Unfortunately, the return of Mercedes-Benz to top flight motor racing was cut short by the infamous events at Le Mans in 1955 when the 300 SLR of Pierre Levegh barrel rolled into a crowd. Levegh and…
Read MoreWithin a few months of the Tipo 33 Stradale’s September 1967 launch, Alfa Romeo knew the model was not going to hit the 50-car homologation requirement for the Group 4 Sport category. Rather…
Read MoreAfter a one year absence from the World Sportscar Championship in protest at the implementation of a three-litre engine limit that made his existing cars obsolete, Enzo Ferrari decided to return with…
Read MoreFrom 1966, the World Sportscar Championship was organised to the FIA’s new Appendix J regulations. The fastest cars were expected to come from the Group 6 Prototype class where there…
Read MoreAlfa Romeo’s failure to sell as many Tipo 33 Stradales as they had hoped left the firm with a surplus of naked chassis. It was originally anticipated that 50 Stradales would be built to qualify for the Group…
Read MoreUnveiled in November 1968 at the Turin Motor Show, the P6 was the inspiration for Pininfarina's mid-engined production Ferraris that would come on stream in the early 1970s. Of the myriad…
Read MoreFrom the SE 04 1000 SP (a one-litre prototype racing car), Abarth designer, Mario Collucci, created a series of even more potent two-litre variants. First to arrive was the visually similar SE 04/L in the…
Read MoreBetween 1965 and 1970, Pininfarina created a series of show-stopping styling concepts based on state-of-the-art Ferrari sports racing chassis that had become surplus to requirements. The 250 P5…
Read MoreOne year after the Miura’s sensational debut, another revolutionary Lamborghini was unveiled. The extraordinary new Marzal was a fully operational styling concept created to showcase how a four…
Read MoreThe Dino road car project came about as Enzo Ferrari wanted to re-enter Formula 2 racing when new regulations would be introduced for 1967. The revised regulatory framework had been announced by…
Read MoreAlthough Alfa Romeo had anticipated a production run of 50 Tipo 33 Stradales would be built in order to secure Group 4 homologation, only eleven standard examples are known to have been…
Read MoreIn mid 1964, Alfa Romeo commissioned their official motor sport partner, Autodelta, to develop a replacement for the enormously successful Tubolare Zagato (TZ). Like its predecessor, the new TZ2…
Read MoreAfter successful stints at Fiat, Bertone and Ghia, Giorgetto Giugiaro set up his own studio, Ital Design. Established in February 1968, Ital Design made its salon debut later that year at Italy’s most important…
Read MoreWhen Mercedes-Benz unveiled their mid-engined C111-I at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1969, it garnered massive attention and interested parties began lining up to buy one.
Read MoreBertone were the undisputed kings of wedge design. With creations like the Alfa Romeo Carabo and Lancia Stratos Zero, the Turin firm came to represent a new point of reference in modern art as well…
Read MoreShortly before he acquired Carrozzeria Ghia from Ramfis Trujillo in 1967, Alejandro de Tomaso commissioned the company to build an open two-seat concept on a stretched Vallelunga chassis.
Read MoreScuderia Brescia Corse was a racing collective established in 1964 to prepare and campaign cars for its members. It attracted a legion of wealthy privateers that owned a wide variety of machinery.
Read MorePlans for a production run of 50 Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradales proved overly optimistic and only 13 street cars were eventually completed. Too expensive to build and sell, Alfa Romeo were left with…
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