At its inaugural Geared Online auction on August 7th, Gooding & Company set a new online world record with the sale of a 1966...
Creating a replacement for the hugely successful 250 series of Ferraris was a daunting task for the engineers at Maranello....
What’s in a name? Let’s examine the two simple words that make up our feature car. Super: Very good or pleasant, excellent. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes...
Ever wonder what it must’ve been like way back when during those early shade-tree mechanic days when racers would vanish...
On July 18, 1955, an entertainment icon was established when Walt Disney opened the gates to his unique vision of...
The Ford GT40 Mark II that won the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race has been sold to enthusiast Rob Kauffman of RK Motors Charlotte. Developed by Carroll Shelby and driven to victory at Le Mans by Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon, the #2 GT40, chassis P/1046, will be...
1966 Pininfarina Ferrari 365P Berlinetta Speciale Designed by Pininfarina as a Ferrari concept car, the 365P Berlinetta Speciale utilized a...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
The Tourist Trophy; Oulton Park; April 29, 1966 Jack Brabham with the one-off Brabham BT17, a kind of enlarged BT8 fitted with a 4.3-liter Repco V8 engine. An interesting car, but it was not a success. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTIONPO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203)...
Built to showcase Vauxhall’s design innovation and autonomy in the mid-’60s, the XVR project was managed by the legendary Wayne...
The genesis for Volkswagen’s near-ubiquitous Transporter, or Microbus, was a combination of post-war necessity and the clever instincts of a...
1967 24 Hours of Daytona – The Revenge of “Il Commendatore” By Louis Galanos | Photos as credited The year 1966 was not a good year for Enzo Ferrari. Ford beat Ferrari with a humiliating 1-2-3 finish at both Daytona and Sebring and for the first time in six years...
Bitter from multiple sports car racing defeats at the hands of the potent Ford GT40 in 1966, Ferrari was determined...
Our recent 1967 24 Hours of Daytona Photo Gallery continues to be a very popular story, as it featured great...
American racing history was made at the 1967 24 Hour of Le Mans, and thus far has never been matched again. With the 24 Hours of Le Mans this past weekend, the Henry Ford Museum reflected on the 45th anniversary of the Ford Mark IV claiming the second of four...
In 1963, the Giulia Sprint GT was first shown to the press at Alfa’s recently opened plant in Arese, followed...
The initial design for the Amphicar—a contraction of Amphibious and Car—came from German racer and engineer Hans Trippel, who in...
We raced the car with the V-12 for the first time at Brands Hatch, at the Race of Champions.I remember it clearly as a very good handling car, and the engine had a lot of power for its time. By that time I had been racing in Europe for a...
By John Kerruish | Photographs by Mike Hayward Collection Just after 6:00pm on Sunday the 30th July 1967, as Phil...
The 1967 Can-Am race at Road America signaled the start of an era that would become known as “The Bruce...
Greg Smith is a long time vintage racing enthusiast and runs a restoration shop that has traditionally specialized in European machinery. His taste is eclectic and his breadth of knowledge is impressive, spanning the gamut from Bugatti to OHC Maudslay with loads of experience in between. About 10 years ago...
Soon after the Ferrari 330 GTC’s unveiling at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari introduced a companion Spider variant: the...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, will lift the gavel on an exceptional, race-bred 1967 Ferrari 330 P4 (chassis number...
Italy’s Best High-end luxury and sporting brands often have a tradition of creating a limited-edition halo product, something so special that it almost makes their core products seem commonplace by comparison. For Ferrari this tradition often involved naming the product after its intended market, beginning with the 212 Export of...
The David Piper driven Ferrari 412 P, in Ecurie Francorchamps’s livery (Belgian national racing team), as raced at the 1968...
The 330 GTC was unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Salon and was an amalgam of other Ferraris. It shared its...
So often the cars I research come with stories permanently attached. Stories of celebrity ownership or the classic “Fangio drove this car (insert any make) all over Europe.” It is great fun to research these stories but more often than not they are simply not true. Our subject car this...
In the mid-1960s, Ferrari wanted to go racing in Formula Two. The rub was, they needed a two-liter engine, and...
Not too long ago, a very good friend called me about his 1967 4.2 Jaguar XKE OTS. He had two...
Sackey & Co. recently sold a 1967 Lamborghini Miura P400 at an impressive $1,700,000 (plus buyer’s fee) through their Online Supercar Auctions platform. This Miura had a number of things going for it like a really low mileage of only 9,846 miles from new, the gorgeous Bleu Miura finish, and...
