Of the 1950s Ferrari cars that burned up the auction block just as they did the racetrack, the '56 Scagliotti 290 MM Spider is a particularly dashing model, with fronted rounded edges all around ...

A running theme of this list will be the presence of Juan Manuel Fangio in the cockpit, and this Ferrari 290 MM featured the five-time World Champion in the 1956 running of the Mille Miglia.

The 1956 Ferrari 290 MM was solely built for endurance racing. Its purpose was to run in the Mille Miglia race for the great Juan Manuel Fangio. This car has a 3.5-litre V12 with 320 horsepower ...