2013 Art Center Car Classic Highlights and Exhibitor Information Exhibitors This year’s Car Classic celebrates the cars, bikes, aircraft, boats, and other vehicles that have been Inspired by Nature —the sculpture, form and fluidity to move through water and air that has inspired designers in
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Petersen Automotive Aerodynamics Exhibit
Aerodynamics: Art to Science During more than a century of innovation, automobile manufacturers have dreamed up some unusual body designs. From strange to stunning, the large majority of them were created in an effort to increase driving performance by reducing wind resistance. When a network
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300SLS Prototype Roadster Photo Gallery by David Douglas Duncan
While doing research on the 1955 Mercedes 300SLS Prototype Roadster at the UCLA graduate research library, I came across an article titled “The Secret SLS” in Colliers Magazine by David Douglas Duncan. I proceeded to contact David in 1988 and after correspondence he was kind
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1982 Ghia Shuttler Image Gallery
This one-off Ghia concept/showcar has been beautifully conserved, with original engine, paint, and interior. It is fully functional — with only 1419km — and has just completed an extensive conservation/service/restoration.
SOLD: 1955 Mercedes Benz Gullwing
SOLD: 1955 Mercedes Benz Gullwing Chassis #5500060, Body #5500092 and Engine #4500213 100 point body off restoration, original colors of DB190 Silver Gray Metallic with L1Blue/MB Tex Vinyl and Blue Plaid Wool Fabric 1955 Mercedes Benz Gullwing Chassis #5500060, Body #5500092 and
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Dream Auto Exhibition 2008: Turin, Italy
The Dream Auto Exhibition was held from September 19th through November 23rd of 2008 in Turin, Italy as a tribute to the memory of the late Andrea Pininfarina. The exhibition hosted 54 examples of conceptual and one-off designs, including fully functioning automobiles, scale models, sketches,
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2008 Dream Auto Exhibition – Article and Photography by Scott Grundfor
2008 Dream Auto Exhibition + click to enlarge 1970 Pininfarina Modulo “We have always aimed to combine form and function with our idea cars. In this sense, the Modulo is unusual in its own way, closing a particular period of research, often extremely advanced, into
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1955 Ghia Gilda Streamline-X Image Galleries
It’s 1954, Dwight D. Eisenhower is President of the United States, and as it’s been nearly a decade since the end of the Second World War, the world is rapidly changing. Unlike the rest of the Western world though, America isn’t sitting in a shadow
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