Ferrari F1, #4, 1981-1984 The Turbo-Era Begins.

Where we left off In the third installment of this series we reviewed Ferrari’s three Drivers Championships; with the 312T in 1975 and 312 T2 in 1977 with Lauda and…

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Ferrari F1, #3, 1975-1980, The 312T

Where we left off In the second installment in this series we reviewed the failure of the 1970-1974 Ferrari 312B series, again beaten by twenty or so English “Assemblatori” or…

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Ferrari F1, #2, 1970-1974, The 312B

Where we left off In the first installment in this series we reviewed the failure of the Ferrari 312/66 to the 312/69 F1 cars, beaten by what Enzo had derisively…

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Ferrari F1, #1, 1966-1969

Collecting, then and now There was a time when a Ferrari collection began with a Dino or a Daytona and over time a 330 GTC or a 365 GTC/4 would…

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Road & Track

On Tuesday Kim Wolfkill, the current editor of Road&Track, mentioned in an email to Stan Mott, one of the two creators of the R&T Cyclops (Robert Cumberford is the other)…

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Ferrari’s Fat Margins

Laughing all the way to the bank In recent years Bloomberg and others have reported on Ferrari’s very healthy profit margins, which average in the region of $70,000 to $80,000…

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Reliving The Moment

Our story begins in 1984 at a time when Ferrari North America had their headquarters on Katella Avenue in Los Alamitos, a suburb in Orange County. At that time California…

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Supercars by the Sea

The shift to Supercar Sundays I’ve been going to collector car shows since the early 1970s, having traveled to shows across the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Over those…

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Australia, Asbestos and the International Maserati Gathering

Readers of this column might remember “Australia, Asbestos and Collector Cars” from July 15th of last year, click here for the link. That column explained that in 2003 the Australian…

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