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Jan 11, 2025 | 
msn.com | Jon Pressnell
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jon Pressnell
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jon Pressnell
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jon Pressnell
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
classicandsportscar.com | Jon Pressnell
By “It had to be an alloy car – otherwise I wouldn’t have bought it,” says Bernard Burckel of his 1955 Panhard Dyna Z.
“When they went to steel it wasn’t a real Panhard any more.”
Newcomers to the French marque might be perplexed by such a remark, but Panhard’s switch from making an all-aluminium ‘Z’ to one with an all-steel body was a defining moment in its history. Announced in June 1953, the Dyna Z was the creative answer to a number of inter-related technical and industrial challenges.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
classicandsportscar.com | Jon Pressnell
By If you wanted a small French-built sports car in the early-to-mid 1960s, you didn’t have much choice.
Indeed, a visitor to the 1964 Paris Salon had only a solitary option if he didn’t want one of Jean Rédélé’s Alpines: he could take a gamble on a Renault-powered coupé that had been kicking around for a couple of years, and was being sold under the banner of a firm better known for military hardware.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
classicandsportscar.com | Jon Pressnell
By Some time ago, a prominent figure in the Morris Minor Owners’ Club announced that he was tempted to chop in his modern Mercedes-Benz estate for an uprated Traveller built by Warwickshire-based JLH Minor Restoration.
This idea didn’t raise as many eyebrows as you might expect.
Quite simply, a JLH Minor with Ford Zetec power is a thing of engineering beauty, with the finish to match.
These are not scrapyard specials. Proprietor Jonathon Heap has now been in business for 30 years.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
classicandsportscar.com | Jon Pressnell
By Jowett Javelin or Riley 1½-litre?
At first glance, the idea of a straight choice between two such contrasting vehicles might seem absurd.
But wind the clock back to when the cars were new, and these two were direct rivals.
Indeed, in 1951 they cost exactly the same: £1168, including Purchase Tax. Of course, Riley had a substantial competition heritage, while Jowett had relatively little.
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May 29, 2024 | 
classicandsportscar.com | Jon Pressnell
Another thought was to drop in the pushrod version of the Series E engine already found in the Wolseley Eight.
Developing a rather more handy 33bhp, this became the favoured option.
But existing tooling was insufficient for high-volume manufacture, and after a period of time-wasting hesitation there was a new-found sense of urgency about getting the Minor into production.
The overhead-valve Wolseley engine would have to wait.
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
bringatrailer.com | Jon Pressnell |Simon Kidston
These books, titled The Lamborghini Miura Book and The Lamborghini Miura Register, were published by Kidston Limited as a complementary pair. The Lamborghini Miura Book is one of 762 copies printed and was written by Jon Pressnell and Simon Kidston. Spanning 456 pages, the publication features over 650 images chronicling the model’s history and is stored in a yellow buckram slipcase.
