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• THE DAYTONA BEFORE THE DAYTONA.Before the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 became one of Maranello’s most recognisable shapes, there ...
09/09/2026

• THE DAYTONA BEFORE THE DAYTONA.

Before the Ferrari 365 GTB/4 became one of Maranello’s most recognisable shapes, there was this.

Completed in early 1967, this extraordinary prototype represents a fascinating missing link between the 275 GTB/4 and the car the world would soon know as the Daytona.

Underneath its Pininfarina-penned bodywork sat a unique 4.4-litre Tipo 243 V12, while Ferrari extensively used the car for testing throughout 1967. It was not simply an early Daytona. It was part of the process through which the Daytona became the Daytona.
Decades later, following a meticulous restoration, the prototype was awarded Best of Show at the 2016 Concours d’Elegance Paleis Het Loo and was subsequently Ferrari Classiche certified and exhibited at the Museo Ferrari.

We first featured this car on Car&Vintage back in 2023, when it was offered through RM Sotheby’s.
Three years later, it remains one of those cars worth looking at again, not simply for what it is, but for what came after it.

A prototype in the truest sense of the word. A piece of Ferrari history caught between two eras •
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Photo by Alberto Chimenti Dezani for RM Sotheby's & Car&Vintage


• A WEEKEND CALLED MONZA.Some places don’t need an introduction. Monza is one of them.A weekend with TAG Heuer, moving b...
07/09/2026

• A WEEKEND CALLED MONZA.

Some places don’t need an introduction. Monza is one of them.

A weekend with TAG Heuer, moving between beautiful classic cars, a very special dinner and the unmistakable atmosphere of the Italian Grand Prix, from the quiet moments before the action to the noise, speed and emotion of the track.

And at the centre of it all, a name that belongs here: Monza.

TAG Heuer celebrated the return of one of its most distinctive watches, bringing a historic name back to the wrist in the very place that inspired it.

Two worlds that have always shared the same obsession: timing, precision and speed.
From the table to the paddock. From racing heritage to today’s Formula 1.

This is Monza.

Thank you TAG Heuer for having us along for the ride •
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• MONZA, FROM GOOGLE MAPS.It’s Italian Grand Prix weekend, and there are few better reasons to look at Monza from anothe...
04/09/2026

• MONZA, FROM GOOGLE MAPS.

It’s Italian Grand Prix weekend, and there are few better reasons to look at Monza from another point of view.
From the first braking zone to Roggia, Lesmo, Ascari and Curva Alboreto, these are some of our favourite spots around one of the most iconic circuits in the world seen from above.

This weekend, Formula 1 is back at Monza.

What’s your favourite corner at Monza? •

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• SOME WATCHES ARE NAMED AFTER PLACES.OTHERS BECOME PART OF THEM.In 1971, Heuer became the Official Timekeeper of Scuder...
01/09/2026

• SOME WATCHES ARE NAMED AFTER PLACES.
OTHERS BECOME PART OF THEM.

In 1971, Heuer became the Official Timekeeper of Scuderia Ferrari, the first watchmaker to partner with a Formula 1 team. Four years later, Niki Lauda delivered Ferrari its first Drivers’ World Championship since 1964. To celebrate that achievement, Heuer created the Monza in 1976: black, red, purposeful and unmistakably shaped by motor racing.

Fifty years later, the name returns at exactly the right moment.
As Formula 1 heads back to the Autodromo Nazionale Monza this weekend, TAG Heuer presents the Monza Flyback Chronograph 50th Anniversary Limited Edition, carrying one of its most distinctive racing chronographs into a new era.

Its 42 mm case and bezel are made from forged carbon, giving each piece its own marbled texture. The matte-black dial is punctuated by red racing details, while the fl**ge combines both tachymeter and pulsometer scales. Inside sits the COSC-certified manufacture Calibre TH20-12, equipped with a flyback function that can reset and restart the chronograph with a single press a complication born for a world where fractions of a second matter.

