ViaRETRO | Søren Navntoft | Activity https://viaretro.com/members/sn/activity/ Activity feed for Søren Navntoft. Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:47:53 +0100 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.0.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 7a61db4cdc75e75ad5c3851f6aeab5ae Søren Navntoft changed their profile picture https://viaretro.com/activity/p/4044/ Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:53:56 +0200 0 0a2f9579028c55d3a09242a2d38c7507 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=113511 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 06:10:49 +0100 If there is something I really need these days, it is the prospect of a cold generous drafted beer, served somewhere without face masks and spray dispensers. And then a summer trip somewhere in Europe in my old […]

]]> 00e3db543f6fbb7d25db2eaf3bf539a6 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=107029 Tue, 01 Sep 2020 05:00:16 +0200 During the early sixties, the airports of the western world went through some significant changes. As we entered the Jet Age, the aircraft grew bigger and more space was needed at airports where the aircraft would […]

]]> 39d07bf23333f9ecb48ff2eadca5d835 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=106723 Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:00:50 +0200 Designers have always tried to make the front of a new car speak to the consumers – one could call it the face of the car, and it needs to have some sort of appeal which the individual looking at the car can h […]

]]> 7937745545255b0a96c6d2449daa20ab Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=106462 Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:00:52 +0200 Right from the word go, SMART utilised a philosophy of: “Reduce to the Max”. They stuck to this concept as they developed a new model – a super-compact, practical, efficient yet genuine sportscar.

The SMART […]

]]> db161d37d2fc179389bf5731e9fcebcc Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=105114 Thu, 09 Jul 2020 05:00:16 +0200 As a peculiar little white car emerged from the deep forests of Norway’s Telemark in the late 1950’s, it was with grand ambitions of turning the Scandinavian country into a car manufacturing nation. The Troll Spo […]

]]> fbb8e885879697e6adb8af949e335eb6 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=101901 Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:00:12 +0100 One of Italy’s many small car manufacturers, who have long since locked their doors, in 1967 made what I would call a quite heart-melting stroke of genius: they unleashed an incredibly delicious little creature […]

]]> d7865149cf2b928b026bc711a453497a Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=101405 Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:00:01 +0100 First it became a necessity, then we fell in love with its cuteness and the cheap transport it offered. In the end we passed it on to the wealthy hipsters. The VW Type 2 has travelled a long way in its 70 year […]

]]> a57871c3b1cb8f19786e52b9423815c8 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=99807 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:00:07 +0100 Man’s best friend doesn’t have two wheels; this is clear every time we publish an article about motorcycles on ViaRETRO. I personally have enjoyed them a lot and, deep down, I still think it’s a smart way to get […]

]]> a588c1c0b26948ec6ac0c67bed67396b Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=99492 Thu, 16 Jan 2020 06:00:43 +0100 When I recently visited a Citroën workshop – where old cars are still being lovingly cared for – my companion described an early ID standing on the lift in very unflattering terms: “I don’t like the old he […]

]]> 03dee051a5bc835e8c2c89228f930a5d Søren Navntoft commented on the post, Birmabright - What to Do? https://viaretro.com/2018/09/birmabright-what-to-do/#comment-44544 Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:30:53 +0100 Thanks John – I’m soon ready to take on the job repairing the body parts. I will try glue where it seem the best way. The results will be published in an article.

]]> c6de4520d5165b0d57ade4704c6a9a8c Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=97210 Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:00:02 +0100 The first glimpse the world got of the now legendary American Chevrolet Corvette was in January 1953, at the General Motors Motorama exhibition at the Hotel Waldorf Astoria in New York.

The silent movie below […]

]]> 991060714f47d8d751577c6f12788362 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=95771 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 06:00:35 +0100 A wise old man told me the other day that small cars had no use for a tachometer and that most drivers had no idea whatsoever about how to use the legendary dial in the dashboard.

That last thing he may be […]

]]> e58e4efc30b6ead2d8718a91dc12e003 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=95579 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 05:22:16 +0200 The fact that the shape of the packaging for a well-known soft drink should name a type of design on cars sounds like an American invention of the more self-glorifying kind. And even though this is popular […]

]]> 2420d7776d7fbd349f444e4cbdb03b15 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=95314 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 06:07:51 +0200 Car ownership is a personal thing and a matter of individual taste. Sometimes peoples choices makes you wonder and sometime ago I had to solve a mystery of the more ingenious kind.

