Last of the front engine Ferrari road/race cars by Wallace Wyss - The Ferrari Daytona has the distinction of being one of the last new model Ferraris built while Enzo, the founder of the firm, was still alive. You could even say it was front … [Read more...]
Gray Market Memories
October 17, 2022 By 1 Comment
by Wallace Wyss - I suspect enough time has gone by now that youngins reading this won't know what "gray market" means. What it means is that, back in the '70s, when the US Gum'mint came out with a lot of laws about seat belts and side door … [Read more...]
Design: Another Ferrari Shooting Brake
June 21, 2021 By 11 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - First of all, what is a shooting brake? I have my own theory of how the phrase originated. When m'Lord would decide some morning to go off into the hinterlands of his vast landed estate and shoot grouse or pheasants or whatnot, … [Read more...]
Looking Back: The Ferrari Daytona Spyder
September 24, 2017 By 3 Comments
by Wallace Wyss - I consider the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona to be sort of a last exercise in chutzpah for ol’ Enzo. After all, Lamborghini had already introduced the mid-engine Miura, and all Ferraris factory race cars were mid-engined so … [Read more...]
The Rocketman Ferrari – Elton John’s That Is
July 15, 2017 By Leave a Comment
by Wallace Wyss - You can talk your celebrity cars but what about one owned by British pop star Elton John, a car bought fresh off the success of his breakthrough album, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road? Or so they tell us. Most of these celeb cars … [Read more...]
Ferrari 365 GTB/4 (Daytona), Maserati Ghibli or Iso Grifo – Which One Is Best For You?
November 19, 2014 By 21 Comments
by Mike - A two seat, comfortable grand touring sports car with a long hood covering a powerful engine that will take two occupants wherever they want to go very quickly in style. This describes the Maserati Ghibli with the Maserati V8 engine … [Read more...]
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