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Alfa Romeo 1992 155 D2 Superturismo
This car started its racing career with (also Ferrari Formula I) pilot Jean Alesi as an Alfa Romeo works car. It had a very successful career until 1996 when it was retired into a private collection. Now fully restored and ready to race again!

155 D2 Front	155 D2 Rear	155 D2 Engine

Bimota 1972 HBI
One of 12 built.  The perfect synthesis of Italian genius and Japanese reliability.  A performance bike considered the ultimate development of the Honda 750.

Bimota Side	Bimota Front

 
In September 1972, Massimo Tamburini crashed his Honda 750 Four at the Misano racetrack. The accident left him with three broken ribs. If the accident hadn’t occurred, Bimota may never have come into existence. While Massimo was recuperating, he constructed a tubular steel frame that could withstand the horsepower being produced by the big Japanese manufacturer’s engines. The frame Massimo constructed lowered the center of gravity and reduced the weight of the original Honda. With the creation of the HB1, the Bimota was born. Only ten of these bikes were ever produced.

The Bimota name was derived from its founder’s initials; Bianchi, Morri and Tamburini. However, it was the enthusiasm and engineering excellence of Massimo Tamburini that carried the Company to success. In the 1970s, Bimota produced racing frames that caught the attention of serious bike racers. Frames such as the YB1, YB2, YB3 and HDB1, HDB2 and SB1, were of superior quality and the perception of what a racing bike should be was changed forever.

Only a few, maybe 10 of the HB1 were built. None of them was designed to be street legal, they were all meant to be race bikes. The most famous driver was Luigi Anelli, who raced a HB1 in 1973. Today, this is probably the most sought after special framed Honda CB 750 SOHC/4 bike.
 
Ceriani front fork, Marzocchi rear dampers, Fontana brakes – Bimota used only the best accessories.
 
If Massimo Tamburini had not crashed his Honda 750 Four at the Misano racetrack in September 1972 the legend that is now Bimota might never have existed. After recuperating from three broken ribs he sets about the construction of a tubular steel frame to cope with the horsepower being produced by the engines of the big Japanese manufacturers. This frame both reduced the weight of the original Honda and lowered the centre of gravity and so with the HB1, of which only ten were made, the story begins.
 
 
 
—Camillo Alexander Mekacher Vogel