A brief timeline, for clarity: In 1958, on the Freiburg-Schauinsland hill climb in Germany, owner Alfred Hopf lost control of his 250 Testa Rossa and ended up deep in the trees of the Black Forest.

We like car auctions well enough, but often the high-end affairs are a bit too much like outdoor museums – very beautiful and very cold, and you’re not allowed to touch anything. A perfect case in ...

The Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder may have been introduced to the mainstream by the classic 1986 John Hughes’ film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (of course, that car was a replica), but the iconic ...