Certain rare sports cars are extraordinarily special The sports car model as well as the specific automobile can be influential and famous

Jaguar

The Jaguar XKSS is one of the rarest and most beautiful sports cars in the world Before the popular stylish Etypes of the 1960s and early 1970s the amazing finned Dtype Jaguars were driven to wins at Le Mans in the 1950s and now easily sell for over 1 million dollars Scarcer still is the XKSS Only 16 were made before a fire destroyed the factory

XK Evocation The story of the XKSS and other rare Jaguars can be found at this companys website They sell reproduction Ctype and Dtype Jaguars The Jaglovers Web Early Jaguars were photographed at a 2001 Jaguar of North America Challenge Championship in Franklin Tennessee

The 1965 Aston Martin DB5 from the James Bond movies is famous Two customized DB5s with machine guns revolving license plates bulletproof rear shield and other gadgets suitable for a secret agent with a license to kill were manufactured for Goldfinger while another two went on publicity tours One is on display at the Louwman Museum in the Netherlands and a second was recently sold at an auction in Arizona for $2 090 000

The McLaren F1 is a fast sports car with a top speed of 240 mph Production stopped in 1998 after only 100 were built According to the official McLaren site there are eight authorized service centers around the world for these rare sports cars

The famous story goes that after World War Two Ferruccio Lamborghini built a successful tractor factory and drove a Ferrari sports car One day he complained to Enzo Ferrari the founder of the Ferrari sports car company about his clutch Mr Ferrari told Mr Lamborghini he should stick to tractors because thats all he knows how to drive so Mr Lamborghini developed the powerful and luxurious Lamborghini sports car

Similar to the Ferraris prancing horse the Lamborghini has a bull as its symbol The Miura sold from the 1960s to the early 1970s is the name of fierce Spanish bulls bred for bullfighting The Diablo from the 1990s is another exceptional Lamborghini

British race cars are green blue is for France and Italys racing color is red The Testarossa which means red head is a popular sports car from the 1980s designed by Pininfarina of Italy In 2002 the Enzo Ferrari was named after the companys founder Though a production car manufactured for the street it is similar to a Formula One race car The Ferrari Company donated an Enzo to the Catholic Church to benefit the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia It was sold at auction for well over 1 million dollars

Tipo 61 is the official name of the Maserati Birdcage This beautiful race car manufactured in the early 1960s has an influential lightweight tubular chassis In 2005 to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Pininfarina design firm the Maserati Birdcage 75th concept car was built Like the original Birdcage this futuristic automobile is white

The most important automobile ever made is the Ford Model T By the end of World War Two though many Model Ts had been scrapped These abandoned old cars were perfect to transform into powerful hot rods Today TBuckets are made with fiberglass bodies and new parts because original Model Ts are scarce