Although Pininfarina’s approach to automotive styling had generally focused on conservative elegance, the Turin design house did begin to develop an array of increasingly radical creations as…
Read MoreBorn 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…
Read MoreChassis 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 MoreWithin 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 MoreAfter 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 MoreIn 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 MoreChassis 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 MoreIntroduced 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 MoreYamaha 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 MoreUnveiled 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 MoreChassis 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 MoreOf 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 MoreAs 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 MoreAt 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 MoreIn 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 MoreChassis 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 MoreAlthough 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 MoreOne 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…
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