If a magazine was noise then the new issue of C&SC – officially on sale in the UK on 2 August - would be thunder.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the awesome AC Cobra, we've gone snake crazy. First up, our big-engined Americano-aficionado Julian Balme wrestles the mighty 427 Cobra before hooking up with its pert sister, the 289.
Then Mick Walsh tackles the slippery-bodied but brutal 198mph Daytona, finding the hard-topped Cobra has lost little of its venom. Then he retraces the ’64 FIA GT Championship when Ferraris and Cobras would battle to the end.
Of course, we have got something up our sleeves that might even top the above. We tried before to bring the incredible Mercedes W125 to you, but that attempt was thwarted by a fractured oil pipe. This time it wouldn’t get off so lightly and, better still, we drove it at the place it calls home – the Nürburgring’s challenging Nordschleife.
Martin Buckley brings us back down to earth, but without the hint of a bump, as he drives the forgotten masterpiece the infinitely good-looking Alfa Romeo Praho.
Penned by Touring of Milan, the car was named after the fishing boats Touring’s Carlo Anderloni had admired while holidaying in Thailand. Nonetheless, the Praho would fail to persuade Alfa to switch its allegiances from Bertone of Turin, leaving it to slip into obscurity. Admirers of this Latin beauty will have an exclusive chance to see it in the metal in the UK at this year’s Salon Privé at Syon Park from 5-7 September.
