Ferrari 512S Scuderia Filipinetti gathers speed.
Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Jonathan Sharp continues his photographic coverage of the 74th Goodwood Member’s Meeting. For more info read Part 1.
Events
Milano Autoclassica 2016
Fiat Abarth 1000.
Story and photos by Alessandro Gerelli
Milano Autoclassica, held between March 18 and 20, is a rather recent event for Milano but it has grown every year.This year the show attracted more than 50,000 visitors.
It is held in Milano Rho Fiera complex, and easily reached also by underground or train.
Inside there is a huge space for car exhibition, dealers and spare parts and also a small outdoor circuit for test drives.
As usual many Italian old cars exhibited by dealers and clubs, and an auction by Pananti with a few interesting cars and automobilia. Below, only a few of the many cars and items that were on display this year.
Ermini 357 Sport Scaglietti 1955.
29th Reims Vintage Car Show
This car is equipped with a radiator grill built by Emile Tonneline, a small coachbuilder from Courbevoie. After WWII, it was fashionable to give an American look to your car and Tonneline sold many of these radiator grills. But what kind of car has been given this treatment?
Story and photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt
If the French city of Reims is known worldwide for hosting many of the largest champagne-producing houses, the City of Kings is also famous among the motorsport enthusiasts for being the setting for fourteen French Grand Prix.
The 12 hours of Reims was also an important event of the endurance calendar and being held usually one month after the Le Mans 24 hours, it was often considered as an antidote to the Le Mans classic.
Although the old pits buildings have been recently restored, this is a bygone era as the fast Reims circuit ceased its activities in 1969.
The old pits building and the grandstands along the finish straight which is a national road between the villages of Thillois and Gueux.
Nevertheless, Reims is still attracting automotive enthusiasts from France and the neighboring countries. Every March the “Salon Champenois du Véhicule de Collection” is held. It is a big gathering of brand clubs and sellers of everything relevant of the vintage car passion. With hundreds of stands and stalls, you can be sure to find the parts you need to start your restoration project, to complete your miniature car collection or to find the old book you have been searching for.
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Hypercars at Geneva 2016
Sin Cars GT.
Story and photos by Alessandro Gerelli
The Geneva motor show is a very important event where all the car manufacturers present new models.
I have concentrated my attention to the most impressive (and expensive) cars at the show, starting from the most famous Italian sport cars but also including a few more names of other Europeans such as the Pagani Huayra, Sbarro Ginevra, Koenigsegg Regera, and the Magna Lykan Hypersport.
It is a gallery of technology, incredible design and performances, but for most of the visitors, they will remain only dreams. [Read more…] about Hypercars at Geneva 2016
Italians at the Clipsal 500, South Australia, 3-6 March 2016
Andrew Taplin/Dean Canto Lamborghini R-EX in turn 11.
Story and photos by Vince Johnson
March sees the official start of autumn in Australia but no one had told the city of Adelaide. In the near-century (38C) temperatures, the Holden, Ford, Nissan and Volvo V8 Supercars rolled into town for their opening event of the year. Annually, the streets and parklands on the eastern edge of the South Australian capital are transformed for four days, with a full program over seven classes of racing.
The meeting is also the first round of the Australian GT Championships. Germany and Great Britain had the numbers over the Italians. With six Audis, two BMWs, five McLarens, five Mercedes and three Porsches lined up against four Lamborghinis and a sole Ferrari, it was no surprise that at the end of qualifying they occupied the first five places on the grid for Friday’s race. [Read more…] about Italians at the Clipsal 500, South Australia, 3-6 March 2016
A Moving Experience in London
A superbly restored Alfa Duetto.
Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp
This year’s London Classic Car Show,now in its second year, has to my mind two unusual selling points. Firstly it is the only indoor show that I know of where some of the cars are actually driven during the event. [Read more…] about A Moving Experience in London
Rétromobile in Blue by Hugues Vanhoolandt
Editor’s Choice: The booth of the Swiss dealer Lükas Hüni is always one of the attractions of the show. This particular Bugatti Type 55 Roadster is considered to be the most original as it is the sole example that remains unrestored.
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Rétromobile in Red by Jonathan Sharp
Editor’s Choice: Sold new to former Italian hillclimb champion Franco Cornaccia of Scuderia Guastala in Milan, this 1951 212 Export Berlinetta by Vignale was entered in that year’s Carrera Panamericana II where Alberto Ascari and Luigi Villoresi won second place overall. Then 0161EL was sold to Santiago Ontanon, owner of Industrias 1-2-3. Driven by Paco Ibarra and Vincent Solar, this handsome little Ferrari Berlinetta finished the 1952 Carrera 7th in class and 24th overall.
Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp
Rétromobile Artcurial Auction by Alessandro Gerelli
Editor’s Choice: Stanguellini Motto coupè Motto (1949) did not sell; estimate was 220,000 to 280,000 euros.
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Rétromobile Bonhams Auction by Alessandro Gerelli
Editor’s Choice: Ferrari F40 (1990) not sold: estimate was 950,000 to 1,100,000 euros.
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Rétromobile RM Sotheby’s Auction by Alessandro Gerelli
Editor’s Choice: Ferrari 400 Superamerica LWB (1962) #3931 SA sold for 2,950,000 euros.
Photos and text by Alessandro Gerelli
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Italian Car Passion Show Part 2
Frank Ramecker’s outstanding Alfa 1900 Super Bicolore adds to the show its owner helped organize. Super car, super event.
Photos by Hugues Vanhoolandt Click on images to enlarge
Italian Car Passion, Autoworld Museum, Brussels
This week we catch up on rest rest of the cars at the Brussels Autoworld Museum Italian Car Passion show. This show will open until January 31st, so if you are in Europe, it is an impressive display, a special exhibition to “la bella macchina italiana”, featuring some 60 cars ranging from the 50s to this day, representing the most emblematic machines produced by mass manufacturers, renowned coachbuilders or talented craftsmen.
The other day we received an email from one of the organizers, Frank Rameckers, who wrote, “It is always great that visitors appreciated the hard work. For some cars it took me two years to convince the collectors of the cars to lend their car(s) for two months to the museum.”
We told him that the variety and selection was superb, and that he should take the show to New York and LA.
Wouldn’t that be nice? Don’t hold your breath.