Today’s AutoHunter Spotlight is on a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette that’s powered by a numbers-matching 270 horsepower 283cid small-block V8. This Corvette one of 978 produced for its year.
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This C1-generation Corvette received a frame-off restoration in the 1980s, which was given a score of 97 by the National Corvette Restorers Society. More recently, the two-tone Snowcrest White and Inca Silver body was resprayed and the color-matched hardtop was restored.
The body features a faux-louvered hood that was exclusive to the 1958 model year.
The interior is finished in Blue-Grey upholstery with matching door panels, carpeting and dash that houses an optional signal-seeking Delco Wonderbar radio.
The auction for this C1 Corvette ends May 21 at 11:40 a.m. PDT.
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This 2013 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, up for auction on AutoHunter, shows just under 18,000 miles and is one of 109 produced in this combination for its model year.
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Power comes from an unmodified, supercharged 662 horsepower 5.8-liter Ford Trinity V8 paired with a Tremec TR6060 6-speed manual with a variable-rpm launch control function.
The body wears black paint with optional red center SVT racing stripes. Shelby lettering can be seen across the trunk and Cobra emblems on the trunk lid, front grille, and passenger side.
Inside the Shelby GT500 are charcoal black leather seats with red stripes down the center. The seller notes the radio, shift knob and steering wheel are unchanged from stock.
The auction for this Shelby GT500 ends May 20 at 11:40 a.m. PDT.
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Today’s AutoHunter Spotlight is on a restored 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu that’s been with the seller for the past 18 years.
A recipient of a full restoration 20 years ago, the Artesian Turquoise body appears to be well-kept and shows only a few stone chips in the paint notes the seller. Both the original glass and brightwork are in good condition.
The matching turquoise interior is trimmed in its original vinyl and equipped with a Vintage Air air conditioning system.
Originally powered by a 283cid V8 and Powerglide transmission, the Chevelle Malibu is equipped with a 355cid V8 paired with a 4-speed automatic 700R4 transmission.
The odometer shows approximately 84,000 miles, though true chassis mileage is unknown.
This Chevelle Malibu’s auction ends May 11 at 11:20 a.m. PDT.
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Today’s AutoHunter Spotlight is on a 1966 Ford Mustang coupe resto-mod with an upgraded suspension and replacement 289cid V8 engine paired with a 4-speed automatic transmission.
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The coupe’s body was professionally repainted in blue metallic and features chrome accents, a dual exhaust system and “Blue Eyes” airbrushed on the rear.
Inside, the interior was reupholstered in white vinyl and is equipped with a matching center console, a Retro Sound head unit with Bluetooth and USB capabilities and aftermarket air conditioning, which the seller notes is currently not working.
The odometer shows 30,500 miles but true mileage is unknown.
This Mustang’s auction ends April 7 at 11:30 a.m. PDT.
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Featured as our AutoHunter Spotlight today is a 1951 Mercury Woody Wagon with a 239cid V8 and column-shifted 3-speed manual transmission. The body was repainted in black, and the factory-correct Bird’s Eye Maple wood-grain paneling was refinished during the wagon’s restoration in 2015.
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Other exterior features include a dropdown tailgate with a Continental kit and a driver-side mirror.
The interior was reupholstered in red leather and the metal dash shows woodgrain accents similar to the exterior paneling. The radio in the dash allows for smartphone plug-in and connectivity.
Upgrades include a modern core radiator with an electric fan and a conversion to a 12-volt electrical system.
The odometer shows about 18,000 miles, although true mileage is unknown.
The auction for this 1951 Mercury Woody Wagon ends March 26 at 11:00 a.m. PDT.
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The pickup rides on the original 1942 frame, while the body is constructed with a combination of original Willys sheet metal and fiberglass reproduction pieces finished in a period-style beige and tan two-tone paint.
The front end and roof are 1941-style fiberglass pieces, while the cowl, dash and windshield frame are all-steel from 1937. Steel doors from 1941 are fitted with bear-claw latches. Rear fenders are fiberglass in 1942 Chevrolet style. The Willys’ bed is custom-built with mahogany planks and stainless-steel hardware.
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Completed in 2013, the refurbishment included OEM Willys replacement parts for the grille, headlights and trim parts from years 1937-42.
The bucket seats are upholstered in Ruby Red leather that extends throughout the cab and headliner. The dashboard matches the exterior paint and houses a Kenwood AM/FM/CD head unit with 8-speaker stereo system.
The 350cid Chevy V8 engine is equipped with an aluminum intake manifold and a 4-barrel carburetor. Power is transferred to the Willys’ rear wheels through a TH350 automatic transmission and 2.73 diff sourced from a 1986 Ford Mustang.
The aftermarket odometer reads 3,000 miles, which are the miles since the build was completed.
The auction on this 1942 Willys pickup ends February 26 at 12:30 p.m. MST.
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Over on AutoHunter, driven by ClassicCars.com, you can bid on this 1963 light blue custom Chevrolet Nova SS gasser. Owned by the same family for 49 years, the car was acquired in 1974 and built into a gasser-style race car with flared fenders, custom hood, performance suspension and a 327cid V8 sourced from a 1968 Corvette.
