Ferrari Daytona, officially called the Ferrari 365 GTB4 Berlinetta, is known as the quintessential front-engine classic grand touring car. It was one of the last V12 front-engined Ferrari war horses. The classically shaped and ridiculously fast Daytona was a supercar with a split personality. The two sides of the Ferrari Daytona met at the 120mph mark. Under 120 mph the Daytona was deemed heavy with inert controls … [Read more...]
Car Profiles
We profile the world’s finest sports cars, past and present automotive personalities, larger-than-life races and garages or museums. Profiles may include first-hand driving impressions, in-depth interviews and period racing stories and photographs.
The Resplendent Royale – Bugatti Type 41
In the 1920s, Bugatti created the most luxurious car in the world. With the Type 41 Royale, in 1926, Bugatti presented the strongest, largest and most luxurious automobile in the world, characterized by unimaginable power and opulent equipment. For Ettore Bugatti, the Royale was the culmination of his creation. A vehicle that knew no competitors in terms of performance, quality and image. A vehicle for emperors, … [Read more...]
How Thirty Vintage Bugattis Ended Up on a Train
Around 60 years ago, Fritz Schlumpf purchased a collection of thirty Bugatti models after tough negotiations. He simply adored Bugatti: Schlumpf had to own as many of the vehicles as possible because he wanted to use them as a basis for establishing the biggest Bugatti collection in existence. In fact, it became something of an obsession, as reflected in the negotiations with an American Bugatti owner that went on … [Read more...]
Ferrari at Le Mans 24 Heures Exhibit
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello opened its new exhibition -- "Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans" -- to celebrate seventy years of Ferrari victories in the world's most famous endurance race. Visitors can look back over the 36 wins recorded on the French track, with the help of some of the cars that competed in the famous races plus multimedia and interactive contents. … [Read more...]
Bruce Meyer’s All-American Cruise-In
The Petersen Automotive Museum will host Bruce Meyer's All-American Cruise-In with special programming celebrating Carroll Shelby and "Ford v Ferrari" on Sunday, January 26, 2020, at 8 a.m. The Petersen hosts a themed cruise-in the last Sunday of every month. This month, cruise-in attendees will see a wide selection of classic and modern American performance and custom cars with a massive turnout of original … [Read more...]
Five Notable Porsche 917 Liveries
Vivid paintwork and stickers are as much a part of Porsche Motorsport as the boxer engine. While the Porsche 917 race cars featured notable liveries from Martini and Gulf, there are several others that are iconic on their own. The company recently looked back on five historical color combinations from the various 917 models. Porsche 917-001 with green and white color scheme - The first is a true number 1: the car … [Read more...]
Prodrive to Restore Works Race Cars
Prodrive launched a new operation dedicated to the authentication, restoration and support its historic race and rally cars. The creation of Prodrive Legends is a direct response to a rise in requests from vehicle owners to verify the provenance and then restore race and rally cars that Prodrive has constructed over the last three decades. There are also an increasing number of opportunities to race historic … [Read more...]
Remembering Maserati’s ‘Car of Kings’
The Maserati 5000 GT made its debut to great fanfare at the Turin Motor Show in 1959. With its fuel-injected, four-cam V-8 engine derived from the 450S sports racing car, the “Car of Kings" was the fastest road-going automobile of its day. Only 34 cars of this model were built at Maserati's Viale Ciro Menotti plant in Modena, with bodywork added by Italy's top coachbuilders of the period. Reza Pahlavi, the then … [Read more...]
Winning Numbers Exhibition – Picture Gallery
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 that features ten race cars from the collection of Petersen Founding Chairman Bruce Meyer. Titled “Winning Numbers: The First, The Fastest, The Famous,” the exhibit contains Le Mans winners, land speed record setters, dragsters and road racers from Meyer's personal garage. “Affectionately called ‘the car guy’s car guy,’ Bruce … [Read more...]
Aston Martin Cloverleaf Returns to Aston Hill
It was 95 years ago that the Aston Martin which came to be known as ‘Cloverleaf’, XR 1981, lined up at the bottom of Aston Hill. One of eight customer cars built in late 1923, this early Aston Martin was competing against two Bugattis and two other Aston Martins -- one of which had been entered by the company’s founder, Lionel Martin, who won the trophy on the day. This four-cylinder 1,486 cc side-valve engined … [Read more...]
Celebrating Maserati’s Land Speed Record
Mario Umberto “Baconìn” Borzacchini, at the wheel of a Maserati Tipo V4, set the world land speed record for the flying 10 kilometres on 28 September 1929. The car had made its race debut on 15 September, driven by Alfieri Maserati in the Monza Grand Prix, finishing the race in sixth place. Two weeks later, before the race at the Circuito di Cremona, the “Giornata dei record”, a time trial on the flying 10 … [Read more...]
Continuation ‘Blower’ Bentley Revealed
One of the most iconic cars from Bentley’s history -- Sir Tim Birkin’s 1929 supercharged 4 1/2-litre 'Blower' -- will be reborn with a new build of 12 matching cars that will form a pre-war race car continuation series. Only four original ‘Team Blowers’ were built for racing by Birkin, in the late 1920s. All were campaigned on the racetracks of Europe, with the most famous car -- Birkin’s own Team Car No. 2, … [Read more...]
BMW M1 Art Car by Andy Warhol
“I love this car. It’s more successful than the artwork,” was the opinion of Andy Warhol after his sweeping brush strokes had transformed the BMW M1. It took him less than half an hour to create the fourth exhibit in the BMW Art Car Collection. 40 years later, enthusiasm for the mid-engined sports car remains unabated. Already world-famous at that time, the Pop Art icon shared the same passion with many … [Read more...]
Porsche Reveals Retro Coca-Cola Livery
As the 50th Anniversary of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) comes to a close at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) will turn to an Atlanta neighbor to help celebrate and commemorate the sports car racing series’ Golden Anniversary. The twin Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR race cars will carry a familiar red and white livery in the 22nd running of the Motul Petit Le Mans … [Read more...]
Bentley Corniche Rises from Ashes
Bentley has recreated a long-lost car from its past that was lost in a wartime bombing raid in France. The ground-up rebuild of the only 1939 Corniche made connects the Embiricos 4 1/4 Litre and R Type Continental. The only car of its type now in existence, the Corniche was conceived to be a high-performance version of the new MkV saloon, itself a technological advance that was due to be launched in October … [Read more...]
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