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THE PURSUIT OF SPEED
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1991 Ferrari F40
This one-owner 1991 F40 boasts just 2700 original miles from new and is Ferrari Classiche certified. It was supplied by Maranello Concessionaires with a rare English speedometer, and remains original just as delivered from the factory, retaining all authentic nuts, bolts, hoses and paintwork.
The current owner purchased it from the original, but by now 84-year-old, owner in Frankfurt in August 2018, following a three-year quest to find a totally original F40 as it left the production line.
He entered the car into last year’s prestigious Ferrari Owners’ Club concours, at which it won Car of the Day plus a further three trophies. The judges gave it a very rare 100 percent marks for its stunning originality. The F40 boasts a full set of specially created Ferrari Tan luggage, as well as a rare F40 watch, which was offered as an extra to purchase on initial delivery.
1959 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing
Series production of the 300SL Coupé, which we all know as the Gullwing, began in August 1954. It pushed performance to new heights, with a 166mph top speed and an 8.5-second 0-60mph time.
This car, completed in late June 1955, was a special ordered in Fire Engine Red with black leather interior. It was soon shipped to Los Angeles, and it stayed in the US through five owners before returning to Mercedes for a mechanical restoration. It was later treated to a full bare-metal restoration in the UK. Now it’s kept in Britain for an overseas collector, who regularly returns to use it on European jaunts with their family.
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1975 Lamborghini Countach LP400 ‘Periscopio’
Few designs have created as much shock and awe as the Lamborghini Countach, and even fewer inspire the same sensations almost 50 years later. The Bertone design is immediately recognisable, and is still the essence of modern supercar styling.
This early LP400 ‘Periscopio’ – so called for the rear-view mirror in the roof – is one of just ten UK RHD cars built. Invoiced new to a Mr Horrocks in Bolton on May 22, 1975, the price was £18,295; exactly ten times that of a new MGB. This Countach is a very well known example, which frequented the notorious Lamborghini Owners’ Club track days in the 1980s and 1990s. It’s recently undergone a full specialist restoration.
2018 McLaren Senna
McLaren Senna Chassis 001 wears a bespoke Anniversary White and Aurora Blue paint scheme, complete with the outline of Ayrton Senna’s home Formula 1 circuit, Interlagos, on the nose. The paintwork took more than 600 hours to complete, with a brace of paint specialists working for two solid weeks on masking up the car before the colours were sprayed on.
More Senna references come with the great man’s signature on the door shut and the years in which he won the F1 World Championship engraved into the throttle pedal. The cabin has also been enhanced by McLaren Special Operations, with MSO Bespoke trim in black Alcantara complemented by diamond stitching on the seats and a Senna ‘S’ logo embroidered on each headrest, all completed in Harissa Red.
1970 Lamborghini Miura S
This right-hand-drive Lamborghini Miura S was delivered new by Peter Mitchell, the brand’s distributor in Victoria. Over the next four decades it went through the hands of various well known collectors in Australia, during which time it underwent various cosmetic overhauls as well as a no-money-spared restoration that was completed in late 1995.
Chassis 114752 was built on October 10, 1970. It is presented in white paint with red leather interior upholstery, and comes with the original Miura instruction manual and service manuals, as well as photos taken before and after restoration. The speedo reading is now 16,703 miles, and all indications are that the figure is genuine. The car is also fitted with factory Borletti air-conditioning.
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1952 Jaguar XK120 FHC Ex-Stirling Moss
Jaguar supplied this XK120 Fixed Head Coupé to the legendary Stirling Moss when the car was brand new. During this period Moss had been leading the marque’s team as a works driver, and he would go on to use the XK120 as his personal car to travel between motor sport meetings on the continent during the 1952 racing season. Boasting a unique two-tone exterior paint scheme of green and cream, which was chosen by Moss himself, the car was personally handed over to its new owner by William Lyons.
One of the XK120 FHC’s earliest tasks was Le Rallye Lyon-Charbonnières through the Alps in 1952. It continued to be extensively raced throughout the 1950s.
1973 Ferrari 365GTB/4 Daytona
Although the 365GTB/4 was never internally called the ‘Daytona’, the media coined the term to mark Ferrari’s 1-2-3 finish at the 1967 Daytona 24 Hours. Its wedge-shaped, sharpedged styling came from the mind of Pininfarina’s Leonardo Fioravanti, and its Colombo V12 produced 347bhp, a 174mph top speed and a 0-60mph time of just 5.4 seconds.
This model is a oncein-a-lifetime example – one of only 158 right-handdrive cars, it’s one of the best unrestored specimens available. It has benefited from proper care and maintenance throughout its life, and its originality gives it a sense of character simply not found with restored models. It shows 39,000 miles and boasts only three previous owners, and it won the Post-War Preservation Class at the 2019 Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille.
1991 Jaguar XJ220 ‘prototype’
Conceived and created by an informal group of Jaguar employees working in their spare time, the aluminiumbodied XJ220 concept was developed with a midmounted V12, four-wheel drive and a targeted top speed of 220mph. When production development got underway, though, engineering requirements resulted in significant spec changes – most notably replacing the Jaguar V12 with a TWR-engineered version of the 3.5 twinturbo V6 taken from the MG Metro 6R4 rally car. Even so, the XJ220 held the record for the fastest production car throughout 1992, after recording 213.478mph. It was superseded by the McLaren F1 in 1993.
This unique ‘protoype’, built by XJ220 specialist Don Law Racing, was commissioned by Nigel Webb to have the original intended Jaguar V12.
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