{"id":496342,"date":"2017-03-01T01:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T09:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=42231"},"modified":"2024-01-26T19:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T19:22:38","slug":"full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/full-circle\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: David Gooley, courtesy of the Don Murray Collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is easy to examine an early Ferrari or a Maserati of the immediate post-war era and see only their curvaceous coachwork or their gorgeous engines; but there is much more to those and other well-known Italian sports and racing cars of the 1950s and 1960s if we look beneath their skin. Let us shed some light on that subject.<\/p>\n

Does the name Colombo spring to mind? Yes, Gioacchino Colombo was the brilliant mechanical engineer who designed engines for Alfa Romeo\u2019s pre-war racing cars and later laid out the marvelous V12s that would bring Ferrari so much success. There was, however, another industrialist who shared that surname, but was unrelated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n