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.
By Will SilkWhen conversing about American premium luxury automobile manufacturers, no conversation would be complete without the mention of Packard; the focus of this edition of Classic Cars for Sale with a 1937 Super Eight Convertible Sedan found in the 1965 catalog of the Vintage Car Store.Packard’s history is lengthy and indeed worthy of a feature length story in its own right. In … [Read more...]
By Will SilkThis edition of Classic Cars for Sale comes from the pages of a 1965 dealer catalog that features a beautiful 1953 Frazer Nash Roadster up for offer. The story of Frazer Nash is often a misunderstood tale at best. Many in the collector car hobby believe that Frazer Nash was part of Kaiser-Frazer or the classic American manufacturer known as Nash, however that is not the case as … [Read more...]
By Will SilkBugatti is one of the most famous marques in the history of automobile manufacture, and Classic Cars for Sale takes a look at a Bugatti Type 50 that was offered in the the August 1957 issue of Motor Trend magazine.The classified advertisement displays a Bugatti Type 50 roadster sporting the blown 4.9 liter engine. It was perhaps the engine that truly set this car apart and … [Read more...]
By Will SilkThe latest Classic Cars for Sale is a 1959 BMW 507 found in the September 1978 issue of Hemmings Motor News.While the BMW 507 may be viewed as a contemporary German masterpiece by some, it was actually much more American in spirit than many will give credit for. The early 1950s were a struggling time for much of the world, as many nations were still rebounding from the … [Read more...]
By Will SilkOur latest Classified Ads of the Past profile is an incredible 1951 Allard J2X Roadster that was advertised in a 1965 Vintage Car Store catalog. The Allard J2X marked the high water mark for the Allard marque when it first appeared in 1951 as an evolution of the Allard J2. Sydney Herbert Allard started out racing motorcycles and Morgan 3-Wheelers. In 1929, Allard purchased … [Read more...]
By Will SilkFew will doubt that perhaps the most breathtaking cars ever to emerge from Germany were the beautiful 300 SL Gullwing coupes of the mid-1950s. This edition of Classified Ads from the Past spotlights an advertisement for two of these svelte machines that originally appeared in the pages of Road & Track’s April, 1964 issue.The year was 1952, and Germany was searching … [Read more...]
By Will SilkOur latest classified ad from the past comes from an April, 1986 edition of Hemmings Motor News and is none other than a pristine Aston Martin DB3S Coupe; a rare variant of one of Britain’s greatest sports cars. The 1950s saw a new breath of life come into Aston Martin, as Sir David Brown, a wealthy entrepreneur in England who was widely known for his agricultural machines, … [Read more...]
By Will SilkThe latest Classified Ads from the Past is a rare all-aluminum 1955 Arnolt-Bristol offered for sale in the pages of Road & Track in 1972 for $6,000.The story of the Arnolt-Bristol is a short lived, but incredibly wild venture. The man behind the beautiful Arnolt-Bristol cars started out as a mechanical engineer in the Midwest United States before the second World War. When … [Read more...]
Story by Will SilkThis edition of Classified Ads from the Past features an advertisement for a rare Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL racing saloon with an impressive history. The ad for this particular 300 SEL was originally run in the May, 1972 issue of Road & Track Magazine.Many think of Mercedes-Benz as the ultimate in luxury car technology from Germany, and with very good reason, as the marque … [Read more...]
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1958 Maserati 250F offered for sale in the October 1962 issue of Road & Track for $3,650.The Maserati 250F was a racing car made by Maserati used in 2.5 litre Formula One racing between January 1954 and November 1960. … [Read more...]
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1967 Ford GT40 Mk IV offered for sale in the November 1976 issue of Hemmings for $85,000.The Ford GT40 was built to win long-distance sports car races, ultimately winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times in a row, from 1966 to 1969. The car was named the GT (for Grand Tourisme) with the 40 representing its overall … [Read more...]
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1952 Jaguar C-Type offered for sale in a 1962 issue of Road & Track for $3,500.The Jaguar C-Type is a racing car built by Jaguar and sold from 1951 to 1953. Its aerodynamic body was designed by Malcolm Sayer, its lightweight, multi-tubular, triangulated frame designed by Bob Knight. A total of 52 were built. The "C" … [Read more...]
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial offered for sale in the September 1985 issue of Hemmings for $145,000.In the early 1950s, Ferrari shifted from using the compact Gioacchino Colombo-designed V12 engine in its smallest class of sports racers to a line of four cylinder engines designed by Aurelio Lampredi. Inspired by the success of … [Read more...]
This week's look back at old classified advertisements features a Toyota 2000GT race car offered for sale in the April 1985 issue of AutoWeek magazine for $37,500.The Toyota 2000GT was first seen at the Tokyo Motor Show of 1965, with production taking place between 1967 and 1970. It revolutionized the automotive world's view of Japan, formerly seen as a producer of imitative and stodgily … [Read more...]
January 2009 Update: This very same Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder recently sold at Gooding's Scottsdale Auction for $4,950,000. It is believed the seller bought the Ferrari from our profiled classified ad. Well bought in 1976 and very well sold.10/15/08: The next chapter in Sports Car Digest's look back at classified advertisements features a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder … [Read more...]
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