Bizzarrini Strada
Giotto Bizzarrini is an engineer and test driver that many have never heard of, and I suspect that Bizzarrini himself prefers it this way. One of his most enduring quotes is “I’m not a…
Cars
Dobbertin’s Nova
Many of us grew up in an era when car magazines ruled the four-wheeled world, a time when the word “digital” was only used to describe a calculator watch and the “internet” was a term…
Chris Evans’ Daimler SP250 Police Specification Roadster
The Daimler SP250, originally known as the Daimler Dart, was a car that had a huge amount of potential. Most automotive historians will agree that it never lived up to its potential, but at…
The GM Firebird III Gas Turbine Car
The General Motors Firebird lll gas turbine car was a concept developed in 1958 as a progression of the Firebird I and Firebird II vehicles. None of these cars were intended for mass production,…
Auburn Speedster Barn Find
The American answer to the lightning fast Bugatti, Bentley and Rolls-Royce automobiles coming out of Europe in the 1920s was the Auburn Speedster, a car designed by Gordon Buehrig that was audacious even in…
Ford Lotus Cortina Mk1 Rally Saloon
The Ford Lotus Cortina is one of the beloved two door saloon cars that petrolheads almost invariably love, much like the BMW 2002 and the Datsun 510/1600. They’re cars that weren’t necessarily designed to…
Ferrari 275S/340 America Barchetta
Just two Ferrari 275S Barchettas were built by Enzo and his legendary engineers in Maranello, it would be amongst the first models to wear the Ferrari badge and would contribute significantly to the reputation…
Monte Carlo Mini Poster
The iconic status of the Mini was forever set in stone when the little car won the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally. It was racing against far larger and more powerful cars but its lightweight,…
Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Alloy Gullwing
Mercedes-Benz produced 1,400 300 SL Gullwings between 1954 and 1963, of this number just 29 were aluminium alloy bodied like the car you see here. The allow body saved 80 kilograms of weight over…
Toyota Land Cruiser FJ43
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a 4×4 that started life as a Jeep clone during the Second World War, before taking on a life of its own as one of the world’s toughest off-road…
Chevrolet Corvette L88 RED/NART Le Mans
I’m convinced that the third iteration of the Chevrolet Corvette, known informally as the C3, is one of the most beautiful cars to ever roll off of an American production line. In fact I’d…
Iconic Racing Car Posters by Arthur Schening
Arthur Schening is an artist with a passion for vintage racing cars, we’ve featured his work on Silodrome before and it was hugely popular – probably because all of us can think of a…