Triple Feature Hollywood Star

Delage D8 120 Chapron Cabriolet

Der Adenauer Daimler

Mercedes Benz W186 II 300 Cabriolet D

Noble Character And Distinction

Mercedes Benz W128 220SE Cabriolet

Fuel Injected RHD Cabriolet

Mercedes Benz W128 220SE

Narrowing Down The Options

Ferrari 250 GT Pininfarina Cabriolet Series 2

A Glimmer Of Hope

Ferrari 250 GT Pininfarina Cabriolet S2

Out Of Aladdin's Cave

Mercedes Benz W24 540K Cabriolet A

2 Door 4 Seat

Mercedes Benz W142 320 Cabriolet B

Left In Dar es Salaam

Mercedes Benz W18 Typ 290 Cabriolet

Formula One Power

Ferrari 342 America Pininfarina Cabriolet

Swapped Identities

Ferrari 212 Inter Vignale Cabriolet

Heck Motor

Mercedes Benz 130 H Cabriolet

Twin Barrel Carb

Peugeot 304 Cabriolet

Dealers Special

Peugeot 302DS Darl’Mat Cabriolet

Almost Factory Catalogued Convertible

Citroën DS20 Cabriolet d’Usine

Ferrari Concours Highlights

Goodwood Festival Of Speed

A Wedding Gift

Bugatti Type 57C Van Vooren Cabriolet #57808

Rare Side Vents - Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series 2 #1815GT

Despite the Haynes International Motor Museum having a room full of red vehicles only one of the Rosso Corsa cars is a Ferrari.



The Ferrari 250 GT Cabriolet Series 2 was launched in 1959 featuring a Pinin Farina designed body that was simpler than the Series 1, in part was due to the intention of the Series 2 to be made for series production rather than to order.



This 1960 left hand drive model with a 3185 cc / 194 cui V12 was orginally exported to the USA and in 1987 was sold by Coy's of London with the registration 'Q 999 EGC'.



It is thought around 212 Series 2 models were manufactured as against just 36 of the Series 1 model.



While the Series 2 is known as a model manufactured in series this particular example has extremely rare, for the model type, side vents.

Thanks for joining me on this slightly tardy Ferrari Friday edition of 'Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres', I hope you'll join me for a stretch limo edition tomorrow. Don't forget to come back now !

Special Drophead - Bristol 401 Cabriolet

Continuing the Centenary Celebration of the Bristol Aeroplane Company out of which Bristol Cars was born, today we are looking at another unique car a Bristol 401 Drophead.



Between 1948 and 1953 Bristol Cars built 611 401 coupes and 23 mechanically identical 402's cabriolets.



Sources close to the Bristol Owners Club assure me that this vehicle, seen at a VSCC meeting at Prescott, is a one off special 401 coupe converted into a cabriolet.

Hope you have enjoyed today's special drophead edition of 'Gettin' a lil' psycho on tyres' and will join me again tomorrow for some Bristol disambiguation. Don't forget to come back now !

How many are there - Bristol 400 Cabriolet ?

I have made a bit of a mess of my original idea of celebrating the Bristol Aeroplane Companies Centenary celebration by setting out to post a blog about each model in the order they were released with the most basic mistake of confusing a 401 with a 403, now that has been rectified I find there was a version of the Bristol 400 which I did not even know about until John Lomas kindly pointed out I had a photograph of it !



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This Bristol 400 cabriolet appears to be one of two built that never entered full production. If I had known just how rare it was when I took the photograph I would have waited for an opportunity to take a photograph of the front of the car, but that as they say will now have to wait for another day.

It would appear that Pinin Farina also built a Bristol 400 convertible but director Tony Crook cancelled any plans for it to go into production allegedly because of the inferior quality of the bodywork. According to the Bristol Owners Club, despite this decision there may be as many as 10 Pinin Farina Bristol 400's. A quick search on Google images reveals one of the Pinin Farina 400 Cabrilolets to be a dark blue while another is eggshell blue.

Slightly off topic it was lovely to see Kevin Harvick keeping his composure after his pit crew dropped lug nut yesterday at Phoenix. Somehow Kevin managed to come back from 19th to 6th behind Jimmy Johnson and now sits 46 points behind Hamlin who after leading most of the race ran low on fuel at the end and wound up coming in just 12th.

Kevin is certainly the underdog going into Homestead Miami next weekend, but he certainly won't be the first underdog going into the final race of the season to lift the Cup. Go Harvick ! Go #29 ! Go Happy !

Finally a word to some visitors from Germany, schoen Gruss an alle Morgan Freunde von http://www.morgan-club.de die dem letztens 'Gettin' a lil psycho on tyres' besucht haben.

Thanks for popping by, looking forward to tomorrow's blog already, don't forget to come back now !