Peugeot: Cars, models and History
Thursday, March 13th, 2008They are the fifties and Europe reborn again, and passed the tough post-war years, thanks to the tenacity of its inhabitants and why not say, also the saviour Marshall Plan.
Archive for the ‘History’ Category
Austin-Healey Cars
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Donald Mitchell 3de Healey was born in July 1889 in Perranporth, a small coastal town in the north of England. Since an early age and showed his fondness for the mechanics, which led him to enter as an apprentice in the Sopwith Aviation Co.. At the end of their studies.
Cadillac Cars
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Since Roosevelt, through Eisenhower, Kennedy and Reagan to George W. Bush had traveled all in one. Miss daisy walking in a limousine 1955 and Clint Eastwood made one of his most famous films on board a Series 62 Convertible. The Corleone enjoyed the elegance of the model 40 and 50 years.
Rolls-Royce
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Maurice Olley was a technician who worked at Rolls-Royce in Derby since 1912, and had come to work with Sir Henry Royce on several projects. During the War of 1914 traveled to the United States to organize there manufacture aircraft engines Rolls-Royce, at the request of the American government.
History and Porsche cars
Thursday, March 13th, 2008In the mid-seventies, Porsche needed a vehicle economic, given the economic crisis, and that would serve to inject money into a company that could not live solely on the sales of the 911.
Maserati: Cars and history
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008The mark of the trident, founded in 1914 by the brothers and Ernesto Ettore Alfieri Maserati in Bologna, is devoted almost exclusively to the competition, which achieves great success. His mechanics, highly advanced and sophisticated, contrasts with poor business management. The Orsi family takes control and Maserati OCSS founded in 1947. Maserati accumulates triumphs after the war, as the world title pilots Fangio (1957). Of the six cylinders in line with the trays, category Sport stem the mounting of the series until mid-1960. The elegant Mistral is the latest supply it. Maserati develops a civilian version of the 450 S V8 competition, which debuted on the 5000 GT.