Think of it as the gold standard of 1950s-era Ferraris. This stunning 1958 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta “Tour de France” (TdF), with its curvaceous aluminum body by Carrozzeria Scaglietti,…
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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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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…
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Car of the Week: This 1,018 HP Koenigsegg Prototype Could Fetch $2.3 Million at Auction
by multimill
Koenigsegg called it the “Flower Power” car. Back in 2006, when most supercar builders were focused on ever-increasing muscle, the Swedish automaker decided to combine output with sustainability via its…
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Car of the Week: This 1923 Mercedes Raced in the Indy 500 a Century Ago. Now It Could Fetch More Than $5 Million.
by multimill
In 1923, the supercharged Mercedes-Benz Type 22 race car was the equivalent of Lewis Hamilton‘s Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula 1 car today. So confident was Mercedes—or Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, as the…
It’s the supercar you’ve never heard of. Designed by legendary Italian coachbuilder Zagato, powered by an all-American GM small-block V-8, and hand-built in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, the AC 378…
Ninety years ago, Mercedes-Benz‘s 500 K Special Roadster was arguably the coolest car money could buy. With its flowing fenders, mile-long hood, muscular 5.1-liter supercharged straight-eight engine, and raked-back windscreen,…
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Car of the Week: This Forgotten Mercedes-Benz 300 SL ‘Alloy’ Gullwing Could Fetch $6 Million at Auction
by multimill
Since 1967, Rudi Klein had quietly amassed an astonishing collection of some of the world’s most revered automobiles—along with an Everest of parts—at his junkyard. The treasure trove included the…