Gordon Murray lined the F1’s engine bay with pure gold to contain a scorching BMW V12. Three decades and a new era of hyper-SUVs later, the analog obsession of the 1990s has never looked more valuable.
Start on the pavement. A rare supercar meetup on a seemingly ordinary London city street, as recently captured in a viral video by automotive chronicler Shmee150, presents a scene…
That gleaming engine bay, highly visible in the Shmee150 footage from the London street gathering, was never intended as automotive jewelry.
The legacy of that 16-gram golden heat shield casts a long, intimidating shadow over the modern collector car market, as the hybridized progeny of the F1 step into the auction…
Gordon Murray lined the F1’s engine bay with pure gold to contain a scorching BMW V12. Three decades and a new era of hyper-SUVs later, the analog obsession of the 1990s has never looked more valuable.