Only 500 numbered examples will be produced.
And perhaps that is what makes the timing so fitting.

This weekend, Formula 1 once again runs through the trees of Monza’s Royal Park one of those rare places where speed, history and emotion have occupied the same few kilometres for generations.

Fifty years after the original, Monza is still more than a name on a dial. It is a piece of racing history measured in seconds.

TAG Heuer Monza Flyback Chronograph
50th Anniversary Limited Edition
42 mm · Forged Carbon · Calibre TH20-12 Flyback
500 numbered pieces •
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• LEWIS HAMILTON’S F40, A DREAM BROUGHT BACK TO LIFESome cars are bought. Others are waited for almost an entire lifetim...
31/08/2026

• LEWIS HAMILTON’S F40, A DREAM BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE
Some cars are bought. Others are waited for almost an entire lifetime.

Lewis Hamilton has revealed his very own Ferrari F40,a car he describes simply as “the car of my dreams.”
His connection with the F40 goes back to childhood. When he joined Ferrari in 2025, Hamilton even made sure an F40 was there with him on his first day at Maranello. But the story of this particular car is perhaps even more special.

Hamilton says he found it covered in dust, after it had been sitting untouched in a garage for more than thirty years.
He brought the car back to Maranello, where Ferrari’s engineers and mechanics spent weeks bringing it back to life.

There could hardly be a more fitting place for its resurrection.
Introduced in 1987 to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary, the F40 was the final road car developed under Enzo Ferrari’s lifetime. Raw, uncompromising and built around a twin-turbocharged V8, it has become much more than one of Maranello’s great supercars: it is one of those rare machines capable of defining an entire era.

And now, after more than three decades in the shadows, this one has a new chapter to write.

From a childhood dream, to a forgotten garage, back to Maranello and finally into Lewis Hamilton’s collection.
Some stories simply belong together •
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• CAMEL TROPHY — WHEN ADVENTURE BECAME A LEGEND.It began in 1980 with three West German teams, six men and a journey alo...
28/08/2026

• CAMEL TROPHY — WHEN ADVENTURE BECAME A LEGEND.

It began in 1980 with three West German teams, six men and a journey along Brazil’s infamous Transamazonica Highway, from Belém to Santarém.

The vehicles were locally sourced, Ford-built Jeeps. Land Rover would enter the story the following year, beginning a partnership that would become inseparable from the Camel Trophy legend.

What had been conceived as a one-off promotional expedition quickly became something much bigger. Images of vehicles disappearing into mud, crossing rivers, cutting through jungle and being recovered inch by inch travelled around the world.

From then on, Camel Trophy went almost everywhere: Sumatra, Papua New Guinea, Zaire, Borneo, Madagascar, Siberia, Mongolia, Patagonia and beyond.

But calling it a race never really explained it.

As Iain Chapman, Camel Trophy Event Director for ten years, once described it:

“Neither a race nor a rally, Camel Trophy was first and foremost an adventurous expedition.”

Competition was only part of it. Driving skill mattered, but so did navigation, mechanical ability, endurance, teamwork and the capacity to keep moving when terrain, weather and exhaustion seemed determined to stop you.

Thousands applied for the privilege of representing their countries. Only a handful made it through the national selections and into the identical expedition vehicles that would carry them into some of the most remote landscapes on Earth.

The Amazon. The Congo. Borneo. Patagonia. Siberia.

Names that already sounded like adventure before the engines had even started.

Camel Trophy continued through 1998, followed by one final waterborne edition in 2000. Two decades later, its Sandglow vehicles, winches, roof racks and mud-covered crews remain among the most recognisable images in the history of exploration by automobile.

Perhaps that is why Camel Trophy still resonates today.
It was never simply about reaching the finish.
It was about finding out how far you could go •
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• 70 HOURS, 54 MINUTES, 18 SECONDS.In 1934, flying from England to Australia was still less a journey than an expedition...
23/08/2026

• 70 HOURS, 54 MINUTES, 18 SECONDS.

In 1934, flying from England to Australia was still less a journey than an expedition.

