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Sbarro Super Eight, 1984. Presented 40 years ago at the Geneva Motor Show, a relatively modest looking hatchback body covering the mid-engined drivetrain of a Ferrari 308 GTB. It remained a one-off
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mensfactory · 9 months
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Ferrari one-off KC23
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luyene · 1 year
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When literally any food wrapping makes noise
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diabolus1exmachina · 1 year
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Lincoln Indianapolis (one-off). 
With its sextet of faux, side-mounted exhaust pipes, proboscis-like front end and aircraft-style wraparound screens, the one-off design study looks eye-poppingly futuristic even today – so imagine how extreme it must have seemed when the wraps were first pulled off it at the Turin International Automobile Show in 1955.As is often the case with such ‘concepts’ the design was created in double-quick time, flowing from the pen of Gian Paolo Boano, the talented 20-something son of the celebrated coachbuilder and former Ghia boss Felice Mario Boano. Boano senior only founded Carrozzeria Boano in 1954, but Gian Paolo had an ex-Ford friend who suggested that, if the Boanos could create a dramatic and futuristic design based on FoMoCo underpinnings, it might serve as a starting point for establishing a potentially lucrative arrangement between the fledgling firm and the giant manufacturer.
Gian Paolo was thus handed a Lincoln chassis – Lincoln being Ford’s luxury marque – and set to work creating large-scale sketches that he and the carrozzeria’s skilled craftsman brought to life using a combination of steel tubing and sheet metal. The hugely exaggerated hood was flanked by suitably long wheel arches (or ‘fenders’ in U.S. speak) that each held twin stacked headlamps and culminated in shrouds from which those fake exhaust tips ostentatiously protruded.
The feature was balanced by forward-facing air vents set into door-mounted cowlings that flowed seamlessly into the rear wings which, in turn, book-ended a sloping tail that made the roof seem even more ‘canopy’ like to reinforce the design’s aviation influences.
The 2+2-seater ‘cockpit’ was trimmed, chequered flag-style in black and white and featured a wraparound dashboard and bucket seats separated by a prominent, stepped centre console. And, just to make sure Boano’s futuristic creation didn’t go un-noticed, its already dramatic bodywork was finished in a coat of flaming orange paint.
With Carrozzeria Boano being based just a few miles west of Turin, it was an easy job to get the freshly-finished, freshly-named ‘Indianapolis Exclusive Study’ to the 37th Salone dell'Automobile, where it wowed the crowds and provided visiting motoring journalists with ready copy. Auto Age magazine even made it the cover star of its November issue, teasing its readers with the tantalising caption: “Is this the next Lincoln?”
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en-wheelz-me · 7 months
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astronic-fr · 1 year
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Inspired by the iconic Riviera beach cars of the 1950s and 60s, the Plus 4 Spiaggina is a one-off creation commissioned by a prominent Morgan collector. Working intimately with the designers and artisans at Morgan, the owner of the Plus 4 Spiaggina has been able to transform their vision into reality.
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nopehomebrew · 1 year
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Ball Lightning
Up next is this spell, which serves as a concentration AoE that you can move around and ram into enemies. It’s sort of a powered-up version of Storm Sphere, which mechanically speaking is one of my favourite spells in that it does lingering AoE in a very interesting way, so I took some inspiration from that spell to make this one.
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russellandbones · 5 months
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Sidequest 1 - Russell's Elixirs
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Maserati Mexico, 1968, by Frua. A one-off built for Maserati racing privateer Franco Rol. The bodywork was adapted from Frua's Mistral design with a new front end that he hoped Maserati might adopt for their new V8 grand tourer but they turned instead to Vignale.
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itcars · 2 years
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First Look: The 812 GTS-Inspired Ferrari SP51
The latest addition to the Prancing Horse’s One-Off series, the Ferrari SP51, was unveiled today and joins the most exclusive group in Maranello’s range: unique, absolutely bespoke cars crafted to the specifications of a client, making them the very pinnacle of Ferrari’s customisation scope and range.
Designed by the Flavio Manzoni-headed Ferrari Styling Centre, the SP51 is a front-engined V12 spider based on the 812 GTS platform from which it inherits its layout, chassis and engine. At first sight, the stunning new car’s most striking characteristic is its total absence of a roof, making it an authentic roadster in every respect, accentuating both its sporty character and ability to captivate both visually and in terms of en plein air driving exhilaration.
Unsurprisingly, the SP51’s aerodynamics required meticulous honing in a process involving CFD simulations, wind tunnel and dynamic testing to guarantee not just the ultimate in comfort in the cabin, but also the same standard of acoustic comfort and wind feel as the car that inspired it.
The SP51’s styling is both powerful and harmonious, thanks to its seamlessly muscular, undulating surfaces. Its forms are modern, sinuous and sensual at once, in great part as a result of the extensive use of bare carbon-fibre both on the exterior and in the cabin. The trim on the bonnet is particularly striking as it dynamically frames the two air vents.  
Another of the SP51’s most captivating features is its new Rosso Passionale three-layer paintwork – the colour was developed specifically for the car and gives it an elegant yet imposing character that also exudes authority. This impression is further enhanced by the blue and white livery inspired by a legendary 1955 Ferrari 410 S which not only runs the length of the car, but is also referenced in the interior.
