For the first few years of its life, every 911 production car used a 2-litre version of Porsche’s venerable air-cooled Flat 6 engine. That all changed in late 1969 when the 1970 model year C-series…
Read MoreFor 1970, the existing Group 2 Touring Car regulations were revamped to permit a considerable degree of additional modification than had been the case during the prior era. Manufacturers would…
Read MoreDuring the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s, American styling was at the forefront of automotive design thanks to the integration of Jet Age features such as fully enveloped airflow bodies…
Read MoreChassis 58337 was the 288 GTO supplied new to Tom Williamson Jr. in Burlington, North Carolina. Williamson, a Ferrari Owners Club of America President, configured his car with all-black leather…
Read MoreA little over ten years after the 356 had made its salon debut, Porsche introduced arguably the most heavily revised iteration yet: the 356 B. Unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September…
Read MoreHaving commissioned its newly acquired Abarth competition department to create a Group 4 homologation special based on the 124 Sport Spider, Fiat’s new-for-1973 special stage challenger…
Read MoreHaving graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of Pisa in 1953, Giotto Bizzarrini briefly took up a teaching position before joining Alfa Romeo where he was quickly assigned a role…
Read MoreThe newly formed BMW Motorsport operation with its big budget CSL arrived on the 1973 Touring Car scene with one simple aim: to de-throne the works Ford squad that had reined supreme with its…
Read MoreAlthough by the late 1990s Chrysler’s Viper was hardly in the first flush of youth, this seemingly archaic front-engined throwback to another era somehow became the premier GT2 and GTS class…
Read MoreFollowing an unexpected second place finish for Sobieslaw Zasada and Marian Bien driving a factory loaned 911 ST on the 1972 East African Safari Rally, Porsche built up three specially prepared cars for…
Read MoreEight years after the production-ready 365 GT4 BB was unveiled, Ferrari launched its third and final iteration of the Berlinetta Boxer theme when the 512i broke cover at the Frankfurt Motor Show in…
Read MoreAlthough prior years had seen some spectacular attempts to bring F1 performance to the street, arguably nothing has come closer to achieving that feat than Aston Martin’s radical Valkyrie.
Read MoreIn addition to his two Drivers’ titles and 25 wins from 72 World Championship Formula 1 starts, Jim Clark’s remarkable career saw him collect an additional 19 non-championship F1 victories, a win at…
Read MoreAlthough the heavily revised 1999 model year Diablo VT and SV launched in late 1998 were the first new models to arrived since the Volkswagen Audi Group’s acquisition of Automobili Lamborghini…
Read MoreUnlike a good portion of super high end sports cars from the modern era which look as though they have been styled by a child, Porsche’s 918 Spyder combined F1-rivalling performance with a…
Read MoreLamborghini’s twelve cylinder offerings of the 1980s perfectly exemplified how the company had shifted from its founder’s ethos. Famously, Ferruccio Lamborghini had wanted to build the kind of…
Read MoreUnlike the majority of T16 Evolution 2s that generally only saw action in a couple of events, chassis C207 was campaigned in half a dozen rallies during the 1986 season. It debuted as part of a three…
Read MoreAlthough the 1990s was very much the era of silver-painted cars as an antidote to the brashness of the decade prior, one sector this popularity did not translate to was Ferrari sales where ‘re-sale…
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