Triumph sports cars for sale. Used Triumph cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Triumph Motor Company began in 1897 as the Triumph Cycle Company by Siegfried Bettmann. In 1902, it began creating motorcycles along with their original bicycles. Most of what they manufactured at this time was from used parts; however, by 1907 they had moved their plants and began creating their own parts. During World War I, they received several orders for their 550 cc Model H from the British Army. by 1918, they were the largest motorcycle maker in Britain.
In 1919, Claude Holbrook joined as general manager and by 1921 suggested that Bettmann purchased the assets of Dawson Car Company. After this purchase was made, production began on the 1.4-liter model by the name of Triumph 10/20. The design was the creation of Lea-Francis who received a royalty of every car sold. In 1927, the Triumph Super 7 was unveiled and was sold until 1934.
1930 brought the new name of Triumph Motor Company. At this time, Triumph Motor Company was using used engines with designs from Coventry Climax. In 1937, they began to create their own designs by Donald Healey who was assigned the position of experimental manager in 1934.
In 1936, financial troubles were seen which caused the sale of the bicycle and motorcycle business. Healey purchased an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 and created a new car with an Alfa inspired straight 8 engine which was named Triumph Dolomite.
In July 1939, the company went into receivership and everything was offered for sale. T.W. Ward purchased the company and gave Healey the position of general manager. However, World War II stopped all production of cars as it did for many European car manufacturers. The factory was totally destroyed by bombs in 1940.
After the war, Triumph Motor Company along with the brand name was purchased by Standard Motor Company in 1944. A subsidiary was created by the name of Triumph Motor Company. The new models of Triumph had no design similar to the pre-war era. As early as 1946, the new model seen was the Triumph 1800 Roadster. Steel was in short supply during this time and aluminum was used for the body.
In the 1950’s, the Triumph name began to be used on sports cars and saloons. In 1953, the Triumph TR2 was unveiled and was manufactured until 1981.
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Rolls-Royce luxury cars for sale. Used Rolls-Royce cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Rolls-Royce was on the idea and innovative creation of Frederick Henry Royce, which began an electrical and mechanical business in 1884. He designed and created his first “Royce” in his Manchester factory in 1904. On May 4, 1884, Royce met with Charles Stewart Rolls at the Midland Hotel in Manchester and came to an agreement. Royce would create the cars and they would sold exclusively by Rolls. In the contract, a clause was added that stipulated the cars would go under the name “Rolls-Royce.” On March 15, 1906, the Rolls-Royce Company was founded. In 1908, the company was moved to Derby.
From 1906 through 1925, the most popular car and the one that helped to create Rolls-Royce’s reputation was the Silver Ghost. There were 6,173 Silver Ghost’s manufactured with a 6 cylinder engine. In 1921, Rolls-Royce opened another factory in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Here there were 1,701 Springfield Ghosts manufactured. This factory was closed in 1931.
In 1931, Rolls-Royce purchased Bentley who could not survive financial during the Great Depression. From this time until 2002, many people could not tell a Bentley from a Rolls-Royce except for the radiator grille and a few other minor details.
In 1946, the production of cars was moved to Crewe and then in 1959 to Mulliner Park Ward in London.
In 1973, Rolls-Royce was demerged with the outcome being Rolls-Royce Limited, which would manufacture jet engines, and Rolls-Royce Motors for automobiles.
In 1980, Vickers purchased Rolls-Royce Motors. In 1998, Vickers decided to sell; the two top bidders were BMW and Volkswagen. In a strange split, Volkswagen received the Spirit of Ecstasy mascot, the shape of the radiator grille, but not the rights to the name Rolls-Royce that BMW received but not the grille and mascot.
Finally, BMW and Volkswagen came up with an agreement. BMW would supply engines for the cars and would allow Volkswagen to use the name until January 1, 2003. After this date, BMW would use the name Rolls-Royce and Volkswagen’s Rolls-Royce/Bentley division would use the name Bentley.
The cars produced under the Rolls-Royce name include 10hp, 15 hp, 20 hp, 30 hp, V-8, 40/50 Silver Ghost, 40/50 Phantom, Phantom II, Phantom III, Wraith, Silver Wraith, Silver Dawn, Phantom IV, Silver Cloud, Phantom V, Phantom VI, and the Silver Shadow.
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Lotus cars for sale. Used Lotus cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Lotus is a sports and racing automobile manufacturer. Even though the company, Lotus Engineering Ltd. was not formed until 1952, Colin Chapman was building cars in 1948. The first car created by Chapman began with an old 1930 Austin Seven. By early 1948, the new Mark I was complete. His designed was registered OX 9292 and as a Lotus.
Chapman graduated as a civil engineer in 1948 and started working on his second creation. His second car was the very first Lotus that was usable on the road. He sold the second design to Mike Lawson in October 1950 who won the Wrotham Cup driving the ingenious Lotus.
