JENSEN INTERCEPTOR

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 ...

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BUICK RIVIERA

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 ...

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FIAT 130 COUPE

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 ...

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Fiat X 1/9

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 ...

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FORD GALAXIE 100

F hen Ford launched its Total Performance’ campaign in the 1960s, it got into motorsport in a big way. The idea was that it would lead to greater sales if customers knew just how capable Ford’s muscle cars were, which ...

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