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Car production has given us many complete idiotic designs over the years, which have been a great annoyance to car owners. When you consider HOW many hours spent in developing a car, some of these errors may still […]

The great car designer Robert Opron had a visionary view of what the future would bring, and in 1958 this led him to create the concept car called the Fulgur for the French car manufacturer Simca.

Simca […]

Imagine a late autumn day in 1967 where the famed Scottish racing team Ecurie Ecosse are paying Jaguar a visit at Browns Lane. Several years earlier during the preceding decade, Ecurie Ecosse had won the gruelling […]

With outdoor temperatures souring well above 30 degrees, even Denmark currently feels like a place where you would want to fold away the roof of your classic car. Convertible, cabriolet, droptop or roadster – c […]

Lack of engine power can be traced as a direct cause to poor quality of life, and even the most beautiful of bodylines can’t always be guaranteed to help. No, there must always be plenty of maintenance-free […]

I’m convinced that every classic car enthusiast in the world, will have at least once in their life dreamt of owning a set of wheels with centerlock wheel nuts. They possess a simple beauty, they only require a h […]

Browsing through Raymond Loewy’s CV, one could almost be led to believe he had designed the actual surface of the earth. Perhaps a little exaggerated, but it’s not without reason he has been called the father of […]

The genius behind the Mini – Alec Issigonis – was entirely convinced that a rethink and a rebuild of his little masterpiece could redirect some of all that money which the British military were giving Land Rov […]

Are you of an old enough generation to recall the term: Shagvan? If you do, it will most likely be a vague echo from a bygone era. An era where the most outrageous car scene ruled – the automotive equivalent of S […]

Ferrari and Zagato. Two names which both have the effect of immediately quickening the pulse of us classic car enthusiasts, because both have of course become an integral part of the more glamorous side of […]

You probably know the feeling well. You are climbing those scenic south European mountains in your faithful old classic. Initially, all is well; the driving gloves are snug and the tires are chirping lightly as […]

Alfa Romeo’s popular classic which goes under the model name: Giulia Sprint, GTV, or among entusiasts simply The Bertone, named of course after the design house which created the timeless design, hardly needs any […]

Opel Ascona… a classic? Absolutely and beyond any shadow of a doubt! It is after all one of the very successful daily heroes from back when even the smallest of villages would have a proper pub, and all the lads w […]

The seventies gave birth to the idea of producing the safest car possible. At all the major manufacturers, heaps and heaps of resources were poured into creating a car where safety was priority number one. These […]

Patina is the key to joy and the deeper meaning of old cars. It can be difficult to fully encompass and understand the concept which covers everything from innocent scratches to major defects.

It is an often […]

A while back, one of our readers on the Danish site left a comment along the lines of: “All it needs now is a push-me-pull-you gearshift”. I no longer recall the precise context of the remark, but it clearly was […]

Here at ViaRETRO, we often discuss design in terms of cars exterior, or at times even its interior. But today I’ll instead focus on another area where function is arguably more important and design is therefore s […]