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With the austerity of the early postwar era comfortably in the rearview mirror and the Swinging Sixties just around the corner, the introduction of the Aston Martin DB4 at the London Motor Show in October 1958 was well timed. The DB4 built on the success of the DB2 and its many variants, but was appreciably more contemporary, offering a platform..

The 230 S, also known as the Heckflosse, or “Fintail,” was built as a luxury edition of the Mercedes-Benz line designed to perform as effectively on the back roads as it did on the boulevards. The six-cylinder overhead-camshaft engine with its twin carburetors was tuned to produce a top speed of 109 mph – deemed at the time “Super” perf..

Offered from the estate of Erickson Shirley, a highly experienced vintage racer and collector, this 1964 Chevrolet Corvette carries known ownership dating to the mid-1980s, when this former SCCA racer was spotted in Competition Press/ Autoweek and acquired by Bill Morrison. Racing fans will recognize Morrison’s name as a co-dri..

Jaguar’s brilliant E-Type thoroughly reinvented series-production sports cars at its 1961 Geneva Motor Show debut. According to an accompanying JDHT certificate, this early production 3.8-litre example was manufactured on August 12, 1963, and dispatched 17 days later for shipment to the US. Factory-finished in Carmen Red with Red upholstery and ..

The 1960s saw a second golden age in the competition history of Alfa Romeo. Models such as the SZ, TZ, and TZ2, along with the Tipo 33 sports racing prototypes, made Alfa Romeo a potent force on the world’s circuits. The exciting production racing classes were not ignored either, with the 105-series Giulia Sprint GT providing the base for a high..

In late 1957, just as production of Pinin Farina’s Series I Cabriolet was getting underway, Ferrari was in the process of developing a new open 250 GT variant for the booming North American market. Ferrari’s leading US dealers, Luigi Chinetti and John von Neumann, impressed upon the factory the need for a simple, dual-purpose 250 GT Spider – a c..

Following up on the Spider 1750 Veloce and Spider 2000, Alfa Romeo’s svelte and desirable Pininfarina-designed Spider Veloce remains a definitive Italian sports car with a lusty and sonorous DOHC two-liter, four-cylinder powerplant, five-speed manual gearbox, and four-wheel disc brakes. Built with thoughtfully updated details, the Spider Veloce ..

As the dune buggy craze swept through the West Coast’s beach culture, the East Coast felt largely left out of the fun. Ken Allison, owner of a highly regarded paint and fiberglass body shop in Daytona Beach, Florida, saw an opportunity and began building the Allison Daytona. His creations quickly became known for their high-quality, handlaid fib..

Alfa Romeo’s first all-new postwar model introduced innovations that influenced the Italian automaker’s next half-century of sports car production. The 1900 series paired modern unibody construction with a twin-cam, inline four-cylinder engine featuring an aluminum head with hemispherical combustion chambers. Variants were constructed by Italy’s..

The hands-down headline attraction among the 15 new designs exhibited by Pininfarina at the March 1964 Geneva Motor Show was the Ferrari 500 Superfast, which debuted as a larger, more powerful, and even more luxurious replacement for the 400 Superamerica. Based on its speed, power, and extreme cost, it captured the public’s imagination in a mann..