Audi
The Audi Super 90 is an important car since it was the last of the line of cars produced since 1965 and built in the 60′s era before the introduction of the Audi 100 in 1969 and the merger of Audi with NSU.
Prior to 1965 Audi produced cars with a three cylinder two-stroke engine but that changed when, in that year, they developed the first four-stroke engine of 1695 cc delivering some 72 bhp and known as the Audi 72.
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The Giulia was unashamedly developed at the expense of the Alfa Romeo 2600, a fact I covered in my article on the 2600 which you will find here. It’s a common problem, and not just with car makers, there is a tendency to concentrate on the new and forget the older, more tried solution. However, looking at the impact that the Giulia made it’s easy to see why this happened.
Alfa Romeo had, at the start of the 1960s, a large car, the 2000, which it developed into the even bigger 2600, and the smaller and neater Giulietta which had been in production since the mid 1950s. This had a 1300cc engine and the idea was to keep that but introduce a larger powerplant as well and so, in 1962, the Giulia was born.
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I like Alfa Romeos, I think I always have, and I like big cars too, ones with plenty of engine and some lively right foot action. So, fifty years on, would I have liked this one?
Like today, in the 1950s Alfa Romeo had a reputation for building great cars and, although they were expensive in this country, they still sold well. They were also well liked and a parked Alfa would be sure to attract attention in the car park.
This Alfa was a development of the very successful Alfa Romeo 2000 of the late 1950s. In saloon form, it’s a large car with plenty of passenger room inside while as a drophead, it’s a fast, modern and sporty touring car.
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The 1950s and 60s saw a perfusion of fast, hairy-chested but at the same time fun, sports cars roll out of the many car manufacturers in the British Isles. All of them were individual and all of them were statements of intention as much as they were designed as transport and the Triumph TR4 was no exception.
This was a time when cars were coming of age and speed and general performance was a big consideration. The TR series began in the early 1950s and used the tried and tested formula of putting a powerful engine in a small and light two seat body. A high power to weight ratio gives lots of top speed and lightning fast acceleration and the sports cars excelled at that time on the twisty British roads and were, mostly, a joy to drive.
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Inspired in part by British design and appearing between 1965 and 1976, the Peugeot 204 in one of its many guises was a popular car and a common sight on British roads.
Part of its success was that it was available in a variety of body styles which included, of course, a saloon as well as a stylish convertible and the car we mention here, the pretty little coupé. A completely French car at that time, the base model soon became the best selling car in France at the end of the decade
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The Austin Healey (Frogeye) Sprite was almost my first car but I got the MG Midget instead. However, this remains one of the finest, the best and certainly the most distinctive of the early 1960s sports cars!
Why ‘Frogeye’? Well, you only have to look at it to see why. Where to put lights on cars has always been something of a problem. They have to be in a position where they shine ahead but at the same time you don’t want them to be too noticeable. Before the war, headlights were lovely chrome jobs positioned on the bonnet like spotlights but afterwards the trend was to put them into the front wing so that they were not so easily seen and didn’t detract from the overall line of the car. This is, of course, the practice today where they now form part of the car’s front structure. Austin Healey, however, didn’t take this approach. They positioned the lights, as you can see, right on the top of the bonnet giving them maximum visible impact and making the bonnet the least streamlined it could be!
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After the Mk 9 Jaguar came, logically enough, the MK 10 and this was to be one of the most successful Jaguar saloons of the 1960s era, creating a benchmark in silky smooth performance and comfort as well as creating one of the most distinctive and instantly recognisable cars of all time.
The Jaguar Mk 9, like those before it, owed much to the styles created before the Second World War. But this Jaguar sported the look that was to see the manufacturer through the 60s and on into the next decade.
This was also one of the most instantly recognisable of cars with it’s large yet perfectly proportioned body and distinctive front end treatment. It was a car that was as nice for the driver as it was for the passenger and for those people lucky enough to own one, it was a car that you never tired of taking out on the road.
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A successor to the fabulous and very successful Jensen 541R we look at the Jensen CV8, the sports car that everyone (including me) wanted in the early 1960s.
It had similar styling and was really a production development rather than a completely new car. One way to make a car go fast is to fit a big and powerful engine in a light body and this was very much the Jensen way.
Sadly, Jensen Motors, a West Bromwich company, went bankrupt in the mid-70s and hopes to revive the marque have so far come to nothing. So far as I know, a company has been formed to market the Interceptor series and you can have a look at the website here.
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