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Former and current editors of CAR magazine UK pick the best, and most influential, covers from the motoring mag's first 60 years

With all due respect to Jim Hall's winged wonders, the Chaparral "2" cars kept some mighty fine company at American Speed Festival 2021.

'Do us a story on Enzo Ferrari,’ they said. Of course, the proposition is quite simple, but how can one adequately address the most significant single motor racing personality of the 20th century in just a few confined magazine pages? The sin will be omission – yet there’s too much to tell to avoid such sin. When the great man died – aged 90 – on August 14, 1988, it was pre-ordained that his passing should be attended by massive media outpourings – obituaries, tributes, potted biographies, the whole effusion of print, film, television and sound tape that today marks the passing of...