Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Nash Automobile ads often go over the top when describing a new line of cars. Nash...
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 Salon de l’Automobile. This model, the Sport A6 with 6-cylinder, 1,500-cc engine marked Maserati’s first serious foray into roadcar production. Photo courtesy of: LAT Photographic Teddington Studios, Broom Road, Teddington,...
Achille Varzi, in the Alfa Romeo 158 “Alfetta”, set the 2nd fastest time for Heat 1 behind the Alfa 158...
Matt Jones is one of the neatest car guys I’ve ever met. His love and enthusiasm for Italian automobiles is...
Imagine buying an exotic 1950s Italian sports car only to learn upon delivery that it isn’t the car you paid for. Thus begins the saga of the Rocco Motto-bodied Nardi that my dear friend Mr. Vino thought he’d purchased in 2001. For those unfamiliar, Vino is a connoisseur of fine...
Shooting-brake: A conveyance used to carry shooting parties with their large supply of firearms, cartridges, provisions, dogs and game. It...
Some of Buick’s most iconic design features, including waterfall grilles and portholes on the hood, originated with the 1949 Roadmaster...
The world is full of confusing racecar stories. This is one of them. I read with great interest, Jonathan Stein’s recent article in Vintage Roadcar, “Going Supersonic” (December 2017) about the winding history of the 1949 Fageol Supersonic and how shortly following its world debut at the Indy 500 it...
Then. In 1991, Harold Pace stormed out of his home-based shop and proclaimed to his adoring wife, Shelley, at the...
Then. Nardi of Torino, Italy, did not manufacture only steering wheels. They also built wonderful automobiles for use on both...
There are a few coachbuilders whose art and workmanship is immediately identifiable, but none as obvious and flamboyant as that of the Paris firm of Giuseppe Figoni et Ovidio Falaschi. When a true classic car enthusiast sees a Figoni et Falaschi body, the coachbuilder’s iconic styling becomes evident and the...
1940 BMW 328 MM “Berlin-Rome” Touring Roadster The author puts the 328 MM Roadster through its paces at BMW’s Spartanburg,...
At the Prescott Hillclimb on May 9, 1948, a truly momentous career began with the first hillclimb run (in a...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at a towering $7,400, it sold poorly and was not cataloged the following year. Today fins are remembered as the outward expression of our automotive engineering prowess during the height of...
As you’ll read elsewhere in this issue, we sadly report that the elder statesman of American motorsport, John Fitch, has passed away at the remarkable age of 95. As outlined in his obituary on page 12, Fitch’s life read like some kind of wild adventure novel melding Indiana Jones, Captain...
May 2018 The first major car show I attended was the 1971 L.A. Auto Expo. As a wide-eyed nine-year-old, everything...
Jim Rathmann’s career in motor racing is marked not only by a hard-fought win in the 1960 Indy 500 but...
1948 Chrysler Town & Country Chris Kidd called a few days ago and said, “You guys have to see this! I found a 1948 Chrysler Town & Country convertible coupe just three blocks from the shop in unbelievable all-original condition, and it is beautiful. It has only 38,000 original miles...
March 2008 American Road Racing 1948-1950 By Joel Finn A heavy package arrived addressed to me the other day. I...
May 2004 Women in Motorsport From 1945 By Susan TP-Jamieson and Peter Tuthill The topic of women in motorsport is...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads and tracks. They came in three configurations: roadster, convertible and coupe. All three were raced, but most entrants preferred the somewhat lighter roadster version. The...
I first became aware of ERAs in 1945, and their special significance to British motor sport, together with their originator...
Delahaye, for those who recognize the name, conjures up a mixed vision of large and long French Grand Prix, sports and touring cars of the late 1930s and a variety of extraordinary coach-built luxury machines constructed in the post-war decade of the late 1940s through the middle of the 1950s....
Back in 1982, I bought a 1940 Packard coupe and spent the next couple of years restoring it. Once I...
1949 Gordini 23S Anyone who has ever listened to Peter Ustinov’s fabulous motor racing spoof of the 1950s, “The Grand...
From 1950 until his premature retirement from road racing and hillclimbing just three years later, Tommy Hoan set his competitors on their collective ear with the sheer speed of his 1949 MG TC. In the Queen Catharine Cup race of 1952, he also shot out the window of the Grill...