A Good (Car) Guy is Hard to Find: A Girl’s Memoir By Petra Perkins with Louis Galanos Memory: A blazing...
Mainstream media are chattering these days about “green” cars. Like it’s some new idea. Well, I’ve been a fan of...
Words by Gillian Annis. Photos by Abigail Annis Growing up as a woman in the age of social media, where everyone’s opinions are at my fingertips, I’ve noticed that some online tend to shun women (predominantly young women) for loving the things they enjoy. This happens especially when it comes...
Spring is in the air and historic sports cars are being fettled for the Mille Miglia, except they’re not. They...
On May 25, Giulio Alfieri, one of the giants of 20th century motorsport, strode through the scrutineering paddock of the...
On March 28th, at 2pm, the North East Motor Sports Museum will host a special speaker presentation on the Rockingham Boards, which will be presented by Joe Freeman. From 1925 to 1928 the top drivers from across the country came to Salem, New Hampshire’s Rockingham Motor Speedway. The track which...
The MGA should have happened several years before it did. The story of why it didn’t and how it came...
I wrote in this space, last month, that racecar drivers are just like us in that they too are human...
In the 1980s, the idea of a Japanese Luxury Sedan was a radical concept. Most North American perceptions around Japanese cars were still very much attached to frugality, economy, and base-model offerings. There were exceptions, of course, as higher trim Japanese cars began sporting comfort features, but most of those...
I was 19-years old and working nights at a Shell service station in San Jose, California, with my friend Jim...
The late 1960s brought a host of changes to the famed 24 Hours of Le Mans. The wave of “professionalism”...
A tiny red car is mixing it up at the Monterey Historic Races with 356 Porsches, Morgans, Corvettes, Lotuses and Alfas on the track. “What is that thing?” a fellow racer with a Ferrari on the pre-grid says. The same question has been asked at different racing events around the globe...
An incredible number of factors are involved in getting a supercar from the drawing board through concept stages and into...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has recently produced a video presenting the 1942 Lincoln Zephyr Limousine that was built factory fitted...
In 2021, Hagerty was able to track more than double 2020’s auction sales with 12,500 UK and European auction results. The results for 2021 are impressive with a total of £310.8 million in sales of classic and collector vehicles, with 14 of them sold for more than £1m, a big...
An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry...
The BMW 3.0 CSL was equally dominant on race tracks and a beauty to behold on public streets. This touring...
In many ways the racing career of Dave MacDonald embodies the image of the light glowing twice as bright, lasting half as long. We will never know what the quietly brilliant Southern Californian might have accomplished had he escaped fate’s fickle finger at Indianapolis, but anyone who saw him race...
Being a dedicated student of the arcane (or having entirely too much time on my hands), I once calculated that...
Sam Hanks may have been a quiet man who preferred to keep to himself, but at the wheel of a...
Our journey began at Bellefille, an incredibly beautiful chateau about 20 clicks west of Le Mans. Bellefille, literally, “beautiful girl,” for the proprietress of the chateau sometime in the 13th Century, was our home during the week of the 24-Hours of Le Mans. While it was difficult to leave the...
Timing is everything, and Graham’s great automobiles are a proof—unfortunately. That’s because, despite the fact that their company made great...
By Stephen Mitchell My pilgrimage to Pebble Beach this year was memorable for many reasons. My purpose in attending was...
Sometimes, knowing someone results is a surprise. I’ve known Mike Marsh for a number of years. He created the EuroFest car and motorcycle shows that have been very popular with Deep South enthusiasts for a number of years. A few months ago, I received an email inviting me to a send-off...
The 2007 Mille Miglia, which starts from Brescia on May 17 and concludes in the Italian financial and industrial center...
Every car guy, collector and car designer knows the two major categories that separate car designs—Pre-war and Post-war. Pre-war cars...
The Mercedes CLK GTR was once the world’s most expensive production car and it rarely gets the recognition that it deserves. Owning a single CLK GTR is an impressive achievement in itself, but the opportunity to acquire both versions simultaneously is truly exceptional. RM Sotheby’s is set to offer this...
Lance Reventlow was the son of Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton. As most aficionados know, he was active in motorsport during...
Recently, I was invited to a birthday party. Now, in my current life, this always translates into jumping up and...
It’s not every day you get to sit in a sports car prototype of next year’s model, so when the phone rang, my calendar cleared up in a hurry. And not just any “next year’s model” either, but the seventh iteration of a Japanese legend that revolutionized the American sports...
