These snaps from the Cobra “assembly line” have been bouncing around Tumblr this week and I couldn’t be more pleased to add them to our gallery of sports and racing factories, workshops, raceshops, and garages. via T-Top Coupe Bonus, Steve McQueen picking his Windsor block Cobra from the man himself.
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Given the 11 year run of the Elan, we can really see in these disperate images from a variety of periods in the early 60s and 70s how much the culture changed within the Lotus facilites, from white shop coats to rock-and-rollers.
This actually looks more “mass production like” than I would have imagined.
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Factories at Work: Lamborghini 1968
If you thought that vintage track footage was hard to find, you should try digging up old tours of sportscar workshops. I can’t help imagining that this precious film is the result of an expectant Miura buyer visiting the line to check in on their purchase. Whatever the reasons or motivations for the filming, it’s […]
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Factories at Work: Jaguar, 1961
If you thought sportscar design has diminished over the past few decades, this narrator will turn your attention as well to the state of voiceover work.
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Factories at Work: Alpine
Would you just look at all of those Renault-Alpine A110s. Gorgeous! via Motor Trend.
You’d think that Ford would have rested a bit after achieving their drubbing of Ferrari and bringing LeMans victory home. But whether it was just momentum or to silence critics that suggested that the GT40 was more Lola than Ford, FoMoCo decided to bring the design of the next iteration of the GT car more […]
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Factories at Work: Building the Spyders
I make no bones about the fact that the Porsche 550 Spyder is my all-time favorite racing car. I’ve been collecting photos and pouring over reproduction shops’ brochures for this sexy little thing since I was 15 years old. With that in mind, it’s hard to believe that I’ve never showcased the Spyder’s build in […]
Expectations and reality have this way of clashing spectacularly. I always have a dream, a fantastic notion of what something might be like. Then I’ll discover that the actuality of it is far more simple; far more ordinary. This, though, is one of the thankful exceptions. This space is exactly what I imagine when I […]
This set seems appropriate as we all catch our breath from Cobra’s celebration at the Monterey Historics. I often wonder if precious racing artifacts like this body buck for the Daytona Coupe are sitting under a tarp in a forgotten corner of a forgotten warehouse. Whenever I see the wooden grid of one of these […]