointed out at this time ("too small"), it was decided to go "up a class" and produce a larger car with room for four. Management by May 1956 had already committed to the introduction of the BMW 700, a totally new design, by 1959, so the 600 was seen as an easily produced interim model using already existing Isetta production equipment.

The 1956 prototype did indeed look like a stretched Isetta, with its stock 2-tone front door and Isetta bumpers, but with the wheelbase lengthened by 165cm and R67 boxer motor driving full-width axles................

It was pricey, however, at 200 Marks more than a VW Beetle. .........
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Saw it’s twin today. Looked like a lawnmower engine on the side of the car.







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That red/ pink chevy pickup above looks like it rolled past Pepboys and the store threw up on it.......

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