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Landmark Cars; 50 years of standouts.
It wouldn't be a proper AutoWeek retrospective without a catalog of the most important cars to pass through our pages, our garages and our hearts in 50 years. Unfettered, we easily could have filled this entire magazine. Instead, we gathered nominations from staffers and industry luminaries for consideration and whittled our way from there. Call it an exercise in restraint, picking the most important cars. We had a tough time getting the list to fewer than 100, and even then, it spills over off these pages onto our website.
The result reveals a surprising variety, both from the road and from the racetrack. There's no ranking involved, it's just a chronology, but ...
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- Magazine article from: AutoWeek August 6, 2007 700+ words
...is their degree of [high] satisfaction to their service and repair work . . . on their vehicles.'' Phil Hill, Olivier Gendebien, Dan Gurney and Chuck Daigh combine to win the 12 Hours of Sebring. It is a Ferrari 1-2 finish. CBS newscaster...
- Market.(Escape Roads)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek July 9, 2007 700+ words
...9,281,250 Unsold at Sotheby's Ferrari auction in June '05 at a high bid of $8.05 million, the Phil Hill/Olivier Gendebien 1962 Le Mans winner is the only 4.0-liter Testa Rossa built. Its successful track career, in which it...
- 1958.(50th Anniversary countdown)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek July 30, 2007 700+ words
...Issue 1. By page 3, McCluggage reported that Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien had won a rain-soaked 24 Hours of Le Mans, thereby...Nassau Grand Prix in the Bahamas. CAPTION(S): Phil Hill spins his Ferrari 250TR in the rain on the way...
- Reunen a joyas sobre ruedas.(Automotriz)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) August 24, 2002 700+ words
...Horas de LeMans de 1962, un Testa Rossa 330 TRI/LM chasis 0808, que fue conducido por el estadounidense Phil Hill y Olivier Gendebien en la tradicional prueba de resistencia francesa. Este Ferrari fue el ltimo vehculo con motor delantero que...
- PONY UP FERRARI CASH.(Revs)
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek June 18, 2007 700+ words
...spanning six decades. The showstopper was a 1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM Testa Rossa raced to a Le Mans victory by Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien. It netted $9.4 million. * * * Other highlights * 1953 340/375 MM Berlinetta Competizione ($5...
- Anniversary Celebrations and International Flavor Highlight 25th Rolex Vintage...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 30, 2007 700+ words
...collection, including two Le Mans Winners, a 1933 Alfa Romeo driven by Nuvolari and a Ferrari TR61 driven by Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien Genius of Dr. Porsche -- A group of cars, all designed by Dr. Porsche, including one of the finest Volkswagens...
- MORE THAN A SLICK PHOTO.
- Magazine article from: AutoWeek June 23, 2008 700+ words
...during the 1959 Sebring 12 Hours. The scoreboard shows the race-winning No. 7 Dan Gurney/Chuck Daigh/Olivier Gendebien/Phil Hill Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa leading, among others, Jean Behra's 250TR, Jo Bonnier's Porsche 718 RSK and...
- Legendary Ferrari 'Pontoon-Fender' Testa Rossa Expected To Break World Auction...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 5, 2009 700+ words
...January 1958 with a respectable fourth place finish competing with such legendary drivers as Phil Hill, Peter Collins, Wolfgang von Trips and Olivier Gendebien. Following entries in the Grand Prix of Cuba and Portugal, the car was sold by American...