Chassis 1120054 was a left-hand drive Countach LP400 signed off on February 14th 1975 and dispatched to the SEA Auto dealership in Rome. The handsome Tahiti Blue over Naturale Countach…
Read MoreTo celebrate the remarkable feat of having produced 250,000 911s over a 25 year period, Porsche created a limited edition Commemorative model during the 1988 model year. Configured to the…
Read MoreBy the beginning of 1992, the Testarossa was over eight years old. Since its launch in late 1984, tastes had changed significantly and, as the 1990s dawned, Ferrari’s Flat 12 supercar began to look dated.
Read MorePrior to the arrival of Porsche’s own purpose-built Sports racing car in 1953 (the 550), a small number of well-connected privateers created their own interpretation of such a vehicle. Among…
Read MoreAlthough rival firms had offered road car engines with dual overhead camshafts since the early 1950s, Ferrari did not adopt such a configuration for one of its production models until 1966 when the…
Read MoreHaving already collaborated on a small series of existing models, the first Mercedes-Benz conceived at the pre-production stage with AMG emerged at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1993.
Read MoreRelive one of the most dramatic chapters in Daytona endurance racing with this classic film from the 1969 24 Hours of Daytona. Porsche was widely expected to dominate again, but in a stunning turn of events the Sunoco-liveried Lola T70 Mk.3B GT Chevrolet took overall victory.
Read MoreWhile the 964-based 911 Carrera RSR is remembered as perhaps Porsche’s best known customer GT racing car from the early-to-mid 1990s, the firm also produced a small batch of turbocharged…
Read MoreMcLaren’s response to purpose-built GT1 challengers from Porsche and Mercedes-Benz was the F1 GTR 97 which featured an array of radical upgrades, the most obvious of which was its dramatic new…
Read MoreChassis 27577 was ordered by the Belgian Ferrari distributor, Ecurie Francorchamps, on behalf of Jean Blaton who purchased it to contest the 1979 Le Mans 24 Hour race. Blaton, who raced under…
Read MoreAs some of Europe’s iconic Hot Hatches morphed into second and even third generation variants during the 1990s, they invariably put on weight and lost some of the magic that had made their…
Read MoreOnly two D-types were originally painted red by the Jaguar factory in Browns Lane, Coventry, one of which is this car, chassis XKD 518, currently on offer at the Fiskens showroom in London.
Read MoreAfter a 15 year wait, during which hopes of an entry level Lamborghini were raised and dashed on multiple occasions, such a machine finally emerged when the highly anticipated Gallardo was…
Read MoreFor those wanting the ultimate junior class entry to race in competitions like the BPR, IMSA or any of the myriad domestic championships being organised during the mid 1990s, Porsche’s…
Read MoreWhile certain aspects of Pininfarina’s stunning 206 P-based Dino Berlinetta Speciale that appeared at the 1965 Paris Motor Show were adopted for Ferrari’s mid-engined Dino road car, the…
Read MoreChassis 141 was one of two Porsche 962s raced by Jochen Dauer in 1989 (the other having been chassis 133). 141 joined Dauer’s stable in the middle of the year at which point it became the team’s…
Read MoreWith production of the much-loved 456 heading into its final stages, Ferrari unveiled a specially configured iteration of what was widely considered its best front-engined 2+2 ever. Presented at…
Read MoreWe do love a “one-of-one” order here at Supercar Nostalgia and, in that vein, going under the hammer at Iconic Auctioneers’ Stoneleigh Park sale in Warwickshire on February 21st is a really…
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