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Sports Car Market - August, 2008 Issue
CLASSIC AND COLLECTOR CAR PROFILES
1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Hard Top (with Turbonique Rocket Drag Axle)
 Built by tobacco heir Zachary Reynolds, the “Tobacco King” 1964 Ford Galaxie was as wild an example of a Rocket Drag Axle-equipped car as one could...

1976 Lagonda V8 Series 1 Saloon
 Lagonda had been dormant for a decade when Aston Martin revived the marque in 1974 as the model name for a sensational new four-door sedan based on...

1966 Maserati Mistral 4000 Spyder
 Last of the classic 6-cylinder Maseratis, the Pietro Frua-styled Mistral commenced production in 1963. The 3.7-liter version of the Modena...

Making Sense of $43 Million at Maranello
 Machiavelli was Italian. So were Mussolini and Enzo Ferrari (not that I’m comparing them). And although he isn’t, Scuderia Ferrari’s director Jean...

1944 Volkswagen Schwimmwagen
 Porsche’s Type 60 (the Volkswagen prototype), with its strong backbone chassis and air-cooled engine, had been recognized as an ideal basis for the...

1971 Ferrari 512 M
 In 1968, the rules for sports car racing were changed, limiting Group 6 prototypes to a maximum 3-liter engine capacity. For the 1970 season,...

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COLUMNS
Affordable Classics
Ford’s Sleeping Beasty
By the late 1960s, Ford seemed to be concentrating more on holding grudges than building cars. Still smarting from its failure to acquire Ferrari,...
Affordable Classics Directory

Domestic Affairs
The Dandy Griffith
Unlike the environmentally conscious, fuel-sipping, ultra-low emissions, and utterly boring “hybrid” cars of today, a whole different group...
Domestic Affairs Directory

English Patient
How One Little Car Brought Down An Empire
Of all the sad sagas told about the collapse of the British automotive industry, none is more depressing than that of the Rootes Group, and the...
English Patient Directory

Porsche Gesprach
The Speedster Spell
What is it about the Speedster that has caused prices to rise to unheard-of levels? While other 356s and Porsches in general continue on a solid...
Porsche Gesprach Directory

Legal Files
Reality Bites Hulk Hogan
Hulk Hogan and his family are currently defending a multi-million-dollar lawsuit that arose from his son Nick’s crash of his modified Toyota Supra....
Legal Files Directory

Shifting Gears
Do You Know the Way to Monterey?
More than 20 years have passed since my first vintage-car-themed Monterey visit. The tale below is now an oft-heard one, repeated by nearly...
Shifting Gears Directory

Sheehan Speaks
Sorry, You Can’t Get That Part Here
Much has been written—both positive and negative—about Ferrari Classiche, the arm of Ferrari set up as an official certifying organization for its...
Sheehan Speaks Directory