Our List of the 14 Greatest Sports Cars of the 1940s We mentioned in our best 1940s supercars list that...
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Greatest Supercars of the 1940s The 1940s began with the darkness of World War II and ended with an air...
1948→1948 Ferrari 166 Sport In Detail submitted by Richard Owen type Racing Car production years 1948 – 1948 released at...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...
1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 ‘Villa d’Este’ The classic Villa d’Este version of the 6C 2500 introduced in 1949 was...
1948 Porsche 356 No. 1 The first Porsche, chasssis 356-001, was produced in Gmünd as two-seat roadster using VW parts....
1948→1951 Porsche 356/2 Gmünd Coupé With lessons learned from 356 No. 1, Porsche developed the 356/2 as a production-ready version....
1948→1951 Porsche 356/2 Gmünd Cabriolet Of the 50 cars made in Gmünd, only eight were built up as cabriolets. Each...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...
1948→1950 Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta To commemorate their first major success at the prestigious 1948 Mille Miglia, Ferrari upgraded their...
1948→1950 Aston Martin DB1 2-Litre Sports After David Brown briefly tested Aston Martin’s Atom prototype, he paid 20 000 GBP...
1948 Tucker Convertible In 2009 a experimental Tucker Convertible was completed on an chassis 1057 by Benchmark Classics in Madison,...
1948 Tucker 48 In the 1940s Preston Tucker set out to make an entirely new vehicle. His goals were to...
1964→1990 Trabant 601 In Detail production years 1964 – 1990 built at Zwickau, Germany production 3096099 engine Inline-2 position Front...
1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Record The new T26 ‘Lago-Record’ was the world’s most powerful production car when it was launched in...
1948→1951 Talbot-Lago T26 Grand Sport One of the immediate post-war cars that received notoriety for its speed was the T26...
1948 Talbot-Lago T26 Course Despite being largely pieced together by pre-war components, the Talbot-Lago T26 raced for six years and...
1948→1958 Stanguellini 750 Sport Internazionale Built alongside the larger and faster 1100, the 750 was Stanguellini’s smallest sports racecar. It...
1947 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Labourdette Vutotal Cabriolet Rebodied in 1947 by Labourdette of Paris, this Phantom III was the designer’s...
1946→1948 Lincoln Continental In the immediate post-war period, Lincoln updated the Continental with new trim including a much more elobaorate...
1942 Lincoln Continental In 1942 Lincoln drastically modified the Continental to include a larger front end and dashed headlight surrounds....
1948 Lancia Aprilia The Lancia Aprilia was particularly suitable for special coachwork and above all Pinin Farina bodied the most....
1946→1948 Ford Super Deluxe Sportsman The first wood-bodied convertible ever produced, the Ford Sportsman evolved on the whim of company...
1947 Fiat 1100 S One of Fiats first post-war efforts was a racing variant of the 1100 known simply as...
1947 MG TC For the war effort, MG’s Abingdon factory was quickly converted for war-time production and in 1941, MG’s...
1946 Mercury Sportsman Convertible Mercury got a Sportsman version in April 1946 after the Ford Super Deluxe was launched with...
1930→1943 Mercedes-Benz 770 Großer The ‘Grand Mercedes’ – model 770 – was launched at the Paris Motor Show in October...
1947 Maserati A6GCS After the war, Maserati raced both the 8CL and 4CL. Right before the Maserati brothers left the...
Maserati A6 1500 After producing supercharged race cars since 1929, one of Ernesto Maserati’s next ambitions was to take his...
1948 Maserati 4CLT/48 Chassis and engine changes made to the experimental Maserati 4CLs eventually coalesced into the 4CLT, the appended T denoting...
1948 Ferrari 166 MM Zagato Panoramica Zagato and Ferrari’s associations began at Alfa Romeo, when Zagato’s light weight aluminum bodies...
1947 Ferrari 125 Sport The Type 125 Sport or Tipo 125 S Competizione was Enzo Ferrari’s first race car and...
1946 Delahaye 145 Motivated by their racing success, Henri Chapron bought two used Delahaye Type 145 competition cars to rebody...
1948 Dodge Custom Derham Coupe Chrysler commissioned this one-of coupe from Derham to promote the entire D24 platform. At the...
1946 Cisitalia 202 Gallery After producing a several customer D46s, and achieving a debut victory in the Brezzi Cup in...
1948 Delahaye 175 S After the war Delahaye continued to make cars largely based on their prewar cars. The Type...
1946→1952 Delahaye 135 MS In the immedaite post-war period Delahaye resumed production of the 135 MS which began began in...
Daimler DE-36 The 147-inch wheelbase Daimler DE-36 chassis was powered by a 150hp straight-eight displacing 5460cc (5.4L). The large, silky...
1948 Buick Roadmaster Riviera Coupe The Riviera Coupe offered the unusual Hardtop Convertible style to the Buick line which mimicked...
1941 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Compared to the 1940 Buicks, the 1941 models had a smoother, sleeker look while remaining unmistakably...
1944 Bugatti Type 73C Bugatti, assisted by his designers Noel Domboy and Antoine Pichetto, spent the war years planning a...
1941 BMW 328 Berlin-Rome Roadster Plans for the long-distance rally from Berlin to Rome were already being forged at the...
1946→1952 Bentley Mark VI In 1946 Bentley introduced their Mark IV as an updated version of Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith and...
1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione 1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Competizione Gallery See full 1946 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500...
1948→1950 Cisitalia-Abarth 204 A With resources and talent from the defunct Cisitalia Automobili, Carlos Abarth started his own company called...
Cisitalia D46 World War II had only just ended and most of Europe still lay in ruins. Day to day...
1948 Cisitalia 202 SMM Nuvolari Spider As a successful businesman and experienced amateur driver, Piero Dusio started Cisitalia, officially known...
1946 Cisitalia 202 As a successful businessman and experienced amateur driver, Piero Dusio started Cisitalia, officially known as Consorzio Industriale...
1946→1948 Chrysler Town & Country Convertible With it’s vibrant woodwork, the Town & Country was one of the most distinctive...
1942 Chrysler Town & Country ‘Barrelback’ Wagon For 1941 and 1942, Chrysler built their Town & Country Wagon as a...
1941 Chrysler Town & Country ‘Barrelback’ Wagon For 1941 and 1942, Chrysler built their Town & Country Wagon as a...
1941 Chrysler Thunderbolt Two years after GM released the first American concept car, Chrysler responded with this Thunderbolt, “the car...
1941 Chrysler Newport Dual Cowl Phaeton To maintain Chrysler’s styling innovation, the Newport Dual Cowl Phaeton was initially released in...
1948 Cadillac Series 62 Saoutchik Cabriolet After WWII, Jaques Saoutchik went right back into his coachbuilding business and created some...
1947 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Coupe In 1947 Cadillac slightly upgraded their model year that included a new 5-bar front...
1946 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Coupe In 1946, Cadillac was finished with war-time production and began selling motor cars with...
1941 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Coupe In 1941, Cadillac replaced the out-going Series 61 with the Series 62 and its...
1945 – 1949 Jaguar Mark IV Mark IV was the unofficial name for the post-war 2½-Litre and 3½-Litre Jaguars. The...
1948 Norman E. Timbs Buick Streamliner Mechanical engineer Norman E. Timbs created this dramatic streamliner in the 1940s which in...
1948 – 1952 Veritas Rennsport In the immediate post-war period, very few companies were prepared to make race-cars and hardly...
