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A 1964 Citroën DS 19 Decapotable – its shark-like, low-drag chassis (designed by coachbuilder Henri Chapron) underpinned by Citroën’s (cutting edge at the time) self levelling hydro-pneumatic suspension, power assisted brakes, clutch and steering.
Three careful owners and a full restoration later, it’s currently at auction, listed between €135,000 and €175,000.
A how-to of two-point perspective using an anchored elastic – giffed-up from this ingenious Facebook video guide.
A second installment of filmmaker Vugar Efendi’s side by side comparision of film scenes and the art that probably inspired them.
Previously: Art And Film
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A Concours condition1955 Porsche 356 ‘Pre-A’ 1600 Speedster. Stored for 30 years in an underground garage in Belgium (the only Porsche of its kind in the country) and currently selling at auction (complete with a Porsche Certificate of Authenticity, its first registration, and newspaper clippings covering its late ’50s racing history) for between €350,000 and €550,000.
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Behold the MB&F Horological Machine 8 – for those who like their time presented in stylishly complicated analogue form.
Bidirectional jumping hours and sweeping minutes glimpsed through sapphire crystal prisms in the titanium/gold enclosure, brushed gently by the pigskin leather of your handmade driving glove.
Previously: The Ultimate Plane Geek Timepiece
Asymmetric, miniaturised football pitches in the densely populated Khlong Toei district of Bangkok – part of a community scheme to create recreation space from awkwardly-shaped, otherwise unusable plots by AP Thailand and CJ Worx.
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The Mercedes-Maybach 600S Pullman Guard – the 6.5m long, 5 tonne, bulletproof, bombproof, 530bhp, V12, twin turbo bourgemobile your despotic regime has been waiting for.
Wall to wall leather, four reclining rear seats facing one another as you cruise past the favelas, laughing with your wives.