This exquisitely done painting depicts Juan Manuel Fangio, the five-time Formula One World Champion, finishing 5th in the 1956 Mille...
George Valerio of Lincoln, California, has been hunting cars for as long as he can remember. Yes, it’s the way...
I was disappointed. The Aston Martin I was supposed to drive was in the shop. But, Alberto Gutierrez had another Aston waiting for me, and my disappointment quickly turned into joy. Sitting next to the Arnolt Bristol I was to profile (see Wacky? Hardly!—1954 Arnolt-Bristol Bolide) was an absolutely gorgeous...
Cliff Reuter and I suffer from codependency. The phone calling and emailing is incessant. I regularly disturb him while he’s...
BMW 507 Debut When the Frankfurt Motor Show opened in late 1955, the principal BMW attractions were two sporting variations...
Few early American racers did more than Ak Miller. He was a well-known hot rodder, successful long-distance racer, had more than one legendary run in The Carrera Panamericana in the 1950s, was a frequent winner at the hillclimbs at Pikes Peak, tried his hand at road racing, and even roared...
The year 1957 was one of firsts for Corvette. It may have been a virtual twin to the 1956 model,...
The inspiration behind the concepts and designs of Lister cars came from the pre-war Mercedes racing cars that would today...
The 1957 season was Juan Manuel Fangio’s swan song. With four World Championship victories under his belt, Fangio rejoined the Officine Alfieri Maserati team to drive the 250F in his final season of Grand Prix racing. Having already won the season opening race in Argentina, Fangio and the Formula One...
Bill Devin was a friend of mine. Even in his eighties he was incredibly sharp, had nearly flawless recall and...
Ray Petros is a dedicated Studebaker collector. It is natural that he focuses on that marque, since his family were...
The Berkeley Coachwork Company of Biggleswade was England’s top manufacturer of trailers in the 1950s. Company topper Charles Panter decided to expand the business’s line and introduced a diminutive economy sports car, designed by Laurie Bond, at the 1956 London Motor Show. These little cars from Berkeley had many unique...
Following the vast destruction of WW II, exciting new sports cars emerged from the rubble, which was just what the...
Vince di Pierro knows what he likes. So much so that four years ago he sank more than $100,000 into...
It’s hard to imagine that what was probably the greatest range of post-war production sports cars, really started life as an engine looking for a suitable chassis/body unit. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
One of the most intriguing post-war American automotive tales has largely been forgotten. It was a car story that began...
Since the doors opened in 1924, the MG Car Company of Great Britain has been producing interesting and innovative automobiles....
One of many styling experiments built for day-to-day use by GM styling Chief Bill Mitchell, the XP-700 was built on a standard 1958 283/230 Corvette chassis but received “Grand Prix-inspired” styling cues such as wire wheels, side exhaust and an extended snout, rumored to have been inspired by a one-off...
Then. I must have called the guy dozens of times, year after year for more than a decade. It was...
Austrian born Karl Alberto Abarth did so many things so very well. He was a motorcycle racing champion, multiple land...
If you don’t know the Furlows of Dallas, Texas, you’ve definitely been hanging with the wrong vintage racing crowd. Father John (age 79) and son John Jr. (age 58) have been racing sports cars since 1959 and 1977, respectively, and although Sr. gave up racing a couple of years back,...
In 1959, Buick introduced the Invicta line of full-size sedans, as an evolution of the Buick Century married to a...
I want to be Rich Plavetich. Is he cool? Check. Does he have a wonderful and beautiful wife who also...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for fun, that postwar sales of sports cars skyrocketed. And perhaps nowhere was that demand more acutely felt than in the United States where affordable sports cars and convertibles where in...
Three-owner Kellison was extracted from a barn, in 1986, and restored by author, racer and rally organizer Rich Taylor. I...
Road racing in America started just after World War II and rapidly grew into a phenomenon. While many of the...
Background By the late 1950s, sports racing cars were becoming increasingly sophisticated, transitioning from traditional front-engine production-based cars to a new generation of highly specialized purpose-built mid-engine machines. Faced with the challenging task of designing an all-new sports car on a shoestring budget, Alfieri courageously created the last of the...
There are few things that car guys love more than the story of a fabulous automotive find…the wilder, the better....
Chris Wickersham is a Devin expert who has restored nearly ten Devin-bodied cars including seven of the original Devin SS...
There’s always been something magical about the H-Modified cars of the ’50s and early ’60s. These 750-cc (and later 850-cc) weapons were driven with zing and enthusiasm, not grunt and anger. And the very best drove ’em foot to the floor all the way around, not hard on brakes, hard...
