I wonder if Mercedes should have thought of this when it started pulling apart this lovely old racing car in preparation for the centenary ... road race, the Targa Florio. Displayed in the ...

The remains of the historic Targa Florio circuit are currently at rick of destruction as a result of a large public works project in Sicily, Italy. The remaining pit lane and grandstand section ...

It’s an elemental thing, the 2.0-liter Mercedes-Benz Targa Florio. You’re out in the wind, the exhaust snarling at your right elbow, the smell of oil on hot metal in your nostrils as you ...

The Targa Florio is easy enough to read about, you've probably come across plenty of photos of Porsches and Ferraris there. When you see a blue Porsche 908/3 with a big orange arrow running down ...

In 1965, driving with Lorenzo Bandini, he became a hero in Sicily when he had the first of three Targa Florio wins. Vaccarella would win again in 1971 in an Alfa Tipo 33 and in 1975 in a Ferrari 312P.

It's the latest Porsche 911 Targa, of course -- as in Targa Florio -- based on the Carrera 4 convertible's aluminum body and all-wheel-drive drivetrain. The new 911 Targa is built at the same ...

In 1960, Jo Bonnier and Hans Herrmann won the Sicily-spanning Targa Florio in a Porsche 718 RS-60. That car has since lived in collector hands and now belongs to the Revs Institute in Florida ...

See All 28 Photos The Targa name itself is inspired by the Targa Florio, a road-rally so wild and dangerous that it could never exist today. To put it in modern terms, imagine the Le Mans-winning ...

In the Floriopoli pit garages, along the route of Sicily's Targa Florio road race, there's a roughly translated warning from the mayor to the residents of a local town. Dating to the race's early ...