Part 2 of a selection of photographs taken at a De Tomaso Drivers Club Castle Combe track day in 1988. Featured cars: Lamborghini Countach 5000 S: 2838, De Tomaso Pantera GT5: E226 HPV…
Read MorePart 1 of a selection of photographs taken at a De Tomaso Drivers Club Castle Combe track day in 1988. Featured cars: De Tomaso Pantera GT5: E931 GVV, Lotus Esprit S3: D412 UNU, Lamborghini…
Read MoreChassis 0979 was the fifth Miura built and the first exported to the USA. Assembled with the early 0.9mm gauge chassis, it was finished in Rosso Miura over Nero. Signed off by the factory on 24th…
Read MoreBy the late 1960s, Porsche were spending considerably more on racing than they had done a decade earlier. To ease logistics and reflect the firm’s status as a top flight competitor, three brand…
Read MoreOf the 49 RSRs built for customers in 1973, chassis 9113600727 was unique. Destined for Peter Gregg’s Brumos team in Jacksonville, Florida, the car was assembled to largely the same…
Read MoreDespite having manufactured over 200 different models since 1947, Ferrari do not have a long list of experimental cars that never made it into production. One such machine was the 408 4RM of 1987.
Read MoreFollowing the 1955 Le Mans disaster, the North American Automobile Manufacturers Association imposed a motor sport ban on US car builders. The ban came into effect from 1957 and went so far…
Read MoreLML/49/4 was the last of four DB2 Le Mans Prototypes. Unlike the three Almond Green examples destined for competition use, chassis 4 was uniquely equipped with a fully upholstered interior and…
Read MoreDuring the late 1950s and early 1960s, Ferrari manufactured several road cars capable of exceeding 150mph. However, these machines were typically bespoke creations built in tiny numbers for the…
Read MoreChassis 1120094 wore one of the most attractive liveries to grace an LP400: Blu / Senape. Ordered in right-hand drive, 1120094 was dispatched from the factory on May 14th 1975 and delivered to UK…
Read MoreChassis P/1029 was ordered from Ford Advanced Vehicles (FAV) by William ‘Bill’ McKelvy, a stockbroker at McKelvy and Company in Pittsburgh (a firm started by his father in 1937). McKelvy…
Read MoreSince its 1948 introduction, the Porsche 356 had proved a runaway success. Ferry Porsche had originally anticipated a production run of 500 would satisfy demand but, by late 1959, over 30,000…
Read MoreChassis 3303 was the 101st Miura built. As it was destined for a VIP client, the car came with several special features. The customer was Mohammad Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. 3303 was the first of four…
Read MoreAfter Porsche moved its operations back to Stuttgart in the winter of 1949-1950, sales of the newly productionised 356 soared. The company had relocated to the remote Austrian village of Gmund in…
Read MoreChassis 04R was one of two 1995-spec. GTRs originally delivered to the Gulf-backed GTC Motorsport team (the other having been 02R). It was purchased by gentleman driver, Lindsay Owen-Jones, who…
Read MoreAlthough it took three attempts for Peugeot’s number one driver, Ari Vatanen, to translate the T16’s raw speed into a WRC victory, the Finn then won five rallies back-to-back between late 1984 and…
Read MoreWhen Porsche introduced the 2.2-litre 911 in September 1969, many felt the model had reached the limit of its potential. Rumours swirled that an entirely new replacement was on the cards; a big…
Read MoreLamborghini used the original LP500 Countach prototype as a test hack. In March 1974 it was crash tested to gain type approval. By this time, a second prototype Countach had been assembled that…
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