The aluminium-bodied coupe is one of just 28 'Alloy' Gullwings in existence. 

A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘Gullwing’ has sold at auction for $US6.85 million ($AU9.5 million) in the USA.

The two-seater – stamped chassis number 5500332 – is one of just 28 examples ever built by Mercedes-Benz with an aluminium body, which was designed to shed weight and improve handling in competition.

The original number-matched 158kW/294Nm 3.0-litre straight-six petrol engine is retained, however the blue gabardine fabric upholstery and four-speed manual transmission were swapped out during a 1979 restoration. 

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While it’s always exciting to see finished products getting a SEMA Show unveiling, it’s especially cool to get a peek behind the curtain at in-progress builds, especially when they’re as mind-blowing as Mike Ledbetter’s ‘63 Lincoln Continental.

The one-man-show behind the car is California’s Exile Fabrications, AKA Mike Jones. “When we first started the project, he wanted to build the wildest Lincoln ever built,” Mike says. “So that’s where I came up with the plan of using my background in off-road and street race car building to build an elegant, race-inspired, street machine Continental.”

Starting in 2018, Mike gutted the luxo-barge to a point where just the body and part of the front chassis section remained. “I wanted to keep it unibody,” he explains, “so I kept the front rails in. I built a full plate frame rail from the firewall back, and a full rollcage.”

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Meet the last new road-legal Bugatti model with the company's legendary W16 engine, the $AU7.3 million Mistral – capable of 420km/h with no roof.

French hypercar maker Bugatti has revealed its last road-going car with its iconic W16 engine, the 2024 Bugatti W16 Mistral – priced from a cool €5 million ($AU7.3 million) each, before taxes.

Bugatti's 8.0-litre quad-turbocharged W16 engine – comprised of two 'narrow-angle' V8 engines (known as VR8s), arranged at a 90-degree angle – debuted in the Veyron in 2005, and has come to define the exotic brand's cars.

Its final road-going outing – excluding in track-only cars – is the W16 Mistral, a limited-run (99 cars) roadster based on the Chiron hypercar's chassis, designed to celebrate iconic open-top Bugattis of history, including the Type 57 Roadster Grand Raid of 1934.

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CarTorque is at the Australian Auto Aftermarket Expo . Saturday is an open day so come and see us this great car.  It is opposite the PPG Coatings stand.  

CarTorque is at the Australian Auto Aftermarket Expo . Saturday is an open day so come and see us on and this great McLaren on the  AkzoNobel Sikkens stand.  They have a long a standing OEM relationship with McLaren and since 2008 Sikkens refinish has been to proud to partner with McLaren.  It is a 570 S GT4 straight off the track!

Paris-based Artcurial Motorcars reports sales totalling $41.7 million at its three-day collector car auction held this past week during Retromobile, Europe’s big winter — and this year very late winter because of pandemic postponement — classic car exhibition.

“Bidding was strong throughout the sales, both on the telephone, in the room and on the internet, with many new record prices achieved over the weekend,” the auction company said, noting an 82 percent sell-through rate.

“Despite covid restrictions still making travel complicated for some, international buyers and sellers were very much present, both in person, on the phone and the internet,” Artcurial added. “Foreign buyers accounted for 4 percent of the sale total.”

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Featured on AutoHunter, the online auction platform driven by ClassicCars.com, is a Chevrolet Bel Air.

“This 3-owner 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air was originally delivered to DeAnza Chevrolet of Riverside, California with an MSRP of $2,299,” AutoHunter notes in the listing. “After being with the first owner for 25 years, it was sold to a couple in the early 1980s. A year later, the car was put through an eight year frame-off restoration using NOS parts.”

Refinished in two-tone Harbor Blue and Larkspur Blue, this Bel Air features extensive brightwork and a continental kit. It rides on-inch body-colour wheels with chrome covers and three-blade spinners. The wheels are wrapped in Coker Classic whitewall tires.

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After a few COVID-induced false starts, Meguiar’s MotorEx is set to rock Melbourne Showgrounds, 30 April to 1 May.

With 26 cars to be unveiled, the Inauguration is going to take up an entire hall, with the covers coming off at 11am on Saturday.

