Jason Hubbard's Blog – October 2012 Archive (4)

Corvette 1953- Present

The Corvette is regarded as one of the world’s most popular 2 seater sports car with over 1.5 million built and sold since 1953. All corvettes are built with a fibre glass body which means they don’t suffer from rust,…

A look back at MG

MG Motors have been around as a car manufacturer for 90 years, having been founded in 1924 by Cecil Kimber. Cecil first started working fitting coach built tourer bodies on the Morris Cowley Chassis known as Morris George Chummey’s. Cecil chose the initials MG for his venture into car manufacturing. He chose those initials as a…

Ferrari 308

The 308 is a mid engine sports car produced by Italian car company Ferrari. The 308 was built and designed to replace the Dino 246 in 1975 and was eventually updated to the 328 in 85. The Pininfarina 308 GTB was introduced to the motoring world at the Paris Motor Show in 1975, designed by Leonardo Fioravanti, responsible for some of Ferrari’s most…

Fiat X1/9

The X1/9 is a mid engine sports car manufactured by Fiat from 1972-1982, then between 1982-89 Bertone took over manufacturing the car. The car had excellent handling, was rear wheel drive with a mid mounted gear box. The original X1/9 succeeded a 69 concept car called the Autobianchi Runabout. The cars styling was designed by…