By Petrolicious Productions / 05.22.2013
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MGB’s are one of the all-time classic sports cars, a quintessential British roadster, and one of those “must-drive” experiences. Bob Rippey, an enthusiastic and friendly guy from Pennsylvania, owns a particularly nice example with an interesting history. Recently, he very graciously cleared a few hours from his schedule to allow us to photograph it and ask him a few questions about what it’s like to own the lovely old girl.

By Alan Franklin / 05.21.2013
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Imagine if the wind blew in a slightly different direction one day in the late 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, or anywhere in the world in all preceding history prior to the moment of Hans Ledwinka’s conception—Porsche as we know it would never have existed. Volkswagen, the 356, fifty glorious years of the 911, 240 MPH Mulsanne assaults in candy-liveried 917s, the Beetle, the Golf GTI—all of it just a narrowly-missed opportunity.

By Petrolicious Productions / 05.21.2013
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Though slow to make a name for themselves in the US market, the Japanese were well on their way to being big players here in the late seventies and eighties, if not already well-established. Aided by the Datsun 240Z and Roadster, demand for inexpensive-but-well-engineered, built-in-Japan sports cars was very high by 1978, the year both of our featured cars were built. Which Japanese classic would you choose—an immaculate-looking ‘78 Toyota Celica GT or a first-generation RX-7?

By Petrolicious Productions / 05.21.2013
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When Holger Schubert created his studio-garage space, he did what any self-respecting, Ferrari-loving, minimalist architect would do: he took his work-of-art BB 512i and built everything around it. As any showcased work of art deserves to be, Holger's car is in the spotlight and on the pedestal that is the studio garage, which was designed and built for the specific purpose of working and living alongside the Ferrari. Holger shares the details of his car and of his enviable space.

By Alan Franklin / 05.20.2013
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The eighties were indisputably the decade of high-tech. Our iron-age, post-industrial revolution, analog ways were rapidly disappearing, replaced by the emergence of newly-affordable integrated circuitry—the microchip. It was a massive leap forward. Cars weren’t immune to the change—nothing was—but few cars embody the times like the Porsche 959. The 959 had a total of seven computers at a time when many cars still had none, or typically one at most.