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Tuesday, 29 October 2019

2015 JAGUAR C-X75 'BOND CAR' - DUNCAN HAMILTON ROFGO

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2015 JAGUAR C-X75 'BOND CAR' 
ORIGINAL SPECTRE STUNT CAR - CHASSIS 007
ONE OF THE 5 STUNT CARS USED IN THE JAMES BOND FILM 'SPECTRE'
CHASSIS 007


"Built to be abused on the set of the Bond film Spectre, the Jaguar C-X75 stunt car is a seriously entertaining machine" -  Evo magazine December 2015
Considered by most as the car Jaguar should have put into production. Originally launched in 2010 as a concept hybrid car and developed in conjunction with Williams Advanced Engineering it was going to be put into production with a supercharged 1.6-litre four-cylinder car with an electric motor at each axle.
Built around a carbon fibre tub it was conceived to be a rival to McLaren P1 and Porsche 918, but Jaguar lost courage and in 2012 the project was pulled. However, the car was given a second life when cast as the villain's car in the 2015 James Bond film, Spectre.
Jaguar already had two hybrid prototypes and these were used for the static and low-speed shots but full working cars were required for the chase scenes. Williams Advanced Engineering and Jaguar, therefore, built five stunt cars. They were built around a spaceframe constructed to exceed GT3 regulations to ensure the safety of the stunt drivers. The cars used the same springs and dampers as the 2015 Porsche 911 GT3 tarmac rally cars. The cars are powered by the same thundering 5 litres supercharged V8 as the Jaguar Project 7, which is a bulletproof engine with sensational torque and power. This was mated to a Ricardo GT sequential gearbox, as used in the McLaren 650S GT3 car.
The road test in the December 2015 Evo magazine summarized the car:
“All too often these days performance cars are smothered by their own multitude of driver aids and drive modes, or the complexity of their drive-trains. The C-X75 is a wonderfully simple machine. Built to be tough, it’s happiest when being slung this way and that, when being hung right over the edge and thrashed to within an inch of its life.
It’s not intimidating or particularly tricky to drive hard. In fact, it delivers one of the year’s purest, most entertaining driving experiences. Stunt drivers have never had it so good.”
Chassis AEWJLRJB24007 is one of the 5 stunt cars used in Spectre. The car is presented in the same burnt orange as it appeared in the film, and carries the all-important and unique '007' in its chassis number.
Not only a Bond car but one of the all-time greatest looking concept cars - ultra-rare, usable and brutally fast.






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Thursday, 29 August 2019

1950 FRAZER NASH LE MANS REPLICA - BRIAN CLASSIC & CO Cheshire



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The 1950 Turin Motor Show Car.



This is one of three similar Le Mans Replicas built-in 1950 for public display and this car was used at the 1950 Turin Motor Show, as confirmed by Denis Jenkinson’s factory record and as shown in photographs in James Trigwell’s book.
After the show, the car was sold to Italian agents ‘Italcarco’ in Milan who eventually sold it to one Emilio Vincentini who had the car re-bodied by carrozzeria Rocco Motto in Turin and it was registered MI 250995. The body was a fixed head coupe typical of the Italian style at the time, along the lines of a Ferrari 166MM, Cisitalia and so on.
In 1976 the car was purchased in Italy by Colin Crabbe who brought it back to England and had the car restored, retaining the coupe body so that it could be used by his wife Fiona on the school run! He sold the car at the end of 1979 to David Penney who commissioned Crossthwaite & Gardner to return it to its original form. The coupe body was removed and a correct Le Mans Replica body was made by Peels of Surbiton. It was at this time that the car gained its current XOU3 registration. From 1982 the car was displayed at the Midland Motor Museum. The Motto body still exists as part of a special.
In July 1989 Sotheby’s sold the car to Michael Fisher who sold it in turn to Aston Martin chairman Victor Gauntlett and in November 1990 he sold it to Bill Clark in New Zealand.
Clark kept the car for 18 years, racing it extensively and having it maintained by the renowned Auto Restorations and Dave Silcock of Christchurch. He sold the car in 2008 to fellow racer and collector Peter Giddings in California who continued to race the car with success in the USA. The car is now in fabulous condition throughout, retaining a nice level of patina, and performs wonderfully on the road possessing all of the verve and sharp handling one would expect from one of the world’s most acclaimed collector’s cars.



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Friday, 26 July 2019

1963 ALFA ROMEO SPRINT SPECIALE - GTC 5, Avenue Lavoisier 13470 Carnoux-en-Provence France




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1963 ALFA ROMEO SPRINT SPECIALE
First presented as a prototype at the 1957 Torino Auto Show, using the Giulietta 1,290cc twin-cam 4-cylinder, the Sprint Speciale was put into limited production to fit the FIA homologation regulations.


Between 1958 and 1962, a total of 1,366 new version examples of the Speciale were built. The design gained a higher nose, Kamm tail and improved interior appointments.


The Giulietta was replaced by the Giulia in 1963, and 1,400 examples were built through 1966.


Our car, an Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale, was produced in December 1963 and delivered to its first owner the 27th of November, 1964. It was first registered in the Netherlands on January 8th, 1965.


Today, the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint Speciale, chassis no. AR380684 is in very good condition. The car is painted in its original colour (cream), while the interior, original, is grey and blue.


The Sprint Speciale has 65,905 kms from new and runs perfectly. The car comes with its original tool kit, instruction brakes manual and its user and maintenance book.


Original Dutch papers. US papers. EU taxes paid.





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