I know a number of extremely knowledgeable individuals who simply state that if they could own only one collector car, it would be an 8C 2300In the early 1930s, Italian road racing, and motor sport in general, relied on various tiers of competit...
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Unlike most high-value sports cars seen on the track, at concours or auction, this car doesn’t boast a better-than-new respray. It has no paint at allChassis 2401 occupies a place of distinction in the evolution of Maserati sports racing cars,...
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This is a very collectible automobile, albeit for an enthusiast with a specific set of passions, with Le Mans, French, and weird being essential to the mix From 1950-64, Panhard & Levassor rekindled a sporting tradition dating back to 1895 a...
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Frank Nichols’ first sports-racer was built in 1954, designed by Mike Chapman, competing immediately and successfully against the similar small-displacement Lotus sports-racers of Colin Chapman. Its success encouraged Nichols to emulate its de...
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They're simply too basic, too brutal. The 2.9 liter four will rattle your fillings out and this car is far too fragile to use anywhere but the trackAlthough Maserati had enjoyed competition success with its championship-winning 250F Grand Prix c...
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In the history of F1, every once in a while a car has come along thatcompletely changes the game. This was one of themWilliams F1, one of the world's leading Formula One motor racing teams, was founded in 1977 by Frank Williams and Patrick Head....
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A well-driven lightweight Sebring Sprite is quite capable of worrying a Lotus Elite on the race track. Who'd have thought it?In 1958, following the Austin-Healey 100, Donald Healey and BMC (British Motor Corporation) teamed up to introduce the l...
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In spite of its great history, the car was restored as an "East Coaster" with a high-tech small-block and other modern go-fast partsThis Camaro is the car that Vince Gimondo drove to a 2nd in class at the 12 Hours of Sebring, 9th overall at Watk...
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A problem with Listers is that virtually all of them were horribly abused in their "just old race cars" daysIn 1957, Brian Lister built his first Jaguar-powered sports racer, with which he achieved outstanding racing victories with the brilliant...
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People playing with this kind of car originally formed the Bentley Drivers Club in the 1930s. Values are a function of how long ago the car was createdRecipe: Take a good 3-liter Red Label Bentley chassis, mix in a good 4½-liter engine, gearbo...
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One of the enduring fantasies in the automobile hobby is that of flinging a pure racing car about on public roadsBy the mid 1990s, there was growing interest at Mercedes-Benz and Porsche in returning to an ultra-exclusive form of racing featurin...
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You couldn't think about an equivalent Formula One car for less than four to five times the money. The engine alone is worth half what the car sold forThe advantages of four-wheel drive had been shown at Indianapolis in 1967, and George Bignotti...
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Aside from yesterday's paper (and maybe "yesterday's girl" if you're a Stones fan), nothing is quite as unloved as last year's also-ran competition carThe toughest post-war test for motor car and crew ever is reckoned to have been the 1970 Londo...
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What this is about is the pre-war Grand Prix experience in an attainable, moderately bomb-proof and reliable packageThe Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Prix took its double barreled name from an ex-military major who in France was known as Antoine, in Eng...
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An 87-year-old car is like an older person; you certainly don't expect them to run and jump with the young folks, but they can be fascinating to be aroundFor 1922 and the following three seasons, the Automobile Club of France elected to limit en...
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