So de Havilland built an aircraft for one purpose: to win.

The DH.88 Comet was conceived specifically for the MacRobertson Air Race, a near 11,300-mile dash from RAF Mildenhall to Melbourne. Designed by Arthur Hagg, it was extraordinarily advanced for its time: a low-wing monoplane built almost entirely from wood, with retractable landing gear, an enclosed cockpit, variable-pitch propellers and two de Havilland Gipsy Six R engines.

Only six weeks separated the first flight of the first Comet from the start of the race.

Three examples lined up at Mildenhall on the morning of 20 October 1934. One was black and gold. One British Racing Green. And one was red.

G-ACSS, Grosvenor House.

At the controls were C. W. A. Scott and Tom Campbell Black.
Ahead of them lay Baghdad, Allahabad, Singapore, Darwin and Charleville the five compulsory stops before Melbourne. Between them: deserts, oceans, tropical weather and thousands of miles flown with navigation and communications that bear almost no comparison to those available today.

They flew through a violent storm over the Bay of Bengal. Over the Timor Sea, one engine began losing power. They reached Darwin, worked on the problem, and continued.

On 23 October 1934, at 3:33 in the afternoon, Grosvenor House crossed the finish line at Flemington Racecourse.

Official time:

70 hours, 54 minutes and 18 seconds.

England to Australia.

In 1934.

Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the Comet is not simply that it won, but how modern it looked while doing so. Long, impossibly clean lines; almost no visual excess; every surface dictated by speed.

It looks less like an aircraft designed ninety years ago and more like an object that somehow arrived from the future.

And the very G-ACSS that crossed that finish line still survives today.

A machine designed for one race.
A journey across half the world.
And one of the most beautiful expressions of an era when breaking a record still meant venturing into the unknown.

The de Havilland DH.88 Comet Grosvenor House •
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• NUVOLARI AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN.June 29, 1930.Ahead of Tazio Nuvolari lay 66.5 kilometres of Alpine road, climbing from ...
20/08/2026

• NUVOLARI AGAINST THE MOUNTAIN.

June 29, 1930.
Ahead of Tazio Nuvolari lay 66.5 kilometres of Alpine road, climbing from Cuneo towards the Colle della Maddalena and the French border.

White roads. Gravel. Dust. Blind corners. Mountains.

He covered them in 38 minutes and 27 seconds.
Average speed: 103.771 km/h.
In 1930.

But the extraordinary part of this story is not only the number.
It is also the machine.

Nuvolari was driving an Alfa Romeo P2, Vittorio Jano’s supercharged straight-eight Grand Prix car. Introduced in 1924, the P2 had already written one of Alfa Romeo’s most important chapters, helping the marque secure the first World Manufacturers’ Championship in 1925.

Six years after its debut, it was still winning.

And on the roads above Cuneo, in Nuvolari’s hands, it became something else entirely.

The Cuneo–Colle della Maddalena was considered one of the longest and most demanding hill climbs of its time. These were not the roads we know today. Contemporary photographs show cars sliding through dust, countersteering across unsealed Alpine roads, with almost nothing separating the driver from the mountain.

Then there is one photograph taken after the finish.

Nuvolari is there.

The P2 is there.

And standing beside him is Enzo Ferrari.

That detail places the image at an extraordinary moment in automotive history.

Only two weeks earlier, on June 15, Nuvolari had driven a P2 to victory at the Trieste–Opicina, delivering the newly formed Scuderia Ferrari its first-ever win.
Ferrari was not yet the name on the nose of a car.

It was the name of a young racing team running Alfa Romeos and Nuvolari was becoming one of the men who would help build its legend.

So look again at those photographs.
Nuvolari. Enzo Ferrari. Alfa Romeo. The P2.
All together, on a mountain road in Piedmont, at the beginning of something much bigger.

66.5 km.
38’27”.
103.771 km/h.

