It was the first time that supercars in the city hit the red carpet on Sunday morning. India’s first Formula 1 driver Narayan Karthikeyan flagged off the rally.
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The main part of the exhibition contains 80 Porsche designs including the original 1930s Volkswagen Beetle conceived by Ferdinand Porsche himself. It was the car that inspired Adolf Hitler, and relaunched with British help after the Second World War, the little vehicle went on to become a symbol of the country’s post-war economic miracle before giving way to the ubiquitous Volkswagen Golf in the 1970s.
Welcome to Pro Bono Publico, one of India’s few vintage and classic vehicle museums, home to more than 70 old cars, which made international news recently when one of the cars, a Cadillac Coup de Ville - series 62 - manufactured in 1952, won the prestigious Cartier ‘Travel with Style’ Concours d’Elegance award in November.
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The oldest of the new arrivals is a 1953 4 ‘Monoposto’ Alvis Special which has been in storage in Germany for the past decade.
“This fantastic Type 51 is an excellent example of a great car coming to auction and being offered for the first time in over 20 years” --Managing Director of RM Auctions
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You can see subway cars from all eras at the New York Transit Museum, open year-round. In addition to the old cars, some highlights are the token machines and turnstiles from the past 100 years.
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The whole feeling of the event revolves around recapturing an era of motorsports when the cars were simple and the drivers were visible. In today’s modern racing, drivers are high on a pedestal and as approachable as getting a tee time with Tiger Woods.
Returning to the state of the art Battersea Evolution event arena, the highly anticipated auction promises another fantastic collection of vintage motor cars, headlined by an elegant 1938 Horch 853 Special Roadster, an ultra-rare 1938 Bugatti Type 57C Atalante and a stunning 1924 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Torpedo.
Jansen, 22, already has won two feature races in her hot pink 1933 Plymouth Coupe and is second in the points standings.
Fiskens and the Royal Automobile Club once again supported the Woodcote Trophy, the series for production-based sports cars. With a 46-strong entry list featuring four Aston Martin DB3Ss, five Jaguar D-Types, a Ferrari Testarossa, two Maserati 300Ss, as well as Morgans and Healeys amongst others, it represented the best of Le Mans from the 1950s.
This weekend weekend of bad motorsports keeps getting worse. Yesterday, Scott Kalitta. Today, Dino Crescentini.
Crescentini was participating in a race as part of the 29th International Vintage Racing Festival at the track.
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When the makeover is on the larger and more luxurious end of the scale, the result is known as a “garage mahal,” a term that’s picking up speed as more and more deluxe garages pop up across the land.
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Roy Rowe has always had a passion for vintage cars.
The Stutz Bearcat, had an impressive run of racing records. One record that probably never will be broken was that it was built in just five weeks for the Indianapolis 500 in 1911.
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After this weekend’s exciting performance Andrew Johnstad our Semi-Pro driver is going to the BIG SHOW. He qualified after a stellar performance this weekend at WPSA’s X Game invitational,
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BRITAIN’S Lord Paul Vestey loves his unique 1959 Ferrari California Spider so much he’ll go to the end of the earth to drive it – or, to be exact, to the glorious roads of the Adelaide region.
The road continues to the Ferrari World Finals, at the Mugello Circuit from 24 to 28 October, when also present for its traditional demonstration will be Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro, the team that has already taken the 2007 Formula 1 Constructors’ World Championship title. This weekend’s “Ferrari Racing Days” event at the German Hockenheim circuit is infact the final round on this year’s calendar for Corse Clienti of Maranello, prior to the final party.
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The European series of the Ferrari Challenge Pirelli Trophy and the Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge will share the stage this weekend at Germany’s Hockenheim circuit, in both cases for the final round on the calendar prior to coming together again for the 2007 Ferrari World Finals, at the Mugello Circuit, from 24 to 28 October.
F1, FXX and Ferrari Challenge in action at Paul RicardFerrari Racing Days got underway today at France’s Paul Ricard HTTT circuit at Le Castellet.