SCD Motors - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Market
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Survival numbers of the earliest generation of truly lavish dual-purpose supercars, both in percentage and absolute terms, are miniscule. One would be hard-pressed to justify any other single surviving car's ability to better match the distinction of the 60HP FIAT, in its various forms, as the world's first cost-no-object road going supercar for supremacy on both public roads and the fastest racing circuits. Chassis 3003, this 1905 FIAT 60HP … [Read more...]
Produced from 1967 to 1969, the L88 was, for all intents and purposes, king of the Corvettes. Not for the cruising types, RPO L88 was more a racing package than a simple performance one. Solid lifters, aluminum heads built to Can-Am specs, and high compression gave the 427 big punch, but Chevrolet apparently wasn't too keen on revealing just how big that punch was. GM hardly marketed the L88 at all and claimed something like 430 horsepower in an … [Read more...]
This 1953 Ferrari 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione is offered for sale at the upcoming RM Auctions Villa d'Este sale, scheduled for May 25, 2013 in Cernobbio, Italy as part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d'Este weekend. Combining rarity, powerful mechanical specifications and important racing history, chassis 0320AM is one of three 340/375 MM works race cars that Ferrari entered at the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans in its efforts to counter … [Read more...]
Throughout the 1930s, Turinese textile industrialist Piero Dusio indulged his passion for motorsport. After winning his class on the 1937 Mille Miglia, he began to explore the possibilities of building his own racing cars. In 1946, the D46 single-seater appeared, built using readily-available Fiat mechanicals within a tubular steel space-frame chassis crafted at Cisitalia’s bicycle factory. The lightweight car swept all before it in the hands … [Read more...]
Southern California hot rodder Doane Spencer's contributions to car culture were very important. A big name in the postwar hot rodding scene, Spencer built, raced and constantly developed the 1932 Ford roadster he bought as a teenager before the war. In the early 1990s, he had begun work for his friend Darrell Brunn on an updated version of his famous roadster, one that would follow in the first car’s footsteps while benefitting from the … [Read more...]
1967 was the last year for the original Sting Ray Corvettes. America's sports car actually should have looked different that year, but its planned replacement wasn't quite ready in time, so a few quick revisions to the 1966 model made for a subtle but acceptable update. Most noticeable were the five small vents behind the front wheels in place of the three large ones on the '66 car, as well as the rectangular reverse light on the center part of … [Read more...]
Among the cars in Texas enthusiast Don Davis's great collection, which will all be sold 'without reserve' by RM Auctions on April 27, 2013, there are plenty of big and beautiful American machines. Most are incredibly rare and all are spotless, but the red lettering down the sides of one particular car draws the eyes immediately. Perhaps it is appropriate that our eyes should follow Davis's 1941 Chrysler Newport. It did, after all, serve as the … [Read more...]
On April 27, RM Auctions will sell 'without reserve' the enviable collection owned by Texas enthusiast Don Davis. The group is a nice mix of American and European classics, most of which are low production and recipients of expensive restorations. Undoubtedly, each car is special, but one stands out among the Western machines by way of its badge: Toyota. Overshadowed by the later and much more prevalent Datsun 240Z, the Toyota 2000GT represents a … [Read more...]
For Chevrolet enthusiasts, the Pennsylvania speed shop operated by Don Yenko was a holy site, and the Chevys produced there are today some of the most lusted after GM products of all. Yenko first really made a name for himself with the modified Corvair called the Stinger, but when the Camaro entered the picture in 1967 to go up against the Mustang, Yenko got even more ambitious. There was no big-block version of the Camaro on offer from … [Read more...]
The lifeblood of Ferrari, particularly in the early years, was competition. It is a widely held belief that the creation of road-going versions of the competition sports cars existed almost solely to support Il Commendatore’s racing effort. In many instances, engineering advances developed for battle can be traced directly to the road cars, such as the pioneering, weight-balancing use of the transaxle from the 275 series GTs. … [Read more...]
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