Having first got involved with sports sponsorship during the early 1970s, Rothmans International went on to make a big splash in the world of motor sport towards the end of that decade when works…
Read MoreAlthough Jaguar had supplied a handful of competition-prepared ‘ZP’ E-types to special customers for 1961, a more comprehensively uprated Lightweight version was developed for 1963…
Read MoreOf the ultra high end track-only specials that have been released in the last few years, out favourite here at Supercar Nostalgia is the epic Porsche 935/19. Conceived as a modern homage to the…
Read MoreChassis 4320 was a left-hand drive Miura S dispatched to Gerino Gerini’s Lamborcar dealership in Rome on October 23rd 1969. Configured in Giallo Miura over Nero leatherette seats with Panno…
Read MoreArguably the most famous win of Mercedes’ dominant 1955 World Sportscar Championship campaign with the 300 SLR came at the 1955 Mille Miglia where Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson…
Read MoreDespite having been conceived strictly as a road car, in late 1972 Maserati’s French distributor, Jean Thepenier, commissioned a Group 4 racing version of the mid-engined Bora with which to contest…
Read More40 years after the original company was wound up, the renowned Italian coachbuilding outfit Touring of Milan was revived by a group of investors. The first products to emerge under new…
Read MoreChassis 21625 was a 512 BB ordered new by Ferrari and BMW main dealer Cooper on Loughborough Road in Rothley, Leicestershire. One of 101 right-hand drive examples built between 1976 and ‘81, it…
Read MoreThanks to an influx of Fiat cash in exchange for 50% of his company, Enzo Ferrari was able to create 25 examples of the Porsche 917-rivalling 512 S for 1970. That season, the 512 S was raced by…
Read MoreAlthough the Nismo 400R was the ultimate R33-based Skyline GT-R that Nissan offered to the public, at the time there was insufficient demand to meet the projected sales target of 100 units…
Read MoreChassis 20021 was one of three V8 Vantage Zagatos supplied new to the Brunei Royal Family, the others having been chassis 20023 (a manual 1986 example finished in Lightning Silver with Blue…
Read MoreAlthough 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…
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