
1966 Shelby 427 S/C Cobra
Carroll Shelby's plan for the 427 Cobra never included selling it to the public. The whole point was homologation: build a hundred cars, satisfy the FIA's production requirement, and go racing against the Ferra...

Carroll Shelby's plan for the 427 Cobra never included selling it to the public. The whole point was homologation: build a hundred cars, satisfy the FIA's production requirement, and go racing against the Ferra...

Ferrari built the 500 Superfast to be the last word in exclusivity, and in doing so it quietly closed the book on a way of making cars the company itself had pioneered. It was the final entry in a lineage of ha...

Among the many iconic models to emerge from Maranello in the 1960s, the Ferrari 330 GT 2+2 stands as a testament to the brand's commitment to blending high performance with luxurious comfort. The Series II vari...

The Sunbeam Tiger Mk IA represents one of the most successful marriages of British sports car design and American V8 power. Created during the golden age of roadsters, this remarkable automobile combines the el...

The story of the Jaguar E-Type Series 1 4.2-Litre Roadster is about the creation of an automotive icon that would forever change how we think about sports cars. When this magnificent machine burst onto the scen...

The Shelby 427 Cobra is one of the most legendary vehicles ever to roll out of American workshops, born from a unique transatlantic collaboration between British sports car maker AC Cars and American racing ico...

The Aston Martin DB6 Vantage, produced from 1965 to 1971, stands as a masterpiece of British automotive engineering, blending refined luxury with raw performance. As the successor to the legendary DB5, the DB6...

Six carburettors. For most road car engineers in 1964, that would have been an act of provocation. For Ferrari, it was simply an acknowledgment of what the engine already wanted to be - a racing unit barely dis...

The Ghia 450 SS was a breathtaking, brutally short-lived creation born from an unlikely collision between Hollywood ambition and Turin craftsmanship - a car that dressed Plymouth Barracuda mechanicals in some o...

When Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera accepted the commission to rebody Lamborghini's existing grand tourer with rear seating, the Milanese coachbuilder was already in its final years of independent operation -...

The Porsche 906 Carrera 6, introduced in 1966, stands as a hallmark of mid-century automotive engineering and design. As a successor to the 904, this street-legal racing machine met FIA Group 4 Sports Car homol...

If you wanted to buy a Bristol in 1966, the car didn't come to you - you came, by appointment, to the small showroom at Kensington High Street, where the proprietor Tony Crook might personally assess whether yo...

Carroll Shelby had, by early 1966, established the GT350 as the most driver-focused Mustang money could buy. He had stripped weight, stiffened suspension, fitted Koni shock absorbers, added a Monte Carlo bar to...

Most people who recognise the Maserati Mexico's name assume it commemorates John Surtees' win in a Cooper-Maserati at the 1966 Mexican Grand Prix. It doesn't, or at least not directly - every source consulted a...