Story and photos by Stephen Mitchell Once upon a time, I received a call from an acquaintance Mario Tosi. He...
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Story by Will Silk This edition of Classified Ads from the Past features an advertisement for a rare Mercedes-Benz 300...
The Ferrari 458 Challenge made its world premiere debut in Maranello during their annual dealer meeting, a traditional event that brings together the representatives of Ferrari’s international sales network. The new berlinetta, which will flank the F430 Challenge in the Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli in the 2011 season, is the...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance 2010 will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Ferrari 250 GT Short Wheelbase Berlinetta by...
Ferrari 312B Car: Ferrari 312B / Engine: 1800 12-Cylinder Boxer / Maker: Ferrari / Bore X Stroke: 80 mm X 49.6 mm...
The city of Auburn, Indiana aims to live up to its reputation as “The Classic Car Capital of the World” this Labor Day Weekend, with five days of auctions, events, tours and much more. The long-standing Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival will once again present car lovers of all ages with...
On a beautiful sunny day at 25 degrees Celsius, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport achieved a new landspeed world...
Gooding & Company announced five Italian consignments for its August 14th & 15th Pebble Beach Auctions 2010. Spanning two important...
Alfa Romeo had gone from zero to hero and beyond from the 1911 Targa Florio to the 1936 Mille Miglia. Its motor racing exploits were followed by the entire Italian nation as cars like the 1750 Super Sport, 8C 2300 Monza, P2 and then the P3 drove it to the...
Fundamentally, the development of the Brabham “fan car” was due to the introduction of the Lotus 79, and in a...
July 2010 During the Spa-Francorchamps 750km Race on May 4, 1975, Henri Pescarolo extracts full speed from his Alfa Romeo...
Mario Andretti Photo: Pete Austin Jim Hall Photo: Keith Booker 2 Achille Varzi is killed when his Alfa Romeo 158 crashes in heavy rain during practice for the Swiss Grand Prix at Bremgarten (1948). 4 A.J. Foyt wins the Firecracker 400 NASCAR stock car race at Daytona, Florida (1964). No...
The Baxter Auto Parts Portland Historic Races will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Italian car manufacturer Alfa Romeo at the...
July 2010 Lister Jaguar– Brian Lister and the Cars from Cambridge By Paul Skilleter In my humble opinion, this is...
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream was to emulate the driving abilities of fellow Swiss Grand Prix driver, Jo Siffert. His early racing experiences were with an Alfa Romeo Spyder and later a Fiat 128. In...
On October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi sat in his boat on the water of Lake Iseo nestled between its more...
A Le Mans-winning 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB TdF will headline the second annual Mecum Monterey Auction, August 13-14, 2010,...
Story by Stephen Mitchell Back in the day, the Ferrari Owners’ Club in Los Angeles held monthly dinner meetings with invited guests as speakers. One of these was Franco Lini who, at the time, was the manager of the Ferrari Formula 1 team. Talking with him afterwards, I made mention...
Although Maserati had enjoyed competition success with its championship-winning 250F grand prix car, the Modenese company soon found itself in...
On 14 June 1970, Porsche claimed the first of what would become 16 overall victories in the world’s most prestigious...
A 1995 McLaren F1 GTR ‘BMW Art Car’ will headline a new Artcurial auction to be held July 9th, 2010 at the Le Mans Classic. The inaugural Le Mans Classic sale will be run by Artcurial Motorcars and its newly structured Vintage Automobiles Department under director Matthieu Lamoure, marking a...
For the Alfa Romeo Centenary celebrations, the Italian Alfa Romeo Register (RIAR) is organising an international rally for all Alfa...
BMW brought a tradition back to life when it lined up at the 78th staging of the Le Mans 24...
RM Auctions will offer a rare 1958 Ferrari 250 ‘Pontoon Fender’ Testa Rossa, serial number 0738 TR, at their 25th annual Sports and Classics of Monterey auction, held August 12-14, 2010 at the Portola Hotel in Monterey, California. Considered one of the most highly-sought-after and iconic of all Ferrari racing...
Vic Elford will serve as Grand Marshal for the June 11–13, 2010, Legends of Motorsports, a Bobby Rahal Signature Event,...
The Jeff Koons BMW Art Car was unveiled June 1st, 2010 at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the same place...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
June 2010 Le Mans, France, June 16–17, 1939. Shown here rounding Tetre Rouge, this Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 SS Special...
RM Auctions announced the consignment of one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century – the 1964...
Story by Will Silk Sports Car Digest is proud to revive our vintage classifieds column to reflect on the market that we all love and enjoy being a part of. In true Sports Car Digest fashion, hours were spent pouring through old sports car magazines that featured classified ads to...
