European Car magazine - NLA, another one bites the dust Options

[IronHillRestorations]

I just found out that European Car magazine is kaput.

Back in Nov. a friend gave me a subscription, and I had forgot about it. My wife was cleaning out a drawer and found the postcard from EC saying my friend gave me a years subscription, but I haven't seen a single issue.

I got on the publisher's website and went through the "contact us" link, and got a message that EC was no longer being published.

[steuspeed]

My favorite mag back in the day. I dropped all my other subs for European Car. I remember my first issue featured the Ferrari from the Thomas Crown Affair.

http://www.sportscardigest.com/friends-ste...-report-photos/

It was painted red for the movie. Someone obtained it and returned it to factory spec in the mag. I immediately sent in my sub money. About 10 years later I dropped it. Nothing but $60K and up cars and builds. Nothing for an old Scirocco or Alfa owner anymore. I have since moved on to Classic Motorsports.

https://classicmotorsports.com/


More info I found on the Ferrari : A 275 GTB/4 N.A.R.T. Spyder version was only available from a single American dealer, Luigi Chinetti. He asked Sergio Scaglietti and Enzo Ferrari to build a few Spyder, a convertible with no roof, versions of the 275 GTB/4, which he bought for approximately $8,000 each; N.A.R.T. stood for Chinetti's North American Racing Team. It was to be a custom run of 25 cars straight from Scaglietti, but because of low sales, just 10 were built in 1967 and 1968, making this one of the most valuable Ferraris.[7] The ten NART Spiders used chassis numbers 09437, 09751, 10139, 10219, 10249, 10453, 10691, 10709, 10749, and 11057.[8]

In August 2013, a 1967 275GTB/4 (chassis #10709), owned by the late Eddie Smith of Lexington, North Carolina, sold for US$27.5 million at auction in California.[9] This was a one owner car that, while was not driven daily, was driven on a regular basis. It had remained in the Smith Family for 45 years.[9]

The NART driven by Faye Dunaway in the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair, was serial number 09437, the first produced. It came second in its class in the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring before being repainted and used for the movie. In August 2005, it fetched $3.96 million at auction.