Although Ferruccio Lamborghini had originally planned to build the kind of conservatively-styled front-engined Grand Tourers that he and many other Italian industrialists liked to own, his talented…
Read MoreOf all the Alpina variants built on BMW’s E24 6-series between 1977 and 1989, the most potent was the non-catalysed B7 Turbo. Offered between 1984 and ‘87 (after which Alpina moved away from…
Read MoreChassis 046 was the 39th F1 production car built from a total run of 64 units. Of these, 14 were completed in 1995. 046 was commissioned by British pharmaceutical magnate, Ray Bellm, for his…
Read MoreLaunched at the London Motor Show in October 1962, the Type 26 Elan was conceived to replace the Type 14 Lotus Elite which had most famously incorporated a state-of-the-art fibreglass monocoque…
Read MoreOf all the Esprits built between 1976 and 2004, the Sport 300 ranks as arguably the most highly regarded. Conceived as a road-going derivative of the 1992 IMSA Supercar Championship-winning…
Read MoreChassis 004 was the first 333 SP supplied to Giampiero Moretti, founder of the MOMO steering wheel company. Moretti began his racing career in 1961 and, over the next few years, sporadically…
Read MoreIn order for their customers to contest the new GT2 and GT3 classes of international motor racing, Porsche respectively created the 911 3.8 Carrera RSR and 968 Turbo RS. To homologate these…
Read MoreOf the 20 T16 Evolution 1s built, Peugeot Talbot Sport (PTS) allocated four for domestic rally programmes: C13 ran under the PTS Deutschland banner, C14 PTS Espana, C15 PTS Italia and C20…
Read MoreOn August 1st 1966, Nissan finalised their acquisition of the Prince Motor Company in a deal that had first been announced during May 1965. Outside of Japan, Prince was little known, but domestically…
Read MoreThe fleeting appearances of Mercedes-Benz in top flight motor sport during the 1950s yielded an astonishing array of silverware for such brief campaigns. In 1952, the W194 300 SL delivered wins…
Read MoreA selection of photographs taken during 1990 at the Talacrest showroom in Egham. Featured cars: Ferrari 288 GTO: B221 SFA, Ferrari 275 GTB: RPE 964E, Ferrari Dino 246 GT: DPA 185H, Ferrari 250…
Read MoreChassis ELA12731 was a left-hand drive Countach 5000 S supplied new to Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the second son of the King of Bahrain. It was configured in Nero with a…
Read MoreWhen the C199 SLR McLaren made its debut in late 2003, the long overdue absence of a super high performance Mercedes-Benz that you could actually buy came to an end. Aficionados of the…
Read MoreDuring the 1960s, Porsche’s competition programme steadily progressed to the point that, by the end of the decade, the firm had become the dominant force in practically every discipline of…
Read MoreChassis B-0201 was the prototype Grifo A3/C displayed on the Iso stand at the Turin Motor Show between October 30th and November 11th 1963. The unpainted car (which had a bright red interior)…
Read MoreThe late eighties supercar boom proved a blessing for De Tomaso as an influx of speculators led to dramatically increased demand for all kinds of collectable and exotic motor cars. As a result, the…
Read MoreOnce aerodynamic addenda went mainstream in top flight motor racing during the early 1970s, the years that followed saw some wild appendages begin to appear. Nowhere was this more…
Read MoreWhen Ferrari launched the 550 Maranello in 1996 it marked a highly anticipated return for a front V12-engined two seater from the house of the prancing horse. The handsome new model proved…
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