The Mark 3 was created in 1951 as the first car designed specifically for circuit racing. Finally, in 1952, the Lotus Engineering Company was formed and Chapman built a Mark 4, which was lighter and more powerful for Mike Lawson. The Mark 6 racer was also built during this year.
Lotus encouraged its customers to race their cars and in 1954, Team Lotus was formed. In 1960, a Lotus Formula One car won the Grand Prix with driver Stirling Moss behind the wheel. In 1963, the Lotus 25 won the F1 World Constructors Championship with Jim Clark behind the wheel. Team Lotus was active in racing from 1958 until 1994. World championship Formula One driver’s including: Jim Clark in 1963, Jim Clark in 1965, Jochen Rindt in 1970, Emerson Fittipaldi in 1972, Mario Andretti in 1978.
Chapman passed away in 1982. Lotus Engineering Ltd. was sold to General Motors in 1986; however, General Motors sold the company to A.C.B.N. Holdings S.A. of Luxembourg on August 27, 1993. ACBN Holdings S.A. is owned by Bugatti Automolili SpA. A majority of the Lotus shares were sold to Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Bhd in 1996. The company is known as the Group Lotus. Group Lotus is divided into two sections, which are Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering.
The cars currently manufactured by Lotus include the Lotus Elise, the Lotus Exige, the Lotus Exige S, the Lotus Europa S, the Lotus Esprit, and the Lotus 2-Eleven.
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Jaguar cars for sale. Jaguar cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Jaguar also known as Jaguar Cars Limited is a car manufacturer that has its roots in Browns Lane, Coventry, England.
In its early days, Jaguar was founded as the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1922. William Lyons and William Walmsley created the first 2.5 litre saloon in 1935 bearing the name SS Jaguar. At this time, the Jaguar began to be the name for the company as well.
The company was not very popular until the 1950’s when they began creating unique, elegant, sport cars and saloons. In 1960, Jaguar purchased the Daimler car from Birmingham Small Arms Company. From that time, Daimler was put on some of the most prestigious luxurious saloons created by Jaguar.
In 1966, Jaguar merged with the Austin-Morris combine, the British Motor Corporation, and the British Motor Holdings. In 1968, they merged once again with Leyland and Rover and thus became known as the British Leyland Motor Corporation. In 1975, after some financial problems and the publication of the Ryder Report the company became known as the BL Ltd.
In 1984, Jaguar was separated from the rest of the company at least on the stock market.
In September 1989, the Ford Motor Company made an offer to purchase Jaguar. This offer was accepted in January 1990 and Jaguar was then removed from the London Stock Exchange on February 28, 1990. 1999 Jaguar became an important part of the Ford Motor Company’s new Premier Automotive Group with other automobiles such as the Volvo Cars and Aston Martin. In 2000, the Land Rover was added to the group and Aston Martin was recently sold.
Even though Ford purchased Jaguar in 1989, they have yet to see any profit. Many believe the reason that no profit is being seen is that during the 1970’s and 1980’s the Jaguar received a bad reputation of being unreliable. However, this fact is no longer true, as many improvements have been made to the Jaguars.
,br> Current Jaguars for 2007 include the XJ, which is a full size luxury sedan, the S-Type, which is a luxury sport sedan, the X-Type, which is a luxury mid-size sedan and wagon, and the XK, which is a sports car, coupe, convertible.
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Bentley cars for sale. Bentley cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Bentley also known as Bentley Motors Limited is an English automobile manufacturer of luxury cars and Grand Tourers. The company was founded by Walter Owen Bentley in England on January 18, 1919. Bentley’s design was a high tech four-cylinder engine with a sturdy chassis known as the Bentley 3 Litre. This was the first care to use four valves per cylinder and dual spark plugs. He had several successes on the racing field; however, it was not enough to keep the car factory going. He had to sell a majority share in order to raise enough cash to keep his company afloat. He also designed the six cylinder 6 ½ Litre even though his control over the company was slipping away.
The early Bentleys include the 3 L from 1921 to 1929, the 6 ½ L from 1926 to 1930, the Speed Six from 1928 until 1930, the 4 ½ L from 1926 to 1930, the Blower from 1928 until 1930, the 8 L in 1930 and 1931 and the 4 L in 1931.
The Wall Street crash affected Bentley, as these racing cars were not in demand during the Great Depression.
Because of this, Bentley along with his partner Barnato sold the company to an anonymous holding company, British Central Equitable Trust in 1931. This was in fact Rolls Royce; however, Rolls closed the racing department.
Bentley left Rolls Royce and moved the racing department to Lagonda. Bentley went into racing in which his Lagonda MG45 Rapide won the Le Mans in 1935. Under the Rolls Royce brand Bentley models such as the Mark V, Corniche, Mark VI, Continental, Camargue, Mulsanne, Brooklands, Turbo S, Turbo R, and Azure were manufactured.
Rolls Royce along with Bentley Motors was purchased by Volkswagen in 1998. BMW and Volkswagen agreed that Volkswagen would create both the Bentley and Rolls Royce cars until the end of 2002.
