If you are in the market for a piece of vintage Mopar to cruise around the local weekend car shows, then this next car is a good choice. At first you might assume that the Fury II was the sucessor to the Fury I, but actually you could get a Fury I, Fury II, or […]
A quick trip to BMW’s USA sales website makes me pine for a time when a “kidney grill” wasn’t a grotesque polygonal shaped icon that exemplifies the corpulence of the modern era. The twin kidney shape was a decorative throwback to first BMW grill and not a predator mouth shaped abomination. There was a time […]
Instead of celebrating Cyber Stalking Saturday or whatever nonsense holiday big or small business has dreamt up to make us spend money on the Saturday after Thanksgiving…we will continue to celebrate Bracq Friday. If you stopped me and asked “how old is this next car?” — I would not be quick to say 43 years. […]
Our celebration of Bracq Friday continues with this next beauty. Paul Bracq was a legendary BMW 7-series, 6-series, E21 3-series, MB W113 SL, W108, W100 (aka 600 or Großer Mercedes) W111, W114, multiple Popemobiles and the French TGV high speed train. Find this 1975 Mercedes-Benz 280C W114 offered for $11,500 in Long Island, NY via […]
Happy Bracq Friday to everyone out there in cyberspace. If your idea of the day after Thanksgiving doesn’t involve wrestling a marked down girdle out of the hands of another shopper at Macy’s, then you should spend it marveling at the iconic car designs of master coachbuilder Paul Bracq. Find this 1973 Mercedes-Benz 280SEL 4.5 […]
Happy Thanksgiving to all the DT readers, motorheads, freaks, geeks, and Mercury Monarch fans out there in cyberspace. We are taking the day off to eat some turkey, but will be back tomorrow with a Bracq Friday special that should make your mustache quiver with anticipation. Now…go eat some turkey.
The E91 geThe E90 generation BMW 3-series (E90 sedan, E91 touring, E92 coupe, & E93 vert) was first launched for the 2005 model year and continued production through 2013. It was the first 3-series to have a turbocharged gasoline engine and it was quick in 335i trim…but if you wanted a wagon with a manual […]
It is that time of year again. Get ready for Bracq Friday. Yes, you read that correctly, here at Daily Turismo, we use the day after Turkey day to celebrate French mustache enthusiast and car designer and artist Paul Bracq in a celebration that is known worldwide as Bracq Friday. Paul Bracq is a French […]
The Geo Tracker was a little 4X4 that was built in a joint venture between GM and Suzuki…actually it was GM of Canada who pushed this thing through to development and the first versions were built in a Canadian GM plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. The Tracker was a proper body-on-frame front-engine rear-wheel-drive mini SUV that […]
The 2nd generation Chevrolet Corvair (1965-1969) was a much improved version of the previous car — gone was the sketchy swing axle suspension, which was replaced with a fully independent rear that helped keep the rear-engine car from wandering backwards across oncoming traffic lanes when you didn’t want that. Today’s example appears to have only […]