After a five-year spell campaigning the E36 M3 GTR, BMW’s North American competition partner, Prototype Technology Group (PTG), switched focus to the new E46-based Motorsport 3-series.
Read MoreBased on the legendary Jaguar XJR-9 race car, this XJR-15 owned by Dr. Jasbir Dhillon was one of only 53 made and was the predecessor to the XJ220!
Read MoreKremer Racing’s 1974 campaign focused primarily on two of the latest specification 911 RSRs which the Cologne outfit built up from naked Porsche-supplied bodyshells. Together, chassis 004…
Read MoreA little over two years after the Type 42 R8 had been launched in V8 trim, December 2008 saw Audi release a V10 version. With its extra pair of cylinders, the V10 motor displaced 5204cc compared to…
Read MoreDuring 1970, Lamborghini development engineer and chief test driver, Bob Wallace, was given the go ahead by general manager, Paolo Stanzani, to construct a mid-engined hot rod more or less from scratch.
Read MoreThree years after Jaguar had debuted the all-conquering tube framed C-type, the Coventry firm released arguably the most advanced sports racing car of its day. Based around a state-of-art…
Read MoreJohn Wyer’s Mirage team created the M2 as a Group 6 Prototype to contest the 1969 World Sportscar Championship alongside the team’s Group 4 Ford GT40s that had won the title in 1968.
Read MoreChassis 4219 GT was the third 250 GTO campaigned by US Ferrari distributor Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team (NART). This latest machine followed chassis 3387 GT (which ran at the 1962…
Read MoreAlthough Porsche produced a batch of 20 Group B 911 SCs that wore the Renn Sport moniker in 1984, the 964-based RS launched in early 1991 marked a return to the street for this iconic sobriquet after…
Read MoreAs rallying morphed towards generally shorter, flat out special stages, the cars required to win at the top level became increasingly specialised. However, despite the massive prestige afforded to…
Read MoreThe 1970s were an era of bold expression: fashion, furniture, music, design, and, in this case, car colors. Birch Green, an almost fluorescent hue, was developed more than 50 years ago, specifically for the 911 RSR.
Read MoreOf the myriad Cobra variants, one of our favourites here at Supercar Nostalgia is the comparatively little known AC-badged, 427-chassis’d but 289-engined iteration sold by AC Cars in Great Britain…
Read MoreIn an austere post-World War 2 environment, Maserati, which from 1947 came under total control of the Orsi family, had to get serious about building a potentially lucrative line of road cars. The firm had…
Read MoreAfter collaborating with its F1 engine supplier, Mercedes-Benz, to design and build the C199 SLR between 2004 and 2010, McLaren re-launched its road car division with the critically acclaimed…
Read MoreBy the mid 1980s, the super high end front-engined GT had become something of an endangered species, especially in open-bodied form. Ferrari’s 412 along with the much less expensive Porsche…
Read MoreFerruccio Lamborghini established his car building firm to create the kind of discrete Grand Tourers favoured by most European industrialists of the time. However, some of his eager young engineers…
Read MoreAs denoted by its ‘885’ VIN prefix, chassis 885002 was a left-hand drive E-type FHC. It was completed in mid 1960 as the second ‘proper’ E-type FHC. Together with the original FHC…
Read MoreAfter Mercedes’ collaboration with its F1 engine partner McLaren yielded the commercially disappointing SLR, the German firm elected to produce its next flagship sports car entirely in-house.
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