Not just the cars, a lot of the circuits look the same to, in those days every circuit had it's own character, some maybe boring, but most of them were spectacular and a lot faster than nowadays.
When Ferrari needed a tool or part that they didn't have, they just walked into the Lotus box next door and borrowed it, and vice versa.
The catering, motor homes etc. were a lot different to in those days, at the Nurburgring for instance, the teams created a sort of hotel under the grandstand where they slept, the Ferrari mechanics filled big buckets with water and cooked pasta for everybody, today the teams have mobile Michelin star restaurants and super luxurious motor homes.
Forghieri wrote a great book about those days, with anecdotes and fantastic insights.
It's in Italian, don't know if there's an English version, but i can highly recommend it, it's called "La Ferrari secondo Forghieri - dal 1947 ad oggi" (Ferrari according to Forghieri-from 1947 till now)
Here's the book number -Mauro Forghieri, D. Buzzonetti, Ed. Nada, ISBN 9788879115377
Dr Ferdinand Porsche:" Nuvolari is the greatest driver of the past, the present, and the future".
Enzo Ferrari once drove with him and recalled even on bends "he never took his foot from the accelerator".
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