BIO: Charles Chong
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Born in Kuala Lumpur in July 1953, Charles Chong hails from a wealthy Malaysian Chinese land owning family. Although Malaysia was hardly a hotbed of high end motoring during the 1950s and…
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VIN: the Giampiero Moretti / Landshark Racing Ferrari 333 SP chassis 011
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Chassis 011 was the second 333 SP leased from Ferrari North America by Giampiero Moretti, the founder of the Momo steering wheel company. This new car, acquired for the 1995 season, replaced…
Read MoreOne to Buy: ex-Jochen Rindt / ex-works 1967 Porsche 911 2.0 S
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Within four years of his first motor race, Jochen Rindt had won the Le Mans 24 Hours driving a Ferrari 250 LM for Luigi Chinetti’s North American Racing Team (NART). The Austrian’s rapid rise towards the…
Read MoreGuide: BMW Art Car #2 - BMW 3.2 CSL Turbo 'Frank Stella'
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After the success of BMW’s first Art Car, an E9 CSL painted by Alexander Calder which garnered a huge amount of publicity at the 1975 Le Mans 24 Hours, the Munich firm commissioned a second…
Read MoreOne to Buy: ex-Shelby American, 1 of 2 built 1965 Ford GT40 Mk1
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In order to get the GT40 homologated into the new-for-1966 Group 4 Sports car class, Ford had to complete a minimum of 50 copies. Without sufficient demand for that number of racing variants, the…
Read MoreVIN: the Ash Tandon Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary chassis KLA12050
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Chassis KLA12050 was a right-hand drive Countach 25th Anniversary sold through Portman to UK-domiciled Kenyan property magnate, Ash Tandon. Purchased as an investment at the height of the…
Read MoreOne to Buy: ex-Glen Smith Harman, single ownership from 1955 to 1999 Mercedes-Benz W198 300 SL Gullwing
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Introduced at the New York Motor Show in February 1954, Mercedes’ Gullwing-doored W198 300 SL re-wrote the rulebook in terms of what could be expected from a series production super sports car.
Read MoreGuide: F1 for the Road - a Historical & Technical Appraisal of the Yamaha OX99-11
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Yamaha started life as a piano and reed organ manufacturer in 1887. It then expanded to building motorcycles during 1954. Having become known for its high performance engineering prowess…
Read MoreOne to Buy: Manual gearbox 2 owner Balloon White 2007 Lamborghini Murcielagio LP640
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Unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2001, the Murcielago was the first new Lamborghini model to emerge under Audi stewardship but thankfully it remained true to the…
Read MoreVIN: the Brunei Royal Family Jaguar XJR-15 chassis 009
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Chassis 009 was one of two XJR-15s supplied to the Brunei Royal Family, both of which were completed in road as opposed to race specification. This first example was configured in the only…
Read MoreOne to Buy: 1980 British Championship-winning Rothmans Rally Team Ford Escort Mk2 RS1800 Gr.4
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Of all the legendary Ford Escorts to have have gone rallying, arguably the most iconic were the Rothmans-backed Mk2s built by David Sutton’s renowned outfit that appeared during the late…
Read MoreGuide: Lampredi Finale - a Historical & Technical Appraisal of the Ferrari 410 Superamerica Series 3
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As the autumn of 1958 approached, and with the last Series 2 410 Superamerica having rolled off the production line in October 1957, it must have seemed as though the big block Aurelio Lampredi…
Read MoreOne to Buy: Hyperion Blue 1992 Ferrari F40
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At Supercar Nostalgia we generally don’t like to cover anything from the resto-mod scene as, from a perspective of historical preservation, we believe cars should remain true to their original period…
Read MoreOne to Buy: Uniquely configured 1500 mile 2015 Porsche 918 Spyder Weissach Package
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In terms of aesthetic appeal, there was one clear winner from the famous McLaren P1, Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 918 battle of the 2010s and that car was the product from Stuttgart. With its…
Read MoreVIN: the Walter Wolf Ferrari 288 GTO chassis 54783
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Chassis 54783 was the 288 GTO purchased by renowned exotic car buyer, F1 team owner and oil magnate, Walter Wolf. Configured to arguably the ultimate specification for a 288 (manual windows…
Read MoreOne to Buy: ex-Paris Motor Show 1965 Iso A3/C Grifo Strada
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Although perhaps best known for the beautiful Bertone-bodied Grifo A3/L, arguably the pièce de résistance of Renzo Rivolta’s car building operation was the spectacular A3/C version which Iso…
Read MoreGuide: Zagato Bull - a Historical & Technical Appraisal of the Lamborghini 3500 GTZ
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One of the first individuals to recognise the commercial potential of Ferruccio Lamborghini’s automotive project was Gerino Gerini, an Italian nobleman whose aristocratic family originally…
Read MoreOne to Buy: Non-sunroof 41,000km 1988 Porsche 911 3.3 Turbo (930)
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Three years after the original 911 Turbo was given its official debut, Porsche released an uprated variant at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1977. Most significantly, this latest iteration of the…
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