Just how far will a fanatical collector go to capture the racecar of his obsessions? Would he carry a satchel...
Now available: Bugatti Chassis no. 57541 Engine no. 29S Body no. 3595 THE BUGATTI TYPE 57S AND SC Bugatti’s line...
The third annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival Sponsored by Millennium Bank excelled in The Scenic City this past weekend as it celebrated Oktoberfest with dynamic and exciting events for families and racing and car aficionados alike. With a backdrop of pumpkins and hay bales on the drive-up podium in front of...
Last Sunday, October 10, 2021, Montecito Motor Classic gave the People’s Choice Award to the 1937 Delage D8-120 from the...
A very deserving 1937 Delage was named Best In Show at the annual Keeneland Concours d’Elegance on July 20. The...
A 1937 Horch 853 Voll & Ruhrbeck Sport Cabriolet, owned by Robert M. Lee of Sparks, Nevada, was named “Best of Show” at the 59th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance held Sunday, August 16th along the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. After working with Karl Benz for...
An extremely rare and pristinely conditioned 1937 Horch 853 Sport Cabriolet earned “Best of Show” honors at the 65th annual...
Lincoln buyers were often wealthy enough to have special coachwork built for their cars. In 1927, Brunn did a beautiful...
The 1937 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1937 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 4-5, 1937 / Winner: Pintacuda – Mambelli / Winning Speed: 71.71 mph / Starters: 124 / Finishers: 65 After the austerity of 1936, Italy was in a state of Fascist induced euphoria with it’s victory in Ethiopia....
At last count there are more than 1,200 billionaires walking the Earth. This means that regardless of wealth, there aren’t...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of...
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A 1938 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster was awarded Rolex Circle of Champions “Best of Show” out of more than 200...
Long recognized as a superlative showcase of automotive history, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance made history of its own at...
The 1938 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1938 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 3-4, 1938 / Winner: Biondetti – Stefani / Winning Speed: 84.61 mph / Starters: 141 / Finishers: 72 Prior to this years Mille Miglia the responsibility for running the Alfa Romeo cars was brought in house under...
The People The two people critical to the development of Tatra’s most significant automobiles, including the subject of this profile,...
Auto Union’s Wanderer brand constructed three, Ferdinand Porsche designed, aluminum-bodied W25K roadsters for the 1938 Liege-Rome-Liege rally. Equipped with inline,...
The Albi Grand Prix; Albi, France, July 16, 1939 Arthur Dobson in the very fast E.R.A. E-type which set pole position time in practice. His race was not so fortunate, for although he set the fastest lap during the first heat—an improvement of 5 seconds under his practice time—his engine...
The middle of April 1939, brought the end of the run of 3003 MG TAs. Following close on its heels...
The lunacy of automotive collecting has no bounds. My personal journey has taken me from Italian coach-builts to vintage racecars...
This car, which ran as the Multi-Union and was quite modern in look, was actually built up from an Alfa Romeo P3 Grand Prix car and enjoyed a long history of success in private hands, in England, before WWII. Here, it is being driven by Chris Staniland, in the August...
The 1939 Porsche Type 64 Berlin-Rome will be among headline offerings at the 2019 RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction, scheduled for...
One of three experimental aerodynamic prototypes built for the 1940 war-affected Mille Miglia, this unique 328 was designed by Wunibald...
Then Was Juan Manuel Fangio the greatest racecar driver of all time? He was World Champion five times (1951, 1954 to 1957) and his career winning percentage of 46.2-percent in Formula One is better than anyone else by a sizeable margin (Alberto Ascari, 39.4; Jim Clark, 34.3; Michael Schumacher, 29.6;...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Nash Automobile ads often go over the top when describing a new line of cars. Nash...
The 1940 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1940 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: April 28, 1940 / Winner: von Hanstein –...
In 1945, the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB, began design work on a prototype road car with the intention that it be low cost, incorporate monocoque construction and have half the drag of its competition from Volkswagen, Opel and DKW. Initially penned by Saab’s head of design Bror Bjurströmer, project...
For as long as he can remember, Mel Jacobs of Houston, Texas has been love-struck by the coach-built Deco cars...
Described as “a little beauty”, this grey, 1947 Maserati coupé represents Italian style at its most sophisticated at the Geneva...
The 1947 Mille Miglia Race Results: 1947 Mille Miglia Results / Dates: June 21-22, 1947 / Winner: Biondetti – Romano / Winning Speed: 70.14 mph / Starters: 155 / Finishers: 54 The war had been over two years before another Mille Miglia would be held. The pre-war ban on racing...