While the body retains all its original sheet metal, fender flares were welded on the front and rear and a custom lift-off hood made by JV Fabricating in Arkansas was added. The factory trim as retained, including side strips, rocker moldings and panel trim.
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The car sits on New American Racing wheels wrapped in Pro Track tires with a staggered setup. The heavily modified suspension utilizes a Super Bell straight axle in the front with machined spindles from a 1954 Chevrolet, leaf springs and shocks. The rear suspension uses modified Slapper Traction bars with leaf springs and shocks.
The customization doesn’t stop at the exterior. The interior features seats from a 1980 Pontiac Grand Prix upholstered in gray cloth with matching cloth door panels. The restored dash retains the original AM radio and heater controls along with restored gauges including a 120 mph speedometer, analog clock, and ancillary gauges for fuel, engine temperature, voltage and oil pressure. A gated shifter for the automatic transmission is floor mounted.
Special features are the 8,000 rpm tachometer and a fuel pressure gauge that are mounted outside, visible to the driver so they don’t have to look away from the road.
Under the hood sits the 327cid small-block V8 bored .030 over with TRW pistons, rebuilt Dart heads, and an 11.5:1 compression ratio. The Weiand aluminum intake is equipped with a 750 Holley Double Pumper carburetor connected to a Holley electric blue fuel pump with braided lines from the custom gas tank.
The ignition system was upgraded with an MSD 6AL box and the exhaust features modified Hooker headers with ceramic coating.
Power is sent to the rear wheels through a custom-built Turbo 350 manual shift valve body with a 3500 stall converter and a Dana 70 rear axle with a 4:10 positraction differential.
The auction ends January 18 at 11:00 a.m. MST.
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Haynes Manuals is known for its detailed vehicle repair manuals, but the publisher also has a sense of humor. It just released an “owner’s manual” for the DeLorean time machine from “Back to the Future.”
First spotted by Motor1, the manual provides more detail than one should probably expect for a fictional vehicle. If you’re unfamiliar, the plot of the three “Back to the Future” movies centered around a DeLorean DMC-12 converted into a time machine by mad scientist Doc Brown. The car could travel through time by reaching 88 mph, with help from something called a flux capacitor.
Released in 1985, the first “Back to the Future” movie arrived too late to save the DeLorean Motor Company from collapse, but it turned the DMC-12 into a pop culture icon. The sports car has ridden a wave of 1980s nostalgia to new heights of popularity, and a company in Texas even plans to build new ones.
The Haynes manual won’t show you how to build your own flux capacitor, but it does include plenty of photos and details of the original movie car, as well as the flying version from “Back to the Future Part II.”
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The “Back to the Future: DeLorean Time Machine: Owner’s Workshop Manual” is available for pre-order on Amazon, priced at $29.99, and will be released on March 30, 2021.
In addition to its regular repair manuals, Haynes has done plenty of spoof owner’s manuals for fictional vehicles, as well as everything from Formula One cars to steam locomotives. Haynes recently announced that it is ending the publication of newly printed repair manuals, as it shifts focus to digital publishing.
This article was originally published by Motor Authority, an editorial partner of ClassicCars.com.
Italian company plans to build 10 examples of its Palladium, a luxury limousine designed to venture away from pavement | Aznom photos
There are exotic sports cars and even hypercars, but the new Italian automobile company Aznom says its Palladium is a “hyper-limousine” designed to fill “a rather interesting and exclusive niche.”
And what niche is that? Why, A vehicle with the traditional characteristics of a great luxury sedan but capable of traveling on any terrain.
A production run of only 10 such vehicles is planned, with each open to the sort of customization required by its buyer.
“We have produced this vehicle choosing artisanal manufacturing techniques that are almost lost today, such as panel beating and hand-crafting the body of the car, together with other technological solutions,” said the company’s 43-year-old founder Marcello Meregalli. “Engine builders, tanners, panel beaters, designers and engineers who have worked on this project are heirs to a tradition that has made Italian cars famous all around the world.”
“Designed and manufactured in Italy,” the company adds in its news release, “Palladium wants to retrace the steps of famous Italian coachbuilders from the past when each vehicle was truly handmade with care and passion.”
Monza-based Aznom notes that the vehicle’s name “points to majestic and classic esthetics, taking inspiration from the mansions of renowned Italian architect Andrea Palladio (famous for using ancient Greek and Roman styles as the base for his creations).
“But this is not all, as the name Palladium also recalls the rare and lustrous metal by the same name.”
Palladium the vehicle is limo sized, nearly 19 feet in length and more than 6½ feet in height. The vehicle offers 4-wheel drive and a 5.7-liter bi-turbo V8 engine providing more than 700 horsepower and 700 pound-feet of torque.
Back seat is designed for the car owner
Zanom was founded in 2007 as a graphics-support company for Meregalli’s other companies, the news release reports. Discussions with Matteo Bertanelli, now Aznom’s product manager, led to Aznom producing custom leather and other hand-made parts for vehicles.
