Cars

Photo by Tim Walker for Vogue Nippon.

Not my dream Jaguar (that would be an E-type!), but the Mark 2 is definitely all class. Basic facts: it’s a Jaguar, meaning British, and it was produced from 1959 to 1967. According to Motor magazine in 1961, the 3.8 litre version (220 bhp engine) could do 0-60 mph in 8.5 seconds, and had a top speed of 125 mph (that’s 201 km/hr).

This is Dita Von Teese’s 1965 Jaguar MK2:

And a few more to tease and tantalize:

This is the Mercedes-Benz SSK, built between 1928 and 1932. With a top speed of 120 mph (190 km/hr) it was the fastest car of the late 1920s, and most of the forty or so that were produced (yes, so few!), were used as racing cars and destroyed that way. Now there are only four or five remaining with totally original parts, and around 100 replicas with parts from original vehicles. Wiki informs me a 1929 model auctioned at Bonhams in 2004 sold for 4.17 million GBP (around US$7.4 million). That makes it the second most expensive motor vehicle ever sold in history.

Ralph Lauren has in his private collection a 1930 model known as the Trossi Roadster, which he had meticulously restored and flaunts a pretty dramatic body. It’s a Batmobile if ever I saw one. Read about this wild car here.

Well, a Jaguar E-Type is at the top of my dream car list, but if that might be a little out of my league, maybe this one isn’t. One day I will own this car! Volkswagen calls it, simply, the Type 14. It was marketed from 1955 to 1974.  I prefer the coupe, to the convertible. I love the two-tone… maybe the mint green, with the cream top. Or Tiffany blue?

Wow, does anyone know what it is? How wonderful…

The cars, the snow, her hair, her pearls, her reindeer sweater, I love this.

Via Chronically Vintage

Ahh, 1960s Fiat 500. One day you will be mine…