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ClassicInside – The Classic Driver Newsletter

Edition 27/2005

July 15th 2005

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Editorial

You can read the final part of the odyssey that is our multiple test of Ferrari’s latest supercars below. It was a tremendous experience to have sampled all three cars in such a short space of time over a considerable distance and, well fed and watered, they all performed superbly. I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I savoured the driving.

Mind you, Attenzione! If you are driving in Italy. The Italian Polizia Stradale has added another Gallardo to its fleet and this one will be patrolling the centre and north of the country, prime supercar territory. We’ve an interview (courtesy of the excellent Auto Italia magazine) below, and I particularly like the interior shot of the car, with all the gadgets and gizmos on display. Is that a VCR remote control on the dash, with a curly cable running into the glove-box? You’d have thought they could have run to an infra-red at least, and I also like the officer’s ‘modest shrug’, you can just imagine it can’t you? All great stuff and a good read.

There’s also news of one of cinema’s iconic cars for sale, the Ferrari 275 GTS/4 NART Spyder that starred with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair. It’s to be auctioned at Monterey next month, and I didn’t realise the car had competed (with an all-girl driving line-up) at the 1967 Sebring 12 Hours. A situation that in today’s ‘product-placement’ film industry would be inconceivable.

And also, how would the producer’s have got along with one of today’s Le Mans cars? Riding crops at dawn no doubt, at the thought of the featured car having its oil pre-warmed prior to every take.

Steve Wakefield
Managing Editor
sw@classicdriver.com

*THIS WEEK IN CLASSIC DRIVER*
Ferrari F430 F1 In Napoleon's footsteps In 1814 it may have taken ‘Old Boney’ a little longer than we did a week or so ago to cover the sinuous roads of the Alpes Maritimes from Nice to Grenoble - but then he didn’t have 490 bhp of mid-engined Ferrari at his disposal... read the complete article
GP Historico do Porto 2005 Motor racing hit the streets of Porto again last weekend after a gap of 45 years, with cars taking part in the GP Historico do Porto meeting... read the complete article
The World’s Fastest Police Car...and now they have two We check out the Polizia Lamborghini Gallardo in Rome The Italian Polizia Stradale has scored a major PR triumph with the fabulous Lamborghini Gallardo. Stop Press - a second Gallardo has joined the force... read the complete article
The 2005 City Classic Car Rally This year’s inaugural event adds another up-market leisure activity to the portfolio of golf, sailing, skiing, polo and shooting on offer to people within London’s financial community. All run under the ‘City Championships’ banner... read the complete article
Raging Bulls Lamborghini R-GT at the Monza 1000 kms The Japanese Lamborghini Owners Club team (JLOC), entered two cars in last weekend’s Monza 1000 kms. Based on the Murciélago, they certainly provided some high-voltage excitement to the LMES event... read the complete article
Christie's at Monterey 2005 Rare Bugatti drawings to be auctioned in August Christie’s International Motor Cars will be offering a unique collection of 49 original drawings penned by the designer Lucien Schlatter for ‘Carosserie Gangloff’ in Colmar, Alsace... read the complete article
Doubly famous Ferrari to feature at Monterey The 2005 Gooding & Co. auction at Pebble Beach includes a Ferrari with two reasons for celebrity: finishing second in class at Sebring in 1967, and starring as Steve McQueen’s car in The Thomas Crown Affair... read the complete article
VSCC 'SeeRed' 2005 The Vintage Sports Car Club and Bonhams launched their exciting 2005 SeeRed event recently outside the auctioneer's Bond Street saleroom... read the complete article

*CLASSIC LIFE*
The first ever 1/100th of a second mechanical wrist chronographTAG Heuer Calibre 360 Concept Chronograph Presented at Baselworld 2005, the most accurate mechanical timepiece ever crafted features an exceptionally high frequency balance wheel, which oscillates at 360,000 beats per hour... read the complete article

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EVENTGUIDE

Bonhams Auction at Silverstone, UK
29th July 2005

The Silverstone Classic, in association with Bonhams, UK
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Coys Auction, Royal Horticultural Halls, London, UK
1st August 2005

VSCC Prescott Hillclimb, Near Cheltenham, Gloucs UK
6th - 7th August 2005

Classic Endurance Racing, Silverstone, UK
13th - 14th August 2005

Christie's Auction of Exceptional Motor Cars at Monterey, USA
18th August 2005

Bonhams & Butterfields Auction - Quail Lodge, USA
19th August 2005

'Capturing the Spirit' - Vintage Brooklands at Millbrook, UK
29th August 2005

VSCC 'SeeRed' Race Meeting Donington Park, UK
3rd - 4th September 2005 2005

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