Custom painting of vehicles followed, and the company outfitted a Range Rover with refrigerators powered by a rooftop solar panel and the creation of Monza Garage and Monzatech as part of Gruppo Meregalli.
Conversion of a Ram pickup truck into a luxury, “business-class” sedan called Atulux followed in 2018.
“In truth, I’ve always been passionate about large automobiles, like the huge American sedans manufactured from the thirties to the beginning of the seventies,” said Meregalli. “Or the incredible Rolls-Royce and Bentleys of those periods.
“I’ve always been fascinated by big vehicles, I liked the super large hoods and the imposing stance of those cars. I thought about creating something similar for a long time and I even considered a “resto-mod” operation on a vintage Rolls-Royce.
“Then in 2008, Cadillac unveiled the new presidential limousine for President Barack Obama. This was not a ‘stretched’ vehicle but it had been built with different proportions. Starting from a mega-SUV Cadillac had built a luxury sedan, big and imposing but with the proportions of a classic sedan.
“That particular Cadillac gave the final push to an idea I had had since before the Atulux, of a car completely manufactured by us both outside and inside. I can say today that we pushed that idea even further, conceiving a vehicle that can take its owner wherever, to an elegant soiree as well as on a demanding off-road course. It is a true extra-luxurious limousine that is also able to trek the desert! This is why our Palladium is so unique.”
Why a limousine as an off-roader?
“To answer this question we have to look at our other professional experiences,” Meregalli said. “Our main company has always dealt with wine and I spend many days visiting remote farms and vineyards. In those situations a 4×4 off-road vehicle is truly necessary. And how many times have I seen sedans stuck on the road to ski towns in the winter… the car that I had in mind had to be beautiful, luxurious, comfortable… but also unstoppable!”
He added, “Our intention is to create 10 cars, a mini-series, but with an approach similar to that of a shipyard. Maniacal care of the details and extreme personalization and customizations chosen together with the final client.”
Palladium’s design was done by Studio Camal, the Torino design shop founded in 2013 by Alessandro Camorali, who joined Stile Bertone in 2002, and helped design the BMW Mille Miglia concept and the Ferrari California interior before joining Ferrari and then Pininfarina.
Pricing was not announced. For more information, visit the Aznom website.
Time to recharge batteries, price of the vehicle and range are the leading reasons by British drivers are reluctant to buy electric vehicles | Castrol illustrations
As everyone who has watched Hamilton knows, the colonies once revolted against Mother England and won their independence. And yet the two nations have maintained a sibling relationship, and thus the results of a new study by Castrol provides some insight into the electric car marketplace.
The study, says the British oil company, points to the “tipping points” for electric vehicles to become mainstream in the UK.
Among those tipping points are a purchase price of £24,000 (or $30,000) for an EV, recharging of the battery in 30 minutes, and a range of at least 282 miles.
The study revealed that while people in many countries are willing to pay more for an EV, British drivers are not, which may be one reason that while current projections have EVs in the world’s mainstream in 2024, that milestone isn’t anticipated in the UK until 2025.
Castrol’s motivation for such a survey, it said, is its position as a “global leader” in providing special e-transmission fluids, e-coolants and e-greases for electric vehicles.
The company said the study draws on the views of consumers, fleet managers and automotive industry leaders in the UK.
“The automotive industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but I believe that electric vehicles have a central role to play in powering the sector’s low-carbon recovery,” said Omer Dormen, vice president of Castrol Europe.
“Castrol’s research shows that individual consumers are positive about making the switch to electric, but buyers in the UK expect to do so slightly later than those in other markets, and are keen to pay a bit less.
“As an industry we must focus on the factors that matter most to consumers.”
The full 48-page study, “Accelerating the EVolution” is available at the Castrol website.
Castrol also included in the study research from eight of the world’s “most important” EV markets and identified five “critical challenges” that need to be addressed to promote further growth in the EV market. It also highlighted the different priorities for consumers and fleet managers.
Among the findings:
64 percent of British consumers are taking a “wait-and-see” approach to EVs, and around 60 percent of fleet managers are waiting for their competitors to convert from petroleum to electric power for their vehicles.
Price is the No. 1 priority for consumers, though British consumers want to pay no more than $30,000 while those in other countries would switch at the $36,000 plateau.
62 percent say that maintenance costs could keep them from going electric, to which Castrol notes that “many consumers are unaware that the overall average cost of ownership of an EV over its lifetime tends to be lower than an ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicle.”
The No. 2 factor delaying purchase is charging times. Nearly 70 percent of consumers said EVs won’t dominate until charging times are the same as those of refueling an ICE.
Range anxiety is real and was No. 3 on the list. What British buyers want is to be able to drive from London to Paris without having to recharge.
“The automotive industry has already demonstrated what it can achieve in response to the coronavirus pandemic, turning its capabilities to producing much needed medical equipment,” said Mandhir Singh, Castrol’s chief executive. “With EV technology constantly improving, the challenge now will be to drive a low-carbon recovery and accelerate the EVolution as quickly as possible.
“Bringing down the cost and charge time for electric vehicles while increasing range, infrastructure and vehicle choice will be critical to persuading consumers to make the switch.”
