Cars

All bite, no bark

Well, none of these applied to us, Team Classic Driver, when we applied for the 20^th anniversary running of LeJog – short for the Land’s End to John O’Groats reliability trial.

Home alone; but not for long

Ferrari Dino 246 GT

When the Porsche 924 arrived in 1976, it hardly sparked enthusiasm with the marque’s faithful. Perhaps the VW-derived four-cylinder engine could have been forgiven, were it not water-cooled and at the ‘wrong’ end of the car. But in the closing days of 1979, Porsche’s racing manager made the announcement that a trio of 924 Carrera GTPs would line up on the grid at the 1980 Le Mans race.

We like to think that this is the car Liberace might have used at the weekend, such is its alarmingly excessive (and rather white) demeanour. It’s loud 'n' proud (and oh, so luxurious) on the inside, too, though admittedly those ‘Tartan Dress’ seat inserts were standard fit – this was a car born in the 70s, after all. 

We all know what Bryan Adams was doing in the summer of ’69. But while the Canadian was taking delivery of his first real six-string, Opel’s new design director George Gallion was settling into the company’s new German studio, penning something that even the coachbuilders located 500 miles south would have been proud of.

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