Every model, one definitive hub.
Each Car Collector International buyer's guide is the central reference for that specific vehicle. Written for collectors, edited for owners, and updated as the cars themselves move through the market.
Alfa Romeo
Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 / 6C 2300
Vittorio Jano's six-cylinder Alfas — light, quick and the foundation of the marque's racing reputation.
Alfa Romeo 8C 2300
Vittorio Jano's straight-eight masterpiece — Mille Miglia, Le Mans and Targa Florio winner.
Alfa Romeo Tipo B (P3)
Vittorio Jano's monoposto Tipo B (P3) — the world's first true single-seater Grand Prix car.
Alfa Romeo 8C 2900
The 8C 2900B Lungo / Corto — one of the most beautiful and most valuable pre-war cars ever built.
Alvis
Alvis 12/50 & 12/60
The car that established Alvis as a serious maker — and won the 1923 Brooklands 200-Mile Race.
Alvis Speed 20 & Speed 25
Coventry's Derby-Bentley rival — the world's first all-synchromesh production gearbox and independent front suspension.
Alvis 4.3-Litre
The most powerful pre-war Alvis — with the Speed 25, widely regarded as the finest cars Alvis built.
Auburn
Auburn 8-120 Boattail Speedster
The Leamy-Sakhnoffsky boat-tail — the ultimate-specification 120-horsepower first-generation Boattail Speedster, built in roughly 55 examples through June 1929 and the direct ancestor of the supercharged 851 / 852.
Auburn 851 / 852 Speedster
Gordon Buehrig's boat-tail Speedster — the most theatrical American body of the 1930s, supercharged Lycoming inline-eight.
Bentley
Bentley 3 Litre
W.O. Bentley's founding car — the four-cylinder sports tourer that won Le Mans in 1924 and 1927 and established the marque.
Bentley Speed Six
W.O.'s favourite — the six-cylinder Bentley that won Le Mans in 1929 and 1930 and outshone the Blower on the track.
Bentley 4½ Litre Blower
Tim Birkin's supercharged 4½ Litre — the most famous Bentley of the vintage era and a Le Mans icon despite never winning outright.
Bentley 8 Litre
W.O. Bentley's last and grandest car — a 100 mph luxury chassis that intended to beat Rolls-Royce on its own ground.
Bugatti
Bugatti Type 35 / 35B / 35C
The most successful racing car in history — over 1,000 victories and the defining shape of vintage motorsport.
Bugatti Type 41 Royale
Ettore Bugatti's monumental folly — a 12.8-litre, 6.4-metre-long automobile intended for royalty.
Bugatti Type 55
Road-going sports version of the Type 51 Grand Prix car — a blue-chip pre-war Bugatti.
Bugatti Type 57 / 57S / 57SC
Jean Bugatti's masterpiece — including the Atlantic, perhaps the most valuable car ever sold.
Cord
Cord L-29
The first American front-wheel-drive car — Auburn's radical 1929 flagship, engineered from Harry Miller's Indianapolis racing patents and now a CCCA Full Classic.
Cord 810 / 812
Gordon Buehrig's coffin-nose Cord — front-wheel drive, hidden headlamps and Art Deco design from 1936 America.
Delahaye
Hispano-Suiza
Hispano-Suiza H6
Marc Birkigt's 1919 masterpiece — the Boulanger straight-six that set the standard for inter-war luxury.
Hispano-Suiza J12
The V12 successor to the H6 — 9.4 litres of refined French aero-derived engineering for the world's wealthiest owners.
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz SSK
Ferdinand Porsche's supercharged short-chassis monster — the most fearsome sports car of the late 1920s.
Mercedes-Benz 500K / 540K
The pre-war German grand tourer — supercharged straight-eight luxury with Sindelfingen-built coachwork of unmatched theatre.
Mercedes-Benz W25 / W125 / W154
The Silver Arrows — Mercedes-Benz's state-backed Grand Prix machines that defined the most extreme era of pre-war racing.
Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
'The best car in the world' — the chassis that built Rolls-Royce's global reputation and ran continuously for two decades.
Rolls-Royce Phantom I / II / III
The pre-war Phantom trilogy — overhead-valve six, sporting Continental chassis and finally the legendary V12.
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