Let’s whip around Modena with Moss and Collins for some test time.
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Basement Sharknose
There have been a few running and driving sharknose Ferrari 156 replicas built. And while they’ve received a warm welcome from the vintage community they’re still well outside of my skillset—but even I think I might be able to make this one!
This is a pretty casual look for Mike Hawthorn, who was known to race with a shirt and tie under his driving suit.
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The Lights Dim
This week we lost one of the greatest. In his honor, the Museo Ferrari lit only Niki’s car while the rest of their gallery went dark. Somehow this is the image that is hitting emotionally more than any of the other Lauda tributes I’ve seen this week.
I guess after his survival of that horrific crash in 1976, I just figured he was immortal. RIP Niki Lauda: 1949—1976(+43)
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Test Driving a 1972 Dino 246 GT
When you think of a Ferrari engine note, you probably aren’t imagining a 6-cylinder… and you definitely aren’t thinking a 6 would sound this beautiful.
45 years later it’s hard to believe that releasing a down-market (comparatively) sportscar would cause such a brand panic that Ferrari released it under it’s own Dino moniker. Today it’s absolutely as magnificent as any other 70’s Modena product.
Holy moly.
The sale on most people’s lips from last weekend’s RM|Sotheby’s auction at the Petersen Museum was (justifiably) the $22Million sale of a 1956 Ferrari 290MM by Scaglietti. The weekend was a success with almost 90% of the lots selling but, amazingly, that single Ferrari made up more than half the dollar value the auction’s total sales. By comparison there were some bargains to be had, and besides it’s always worth pointing out some of the amazing lots that didn’t make headlines.
1964 Messerschmitt KR 200 
1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ Zagato
289 Cobra 
1971 Lamborghini Miura SV 
1966 Toyota 2000GT 
1981 Lamborghini Countach 
1955 Mercedes 300SL Gullwing
That $30,000 sale has to be the highest price I’ve seen seen a Vespa command—even for one as rare as the Calessino.
“Brilliant Italian Race Car Manufacturer Pays Tribute to Dependable Champion Spark Plugs
‘The victory /of Alberto Ascari in one of our Ferrari cars in the 22nd Grand Prix of Italy at 115.547 miles per hour average, established new all-time records for the Monza track, and also established the highest speed attained in European circuits. This 4½ litre 12-cylinder Grand Prix Ferrari was equipped with 24 Champion Spark Plugs which withstood perfectly the uninterrupted strain of instantaneous acceleration and equally instaneous deceleration demanded by European type of racing tracks. At Monza, as on most European race courses, sharp turns and severe braking alternate with straight stretches where flat out speed is possible. We attribute a great deal of the merit of our success in the Grand Prix of England, Grand Prix of Germany, Grand Prix of Italy and the Monza Pan-American Race to the magnificent performance and unfailing dependability of Champion Spark Plugs.’
—Enzo Ferrari
Follow the Experts
Demand Dependable Champions for your Car.”
Hard to imagine Enzo actually saying any of these things.
via Just A Car Guy.
Get ready for LeMans weekend!
This video could have stopped at the handheld footage of the corners from an airplane passing slowly overhead and it still would have been worth sharing. But then the tours of the pits with some of the most beautiful cars ever made, including a whole suite of various Ferrari 250s and their shirtless pilots. Then they prepared for the LeMans start… and I’m hooked—all before the action even starts. Somehow even though I have such a deep love for vintage racing, the atmosphere of the pits and spectators in these old films draws me in just as much.