Drive Vintage, 10 Route De Trélex, Geneva (2026)

13/10/2026

Meet “The Duck”. Quite possibly the least appropriate name ever given to a racing car.

In 1976, Anatoly “Toly” Arutunoff collected this yellow Lancia Stratos from the factory in Turin, shipped it across the Atlantic aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, then drove it 1,400 miles through snow and ice to Oklahoma. Most people would have bought a coat. Toly bought a Stratos.

Then he turned it into a Group IV endurance racer and took it to Daytona, Sebring and Watkins Glen. Because apparently, owning one of Italy’s wildest creations wasn’t quite interesting enough.

The only Stratos ever to contest the Daytona 24 Hours. Danny Sullivan shared its cockpit in 1979. And that famous roof spoiler? Removed to satisfy IMSA regulations. Lancia reportedly assured Toly it was merely cosmetic. Italian styling priorities, perfectly illustrated.

After decades of slumber and almost three years of restoration overseen by Girardo & Co., The Duck lives again—with its peculiar details and hard-earned racing scars preserved.

Bright yellow. Gloriously improbable. Utterly irreplaceable.

There is only one “The Duck”. And it has absolutely no intention of behaving like one.

And to Girardo & Co. for overseeing the entire restoration of “The Duck”—bringing this remarkable machine back to life while preserving the character and history that make it irreplaceable.

A special thank you to Nautic Concept SA for welcoming us and letting us shoot at their extraordinary location. A spectacular setting for a car that refuses to be ordinary. 🌅

04/09/2026

In 1972, Ferrari built a car with six cylinders, no V12 theatrics and, strictly speaking, not even a Ferrari badge.

Naturally, the purists complained. They were wrong.
This Swiss-delivered Dino 246 GT, chassis 02610, is finished in red over black and currently shows 42,012 km. Behind the cabin sits a wonderfully vocal 2.4-litre V6 producing 195 PS, paired with a five-speed manual gearbox. It also comes with electric windows and air conditioning — genuine extravagance by 1972 standards.

Recent years have brought a successful Swiss technical inspection, extensive specialist maintenance by Modena Cars and further mechanical and electrical attention from GSG Racing Concept. The accompanying file also includes documentation connected with the Ferrari Classiche process.
Modern cars may be faster, heavier and equipped with enough screens to run an airport. But few will make an ordinary road feel quite as special as this.

Now available through Drive Vintage and listed on Classic Driver.

Price on request.

Full listing:
 https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/ferrari/246-dino/1972/1126102

30/07/2026

Some cars shout. The Lancia Aurelia B24 S Spider America never needed to.

Born in an era when Italy wasn’t trying to build the fastest machine on Earth, but the most desirable one. Every line is effortless, every curve looks as though it was drawn over a long lunch with too much w**e and just enough genius.

Underneath sits Vittorio Jano’s revolutionary V6 — the world’s first production V6 engine. Not because someone wanted a marketing headline, but because engineers still built things to be clever rather than merely impressive.

It won’t pin you to the seat. It won’t terrify your passengers. And it certainly won’t win a drag race against anything built this century.

But find an empty coastal road at sunrise, drop the windscreen into the horizon, and you’ll discover something modern supercars have spent billions trying—and failing—to recreate: soul.

Because speed gets old.

Elegance never does.

Shots by Kevin Van Campenhout 🤩

ItalianEleganc

21/07/2026

Once in a while, Ferrari builds something that reminds you why the V12 should never disappear.

The Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider isn’t trying to beat electric hypercars in a traffic-light drag race. It doesn’t need to. Because no battery, no turbo, and no artificial soundtrack can replace the feeling of 12 naturally aspirated cylinders screaming towards 9,500 rpm.

Finished in an extraordinary Vintage Rose over Rosso Ducale, with matte brown exposed carbon catching the first light of the morning, this isn’t just a specification. It’s a statement.

We chased the sunrise through endless wheat fields, roof down, the V12 echoing across the countryside. No destination. No urgency. Just one of the last great engines ever built doing exactly what it was born to do.

One day, people won’t ask how fast these cars were.

They’ll ask what they sounded like.

19/06/2026

This is the Ferrari 488 GTB 70th Anniversary “The Green Jewel”, finished in Verde Metalizzato, with that gloriously theatrical Rosso Siam driver’s seat reminding you that this machine was always about one thing only. The person brave enough to press the throttle.

Shot in a quarry of stone and sand, it looks exactly as it should. Raw, dramatic and slightly unhinged. Like an emerald racing missile that has just clawed its way out of the earth. Beneath the sculpted body sits a 670 hp twin turbo V8, but the real story is the attitude. It does not whisper. It does not charm. It arrives like a punch to the chest.

Better still, this is not just rare. It is the only 488 GTB built in this exact 70th Anniversary specification. A proper one off. The sort of Ferrari that makes ordinary supercars feel a bit apologetic.

Offered through RM Sotheby’s Sealed July sale.

View the sale listing here:
https://rmsothebys.com/auctions/s0726/lots/r0002-2018-ferrari-488-gtb-70th-anniversary-2018-f/

31/05/2026

Savage.

The 1971 Lamborghini Miura SV is what happens when Italy stops designing a car and starts committing a crime against restraint.

