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I once saw a McLaren F1 covered with dead bugs, clear evidence of a butler with a can of dead bugs and a tube of superglue — or of actual use of the car on an actual road. One day, there will be a shot like this of the P1. I hope.

The velocity stacks on Steve McQueen’s chestnut brown 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso. This is what you got when you had money to blow on cars fifty years ago: lots and lots of little exposed screws. You like, yes?

Add a cockpit to a Mercedes–Benz Silver Arrow and it turns into a speed record mecha with wheels. In October 1934, Rudolf Caracciola used this W25 to break the world record for the one-mile standing start. The same day, on a one-kilometer run, he became the fastest man on a public road, at 197 mph. That road, 30 miles… Read more

BMW’s five-year-old Gina never gets old. The most delightfully, sensuously alive car I’ve ever seen, with a snarling, crackling, totally real 4.4-liter V8 beneath a hood that opens like a human chest during thoracic surgery. It’s a wearable vehicle, a modern-day baidarka, and it’s the only concept car I’d actually… Read more

Two gauges, some Dymo, a medium-sized tach, a steering wheel with zero buttons: this is how simple the Porsche 917/30’s cockpit was. Then again, with 1,500 hp on tap, maybe it’s best not to multitask.

The Modulo. Built on a Ferrari 512S chassis by Pininfarina for the 1970 Geneva Motor Show, a year before Bertone did the Countach. Coke lounge interior, glass velocity trumpets. Because why not? (Photo: Pininfarina)