F1-67 “NONDA”

Think back, if you can, to the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and possibly even the ’80s. Did you ever think that the sports cars and single-seaters roaring around the circuits of the world would someday be about the most expensive and desirable items even the most acquisitive of us could possibly want?

Manufacturers, including Ferrari and Alfa Romeo, chopped up their second-hand racers. Jaguar pulled theirs to bits and used the parts for the next model, so many of them simply no longer exist. Grand Prix cars were raced and tested to destruction and very few went into storage or museums. There was a premium on storage space which builders didn’t have, so they just went. You and I have always said “I should have kept that…,” but would we have really paid the rental space for an old heap for 30-plus years?