With it's front wheel drive and small size with terrific handling it put many larger and more powerful cars in their place and earned the place of many hearts from the Boomer GenerationīMW Isetta Bubble Car My Mum had one of these when I was a kid with no reverse gear so she would drive it into the drive and I would push it out of the drive on to the road each morning

Price Mini Cooper $1595 and Mini Cooper S $1950 Introduced in 1966 it's very own unique Italian stylingĪustin Mini Coopper S This was one of the cars that epitomized the 60's and who can forget the original Italian Job No matter what genre you nail your flag to, this beautifully made, realistically priced reissue is a perfect choice for those ready to look beyond the usual rock guitar suspects.Alfa Romeo Spider The Same Price as an E Type but remembered by many as the car from the Graduate and the music of Simon and Garfunkel The message here is, don't dismiss the T-Bird as some quirky surf guitar. When it's time to get mucky, you can kick in some overdrive for classic rock rhythm a la AC/DC's Malcolm Young, or beast the gain to evoke Tony Iommi's early Sabbath stuff, or Kim Thayil of Soundgarden, whose brutal tone was achieved on a similarly spec'd SG-style Guild S-100 Polara. Of the various knobs and switches on offer, the low-cut tone capacitor is the most noteworthy.Īs its name suggests, this switch sucks the bottom-end out of the circuit to offer more of a single coil tone for added versatility. There's plenty of sparkle and clarity on a clean setting, and that even extends to the neck position, where the pup's low vintage output conspires with the natural brightness of the mahogany body.

Plugging in, the bright-sounding mini-humbuckers pull bags of sustain from the T-Bird's 1.5-inch thick carcass.

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