If only we could see the future. We could duck when something bad was headed our way, properly time investments, and get out when the getting was still good. We’d also know the next big-ticket items in the classic car world.
Fortunately, though, we have 20/20 hindsight—or at least a rearview mirror that’s clear enough. Looking into the past can …
Cool, you blew right by Datsun roadsters.
July 1981 issue Road & Track cover story, Porsche 924 Turbo, Datsun 280ZX Turbo, Alfa-Romeo GTV6. The car they liked the best? The car that garnered the most points? The Alfa. Full disclosure, I own one. It's a great car that hits all the car-guy hot buttons, enticed Jeremy Clarkson to own one (twice) and consistently gets thumbs up from passersby. Auction prices for nice examples have risen lately to north of $20K. The GTV6 has a body designed by a famous Italian design house, an engine created by a guy that worked for Enzo Ferrari, has successful racing provenance in both road and rally and to top it off was in a James Bond movie. Yet, almost unbelievably it is sniffed at and ignored (forgotten)? by so-called experts. I have never seen a car, let alone an Italian car, with such a pedigree get treated so ingloriously. What is up with that?
A complete absence of Italian cars. Not a very definitive or telling list.
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