At the front, specially-designed headlights give the SP51 an instantly recognisable and forceful identity all of its own. Also noteworthy are the wheels, which are specific to the car and have carbon-fibre wing profiles on each of the spokes which also feature a sophisticated tone-on-tone diamond-cut finish on the forward-facing section.
The rear of the car is dominated by an arched theme with the taillights inset below the spoiler. Immediately behind the cabin are two flying buttresses that are visually softened by two deep carbon-fibre scoops. Between these two elements stretches a transverse, carbon-fibre wing, the profile of which folds over the buttresses. The resulting effect is vaguely reminiscent of a Targa-type car in which the flying bridge elegantly conceals the anti-roll hoop, a nod to the solution adopted on Ferrari’s early-1960s Sports Prototypes.  
That said, the very pinnacle of the meticulous honing process, in which the client was involved every step of the way, has to be the cabin where dizzying new heights of craftsmanship and creativity have been reached.  Its personalisation pivoted around two clever ideas: the decision to use the same Rosso Passionale colour custom-created for the exterior as the main colour for the Alcantara® trim, and the effective idea of extending the lengthwise exterior livery into the cabin. Its white and blue stripe, in fact, both appear on the central tunnel and the fascia between the two seats on the firewall, as well as on the steering wheel stitching, creating a sense of seamless continuity between exterior and interior in which the car’s roadster architecture played a vital role.
The special finish for the door panels, the lower section of the dashboard and the sides of the seats, comprising a blue Kvadrat insert with white cross-stitching, also picks up the livery. Glossy carbon-fibre trim has been extensively used throughout the interior where it pairs very harmoniously with the Nero Momo Opaco elements. This stylishly elegant and authoritative look is further enhanced by several white embroidered details (including the Prancing Horse and car logo, also found on the lower rim of the steering wheel).  
The Ferrari One-Off, SP51, was designed for a longstanding Taiwan-based client who is also one of our leading collectors. It is a successful roadster take on Maranello’s first front-engined V12 spider in 50 years. Its bold styling captivates at first sight. However, it brilliantly retains the signature elegance of its inspiration, the 812 GTS, whilst pushing the boundaries by offering a whole new way of enjoying en plein air driving.
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mensfactory · 11 months
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ALD X porsche 356
The fashion label has chosen to refine rather than redesign the donor 1960 356B it used for the collaboration. The coupe’s front and rear bumpers have been discarded, streamlining its already sleek shape even further. The body is finished in a sumptuous coat of glossy midnight blue adorned with the brand’s hand-painted crest in gold leaf on the front fender and rides on a set of bushed-aluminum wheels wrapped in white-wall tires. Other period-appropriate modifications include yellow fog lights, wire headlamp covers, and custom gold Aimé Leon Dore engine lid badging and emblems.
The fun isn’t limited to the exterior. Open either door and you’ll find a set of midnight-blue leather seats with tonal stitching and matching Alpaca seatbacks and floor mats. Other tasteful tweaks include more hand-painted gold leaf accents and the steering wheel from the Carrera 2.
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en-wheelz-me · 1 year
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diabolus1exmachina · 1 year
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Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Villa d`Este Spider (one-off) 
With chassis number 915881, Touring built a single convertible called “Villa d Este” on a short SS chassis and presented it in 1950 at the Turin Motor Show. This vehicle had 4 Italian owners before it disappeared and was entered in the register as "destroyed" on June 1956.The chassis number 915828 was delivered to Peru on a short SS chassis in 1950 as a convertible and reappeared in Italy in 1993 as the Villa d'Este Coupe. Carrozzeria Touring Ltd. completely dismantled the vehicle from 2013 to 2017, restored the complete mechanics (matching numbers) and, with the involvement of the best specialists, put an exact reconstruction of the destroyed Villa d`Este Cabriolet on the wheels. Note the subtleties such as the cigarette dispenser and the large tool box that the original vehicle had!
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“It’s been five years since we tracked it down in a US storage facility. Four years since restoration began. Finally this week we unveiled the finished car in the home town of its first owner. It was the most challenging rebuild we’ve undertaken as no conventional build records exist: the Ferrari 365P ‘Tre Posti’ was a prototype built for Gianni Agnelli and never intended for production (although US Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti subsequently ordered a second, slightly different ‘Bianco Gardenia’ example). You can immediately tell Agnelli’s car apart by its polished rear spoiler (“It weaved all over the autostrada at top speed without it” recalled Pininfarina’s Leonardo Fiovanti), the outside racing style fuel filler (“Agnelli loved details like that”) and of course L’Avvocato’s personal colours, including a light grey cloth interior which was woven near Biella to reproduce remains of the original found behind the door panels. The best detail of all, though, has to be Agnelli’s registration number, even more remarkable in a country where private plates aren’t supposed to exist. If anyone doubted who was the most influential person in Italy in 1966, the year he inherited control of Fiat and 4.4% of the country’s GDP, this probably gives a clue…“You could barely stop before you were surrounded by people” recalled Agnelli. Does anyone think we should try to recreate that on film in 2023?” @kidstonmotorcars on Facebook
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nopehomebrew · 1 year
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Absolute Zero
I am alive! University started and I was just swept up in all the things that entailed - but I am back, and ready to release more homebrew! First off, continuing where I left off with my collection of high-level spells, is Absolute Zero - a 9th-level spell meant to absolutely (heh) lock down a wide area and potentially petrify entire armies in ice.
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