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The star of this year’s annual Top Marques
Monaco car show was the world premiere
of the hand-built Zacaria SC: a Formula
One-style single seater that’s street legal.
The £800,000 one-off was created by
Scotty Cox (SC), a renowned builder of
chopper motorcycles, and automotive
design expert Zacaria Mihajlovic. It uses a
6.3 litre, 700hp Ferrari engine, weighs a
gossamer 850kg and features hand-
formed aluminium bodywork and
adjustable suspension so that it can tackle
urban speed bumps. Mihajlovic first came
to prominence when he built a road legal
replica of the Batmobile—complete with
flame-throwing afterburner. zacaria.netAutomotive design
genius Professor
Gordon Murray, the
man behind the fabled
McLaren F1 of the
1990s, has revealed
plans for a ground-
breaking hypercar to be
produced under his own
name. The Gordon
Murray Automotive
T.50 will feature the
same three-seat layout
as the F1 but will be
powered by a V12
engine capable of
revving to 12,100rpm,
the highest ever for a
road car. With 650hp
on tap and weighing an
impressively light
980kg, the T.50 is
claimed to be the
“purest, lightest, most
driver-focused
supercar ever”. Just 100
will be made at a cost
of more than £2 million
apiece. First deliveries
expected in 2022.➼
Rolls-Royce has announced a run of 50 special
versions of its two-door Wraith to commemorate the
centenary of Alcock and Brown making the first
non-stop trans-Atlantic flight in June 1919. The pair
undertook the journey in a World War One Vickers Vimy
bi-plane powered by a pair of Rolls-Royce Eagle VII
engines. Each special Wraith is finished in two-tone
gunmetal and grey paintwork with a black radiator grille.
Inside, brass accents and smoked eucalyptus wood recall
the Vimy’s construction, while a “starlight” headliner
comprising 1,183 tiny lights represents the night sky as
they would have seen it during their flight. A brass plaque
is engraved with Churchill’s words: “I do not know what
we should most admire—their audacity, determination,
skill, science, their aeroplane, their Rolls-Royce
engines—or their good fortune.” rolls-roycemotorcars.comThe Eagles Have LandedSeptember 7 to 8 will
see the latest edition of
the National Motor
Museum’s Beaulieu
International
Autojumble, to which
old car enthusiasts
flock in search of
elusive parts,
automobilia and
restoration projects
from 2,000 stalls. The
event has taken place
annually for over half a
century and this year
sees the inauguration of
The 100 Miles of
Beaulieu, an overnight
rally for pre-1945 cars
in which competitors
undertake challenges at
checkpoints and follow
a strict time schedule
between dusk and
dawn. beaulieu.co.ukand Rover might have ceased production of its
much-loved Defender model in 2016 due to plans to
bring in stricter measures for new car emissions by
2020—but business is thriving at Arkonik, a Somerset-
based specialist that restores and upgrades the vehicles to
better-than-new condition. The firm was founded 12 years ago
by enthusiast Andy Hayes after he completed his first Landy
rebuild on the driveway of his home. Now Arkonik sources
good quality used vehicles from around Europe and strips them
to the bare bones before rebuilding them to the personal
requirements of clients, mainly from the US and Canada, who
happily pay up to £160,000 to own the luxuriously appointed,
high-specification Defender of their dreams. arkonik.comJUMBLE SALE
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