The AC Ace was such a pretty sportscar, with its discreet curves and sweet six-cylinder engine. Then Carroll Shelby slotted in a 4727cc V8 to turn it into a complete animal – the Cobra. But he didn’t stop there, because ...

You’re not going to mistake the Inteceptor for anything else, with those unique lines penned by Italian styling house Vignale. The Interceptor sounded as good as it looks, too, thanks to a Chrysler-sourced 6.3-litre V8 – later bumped up to ...

When Ford came up with its Thunderbird ‘personal luxury car’, General Motors wanted a piece of the action. The result was the Riviera, which reached its styling zenith in 1971/72 with the boat-tailed Gran Sport. Worried that it might have ...

If you had pots of money in the early 1970s, but you wanted something fast and discreet, you bought a Jaguar. Or maybe a BMW if you wanted to be unpredictable. What you almost certainly wouldn’t do was buy a ...

Until the arrival of the Xl/9, if you wanted a mid-engined sportscar you had to have deep pockets. But when this pint-sized sportster appeared in 1972, it really put a cat among the pigeons. With a free-revving engine mounted in ...