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6 PORSCHE 550 SPYDER GRAHAM MCRAE MASTERPIECE

18 1976 MAZDA ROADPACER A PASSION FOR MAZDAS

28 1980 MINI 1000 IT HAD TO BE PURPLE

38 CONCORSO D’ELEGANZA VILLA D’ESTE HOLLYWOOD ON THE LAKE

64 BACK TO THE ’60S

WE GO BACK TO THIS GOLDEN ERA

74 A SAFER UNDERBODY OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

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FEATURE

1955 Porsche 550 Spyder (2018 McRae reproduction)

LEGENDARY

STATUS THE PORSCHE 550 SPYDER

IS ABOUT AS CLASSIC AND ICONIC AS IT GETS, EVEN FOR THE STORIED PORSCHE BR AND Words: Terry Cobham Photos: Adam Croy

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FEATURE 1980 Mini 1000

THE COLOUR

PURPLE WHEN SELF-CONFESSED

P E T R O L H E A D D A R R E L L- M A R I E N I C H O L WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNIT Y TO CHOOSE A COLOUR FOR HER NE W C A R , T H E R E W A S O N LY E V E R G O I N G TO BE ONE OPTION Words: Ashley Webb, Darrell-Marie Nichol Photos: Darrell-Marie Nichol

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FEATURE Concorso d’Eleganza

JAMES HEADS OFF TO THE SHORES OF L A K E C O M O , I TA LY, A P O P U L A R R E T R E AT F O R A R I S TO C R AT S A N D T H E W E A LT H Y S I N C E R O M A N TIMES, FOR THE AMAZING CONCORSO D’ELEGANZA VILLA D’ESTE Words and photos: James Nicholls

H O L L Y W O O D ON THE L A K E

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he Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, held every year at the Grand Hotel Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como, was first held in 1929. Then, the movie industry was still in its infancy and the Great Depression was beginning after the Wall Street Crash. This year, 89 years later, it celebrated perhaps two of the 20th century’s most important socio-historic events — the arrival of the automobile and its relationship with the cinema — and was entitled ‘Hollywood on the Lake’.

Villa d’Este, built in 1568, was originally the summer residence of Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio, becoming a hotel in 1873. Since then, it has always been a destination for aristocrats of Europe partaking in the ‘Grand Tour’. In the 20th century, as today, it became the meeting point for the internationally famous, many of who became so almost overnight by dint of their exploits on the silver screen. For this reason, the hotel, to insiders, became known as ‘Hollywood on the Lake’.

Style and purpose The 50 cars featured in the Concorso this year were divided into a variety classes according to their style and purpose: pioneering racing cars (The Titans), including venerable Alfa Romeos

and Bugattis; opulent automobiles (From Manhattan to Mayfair), of which surely none was more luxurious than the gold-plated 1929 Rolls-Royce Phantom, seemingly touched by the hand of King Midas or the Ian Fleming character Auric Goldfinger himself; and stunning art-deco grande routières, exemplified by the 5.5m long 1936 Lancia Astura Serie III or the beautiful Bugatti Type 57 Atalante from the following year, named after the Amazon hunter from Greek mythology.

GT cars were in abundance, with wonderful and exotic specimens from the great marques Ferrari, Bentley, Jaguar, and Aston Martin, from the pens of the great coachbuilders Mulliner, Vignale, Pinin Farina (which became Pininfarina only in the 1960s), and Scaglietti.

For the first time, too, Formula 1 was a featured class at the Concorso, designated by the risqué title ‘When Sex Was Safe and Racing Dangerous!’

Here were single-seaters, or monoposti as they are known in Italy, which had been driven by those who hold a place in the pantheon of piloti such as Stirling Moss, Harry Schell, Jean Behra, Luigi Musso, Luigi Villoresi, Juan Manuel Fangio, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jo Bonnier, Wolfgang von Trips, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, Ronnie Peterson, Andrea De Cesaris, themotorhood.com | New Zealand Classic Car

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KITS AND PIECES

Words and photos: Patrick Harlow

T-REX

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