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Before huge dollars, the aforementioned challenges and the largely-resulting technology took over instead of straight trial and error, cars of the previous generation that were meant for production – for all serious race efforts needed to win on Sunday, sell on Monday - were built based on race-winning performance-tested marques. In the design studios attached to the factory, each individual designer and builder would attempt to capture the essence of the successful cars of the most recent weekend and infuse their own skills, ideas and experiences into the mix in the hope to reach the right combination to create as close to the perfect balance between competition and retail sales success. It was from the big and small displacement powerhouses alike; LeMans class and overall champions such as Ferrari, Maserati, Jaguar to Stanguellini, Bandini, OSCA and many, many more - they were all in it to win – that each individual marque took their primary ideas. In creating the winning mix between race and reality, there was little that mattered in each manufacturer's product that missed the attention of designers and engineers in the racing pits and parc exposées at events the world over.
With history and legend firmly in place, the scratch-built Sport Speciale commissioned by Barry and Lynn Smith of Scottsdale, AZ is a true legacy inspired by the big-displacement European racing specials from the late 1950s and early-1960s. The vision behind this car was to take cues from cars such as the Ferrari TR59/60, Aston Martin DBR1, Maserati 450S and others, resulting in a car that would seamlessly fit into the 1959 Championship paddock with the mentioned marques in the stalls to either side. As many dark horse specials with their similarly unknown teams often did, the car never seen before waited quietly in the middle to show the crowd the next big thing in innovation, design and the winning combination mentioned earlier.
Although bodylines would place us right on par with the period field, what lies beneath offers our team an unfair, if not anachronistic, advantage. Fitted with a chrome-moly tubular chassis in a true Superleggera style, stainless steel wire rimmed, hand formed aluminum body. Under the sleek flowing bonnet, power is supplied by the legendary F1-inspired, specially-built, performance BMW V12 with one-off cylinder heads provided by the BMW Factory in Germany and a custom Hilborn racing fuel injection system. The exceptional power is then transferred through a matching 6-speed transmission. Road handling is taken care of by Brembo and Wilwood racing disc brakes, tubular, adjustable suspension arms, BRT rack & pinion steering, racing-bred sway bars and many other technological advancements taken from years of competition experience.
While the technical highlights of the car are modern hi-tech goods, the tactile and visual details inside and out are all original and authentic. Instrumentation is period-correct Veglia, the steering wheel a similar Nardi item, the lights are original Marchal and Carello, switches are correct Magneti-Marelli and the wheels, hubs and knockoffs are true were built by Borrani on the original jigs that built the same classic wires for the Ferraris of old. With modern engineering and traditional hand-forming Carrozzeria build techniques from scratch, this one-of-a-kind masterpiece is a seamless fusion of classic style and modern performance that the cars it was designed from decades ago could only dream of.
For further inquiries about this automobile click here
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With history and legend firmly in place, the scratch-built Sport Speciale commissioned by Barry and Lynn Smith of Scottsdale, AZ is a true legacy inspired by the big-displacement European racing specials from the late 1950s and early-1960s. The vision behind this car was to take cues from cars such as the Ferrari TR59/60, Aston Martin DBR1, Maserati 450S and others, resulting in a car that would seamlessly fit into the 1959 Championship paddock with the mentioned marques in the stalls to either side. As many dark horse specials with their similarly unknown teams often did, the car never seen before waited quietly in the middle to show the crowd the next big thing in innovation, design and the winning combination mentioned earlier.
Although bodylines would place us right on par with the period field, what lies beneath offers our team an unfair, if not anachronistic, advantage. Fitted with a chrome-moly tubular chassis in a true Superleggera style, stainless steel wire rimmed, hand formed aluminum body. Under the sleek flowing bonnet, power is supplied by the legendary F1-inspired, specially-built, performance BMW V12 with one-off cylinder heads provided by the BMW Factory in Germany and a custom Hilborn racing fuel injection system. The exceptional power is then transferred through a matching 6-speed transmission. Road handling is taken care of by Brembo and Wilwood racing disc brakes, tubular, adjustable suspension arms, BRT rack & pinion steering, racing-bred sway bars and many other technological advancements taken from years of competition experience.
While the technical highlights of the car are modern hi-tech goods, the tactile and visual details inside and out are all original and authentic. Instrumentation is period-correct Veglia, the steering wheel a similar Nardi item, the lights are original Marchal and Carello, switches are correct Magneti-Marelli and the wheels, hubs and knockoffs are true were built by Borrani on the original jigs that built the same classic wires for the Ferraris of old. With modern engineering and traditional hand-forming Carrozzeria build techniques from scratch, this one-of-a-kind masterpiece is a seamless fusion of classic style and modern performance that the cars it was designed from decades ago could only dream of.
For further inquiries about this automobile click here
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