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Hemmings pulls the wraps off a forgotten Ferrari
In the June 2006 issue Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car lifts the wraps off a historic Ferrari warrior found wasting away in a New Hampshire barn. Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car editor Craig Fitzgerald...
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Mille Miglia begins next week
The route for the 2008 Mille Miglia mirrors the original race route. Mille Miglia, the event Enzo Ferrari called the “most beautiful race in the world,” will kick off in Brescia, Italy, on May 15, and...
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Four-Links – De Portago, Go With Moon!, Barrmy?, Adele
* From Automobiliac comes this excellent photo of Alfonso De Portago in a Ferrari on the 1957 Mille Miglia. The color, the composition, the setting, the excitement on the spectators’ faces all give it...
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The Porsche Museum’s Competitive Road Show
1960 Porsche 356B 1600GS Carrera GTL Abarth The Porsche Museum is not one of those stuffy museums where people can look at pretty, if lifeless, automobiles that, in their immobility, are shells of...
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Concorso Ferrari 2011: A Rare Glimpse of Beauty
Among the very special, rarely seen Ferraris participating in this year’s Concorso Ferrari in Old Pasadena, California, will be the event’s headliner – the stunning 1956 250 GT long wheelbase...
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Four-Links – Google travels the Mille Miglia, the missing “Dirty Mary, Crazy...
* Google’s done some cool car-related things with Google Street View, and as reader John Burtner showed us recently, one of their Street View cars apparently followed along with the 2009 Mille Miglia....
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1948 Bristol 400
Frankly, the vast majority of collector cars are not daily drivers, for better or worse. So while it’s easy to envision what you’re going to do with a brand-new car once you purchase it, it’s a little...
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Four-Links – 1999 Mille Miglia, Alpine vacation in a VW, Motion Can-Am Spyder...
* Even if you don’t read German, you won’t be disappointed with FormFreu.de’s look back on the 1999 Mille Miglia, loaded with plenty of (film!) photos. * While we’re discussing German-language...
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Bentley, BMW, Jaguar and Porsche relive history at this year’s Mille Miglia
Italy’s historic 1,000-mile race, the Mille Miglia, was run annually from Brescia to Rome and back, from 1927 through 1940, and from 1947 through 1957. This year marks the 35th that the Mille will be...
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Four-Links – Mille Miglia, KC Microcars, Chevrolet promo bus, Nat Danas RIP
* While we didn’t have the opportunity to see the Mille Miglia this year, that’s alright – FormFreu took plenty of beautiful pics. * Nor could we hit up the Kansas City Microcar Meet, also held this...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1933 Fiat 508S Balilla
Unfortunately, it’s not known whether this 1933 Fiat 508S Balilla Mille Miglia Spyder for sale on Hemmings.com actually competed in the event it’s named for, but the seller of this competition variant...
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Porsche’s “Rolling Museum” to attend Mille Miglia, Le Mans, and more
The 1970 Le Mans-winning Porsche 917 KH of Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood. All photos courtesy Porsche. As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the iconic Porsche 911, the automaker’s...
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Four-Links – Lincoln Highway centennial, 1950s NY Auto Show photos, 1958...
* As we reported last year, a number of events have been scheduled to celebrate the centennial of the Lincoln Highway. One of those, which just wrapped up, was the Lincoln Highway Association’s...
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Russia’s first international concours d’elegance to focus on truly unique cars
Photo courtesy uniques special ones. MAC Group, the Italian firm behind the modern Mille Miglia and Coppa Milano Sanremo, will take its event-organizing expertise to St. Petersburg with their “uniques...
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Porsche’s museum hits the road In 2014
Photography courtesy Porsche AG, Ennstal Classic, Curt Smith and RudolphSimon. The Porsche Museum in Zuffenhausen, Germany, is an ultra-modern facility housing roughly 80 of the most influential and...
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Where is this 1957 Lotus Eleven factory team car hiding?
Photo by the author. You would think a noteworthy race car, one that is as historically significant as this ex-factory team Lotus Mark XI is, would be part of an important car collection in its home...
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Jaguar Heritage participating in 2015 Mille Miglia with celebrity lineup
Clive Beecham (L) and Ian Callum in a Jaguar D-type. Photos courtesy of Jaguar Land Rover. From 1927 to 1957 (excluding the war years of 1939 and 1941-’46), the Mille Miglia was one of the world’s...
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A world champion with unrealized potential: the 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR
The Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR. Photos courtesy Daimler AG. Had things gone as planned, Mercedes-Benz would have introduced its 300 SLR during the 1954 season; instead, the silver sports racer wouldn’t...
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Golden age survivor – Fangio’s 1956 Ferrari 290 MM
1956 Ferrari 290 MM, in the same livery raced by Fangio in 1956. Photos by Tim Scott, Fluid Images and courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. After losing to Lancia in 1954 and Mercedes-Benz...
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Hemmings Find of the Day – 1947 Cisitalia 202 SMM Spyder
With a couple of Mille Miglias under its belt, its original engine, and a complete history – not to mention simply being one of the limited-production SMM competition versions patterned after a car...
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Once raced by Stirling Moss, an unrestored Jaguar C-Type headlines at Monaco
XKC 011, a 1952 Jaguar C-Type. Photos by Matt Howell, courtesy Bonhams Auctions, unless otherwise noted. Jaguar’s XK 120 C, commonly referred to as the C-Type, put the racing world on notice when it...
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