I came across the word […]

]]> 75e36eef3ae511360f3c3d9b1b59a22a Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=94760 Wed, 18 Sep 2019 05:00:34 +0200 Like any other classic car magazine – be that printed on paper or on the vast world wide web – we here at ViaRETRO will from time to time dig deep into our archives and reuse something from earlier. Dust it off, […]

]]> e3a464da5fc22575bdc6544c7ce7a286 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=94269 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 05:00:17 +0200 “It’s not exactly a beautiful car, is it?” said the woman to the left of me in the train. She’s my better half and was looking over my shoulder as I was selecting the pictures for the article. “Well, no I suppose […]

]]> f214cabfa0c7efae73f0ad8d185bbe1c Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=94032 Wed, 04 Sep 2019 05:00:44 +0200 Of all the cars that have won the World Cup in Formula One, at least one of each has been preserved for posterity – with the exception of the one that won in 1961. The Ferrari 156 F1 “Sharknose” is that exception. […]

]]> deda5e905bcd91d74fb7af1e8e8431bf Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=93829 Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:00:36 +0200 “Recommended with poultry and salads”. Such was the text on the back of a bottle of rosé wine which I had the pleasure of recently. My friend who I was with at the time remarked that he had read somewhere that […]

]]> 8392a2317840c2fb21b86ffd3856db2b Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=93689 Mon, 26 Aug 2019 05:00:20 +0200 The question obviously only applies to classic cars. Whether you’ve been burdened by a bit of a lemon of a VW Phaeton doesn’t count. The question was presented at a small car meet just recently, and most there fou […]

]]> f5f055cee55f989dc922b64f1c28a9f5 Søren Navntoft commented on the post, Both Classic Cars and Bikes alike Congregate at Capel https://viaretro.com/2019/08/both-classic-cars-and-bikes-alike-welcomed-at-capel/#comment-43297 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 18:53:38 +0200 Welcome to you @zack. Good writing and really good photowork. It seems that you crop images a bit tighter than normal on car sites. That looks great indeed and makes the images more “tight”.

Looking forward to […]

]]> d5a6335fa18a95335b3dc89ab7ed3a09 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=93583 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 05:40:20 +0200 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 […]

]]> 6588fda8ea93f6486909218fee443d08 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=93197 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 05:00:51 +0200 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 […]

]]> 75a93d0a10e4d139cbdcf22d8ea40fc4 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=93365 Fri, 16 Aug 2019 05:00:53 +0200 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 […]

]]> aeec07f6dce2647091e5633a6fd9b468 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=91995 Mon, 29 Jul 2019 05:00:11 +0200 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 […]

]]> 08ae50f56a18b818d84cfa9c6b10505b Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=92174 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 05:00:37 +0200 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 […]

]]> eb153ece7d9a26ee74d6e24b605840a0 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=91612 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 05:00:53 +0200 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 […]

]]> fdd0019767a62032c1201465f5098da5 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=91520 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 05:00:53 +0200 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 […]

]]> 42eb1109d086f1ababa998ba63399ca1 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=91304 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 05:00:06 +0200 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 […]

]]> 2e0593a57fe9e016b87a9e203ff9306f Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=91027 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 05:00:25 +0200 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 […]

]]> ca03a9e966bc8f2c1bde1c7c1e1d4e83 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=90280 Fri, 21 Jun 2019 05:00:58 +0200 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 […]

]]> 24bb12ad8c41258220fb62e237ff65ec Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=90004 Wed, 12 Jun 2019 05:00:52 +0200 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 […]

]]> 0b84c6082c5148e81feaebd0b2ab4038 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=89415 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 05:00:41 +0200 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 […]

]]> 51aed81976e0f5650dae530f561400de Søren Navntoft commented on the post, You Say Ascona, I Say Voyage https://viaretro.com/2019/06/you-say-ascona-i-say-voyage/#comment-42292 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:22:02 +0200 Thank you @yrhmblhst, for putting the facts about dealerships in the right context. I was not aware of these points.

