Sports Car Market - August, 2009 Issue
CLASSIC AND COLLECTOR CAR PROFILES
1970 Aston Martin DB6 Mk II
The culmination of Aston Martin’s long-running line of “DB” 6-cylinder sports saloons, the DB6 was introduced in 1965. Aston Martin lengthened the...
1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa
In 1957, the Commission Sportive Internationale contemplated new rules to make sports car racing safer after the 1955 disaster at Le Mans....
1980 BMW M1 Coupe
A proposed Group 5 “Silhouette Formula” for production-based cars triggered the M1 program in the mid-1970s, a mid-engined concept car designed...
1990 Ferrari 641/2 F1
Ferrari entered 1990 with a dream driver lineup. Nigel Mansell was in his second season with the Scuderia and Alain Prost was making his debut with...
COLUMNS
Affordable Classics
Triumph’s Joan Rivers
The age of the biplane fighter lasted from roughly 1915 to 1941, by which time the last of the fabric-covered, fixed-gear aircraft like the Gloster...
Legal Files
Track Day Insurance
Here’s a man-bites-dog twist to track day crash liability concerns, resulting from a crash at a Dodge Viper Owners Invitational track event at Las...
Sheehan Speaks
The New Reality
The inspiration for this column occurred in March, when I returned from lunch to find an email from a Lusso owner who wanted us to sell his car and...
Shifting Gears
Predilections and Predictions
July is an oddly quiet month in the collector car world. While there are auctions going on, vintage car shamans are still picking apart the results...