#Clean return linein 1965 230sl gas tank plus#

`So much unsold stock out there take advantage' P80 Can a Seventies muscle car survive 4000 miles of searing Outback heat? P6 Is the F355 Ferrari's inest? A Porschephile inds out with an exhilarating dream drive P74 Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice on the unwritten laws of 500SEL AMG ownership `Never before had so much performance been available in a four-door, four-seat package' P50 Family space with supercar pace ive supersaloons from the Fifties to the Nineties on test It's the best way to have the excitement of the classic car world delivered straight to your door every month. You can now subscribe quickly and easily online at your own convenience, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on .uk. Grace, pace but is there enough space in your dream garage for a supersaloon?ġ20 Alfa Romeo Spider S2 126 Alvis TD21 dhc 66 Aston Martin DB2/4 special 125 Aston Martin DB MkIII 50 Audi S8 50 BMW E28 M5 110 Citroën 2CV 6 Ferrari F355 F1 Spider 202 Ford GPW Jeep 80 Ford Falcon XB GT 104 Hillman Hunter Topaz 50 Jaguar Mk2 3.8 20 & 117 Jaguar E-type S1 coupé 130 Lamborghini Countach QV 118 Lancia Fulvia Zagato 50 Lotus Carlton 94 Mazda RX-3 50 Mercedes-Benz 300SEL 6.3 74 Mercedes-Benz 500SEL AMG 1ĪND ENJOY 2 YEARS OF CLASSIC CARS FOR THE PRICE OF 1 He didn't buy the supercharged Mercedes until later that year, so I'd like to think that my concert ticket paid for a tiny part of it.Įnjoy the issue, and the funny, crazy, powerful memories that it evokes. Well, with a bit more power than Andy's student transport, and probably without the need for Gillan, Blackmore et al to get their trousers dirty pushing him out of a muddy ield. While I pushed my friend's Triumph Dolomite Twin Carb out of a muddy Knebworth Park following the 1985 Deep Purple comeback gig, I imagined Ian Paice would be making his escape by helicopter.īut it seems he would more likely have been powering home through the night by car, just like we were. People like Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice who, in a separate feature, shared his supercharged Mercedes 500SEL with us for the day, along with stories of late-night, high-speed drives and more. Represent times when the concept was more of a novelty, and more special.ĭespite their ictional portrayal as the cars of choice for villains in a hurry, these machines were really bought by successful people who enjoyed sports car performance but shunned look-at-me styling and hear-me soundtracks on the drive back from the oice, business meeting or arena gig. In 2018 nearly every new large saloon can be bought with a deliciously absurd surfeit of power and wheel size, but our ive decades of classic bruisers But apart from when you really do have the family on board, why would you? From the Jaguar Mk2 with its race-winning 3.8-litre twin-cam to the quad-cam, V8-propelled Audi S8, these performance heavyweights come laden with an intent that's criminally appealing. Yes, even `sensible' if you chose to drive them gently. When I say saloon, what pops into your head? `Family', `practical', or maybe `sensible'? How about `power', `menace' or even `outrage'? You could apply almost any of those words to the ive supersaloons in our big test this month.

#Clean return linein 1965 230sl gas tank plus#

File Info : application/pdf, 212 Pages, 40.82MB Document Document Classic Cars UK - November 2018 Deep Purple's Ian Paice and his supercharged Mercedes 500SEL We put a Porsche nut in an F355 Buy Citroën 2CV fun, expertlyīIG FAST CLEVEROur£5-50k picks for highspeed families PLUS Rauno Aaltonen on his favouritesĤ000-mile Aussie road trip by 400bhp Falconįearless restoration of a Mulliners-bodied Sunbeam Alpineįrom Trabi to RS200 Steve Harris explains his collecting obsessionĪ game of word association connects performance saloons to a Deep Purple concert.