]]> a5be138908d21f0e6aec2bd0ba3e7ea9 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=89361 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 05:00:39 +0200 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 […]

]]> 3a6cc04840cc55f01b468600e311bcbc Søren Navntoft commented on the post, French & Italian Classics Shine at Prescott Hillclimb https://viaretro.com/2019/05/french-italian-classics-shine-at-prescott-hillclimb/#comment-42254 Thu, 30 May 2019 15:47:49 +0200 Great report @tony-wawryk. This site is nearly a constant reminder that I soon need to visit UK for some serious classic events

]]> 982b0423c312525b4d83d49e5bc76c41 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=89094 Tue, 28 May 2019 05:00:47 +0200 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 […]

]]> 70b9491b51b158c6dd1be1d448a3d979 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=88901 Thu, 23 May 2019 05:00:40 +0200 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 […]

]]> bd1a901e0eb243d3a97bd0c18b81c6f4 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=88632 Mon, 20 May 2019 05:00:17 +0200 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 […]

]]> 7a9ffeb840e8750a95dd08fefa35c69d Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=88386 Fri, 17 May 2019 05:00:08 +0200 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 […]

]]> 3e40ccb44083cc88c9cc8bee2a15b56e Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=88119 Mon, 06 May 2019 05:00:53 +0200 Here at ViaRETRO, we have often touched on the subject of the complete collapse of the British car industry. We have done so both on our Danish site as well as here on our English site – multiple times even. I […]

]]> 7ef33961507e09155db8fa13289e5676 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=87775 Fri, 03 May 2019 05:00:01 +0200 Only last week, Dave Leadbetter entertained us with his tales of their Brexit roadtrip to the Russian frontier. Disappointingly though, they didn’t encounter much in the way of old East Bloc cars during their tr […]

]]> 1817b6ea890a2b84e7ea747d908da68a Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=87380 Mon, 22 Apr 2019 05:00:30 +0200 If there’s one thing which always manages to excite the boy in me, it’s American prototypes and concept cars from their golden era. In stark contrast to the European car manufacturers of the same period who wer […]

]]> 64a5e53abba40a516837dca95ec0c751 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=87119 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 05:00:15 +0200 One of the more memorable parts of the classic Franco-Belgian comic Spirou & Fantasio is of course Spirou’s car – the sleek and elegant Turbot, which was penned by writer and artist André Franquin. I can’t be sur […]

]]> e7a04f3a0af6750dccecc376b05b9214 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=86647 Fri, 12 Apr 2019 05:00:10 +0200 When the growing Japanese car industry set out to conquer new car owners on their domestic market up through the sixties, the newest and most effective weapon within advertising was utilised with great […]

]]> f63a9ce4d504e21383b60de18ac8f501 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=86551 Wed, 03 Apr 2019 05:00:55 +0200 In the late 1950s, an alliance was established between Renault and Alfa Romeo, which enabled the construction and marketing of the Dauphine model across the Alps. Italy was also one of the leading countries in the […]

]]> ba687b314e1bca47b886d3617aaf2dbe Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=86109 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:00:16 +0200 One can never have too much of highly useful trivial knowledge. Post-war Germany introduced us to several interesting engineering breakthroughs, and one in particular was named in a manner where it was quite clear […]

]]> 3578d7758596af3cf6a6e54b88c6d1fd Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=85943 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:00:17 +0100 While most of us here at ViaRETRO seem to have fully excepted the arrival of the youngtimers, I personally remain a bit more sceptical. I am trying though – I really am! And as part of that process, I have de […]

]]> 6bc3cf9339ddad83c3725dc0d4f21590 Søren Navntoft wrote a new post https://viaretro.com/?p=85928 Mon, 18 Mar 2019 06:00:13 +0100 If you visit the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, you’ll come across a massive and thoroughly outlandish creation of a car on six wheels. Its shape doesn’t do anything to hide that it was created with the sol […]

]]> 84d4fd0a7ae01c13e71e9d994cc97183 Søren Navntoft commented on the post, Stylised Taillights – The Booty of Your Car https://viaretro.com/2019/03/stylised-taillights-the-booty-of-your-car/#comment-41512 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:29:47 +0100 @anders-bilidt, OK your eye sight is acceptable. Then it must your very young age that’s spoils your good taste :)

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