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RARITY RIDES / BROWSE BY ERA

Travel through the decades.

Discover vehicles in their historical setting: the technical ambitions, design languages and competition demands that shaped them. Era labels follow the classifications recorded in each profile.

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A different moment. A different machine.

An era describes context; it is not a claim that every surviving example was built in the same year. Individual profiles explain presentation dates, reference seasons and production periods where those distinctions matter.

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Ducati 2003

Ducati 999 R FILA

The Ducati 999 R FILA translated the factory team’s 2003 racing presentation into a limited road-going R edition. Specialist coverage identifies a 200-bike programme commemorating Ducati’s 200th World Superbike victory. The edition…

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Ducati 2005

Ducati PaulSmart 1000 LE

The Ducati PaulSmart 1000 LE honoured Paul Smart’s victory at the 1972 Imola 200-mile race through a modern SportClassic motorcycle. Ducati announced production would begin in September 2005, with the model generally…

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Documentation before the number.

A limited offer is not automatically a completed-production total. A surviving vehicle is not a complete factory census. We keep those distinctions visible and link each collection back to the individual profile’s evidence.

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