Some victories belong to a results sheet.
Others capture history being made •
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• WHEN MADNESS WAS PART OF THE PLAN.There was a time when the impossible wasn’t dismissed in a meeting.It was built.The ...
19/08/2026

• WHEN MADNESS WAS PART OF THE PLAN.

There was a time when the impossible wasn’t dismissed in a meeting.
It was built.

The Alfa Romeo 164 ProCar belongs to that extraordinary chapter of automotive history, an era when engineers were still encouraged to experiment, regulations inspired imagination, and sometimes the most irrational ideas made it all the way to the racetrack.

In 1988, Bernie Ecclestone was pushing an idea for a new ProCar championship: racing cars that looked like ordinary production saloons on the outside, but underneath could hide technology remarkably close to Formula 1.

Alfa Romeo decided to show the world what that could mean.

From a distance, it was a 164.
Underneath, almost nothing was.

Brabham developed the chassis. Behind the driver sat a 3.5-litre naturally aspirated V10, originally conceived by Alfa Romeo for Formula 1. The structure used aluminium-Nomex honeycomb construction, with carbon-fibre body sections wrapped around it.

The result was extraordinary.

Around 620 hp.

Approximately 750 kg.

0–100 km/h in roughly two seconds.

And an officially quoted top speed of around 340 km/h.

Think about that for a second.

A machine with Formula 1 thinking, a screaming V10 and the proportions of an executive Italian saloon.

Before the 1988 Italian Grand Prix, Riccardo Patrese took it onto Monza. Alfa Romeo records that the ProCar was measured at 329 km/h on the straight, faster there than the Grand Prix cars watched from the pit lane.

And then it was over.

The championship never happened. Other manufacturers did not follow Alfa Romeo into Ecclestone’s experiment, and the 164 ProCar never raced in the series it had been created for.

But perhaps that is exactly why it remains so fascinating today.

It comes from a period when pushing the limits didn’t always need a rational business case. Sometimes curiosity was enough. Sometimes engineers were simply allowed to ask:

What if?

And then build the answer.

The Alfa Romeo 164 ProCar is not simply a forgotten racing prototype.
It is a reminder of an era when madness was part of the plan •
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• CAR&VINTAGE IN THE HIGH ARCTIC.This summer, the Car&Vintage Team was invited to Svalbard for an expedition alongside S...
18/08/2026

• CAR&VINTAGE IN THE HIGH ARCTIC.

This summer, the Car&Vintage Team was invited to Svalbard for an expedition alongside SEASE, ICON Yachts, HYLE, Cookson Adventures and The International Int. SeaKeepers Society, bringing together exploration, scientific research and a shared curiosity for one of the most remote environments on Earth.

Our home was Legend, a former Soviet ice-breaking tug built in the Netherlands in 1974, later rebuilt and converted by ICON Yachts into the 77-metre expedition yacht she is today.

From Svalbard, we sailed north. The last settlements disappeared behind us and, eventually, we crossed 80° North into the High Arctic.

Up there, plans are provisional.

Weather, sea and moving ice determine where you can go, where you can land and how long you can stay. We went ashore with expedition guides and spent time alongside scientists and researchers working in an environment that can appear almost empty.

Part of that work took place beneath the surface. We observed underwater archaeologists operating in near-freezing Arctic waters, using the expedition not simply as a way to reach these remote places, but as an opportunity to study and document them.
Through The International SeaKeepers Society, the yacht also became more than a means of exploration: it became a platform for research, bringing scientists and their work into places that are otherwise extraordinarily difficult to access.

And slowly, the landscape began to reveal itself differently.
What had first appeared to be an endless expanse of ice and water became a place of research, archaeology and constant observation. The seemingly empty horizon was anything but empty.

For days, our world was reduced to a ship surrounded by ocean, rock and moving ice. Plans changed with the weather. Binoculars were always close at hand. Silence became part of the landscape.
Perhaps that is what travelling this far north does: it changes your sense of scale.
And it changes the meaning of exploration.

THE GRAND TOUR — SVALBARD
A Car&Vintage story from the High Arctic •
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