There will be some real stunners amongst them, but the car MotorEx’s Owen Webb is most pumped about is Wayne Price’s HK GTS Monaro. In fact, he reckons it has the best bodywork he’s ever seen on a car.

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Most pre-production prototypes usually find themselves in the crusher once their service is done as test mules, and as a result, it’s extremely rare to find living examples in public circulation.

On the odd occasion a prototype does make it out alive, it’s not uncommon that it carries with it a juicy back-story, which is exactly the case with this genuine VN SS Group A.

This special-order 257 chassis was used as a pilot vehicle by HSV for drivetrain testing, and for that purpose it received full compliance tags and road registration.

The Alpine White XV2 colour is the most obvious difference between this prototype and the 302 regular-production VN SS Group As. They were all painted in the distinctive Durif Red – although three of them were quickly repainted black, including two cars used for a Tooheys giveaway campaign in 1991,which you can read more about here. .

The Bend Motorsport Park today held a launch event for the South Australian venue's new quarter mile dragway. Construction has already begun on the strip, which will include a 1000 square meter burnout pad.

Other facilities will include a four-story control centre, lighting for night racing, a covered 1000 seat grandstand, a 10,000 seat amphitheatre and grassed mound seating for 30,000.

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Having one pre-production 1965 Ford Mustang convertible at auction would be a cool deal, but how about two of them at the same auction? That’s the case with Mecum’s sale in Glendale, Arizona, in March, when two pre-production Ford Mustang convertibles – both red, one with a white top, the other with a black top – will be auctioned.

The two Mustangs have a few other things in common, too. They are both multiple award winners at Mustang club events, Mecum says, and are both powered by 260cid V8 engines, predecessors of the iconic 289, and linked to automatic transmissions.

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Throwback to March 2019:

The gloomy weather didn’t keep the enthusiasts away at the Day of the VW 2019, hosted by the Volkswagen Club of South Australia. Lined up with various Kombis and Beatles, spare parts vendors, and fresh coffee, there was something there for everyone. Standouts of the day had to be the black over ceiling wax red 1955 23 window Samba and the black Type 3 Panel Van. Special mention goes to the creative camouflage paint job on the Baja, which was rattle canned using tree leaves to create a stencil. 

CarTorque has a complete registration and booking system that is free to use when you list your show. 

- Send live notifications to your registered users when things change

- Get a working list of people going to meet covid rules

- No hidden fees on ticket prices

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Seen in Meenyan this weekend having a pit stop at one of our great local bakeries.  Peter and his mates enjoying some of the freedoms recently introduced in regional Victoria.  These guys built these cars.  Fantastic.

CarTorque now has Online Car Shows. Over the coming months we plan to launch a new online car show every couple of days. So keep checking CarTorque for the latest.  See Shows

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Why online shows? CarTorque is about supporting car enthusiasts in coming together to celebrate and share their passion. We believe in building real community - people actually getting together. So our number one priority will always be supporting and sharing real car shows and clubs and groups who regularly meet and share their passion in person.

However, with Covid, real shows and meetings are not possible or severely constrained, so we thought we might support your passion by giving you an online version of a show.

How does it work?

We set up the shows and they are listed at See Shows

You scroll through the current and upcoming shows. Find one you are interested in and add your car or simply check out the great cars listed.

If you want, vote for the best car.

When the show ends, all the votes are automatically tallied and you can see the results in the completed show listing.

You can't comment on cars but you can message the owner.

Simple and fun.

Your Privacy matters to us. 

To use Online Car Shows you need to register on the site. When you register we only ask for a username (make it up), a location (suburb or town will be fine), a password and your email address. We do not sell your information, we do not track your use of the site and we will never send you any spam. The only time you will hear from us is if you ask us to reset your password or you have won a prize or to update you when we have changed the site.

Who sets up the shows?

CarTorque admin sets up each show. We plan in the future to let clubs and groups with a community on CarTorque to set up their own shows but for the moment it is limited to us.

However, if you have a show you would like to see or sponsor, drop us a note at Contact Us or call Tony Jackson on 0411232986