SportsCarDigest·August-2014Lance and chief mechanic Red Byron get the 450S ready for Hall to drive at Nassau in 1959. Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection
SportsCarDigest·August-2014One of Jim Hall’s mechanics, Frank Lance, is shown working on the enlarged 5.7-liter V8 from chassis 4508 during the autumn of 1959. Photo: Willem Oosthoek Collection
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Carroll Shelby, at the wheel of Temple BuellÕs Chassis #4508, during the Feb. 11, 1958 Palm Springs Exhibition race, which he won. Photo: Allen Kuhn
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Gregory celebrates Tourist Trophy win with Temple Buell. Photo: Terry O’Neill Collection
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Start of the ’57 Nassau Tourist Trophy race where Masten Gregory’s #98 would claim the win. Photo: Terry O’Neill Collection
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Austere cockpit belies the complexity of mastering such a beastly racing machine. Note Carroll Shelby’s autograph. Photo: Sean Smith
SportsCarDigest·August-2014The 4.7-liter V8 was the biggest engine Maserati had ever produced, and it generated 400 horsepower at 7,200rpm, breathing in through a quartet of Weber 45 IDM downdraft carburetors. Photo: Sean Smith
SportsCarDigest·August-2014An evolution of the race-winning 300S chassis, the 450S chassis was designed by Valerio Colotti, with an aluminum body by Fantuzzi. Photo: Sean Smith
SportsCarDigest·August-2014With unprecedented horspower for its time, the 450S commands respect, though once a driver comes to grips with the beast, it can be immensely satisfying to drive. Photo: Sean Smith
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Nelson Piquet, driving a Williams FW11B-Honda, wins the Hungarian Grand Prix on the Hungaroring (1987).
SportsCarDigest·August-2014John Surtees, driving a Ferrari 156, wins his first Grand Prix, the German at the Nürburgring (1963).
SportsCarDigest·August-2014After 16,000 kilometers and two months, the Italia of Prince Scipione Borghese, Etore Guizzardi and Luigi Barzini arrives in Paris, France, to win the Paris-Peking race (1907).
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Chris MacAllister’s 1970 Gulf Porsche 917K leads the pack through the esses. Photo: Dennis Gray
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Jeff Hailand brought out his 1971 Lotus 69 Formula B. Photo: JR Schabowski
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Racing this rare 1965 BTM Cheetah Roadster was Brian Garcia. Photo: JR Schabowski
SportsCarDigest·August-2014This tidy 1961 Austin Healey 3000MKI is Jeff Lumbard’s. Photo: JR Schabowski
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Derek Hood’s 1954 Cooper T33 in its first outing at Monaco. Photo: Roger Dixon
SportsCarDigest·August-2014Stuart Hall’s ’69 Brabham BT26 leads Laurent Fort’s ’72 Surtees TS9B into Casino Square. Photo: Roger Dixon
