Having initially struggled to make it as a mainstream auto maker, the first generation Civic launched in 1972 transformed Honda’s fortunes to the point that, by the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest…
Read MoreLike its forebear, the Mk2 Escort went on to have an enormously successful competition career, perhaps the highlight of which was Ari Vatanen’s 1981 World Rally Championship crown driving a…
Read MoreChassis 105 was one of two customer 956s sold to the Joest Racing team for 1983 (the other having been chassis 104). Since its inception in 1978, Reinhold Joest’s team had rapidly become one of the…
Read MoreAs a consequence of a burgeoning domestic touring car scene, Mercedes’ hot 190 E Group A special went on to have a stellar late-life competition career that culminated in both the DTM’s…
Read MoreBeginning in 1962, the governing body of motor sport decided the de facto World Sports Car Championship would be decided by cars from the Grand Touring category. By contrast, purpose…
Read MoreAlthough Porsche only expected to find buyers for 500 examples of their new 911 2.7 Carrera RS homologation special, the model proved so popular that over 1500 were completed by the time…
Read MoreIn a similar fashion to its E30 predecessor, BMW’s E36 3-series became the benchmark against which all entry-level Saloons, Coupes and Convertibles were measured. Its combination of…
Read MoreChassis 1120004 was the third Countach LP400 built. It followed the Geneva Show cars from 1973 (chassis 1120001) and 1974 (chassis 1120002) from which point on Lamborghini adopted an even…
Read MoreAlthough Ferrari’s legendary Gioacchino Colombo-designed V12 started life with a displacement of 1496cc in 1948, by the end of that year it had been enlarged to 1995cc (166cc per cylinder).
Read MoreWhen Porsche created the hardcore 911 2.7 Carrera RS for the 1973 model year, many of the company’s senior managers were not convinced it would be easy to sell the 500 cars needed to…
Read MoreThe final iteration of Aston Martin’s legendary non-Vantage V8 was introduced at the New York Motor Show in January 1986. It most notably marked a return to fuel-injection for the revamped…
Read MoreChassis 198.040.5500640 was the first of four steel-bodied 300 SL Gullwings specially prepared by the Mercedes-Benz competition department for assessment during 1955. Steel as opposed to…
Read MoreEven beyond the world of motoring, Jaguar’s E-type needs no introduction. Thanks to its beautiful coachwork, state-of-the-art specification and impressive performance, the E-type came to be…
Read MoreChassis 01-021 was the AAW Racing Team 917 Spyder raced by Leo Kinnunen to victory in the 1971 Interserie Championship (the first of three back-to-back titles for Kinnunen in the premier European…
Read MoreAs if the paltry 200-car homologation requirement for Group B did not permit sufficiently extreme machinery, manufacturers were permitted to build even more potent Evolution variants from the…
Read MoreAlthough the gen. three Celica TCT was fairly conventional by the super specialised nature of most Group B creations, its toughness and reliability helped Toyota to half-a-dozen WRC wins on the…
Read MorePorsche first used the Carrera name for its range-topping dual overhead cam 356. It was adopted to honour the German firm’s success in the gruelling Carrera Panamericana road race held between…
Read MoreAll the $1m plus sales from Monterey week.
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