At the 1968 Paris Motor Show, Alfa Romeo unveiled a stunning concept car known as the Carabo. Designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, the Carabo was a revolutionary, wedge-shaped design built on an Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 Stradale chassis. Many aspects of the Carabo would be seen again years later in Gandini’s Lamborghini Countach design....
Porsche, throughout its racing career, has created some of the most iconic machines of all time: the RSK, 904, 906, 908… and, of course, the 917. Also among these celebrated creations is the 911 RSR: a purpose-built racer created to compete in the GT category. In 1973, two “privateer” RSRs fought it out tooth and...
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The Schlumpf Automobile Collection First published in 1989, this three-language review of the famed Schlumpf automobile collection in Mulhouse, France, is now available in softcover. With 181 pages of photographs and text, this work chronicles and categorizes the nearly 500 vehicles that made up the famed French textile heirs’ collection, including 122 Bugattis (!), dozens of rare Mercedes, Maserati, Gordini, Ferrari, De Dion, Renault, Maybach and Alfa Romeo, as well as significant examples of one-offs and works prototypes. In addition to the cars, the text also explores the history of the Schlumpf family and fortune, including the 1976 revolution by…
In 1950, Gerry Coker got a job at the Donald Healey Motor Company as Healey’s body engineer. A short time into his employ with the company, Healey offers up a challenge: give me a design for a sports car. What Coker comes back with is one of the most beautiful and iconic designs for a...
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