Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
Mercedes-Benz Wants to Sell You a Nice Used Car for $775,000 Review by Jason H. Harper, Bloomberg Driving in posh locales such as Malibu, among the Ferraris and Bentleys, can be an ego-bruising experience. Today, though, I'm looking like a Hollywood player, behind the wheel of a classic Mercedes-Benz, salty wind blowing in my hair. In fact, I'm motoring along the Pacific Coast Highway in a … [Read more...]
The Wall Street Journal had an article today about the escalating farm tractor market. Yes, apparently farm tractors are the latest vintage item to take off, with some early 20th century tractors hitting six figures on the auction circuit. Talk about a barn find... Click here for the entire Wall Street Journal story. … [Read more...]
One constant among car enthusiasts all over the world is the barn find dream. This fantasy includes discovering a classic car wasting away in a barn or garage, the owner saying "I have no idea what it's worth," followed by the realization that once home and cleaned up, your classic car is Pebble Beach Concours Preservation Class ready. … [Read more...]
Former world champion John Surtees today paid tribute to his former teammate Jim Clark, who died 40 years ago today. Surtees and Clark drove for Lotus together in 1960, before Surtees left to drive for Cooper, Lola, and then Ferrari who he won the 1964 title with. Clark, meanwhile, remained with Lotus throughout his career and won the world championship in 1963 and 1965. He was killed during a … [Read more...]
HPI survey reveals Porsche 911 as ultimate 80s car With the hit BBC TV series Ashes to Ashes drawing to a close this week, the Porsche 911 took almost a third of all votes 29%, just pipping the Audi Quattro with 28%, to be crowned the decade's most desirable car, in a poll conducted by vehicle check specialists HPI.Both cars left their 80s rivals trailing in the dust, with only the Ford Sierra … [Read more...]
SPEEDtv.com has teamed with the American Le Mans Series and AmericanLemans.com to re-live great sports car racing action through bi-weekly online video presentations called, American Le Mans Memories. SPEEDtv.com will be opening the sports car racing archives to deliver a package of highlights, interviews and memories based on the original broadcasts.American Le Mans fans have been the … [Read more...]
The end is in sight for work on the building site for the new museum for Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart. At present, over 40 different companies with up to 250 tradesmen and specialists are at work at the Porscheplatz. "Work is going well according to plan. Wind and weather allowing, the museum should be completed by the end of the year," says Anton Hunger, Publicity and Press Manager for … [Read more...]
In 1913, Robert Bamford and Lionel Martin created Bamford and Martin Limited to sell cars made by Singer from a London-based plant.Racing success by Martin at the 1914 Aston Hill Climb prompted a name change to the famed Aston Martin known throughout the motoring world. This event also incited the partners to make their own vehicles. As the saying goes, the rest is history.To support … [Read more...]
Thirty years ago, at the 1978 Paris Motor Show, BMW's Motorsport or "M" Division presented its first ever model and at the same time, the Bavarian carmaker's first and last mid-engine supercar, the M1. Designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the production car was inspired by the 1972 BMW Turbo show car. BMW originally commissioned Lamborghini to work out the details of the car's chassis, assemble … [Read more...]
The average increase of collector car values -- from February 2004 to February 2008 -- was 36 percent, more than double the S&P 500 Index increase and the Dow Jones Industrial Average increase of 16 percent respectively during that same time frame, according to a report released today. The report, developed by NADAguides.com (http://www.nadaguides.com/), a leading vehicle pricing and … [Read more...]
Built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in Germany, the Nordschleife circuit at Nurburgring is unlike any race track on earth. It is widely considered the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built track in the world.The 12.9 mile circuit is composed of 73 corners (many of them blind and all lined with unyielding Armco) mixed with massive elevation … [Read more...]
From Hagerty Insurance: Welcome to Hagerty Plus' Model-Building Contest. We're launching this contest with the help of car clubs all across the country as a way of giving young people a thrilling, hands-on introduction to the collector car hobby. It's easy for your club to join in the fun – you just have to find kids to participate, and Hagerty Plus will handle the rest. By hosting the … [Read more...]
London's The Daily Telegraph newspaper recently published a list of the 100 most beautiful cars of all time as chosen by its readers. A top anything list is always divisive, and this list will certainly bring its share of criticism. While there is an obvious British bias to the list, some cars will make you scratch your head in disbelief. Case in point is #2 on the list. The readers have … [Read more...]
Model: 1975 Ferrari 312 T2 Formula 1 Go KartDrivetrain: Ducati single cylinder 2 stroke motorColors: Red/BlackOther Information: According to the seller, after Niki Lauda won the 1975 F1 Championship in a Ferrari 312 T2, Ferrari commissioned Italy Cars to build a scaled down replica of the championship winning car to be sold through Ferrari dealerships worldwide. Approximately 100 of … [Read more...]
Sports Car Digest did not attend the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring, so we did the next best thing and found great YouTube videos that give the viewer a better feel for the event that you cannot get from Speed TV.As an aside, on principle, SCD does not highlight videos that have music piped in over the exhaust note. We have no idea why the authors think that's a good idea – it's not. We hope you … [Read more...]
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