This 1994 Range Rover County LWB is a well-maintained example with 55k kilometers (~34k miles) that is powered by a 4.2 liter Rover V8. The truck was sold new at Lone Star Mercedes-Benz Range Rover in Calgary, Alberta, and has been registered in Vancouver, British Columbia since 1995. Cosmetics are in good order with the paint and interior well-preserved. It truck features numerous factory options like brush guards and running boards. It has no modifications from stock, and the A/C system and air suspension are fully functional. This Range Rover features The aluminum body panels and a steel bonnet and tailgate. The County LWB variant increased the wheelbase of the Range Rover to 108 inches long, which offered more legroom for rear passengers and a larger cargo area.
The 4.2 liter Rover V8 sits in a tidy engine compartment and features Lucas 14CUX electronic fuel injection. The permanent four-wheel drive truck utilizes a 4-speed ZF automatic transmission coupled to an LT230 transfer box. It was advertised at producing 202 horsepower and 251 lb.ft. of torque when new.
-On loan from The Mike Malamut personal collection
The Jaguar E-Type (UK) or XK-E (US) is a British automobile, manufactured by Jaguar between 1961 and 1974. Its combination of good looks, high performance, and competitive pricing established the marque as an icon of 1960s motoring. More than 70,000 E-Types were sold during its lifespan. The Series 1 was produced from 1961-1968. The cars at this time used the triple Skinner Union (SU) carbureted 3.8 liter six-cylinder Jaguar XK6 engine from the XK150S. All E-Types featured independent coil spring rear suspension with torsion bar front ends, and four wheel disc brakes, in-board at the rear, all were power-assisted, bringing the vehicle way ahead of its time. This beautiful roadster is an example of an all-original survivor with less than 8,000 miles logged.
-On loan from The Mike Malamut personal collection
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Featuring walnut interior appointments, removable sliding side windows, and body accent trim, this Morgan Plus is one of only 433 Drophead Coupes produced between January 1954 and September 1969. Powered by the Standard Triumph dual-carburated engine mated to the Moss (Jaguar) four-speed gearbox, in its final iteration produced a much-improved 105 brake horsepower. Purchased from the Astor Collection in 2008, it originally resided in Los Angeles before a stay in Monterey, California. Finished in yellow and black with a black top, the interior boasts black leather and carpeting complimented by a wood dash with crisp, clean gauges and a banjo steering wheel. |
Part of the Malamut Auto Museum Foundation
The Berkeley automobile was a collaboration between designer Lawrence “Lawrie” Bond and the Berkeley Coachworks factory owned by Charles Panter, which at the time was one of the largest manufacturers of caravans in Europe. It was an ideal project for Berkeley, who had developed considerable skills in the use of Glass-reinforced plastic, and were looking for something to fill the gaps in the very seasonal caravan market. What Panter and Bond wanted to achieve was “something good enough to win World 750cc races… but cheap, safe, easily repairable and pretty.”
The early cars were an immediate success on the home market, and several derivative models were spawned over the four years of car production. Export markets, most notably the United States, were exploited and the cars earned a reputation for fun, if fragile, sports motoring on a budget. Recognizing the threat posed by the newly introduced Mini and Austin-Healey Sprite in the late fifties, the company started to develop are a more conventional model with the support of Ford.
The caravan market collapsed towards the end of 1960, and Berkeley’s poor cash flow forced the company into liquidation on 12 December 1960, taking its car manufacturing activities with it, after having produced about 4100 cars of various types.
In late 1957 a new derivative model was introduced, using a 30 bhp (22 kW; 30 PS), Excelsior three-cylinder 492 cc engine with triple carburettors. This engine configuration was made possible by the vertically split crankcase of the Excelsior engine and modular crankshaft and barrels, which made adding a central cylinder relatively easy. A four speed gearbox was standardized. The top speed was now 80 mph (130 km/h). The production ran from October 1957 to March 1959 with chassis numbered 1 to 666. From about October 1958, in order to coincide with the introduction of the ‘Foursome’, they were renamed the ‘Twosome’.
Reliability, always questionable with the air-cooled two-strokes, became more of an issue with the extra heat generated by the triple, and there are many recorded reports of warranty claims. At one point the US authorities appear to have stopped a shipment of Berkeleys at the dock pending rectification of what they considered a serious design issue. There seems little doubt that profitability of the Berkeley program was affected as a result of these claims and the aggressive export drive to markets not familiar with the eccentricities of British sports motoring.https://malamutautomuseumfoundation.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=3317&action=edit#
-Part of the Malamut Auto Museum Foundation
Part of the Malamut Auto Collection
-On loan from the Mike Malamut personal collection
The Sunbeam Tiger was a development of the Sunbeam Alpine series I, introduced by the British manufacturer Rootes in 1959.[3] Rootes realised that the Alpine needed more power if it was to compete successfully in world markets, but lacked a suitable engine and the resources to develop one. The company approached Ferrari to redesign the standard inline-four engine, recognising the cachet that “powered by Ferrari” would likely bring. Negotiations initially went well, but ultimately failed.[4]
In 1962 racing driver and Formula 1 champion Jack Brabham proposed to Rootes competition manager Norman Garrad the idea of fitting the Alpine with a Ford V8 engine, which Garrad relayed to his son Ian, then the West Coast Sales Manager of Rootes American Motors Inc. Ian Garrad lived near Carroll Shelby’s Shelby American operation, which had done a similar V8 conversion for the British AC Cobra.
Shelby began work on his prototype, the white car as it came to be known, in April 1963. By the end of the month it was ready for trial runs around Los Angeles.
Provisionally known as the Thunderbolt, the Shelby prototype was more polished and used a Ford 4-speed manual transmission. The Ford V8 was only 3.5 inches longer than the Alpine’s 4-cylinder engine it replaced, so the primary concern was the engine’s width.[13] Like Miles, Shelby found that the Ford V8 would only just fit into the Alpine engine bay: “I think that if the figure of speech about the shoehorn ever applied to anything, it surely did to the tight squeak in getting that 260 Ford mill into the Sunbeam engine compartment. There was a place for everything and a space for everything, but positively not an inch to spare.”
-On loan from The Mike Malamut personal collection