Girardo & Co. on Thursday launched the Girardo & Co. Archive, a vast treasure trove of 3,000,000 images accurately documenting over five decades of motoring and motorsport history.
The Archive is also an invaluable resource tool for collectors, historians, journalists and enthusiasts alike.
To complement its extensive library of literature and information, Girardo & Co. has acquired Photo4.
The famous Italian archive was founded in Bologna over four decades ago and comprises in excess of 3,000,000 photographs documenting premier national and international motorsport and motoring events from 1980 to the present day.
Better still, the vast majority of the images have never been seen before: Michael Schumacher during his very first test for Ferrari at Fiorano in 1995, in front of 10,000 diehard Italian fans;The ‘Duel in the Desert’, when Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg battled hammer and tongs throughout the 2014 Bahrain Grand Prix; Gilles Villeneuve contesting the 1979 Giro d’Italia in a Works Lancia Beta Montecarlo Turbo; and Tom Walkinshaw’s Silk Cut-liveried Jaguars toppling Porsche at Le Mans in 1988.
The exhaustive selection of photos encompasses a vast cross section of motorsport history, from comprehensive documentation of the last four decades of Formula 1 and its feeder categories to the international top flights of sports cars, touring cars and rallying.
That means whether a journalist is hunting for a previously unseen image of Nelson Piquet winning the 1986 Hungarian Grand Prix or an owner is looking for photographic proof that his Lancia Delta HF Integrale contested a particular Italian rally in the 1990s, the Girardo & Co. Archive holds the answers.
Extensively researching every car it encounters to verify its provenance and originality, and present it in a manner truly worthy of its historical significance, has been a key pillar of the Girardo & Co. philosophy since the company was founded in 2016.
And the addition of the Girardo & Co. Archive will only serve to reinforce this fact. “At Girardo & Co., we live and breathe motorsport history, be it the ice-cool characters, the knee-weakening cars or the indescribable oil-infused atmosphere,” comments Girardo & Co. founder Max Girardo.
“The Girardo & Co. Archive not only serves as a vital research tool for us and many others, from owners to historians, but it also offers the ability to dive straight back into the halcyon days of Formula 1, sports cars and rallying.”
Over 3,000,000 motoring and motorsport images can be searched and purchased now at www.girardoarchive.com. Users should simply enter key words such as the names of drivers or team personnel, manufacturers or circuits, and once the desired images have been found, they can be added to a personal lightbox or purchased in high resolution directly from the website.
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