Stuff that’s awesome: The Ferrari 330 GT Vignale Shooting Break (1968)
Personally, I don’t care if you start shouting at me “But Mr. Valves, those lines have no coherent flow and the whole thing seems like two cars slapped together! You’re stupid and you smell of ducks!”, I’ll still tell you to bugger off.
The Ferrari 330 GT SB was custom built for the Chinetti family by Vignale, namely by the famous coachbuilder Alfredo Vignale, who took the concept of a sports Ferrari wagon quite seriously. Sadly, this would be his last design.
In 2008 this same example had less than 13.000 miles on the clock and was left unsold in an auction, where it was estimated to sell for about $500.000.
I’d buy it in a heartbeat, if I had the money, and drive this to work every single day of the week.
And if you dislike shooting breaks, I’ll personally track you down, knock on your door and call you a meanie. Yeah, it just got that real.
(Source: conceptcarz.com)
Lamborghini 400 GT Flying Star Touring (1966)
A prototype of a shooting break version of the 400GT built by Carrozeria Touring, which would be their last design.
In 1965, a man named David Brown was very much in love with his Aston Martin DB5.
Unfortunately, during the weekends, he found it to be somewhat unsuitable to carry his dogs and his insane amount of hunting gear in the boot. What to do, what to do…
Yes, ask Aston Martin to build a custom shooting break out of the DB5! Aston were busy enough making the regular DB5, so the coachfirm of Harold Radford built a custom, beautiful, gorgeous, stunning DB5 SB to our man David and to 11 other customers.
It was practical, still very fast, gorgeous, and pretty much unique. Can you find anything wrong with it other than the price? I can’t. I’d give a pinky you know.
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