Enzo Ferrari was so famously smitten by competition that he viewed road-car sales as a mere means to finance racing. The brand was synonymous with the top echelon of motorsport…
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Car of the Week: This Shelby Cobra Is One of the Winningest Cars Ever. Now It’s Heading to Auction.
by multimill
Whether called the “Essex Wire Cobra” or “Ollie the Dragon,” the car being referred to is revered as the winningest Shelby Cobra of all time. This legendary racer tore up…
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Why the 1967 Cadillac Eldorado Is Still the Marque’s Most Charismatic Car in Our Book
by multimill
Our collector-car column last week featured the 1963 Buick Riviera—a standout from America’s golden age of personal luxury automobiles. On its heels for this week is another of the trio…
There’s no doubting the Ford Mustang GTD’s supercar credentials now. The most hardcore version of the seventh-generation ‘Stang just became the fastest American production car in Nürburgring history. It circled…
A new era of exclusivity has arrived at Mercedes-Benz. Over the weekend, the German marque unveiled the finished version of its first Mythos car, the AMG PureSpeed, at the Abu…
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Car of the Week: This 1954 Mercedes-Benz Racer Could Fetch More Than $52 Million at Auction
by multimill
Race cars rarely come along as breathtaking or as valuable as this one. The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W 196 R Stromlinienwagen—or Streamliner—driven in competition by both Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling…
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Car of the Week: The Bugatti Type 35 Is Arguably the Winningest Racer Ever, and This One Is up for Grabs
by multimill
The shape is unmistakable; low-slung, pencil-thin, and defined by that bolt-upright, horseshoe-framed radiator and iconic French Racing Blue paintwork. This is the 1925 Bugatti Type 35, the Chiron supercar of…
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Car of the Week: Steve McQueen’s Porsche 917K From the ‘Le Mans’ Movie Is Now up for Grabs
by multimill
The collector-car world is currently in a frenzy. The legendary Porsche 917K that Steve McQueen, Hollywood’s “King of Cool,” owned and drove in his 1971 movie Le Mans, is coming…