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Race Like Fangio in the Carrera Sudamericana
In 1940, the great Juan Manuel Fangio started his legendary career by winning the grueling Gran Premio del Norte from Buenos Aires in Argentina over the Andes to Lima in Peru. In 2006, for about the...
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Legends line up at Goodwood
The Goodwood Festival of Speed will kick off on Friday featuring the usual mind-boggling array of vintage racing machinery piloted by racing legends. If you aren’t winging your way there now, or...
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Fangio and Maserati on Modena Auto-Aerodrome
Falling into thinking of classic and collectible cars as commodities is a trap fraught with danger. Are automobiles built to be traded like so much gold bullion or, as the definition of the word...
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Juan Manuel Fangio-driven Mercedes-Benz W196 heads to auction
The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196, as driven by Juan Manuel Fangio. Images courtesy Bonhams. Fans of vintage racing will soon have a rare opportunity to bid on a Formula One Grand Prix-winning Mercedes-Benz...
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Racing Heroes – Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio. Photos courtesy Daimler Media Archive. In the world of Formula One, the benchmark driver to which all others continue to be compared is the Argentinian great, Juan Manuel Fangio....
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Fangio’s 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196R sells for record $29.65 million
Mercedes-Benz W196R 00006/54. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Until Friday, July 12, the most expensive car ever sold at auction was a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa Prototype, sold by Gooding & Company at its...
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Fangio versus Brabham – the world record Mercedes Silver Arrow at work
In our recent story on the $29.65 million sale of the Juan Manuel Fangio-driven Mercedes-Benz W196R at this past weekend’s Bonhams Goodwood auction, reader Tony pointed out this video of Fangio taking...
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Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1970 IKA Torino 380S heads to auction
Fangio’s 1970 IKA Torino 380S. Photos courtesy of Silverstone Auctions. First his work car, now his drive-to-work car. With Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 racer selling for a record...
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Fangio’s IKA Torino sells for $45,000
Photo courtesy Silverstone Auctions. So, did the immortal Juan Manuel Fangio crawl from the cockpits of the Maserati 250F and Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR to tool relaxingly along in a Rambler? Well, sort...
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Racing Heroes – Sir Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss at Pebble Beach, 2011. Photos by Jim Donnelly. If you could break the career of the legendary Sir Stirling Moss down into numbers, it would read like this: Over a 14-year...
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Juan Manuel Fangio’s body to be exhumed
Fangio and Andreina Berruet at a cafe near Monza in 1957. Photo courtesy of the Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. Juan Manuel Fangio accomplished a great many things in this life. Before...
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Hemmings Sunday Cinema – racing at Bonneville in 1989, ride along with...
Ever wonder what it’s like to pilot a fuel streamliner at 256.9 MPH on the salt at Bonneville? Catch fire at 350 MPH? This ESPN coverage of racing at the salt flats in 1989 will give you some idea. *...
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Golden age survivor – Fangio’s 1956 Ferrari 290 MM
1956 Ferrari 290 MM, in the same livery raced by Fangio in 1956. Photos by Tim Scott, Fluid Images and courtesy RM Sotheby’s, unless otherwise noted. After losing to Lancia in 1954 and Mercedes-Benz...
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The DNA Results Are In; Fangio Had at least One Son
Despite the very brief reign of Miss Colombia, whose Miss Universe tiara was snatched away moments after erstwhile comedian Steve Harvey read her name as the winner, there was other recent news from...
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