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The Nina Simone album 'Remixed & Reimagined' has been no stranger to the editorial turntable in recent weeks.
Eagle's Speedster, the headlining car in this week's newsletter, is the automotive equivalent. Take a definitive, truly ground–breaking concept and update it to sit happily in a modern context: a little funkier, with more pace and better production.
It is quite clearly no longer the thing it once was, so cannot be considered 'better'. Owners of original E–types will have their opinion and, like their audiophile equivalents, may well decide to remain happy with the 1960s version.
I, for one, am happy to experiment, and find the new Speedster a hip modern take on a classic. How about you?
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THIS WEEK IN CLASSIC DRIVER
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DRIVING REPORT
The Eagle Speedster: Improving an icon
There are three things in life I've always vowed never to do: make a parachute jump (unless forced), eat a salt beef sandwich or buy a Jaguar E–type, writes Simon de Burton. Now I've not just changed my mind, but made a complete volte–face. I want an E-type, possibly more than any other car — but not one of the ones made by Jaguar.
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DRIVING REPORT
Jaguar XKR–S Convertible
John Simister gets a first taste of the fastest open road–going Jaguar there has ever been.
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CLASSIC CONCEPTS
1952 Alfa Romeo C52 'Disco Volante'
On first glance, the voluptuous curves of the Alfa Romeo C52 'Disco Volante' could momentarily be mistaken as those of a Jaguar E–type; and indeed, had its cash-strapped manufacturer not shelved the project in favour of other pursuits, it might have become Alfa's magnum opus.
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Alfa Romeo in the Classic Driver Marketplace |
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AUCTIONS
Artcurial to offer the Bajol Collection, featuring 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California, at Rétromobile 2012
The Paris-based auction house has just announced that its forthcoming Rétromobile sale will include several, highly desirable GTs from the 50s and 60s, the most significant being the ex-Roger Vadim 1959 Ferrari 250 GT Spider California.
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AUCTIONS
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AUCTIONS
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FEATURES
David Douglas Duncan and 'The Secret SLS'
In 1955, renowned photojournalist David Douglas Duncan took a Mercedes 300 SLS prototype across the Alps. Half a century later, author Scott Grundfor has rediscovered the story in Collier's Magazine.
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NEWS
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EVENTS
All–AC Cobra race for 2012 Revival
Hold on to your hats, this is going to be quite some race. For next year's Revival meeting, Goodwood has confirmed that one of the grids will be entirely composed of AC Cobras.
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MOTORCYCLES
Motorcycle Exhibition at the Audi Museum
For the first time, the Audi Museum Mobile in Ingolstadt is showing two-wheelers — more than 60 of them, from DKW to Harley–Davidson, on display until the end of January.
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MOTORCYCLES
$250,000 Brough Superior at Bench & Loom
Try getting your inside leg measured for this one. The American purveyor of "clothing of style & substance" is offering one of the new, highly sought–after Brough Superiors alongside its hip men's threads.
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CLASSIC LIFE |
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Artcurial Paris: 'Une Histoire d'Homme V'
Imagine, if you can, your narrator wreathed in cigarette smoke, drawing fingers scarred by action in countless colonial conflicts through hair the colour and consistency of fine steel thread. These are the actions of a Man, a French Man.
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'Steve McQueen — A Passion for Speed'
Is there space on the world's bookshelves for ANOTHER book on American legend Steve McQueen? Yes, if it's as good value as the latest volume by French author Frédéric Brun.
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SHOWROOM |
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Classic Driver Marketplace Essentials: Born in the USA
One of the joys of classic cars is that they were built before market globalisation and thus embody the 'personality' of their country of origin. American cars are a perfect example, built to suit the landscape and cultural habits of a country that, barely one hundred years older than motorised vehicles, literally grew up with the automobile.
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SHOWROOM
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SERVICE
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