Finished in yellow, it doesn’t arrive quietly. It detonates. Low, wide, impossibly beautiful, and powered by a transverse V12 placed where sensible people would expect luggage, the Miura was the car that taught the world what a supercar could be.

The SV, short for Spinto Veloce, was the final and most developed evolution of the Miura. Introduced in 1971, it brought wider rear arches, broader tyres, revised suspension, cleaner headlight treatment, and a more powerful 4.0 litre V12 producing around 385 hp. In simple terms, Lamborghini took one of the most beautiful machines ever made and made it angrier, faster, and better planted.

Only 150 Miura SVs were delivered between 1971 and 1973, making it the rarest regular production Miura and the definitive version of the breed.

This is not a car.
It is a yellow V12 sculpture with a temper.

q

26/04/2026

Qualifying.

Monaco does not forgive. It measures the car, the driver, the preparation, and occasionally the size of your bravery.

Today, the 1974 Shadow DN3 Formula 1, driven by Jean Denis Delétraz, delivered exactly what we came to see. A proper historic Grand Prix machine, authentic in spirit, beautifully prepared by .automobiles, and pushed through the streets of Monaco to a superb 7th place in qualifying.

No tricks. No modern shortcuts. Just noise, commitment, mechanical honesty, and a car from an era when Formula 1 still looked like a fistfight in a bathtub.

A sadder note for our second car, the 1975 Tyrrell 007, which suffered a broken front right suspension wishbone. That is racing. Especially in Monaco, where the barriers are close, the margins are microscopic, and the machinery always has the final word.

Race today at 12:25, live on the YouTube channel.

Thanks to for the shots !⚡️
chautomobiles

25/04/2026

Practice.

Two DFV powered Formula 1 cars. One closed Monaco circuit. One very serious reminder that history is not supposed to sit still.

Today’s practice day at the Grand Prix Historique de Monaco brought the Drive Vintage Shadow DN3 F1 from 1974 and the Tyrrell 007 F1 from 1975 back into the environment they were born for: narrow streets, stone walls, elevation changes, and absolutely no room for approximation.

A huge thank you to Jean Denis Delétraz for taking the wheel of the Shadow DN3, and to for bringing the Tyrrell 007 to life with the precision and respect these cars deserve.

Our thanks also go to the Automobile Club de Monaco for an incredible organisation and for keeping this unique piece of motorsport heritage alive in the most spectacular setting imaginable.

Monaco does not forgive.
These cars do not pretend.
And days like this are exactly why Drive Vintage exists.

23/04/2026

In 1974, while Formula 1 still smelled of oil, danger and sheer nerve, Jean Pierre Jarier hurled this black menace through Monaco like a man with absolutely no interest in self preservation. The barriers were close, the streets were narrow, and the Shadow looked like it had been built by someone who preferred intimidation over elegance.

And yet, around this place, that worked.

The DN3 did not arrive carrying the polished arrogance of Ferrari or the theatrical glamour of Lotus. It arrived like a warning. Low, dark, aggressive, and driven by a Frenchman brave enough to thread it through the most unforgiving circuit in the world.

Monaco does not reward hesitation. It exposes it. Every corner asks the same question: are you committed, or are you already beaten? In 1974, Jarier answered properly.

This was Formula 1 before filters, before simulations, before drivers became corporate assets. Just steel nerves, brutal machinery, and the principality turned into a ribbon of consequence.

The Shadow DN3 at Monaco was not simply a racing car.
It was a weapon in a tuxedo.

17/04/2026

The end of a glorious bloodline.

The Ferrari 458 Speciale was never just a harder, lighter, more focused 458. It was the final chapter of one of Ferrari’s greatest stories: the mid engined naturally aspirated V8. Ferrari itself presents the Speciale as the ultimate evolution of that formula, just before the 488 GTB opened the turbocharged era.

Under the rear deck sits a 4.5 litre naturally aspirated V8 producing 605 cv at 9000 rpm, a figure that already sounds absurd until you remember what makes this car special is not only the power, but the way it delivers it. No turbo torque blanket. No artificial shove. Just a ferocious climb to the red line and one of the sharpest throttle responses ever fitted to a road car.

Then there is the engineering. Active aerodynamics. Side Slip Angle Control. Less weight. Faster reactions. More bite at the front. More discipline at the rear. Ferrari built it to be more extreme, more precise, and more alive than the already brilliant 458 Italia. Back in period, Ferrari even described it as its most aerodynamic road car.

Fun fact number one: the 458 Speciale is one of those rare Ferraris whose reputation has only grown with time, because the world it came from no longer exists.
Fun fact number two: its successor, the 488 GTB, was faster in many situations, but the Speciale kept something more valuable, the spine tingling insanity of a naturally aspirated Ferrari V8.
Fun fact number three: that is exactly why collectors, drivers, and purists keep circling back to it. Not because it is old. Because it is irreplaceable.

The 458 Speciale was not the beginning of the future.
It was the perfection of the past.
And sometimes, that is far more special.

#458

Drive Vintage

13/10/2026

04/09/2026

30/07/2026

21/07/2026

19/06/2026

31/05/2026

26/04/2026

25/04/2026

23/04/2026

17/04/2026

Adresse

Site Web

Notifications

Raccourcis

Partager

Catégorie

Demande de retrait de la fiche