When the pace of life was a little different, a reasonably wealthy motoring enthusiast could buy themselves a sports car and field an entry for some of Europe’s greatest motoring adventures. At…
Read MoreWith a little over 12,000 units built, Jaguar’s XK120 was the most commercially successful top flight sports car of the late 1940s / early 1950s. Six years after the XK120 prototype had made its debut…
Read MoreAt the Paris Motor Show in October 1966, Ferrari unveiled an open top 330 GTS to sell alongside the fixed head GTC version launched six months prior. The 330 GTS would replace Ferrari’s outgoing 275…
Read MoreOf the myriad options Mercedes-Benz offered for the W198 300 SL Gullwing, nothing came close to the prohibitively expensive aluminium body package created for those customers that wanted to use…
Read MoreAlthough the Touring-bodied 3500 GT and GTi ranked as arguably the most handsome 2+2 Grand Tourers on offer during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Maserati elected to commission Carrozzeria…
Read MorePrecisely one year after Renzo Rivolta ambitiously announced the arrival of his high end line of Iso motor cars with the elegant IR300 / IR340, a pair of stunning ultra sporty Gran Turismos dubbed Grifo…
Read MoreWhen the Lamborghini Miura debuted in more-or-less production-ready trim at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966, it became the first car conceived for road use with a twelve cylinder mid…
Read MoreHaving seen increased levels of standardisation since handing Pinin Farina the contract for its off-the-shelf production models, Ferrari looked to up the ante with the three-litre 250 GT line that first…
Read MoreThe 500 Mondial was Ferrari’s new for 1954 under two-litre Sports racing car and replacement for the outgoing 166 Mille Miglia / 53. Powered by an Aurelio Lampred-designed inline four cylinder engine…
Read MoreThe Ferrari Dino GT was the happy by-product of Enzo Ferrari’s desire to enter Formula 2 racing. To qualify, a manufacturer had to fit 500 examples of their desired ‘stock-block’ engine into one type of…
Read MoreFerrari originally commissioned Aurelio Lampredi to create a big block V12 in order to keep the company competitive in Formula 1 as Gioacchino Colombo’s original small block motor could not be…
Read MoreAlthough the 512 BB’s normally aspirated five-litre Flat 12 engine had no hope of matching the monster horsepower ratings achieved by Porsche’s turbocharged three-litre Flat 6 in the pre…
Read MoreAlthough Ferrari made a significant step towards productionisation when the company signed a cooperation agreement with Pininfarina in late 1952, it wasn’t until the 1960s dawned that the cars…
Read MoreTo replace the ageing DB2-based platform that had served the company so well since 1950, Aston Martin introduced the brand new DB4 at the Paris Motor Show in October 1958. Styled by Touring…
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