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Hino BER Samurai, 1967. A Hino race car designed and built by Brock Racing Enterprises, an early project by a young Peter Brock, the Australian racing driver who went on to tune and race Holdens. Team Samurai had planned to race in the Japanese Grand Prix but bizarrely the Hino was disqualified for being too low

US Air Force Vapor, 2009, by Galpin Auto Sports. Commissioned by the US Air Force, a Dodge Challenger fitted with stealth technology including a matte finish that has a radar-absorbing coating, proximity sensors and targeting cameras 

The rising line - A brief history of wedge design: Part 3 Alfa Romeo P33 Carabo, 1968, by Bertone. Designed by Marcello Gandini, who went on to design Lamborghini’s Urraco and Countach, the Carabo was the first of a series of radically wedge-shaped concept cars that created a template for supercar design throughout the 70s and 80s

The rising line - A brief history of wedge design: Part 8 Dome-Zero, 1978. There had been a number of wedge shaped Japanese concept cars from the early 70s, The Mazda RX 500, the  Nissan 270X, the Toyota EX-7 among them but the Dome-Zero was actually intended for limited production. It was powered by a mid-mounted Nissan L28E in-line 6 cylinder engine but when it failed Japanese domestic homologation the Dome project was doomed

Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Competizione, 1973. London classic car retailer Hexagon are offering Daytona chassis number 16935 commissioned to be converted into a Group 4 competition racer. The car boasts 450bhp from its road-going 4.4 litre Colombo V12 and commemorates the 365 GTB/4 Competizione’s 1-2-3 finish at the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona

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“ the slightly more favored workers, whom we call the Proles, are only intermittently conscious of the war. When it is necessary they can be prodded into friendzzz of fear and hatred but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting, for long periods, that the war is even happening.” - ‘1984’ by George Orwell