By Will Silk Few will doubt that perhaps the most breathtaking cars ever to emerge from Germany were the beautiful...
January 2009 Update: This very same Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder recently sold at Gooding’s Scottsdale Auction for $4,950,000....
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from Road & Track‘s June 1964 issue is an example of one of the most exclusive, desirable, and drop dead gorgeous sports cars to have ever graced this earth. Just sixteen Jaguar XK Super Sports, or XKSS’s, were built in Coventry during a...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1937 Horch Type 853 Sports Cabriolet offered for sale in...
By Will Silk When conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard;...
The latest episode in Sports Car Digest’s look back at classified advertisements features a 1953 Siata 208S Spyder that was offered for sale in the September 1964 issue of Road & Track for $4,000. Created by Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori (SIATA), these magnificent Italian wonders were powered by Fiat’s...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1952 Jaguar C-Type offered for sale in a 1962 issue...
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Toyota 2000GT race car offered for sale in the April...
Sports Car Digest has an extensive library of automotive magazines from the 1950s through present day. We think you know why, but we keep these decaying magazines for reference, nostalgia and to torment ourselves about the cars in the classified advertisements. If you are like us, we’re sure that you...
By Will Silk The latest Classified Ads from the Past is a rare all-aluminum 1955 Arnolt-Bristol offered for sale in...
By Will Silk Our latest classified ad from the past comes from an April, 1986 edition of Hemmings Motor News...
Story by Will Silk This edition of Classified Ads from the Past features an advertisement for a rare Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL racing saloon with an impressive history. The ad for this particular 300 SEL was originally run in the May, 1972 issue of Road & Track Magazine. Many think of...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1955 Maserati A6G 2000 Zagato offered for sale in the...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from the April 1971 issue of Road & Track is an example of one...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial offered for sale in the September 1985 issue of Hemmings for $145,000. In the early 1950s, Ferrari shifted from using the compact Gioacchino Colombo-designed V12 engine in its smallest class of sports racers to a line of four cylinder engines designed by Aurelio Lampredi....
This week’s look back at old classified advertisements features a Alfa Romeo race car offered for sale in the May...
By Will Silk This edition of Classic Cars for Sale comes from the pages of a 1965 dealer catalog that...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from May 1972 issue of Road & Track is a fine example of one of the most lusted after Porsches of them all: The 356 Speedster with the four-cam Carrera motor. In 1972 this Carrera was just a used, out of date sports...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1960 Aston Martin DB4GT offered for sale in the March...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1967 Ford GT40 Mk IV offered for sale in the...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1958 Maserati 250F offered for sale in the October 1962 issue of Road & Track for $3,650. The Maserati 250F was a racing car made by Maserati used in 2.5 litre Formula One racing between January 1954 and November 1960....
The latest look at old classified advertisements features a Ferrari 196 S race car offered for sale in the April...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from March 1973 is not one but the example of a truly unforgettable and...
By Will Silk Our latest Classified Ads of the Past profile is an incredible 1951 Allard J2X Roadster that was advertised in a 1965 Vintage Car Store catalog. The Allard J2X marked the high water mark for the Allard marque when it first appeared in 1951 as an evolution of...
By Will Silk The latest Classic Cars for Sale is a 1959 BMW 507 found in the September 1978 issue...
The next installment in Sports Car Digest’s therapeutic look back at classified advertisements features two rare Porsche racing cars offered...
By Will Silk Bugatti is one of the most famous marques in the history of automobile manufacture, and Classic Cars for Sale takes a look at a Bugatti Type 50 that was offered in the the August 1957 issue of Motor Trend magazine. The classified advertisement displays a Bugatti Type...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1970 McLaren M8D/4 offered for sale in the March 1978...