I think the Abruzzi might be the last true "oddball" GT car, at least as far as top-level sports car racing goes.
Stringent homologation rules have been a good thing for the sport, on the whole - but there's something sad about the world that has died, where a couple of blokes could accidentally build a brilliant car in the garden shed. I'm not saying the Abruzzi was one of those cars (though some of the cars in this thread could certainly be described that way), but it wasn't exactly built in the numbers of the 911...
I miss cars like the Abruzzi. At Le Mans, it now even seems a tall order to expect a slightly quirky manufacturer like Spyker.
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