Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione: The Car Whose Name Got Stolen
Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione: three cars on recycled 8C 2900 frames, Fangio’s first Mille Miglia, a $4.84M record and the name Alfa reused in 2007.
Wifredo Ricart
Autos España: The Casa Batlló Heir Who Sold 850 Cars to an Army About to Lose Them
Autos España: The Casa Batlló Heir Who Sold 850 Cars to an Army About to Lose Them Every American who has done Barcelona has a photo of the Batlló family’s money on their phone, and not one of them knows the family built cars. The money is Casa Batlló, the Gaudí house on Passeig de … Read more
FERDINAND PORSCHE
Ferdinand Porsche Sold the Same Idea for 45 Years Ferdinand Porsche was not an engineer. He held no degree. The “Dr. Ing.” still baked into the company’s legal name carries an “h.c.” that nobody bothers to read: honoris causa. Honorary. The “Professor” is no better earned: the Stuttgart Technical University handed him an honorary chair … Read more
ALFA ROMEO 33/2 COUPE SPECIALE
Alfa Romeo 33/2 Coupé Speciale: The Ferrari Show Car That Became an Alfa The man who designed the Ferrari F40 also designed a bright yellow Alfa Romeo. Almost nobody knows that. What even fewer people know is that the Alfa was not really designed as an Alfa at all. It was a Ferrari show car … Read more
Ricart Cars: The Great-Grandson of the Man Enzo Ferrari Hated Wants to Build a Spanish GT
Ricart Cars: Wifredo Ricart’s great-grandson plans a 750 hp, Spanish-built GT inspired by the Pegaso Z-102, limited to 86 cars. Where the project really stands.
PEGASO – ENASA
Pegaso: The Winged Horse That Motorized a Nation and Couldn’t Survive Itself A brand born from the ashes of another. A state-owned company created to build trucks in a country shattered by war that, by the vision of a genius with zero business sense, ended up producing the fastest production car on the planet. A … Read more
WIFREDO RICART
Wifredo Ricart: The Spanish Engineer Who Made Ferrari Happen… Without Even Trying A kid from Barcelona, born in 1897. A guy who graduated in industrial engineering before turning 21. A man who designed racing cars with double overhead cams and 16 valves when most manufacturers didn’t even know those words. A Spaniard who walked into … Read more
Pegaso Z-102: The Spanish Supercar From a Truck Factory That Outran Jaguar
Pegaso Z-102: the four-cam V8 supercar built in a Barcelona truck plant by the engineer Enzo Ferrari couldn’t stand, and the 1953 record it took from Jaguar.