1921 Ballot 3/8 LC Ballot was formed by Edouard Ballot who built engines for many different manufacturers. In 1919, he...
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1924 Alfa Romeo P2 The first car designed by Vittorio Jano in 1924, the P2 is also the first Alfa...
1924 Delage 2LCV For the ACF’s 2-litre formula, Delage released the 2LCV. A highlight of the car was its V12...
1925 Delage Bequet Grand Prix This special racer out that started out as a Delage 2 LCV until it was...
1926 BNC 527 GS 1926 BNC 527 GS Gallery See full 1926 BNC 527 GS Gallery here...
1927 Lancia Lambda MM Zagato Spider The 1927 Mille Miglia was Lancia’s first motor sport race and they used a...
1931 Maserati 4CS 1100 4CS was Maserati’s first sports car intended for the 1100cc class at the Mille Miglia. These...
1931 Maserati 8C 2800 Final evolution of the original Maserati Tipo 26 to compete against the latest Alfa Romeo 8C...
1932 Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 Biposto Of the thirteen or so Alfa P3s made, only one, chassis B5001, was...
1932 Maserati 4CM 1100 In Detail submitted by Richard Owen engine Supercharged Inline-4 valvetrain DOHC 2 Valves / Cyl displacement...
1932 Maserati 4CS 1500 The 4CS was Maserati’s first road car. It was a two-seat version of the 4CM-1100 monoposto...
1932 Maserati 8C 3000 The Tipo 8C 3000 was the final two-seater Grand Prix Maserati. Between 1930-1932, the Maserati brothers...
1933 Maserati 4CM 2000 This unique car has an offset driving position. The driver sits just right from the center...
1933 Maserati 8CM The Maserati 8CM was a Grand Prix race car produced by Maserati between 1933 and 1935. Maserati had designed...
1934 Aston Martin Ulster In 1927 Aston Martin was taken over by race driver A. C. Bertelli. He designed a...
1934 Auto Union Typ A First appearance of the Auto Union Silver Arrow happened on the Avus race track in...
1934 Maserati 6C 34 Some big rule changes in F1 in 1934 meant that competing cars could not weigh more than...
1935 Delahaye 135 Spécial In 1936 the ideal French sports car was the 135 Special. It used the most developed...
1935 Pirrung Special One of the very first cars to use the fabled Offenhauser engine was this 1935 Indy special....
1935→1935 Auto Union Typ B Mercedes-Benz still dominated in Grand Prix 1935, but the Auto Union Typ B still won...
1936 Alfa Romeo 12C To compete with the German might of Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union, Alfa Romeo let Vittorio Jano...
1936 Auto Union Typ C Mercedes-Benz domination in Grand Prix ended with the Auto Union Typ C. It took a...
1936 Maserati 6CM Maserati built the Maserati 6CM race car for the Voiturette racing series. It is a single-seater car produced from 1936 to...
Delahaye 145 Grand Prix To encourage local manufacturers, the French Government and the Automobile Club of France hosted a competition...
1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900MM The dominant race manufacturer of the thirties was Alfa Romeo. From 1930, up to the...
1938 Maserati 8CTF Gone was the ridiculous maximum weight of 750 kg that F1 had, replaced instead by a minimum...
1938 Sparks-Thorne Little Six Having run the Indianapolis 500 seven times, the Sparks-Thorne special is a huge part of the...
1938→1939 Auto Union Typ D Leading up to the end of 1937, Auto Union had won 32 of 54 races...
1939 Maserati 4CL The Maserati 4CL and its derived sister model the Maserati 4CLT are single-seat racing cars that were designed and...
DAIMLER-BENZ T80 World-renown German auto racer Hans Stuck’s pet project was to take the world land speed record and he...
1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Kamm Coupé IN 2010 BMW completed an exacting replica of their 328 Kamm Coupé which...
1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Roadster The original plans envisaged three 2 Series BMW 328 Roasters being built with streamlined...
1940 Maserati 8CL After the war, Maserati raced both the Maserati 8CL and Maserati 4CL. Following on the success of Wilbur...
1941 BMW 328 Berlin-Rome Roadster Plans for the long-distance rally from Berlin to Rome were already being forged at the...
1947 Fiat 1100 S One of Fiats first post-war efforts was a racing variant of the 1100 known simply as...
1947 Maserati A6GCS After the war, Maserati raced both the 8CL and 4CL. Right before the Maserati brothers left the...
1948 Maserati 4CLT/48 Chassis and engine changes made to the experimental Maserati 4CLs eventually coalesced into the 4CLT, the appended T denoting...
1948→1958 Stanguellini 750 Sport Internazionale Built alongside the larger and faster 1100, the 750 was Stanguellini’s smallest sports racecar. It...
1949 Baldwin-Mercury Special Following the Baldwin-Payne Special, Willis Baldwin built this race car for use in SCCA’s modified classes on...
1950 Jaguar-Parkingson Special After crashing his XK120 chassis 670191 in the Pebble Beach Road Races, Don Parkingson kept the remains...
1950 OSCA MT4 One of the ideal Italian sports was the OSCA developed by the Maserati brothers. The model famously...
1950 OSCA MT4 Vignale Berlinetta One of the ideal Italian sports cars was the OSCA MT4. It was developed by...
1950→1951 Aston Martin DB2 ‘Team Car’ After the success of Aston Martin’s DB2 prototypes at the 1949 Le Mans, some...
1951 Alfa Romeo 159 Alfetta Alfa Romeo followed its Grand Prix Championship triumph of 1950 with a repeat performance in...
1952 Auto Union Typ 650 ‘Sokol’ In the post-war era, Josef Stalin’s communist party had taken contol of Auto Union...
1952 Ferrari 340 Mexico Spyder The 340 Mexico was a purpose-built racecar intended for the Carrera Panamerica. Three of these...
1952 Siata 208CS Using Fiat’s Otto Vù engine and chassis with a unique coupe body, this was Siata’s answer to...
1952 Tatum-GMC Special Convinced by what Allard and other European manufacturers were doing, Chuck Tatum decided to built his own...
1952 Tojeiro Bristol Special Along with help from Vin Davison, John Tojeiro built many one-of cars having various engines and...
1953 Cunningham C4R At the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, Briggs Cunningham attempted the first all-American win with three...
1953 Ferrari 735 S In Detail submitted by Richard Owen type Racing Car engine Inline-4 valvetrain SOHC 2 Valves...
1953 Gordini Type 24S To compete with the Maserati 300S, Mercedes-Benz 300SL, and Aston Martin DB3S and Austin Healey 100,...
1953 Porsche 550 Prototype Coupé One year before Porsche started production of the legendary RS Spyder, they experimented several unique...
1953 Porsche 550 Prototype Spyder In 1953 Porsche created a series of 550 prototypes and 550-03 became the most important...
1953→1954 Lancia D24 Sport Leading into the mid-fifties, Lancia was becoming a powerhouse in both sports car and grand prix...
1954 Ferrari 375 Plus Building on the success of the 375MM, the 375 was an even more potent derivative that...
