To qualify, this California Spyder won the Ferrari Club of America Field and driving Concours Cavalino. We, as Mr. Kalikow, are very pleased that this vehicle has received this award for the 2006 calendar year. The award was presented to Mr. Kalikow in March at the Geneva Motor Show. We are pleased Peter Kalikow saw fit to make us a part of the restoration and preparation of this superb automobile.
1961 FERRARI 250 GT CALIFORNIA SPIDER
This is the 2006 Louis Vuitton Classic Concours Award winner: Peter Kalikow's gorgeous 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spider: The Vuitton award is a Champion of Champions contest to pick the finest Best of Show winner of the year, deliberated by some of the world's most influential car designers and experts.
Kalikow's 250 qualified by winning the Ferrari Club of America Field and Driving Concours and will be presented with the award at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
1970 JAGUAR E-TYPE S2 ROADSTER
Ideally positioned to tempt Las Vegas gamblers into parting with their hard-won cash, this Jaugar E-type roadster is being offered for $125,000 at the Imperial Palace Auto Collectors. That’s £63,500 – for a Series 2 E-type? That must be a typing error, £35,000 more like. Well, it has only done 2278 miles from new, all with one owner: Lawrence W. Brown of Troy, Pennsylvania. The Willow Green paint is exactly as Jaguar applied it in December 1969, as are the Dunlop SP Sports tyres and everything else. When not on the road, it was always stored in a climate-controlled garage. Now are you tempted to have a punt on that roulette wheel?
BATMOBILE
The patients at the Birmingham Children's Hospital aren't old enough to have seen Batman and Robin clowning around Gotham City in the Sixties, but the duo’s Batmobile still looks crazy enough to raise a smile. The 1957 Lincoln Continental-based machine visited the hospital before being displayed at Coys’ Autosport International auction.
1987 FORD SIERRA RS COSWORTH
Surely this is a contender for the ‘Greatest rally livery of all time’ award? It’s the ex-Russell Brookes Group A Sierra Cosworth, sponsored by Andrews Heat for Hire. There’s no mistaking it for any other car on a rally sage, but the Ford hasn’t been near one for years – it just needs someone to show it off again. The specification list is thicker than most rulebooks – see: www.jasonlepley.co.uk for more information.
1980 WILLIAMS FW07B
You won’t ever see a ground-effect F1 car like this on the banking at Brooklands, but you can see it in the museum there. The ex-Alan Jones car now sits alongside more traditional Brooklands exhibits such as the Napier-Railton and Whitney Straight Duesenberg. The Cosworth engined FW07B took Jones to the 1980 World Championship crown, with five wins. For details, see www.brooklandsmuseum.com
1995 MCLAREN F1 GTR
Didn’t someone tell them not to polish it? This is the 1995 Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 at Autosport International, but previously seen still daubed in its La Sarthe circuit victory grime. Yannick Dalmas, Masanori Sekiya and JJ Lehto drove the Tokyo Ueno Clinic-sponsored car and Le Mans folklore has it they were offered complimentary ‘gentleman’s surgery’ in recognition of their success.
1965 ALFA ROMEO TZ ‘VICO’ PROTOTIPO BERLINETTA
Like a bad road accident, this bizarre one-off isn’t pretty but you couldn’t help staring at it at the Autosport show in January. It was designed by Alfa’s Autodelta race team founder Lodovico Chizzola as a rival to Autodelta’s own T22. The peculiar shape is a product of Chizzola’s obsession with getting the moment of inertia as close as possible to the centre of gravity.
2003 RONART LIGHTNING
No car drew more attention on the 2006 Hackett Beaujolais Run (see p88) than this ultra-rare Ronart Lightning V8. The dramatic carbonfibre styling has hints of Jaguar’s XK180 concept, but with a roof and a serious quartet of centre-exit exhausts connected to a 320bhp 4.6-litre Ford V8. The noise lives up to the name. Major Simon Etherington and Squadron Leader Sherry Ball drove it, then swapped ‘Beauty and the Beast’ fancy dress for flak jackets – with Etherington off to serve in Iraq.
1966 LOLA T70 SPIDER
You may have seen this Lola in Classic Cars before (April 2006). It was discovered behind a beer warehouse, but this is it now. Owner Johan Woerheide has restored the ex-Dan Gurney Can Am T70 to its correct Spider configuration, with its original Bardahl Special livery and Gurney-Eagle pointed nose. The Gurney T70 was the only Can Am winner powered by a Ford engine. Look out for it at historic racing events this year.
1939 ALFA ROMEO 6C 2500 SPORT TOURING BERLINETTA
Some concours winners rely on grotesqueness for distinction, but not this 1939 Alfa. The sea green Touring-bodied 6C 2500 Sport Touring Berlinetta has a stance and proportion that illustrates perfection without shouting about it. You’ll understand why this Alfa won the ‘Most Elegant Closed Car’ accolade twice at shows in 2004, adding to a class win at the 1998 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. Now it’s for sale, currently on display at the Imperial Palace Auto Collections, in Las Vegas. See www.autocollections.com
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