Queen Elizabeth II was presented with a Bentley in 2002 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee.
In 2005, Bentley sales were very good with 8,627 sold throughout the world. In the Unites States alone 3,654 were sold. Recent Bentley models include the Arnage Saloon in 1998, the Hunaudieres Concept in 1999, the State Limousine in 2002, the Continental GT coupe in 2003, the Continental Flying Spur saloon in 2005, the Azure convertible in 2006, the Continental GTC convertible in 2006, the Bentley Brooklands coupe in 2007 and plans for the Bentley SUV in 2009.
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Austin Healey cars for sale. These restored and unrestored Austin Healey cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Austin Healey was at one time a sports car manufacturer. They have been through many rough years however, as of June 2007 the Healey Automobile Consultants and Nanjing signed an agreement with the hopes of bringing back the Austin-Healey and the Healey marques along with the NAC’s MG. There is no agreement to the exact time production will begin; however, the new MG series should be seen in China and the UK by the end of 2007.
The marque for Austin-Healey began in 1952 with a joint venture between Leonard Lord, the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation, and Donald Healey. Cars were in production until 1972 when their 20-year agreement came to an end. Nanjing purchased the assets of MG Rover Group along with the Austin name in 2005 when they brought the company out of bankruptcy. The Donald Healey Motor Company was sold to a new firm and renamed Healey Automobile Consultants. The Healey family sold the company to HFI Automotive in 2005.
Some of the popular Austin-Healey models include the Austin-Healey 100, which was produced under BN1 Austin-Healey 100 during 1953 and 1955, the Austin-Healey 100S built during 1955, BN2 Austin-Healey 100M built in 1955 and 1956, BN2 Austin-Healey 100-4 built in 1956 and 1957, the BN4 Austin-Healey 100-6 built in 1956 and 1957, and again in 1957 to 1959 with a change to 1 ¾ inch SU Carbs and the last of the Austin-Healey 100 was the BN6 Austin-Healey 100-6 6 cylinder motor from 1958 until 1959.
The Austin-Healey 3000 included from 1959 until 1961 the BN7 Mark 1 and the BT7 Mark 1. During 1961 and 1962 the BN7 Mark II, the BT7 Mark II, and the BJ7 Mark II was created. From 1962 until 1964, the BJ7 Mark II was produced. From 1964 until 1967, the BJ8 Mark II was in production.
The Austin-Healey Sprite was manufactured from 1958 until 1960 with the brand AN5 Mark I Bugeye in the United States and Frogeye in the United Kingdom.
During 1961 until 1964, we saw the AN6 and AN7 Mark II. From 1964 until 1966, we saw the AN8 Mark III with roll up windows. In 1966, the AN9 Mark IV was introduced and was in production until 1969. The last Mark V was only seen in the UK, which was the AN10 Mark V, which was created during 1969 until 1971.
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Aston Martin cars for sale. These restored and unrestored Aston Martin cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Aston Martin Lagonda Limited is a British manufacturer of luxury performance cars which was founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford. The first car to come off the assembly line with the name Aston Martin was a four cylinder coventry-Simplex engine that was attached to a the chassis of a 1908 Isota-Fraschini. At this time in March of 1915 they were producing cars at the Henniker Place in Kensington. However, with World War I the production of cars was not important, thus Martin joined the Admiralty and Bamford joined the Royal Service Corps. All their car production machinery was sold to the Sopwith Aviation Company.
After the end of War World I the company was re-founded at Abingdon Road in Kensington. They designed a new car to carry the name of Aston-Martin. Bamford left the company in 1920 and then the company used funds from Count Louis Aborowski to revitalise. Even though the Bamford was no longer with the company they still produced cars for competition in the French Grand Prix which set world speed records and endurance records at Brooklands.
In 1924, the company went bankrupt and was purchased by Lady Charnwood. The company once again failed in 1925 and closed its doors in 1926.
After the company closed its doors, a few rich investors including Lady Charnwood gained control of the company and renamed it Aston Martin Motors. Finally, in 1936, the company decided to focus on road cars instead of racing cars. World War II however, put a halt to car manufacturing and the company created aircraft components.
In 1947, the company was purchased by David Brown Limited along with Lagonda during the same year. Ford eventually purchased Aston Martin however, Ford assigned UBS AG to sell Aston Martin at auction. By the end of August 2006, Ford stated it would be willing to sell all or part of Asto Martin. On 12 March 2007 a consortium led by Prodrive chairman David Richards purchased Aston Martin for £475m/USD$848m. However, Ford will keep a stake in the company.
Some of the famous Aston Martin cars you may have seen in movies include the DB5 in Goldfinger, Thunderball, GoldenEye, and Tomorrow Never Dies. In On her Majesty’s Secret Service you may have seen the metallic green DBS and in Lotus you might have noticed a charcoal grey V8 Volante. The Vantage appeared in such films as the The Living Daylights in 1987, the Vanquish was in Die Another Day in 2002, and the classic DB5 was in Casino Royale in 2006.
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