The 12th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Southern California...
Right from the company’s beginnings in 1924, Chrysler built powerful and advanced automobiles. The B70 was a 70-mph car with...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race at all. The previous year there had been a fatality on the 6.6-mile course that ran right through town on Franklin Street. The Austin-Healey 100 pace car leads the pack...
Tommy Ivo’s career in Hollywood spanned nearly two decades. The pocket-sized actor/singer/dancer appeared in more than 100 movies and 200...
The annual Arizona auto auction festival will take center stage in Phoenix and Scottsdale in mid-January, when most of America’s...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch the eye of the consumer, he believed a design had to be the “most advanced,” but too advanced could mean failure, since the design might not be widely accepted. There...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
Owner and Chief Executive Officer, White Post Restorations VR: How is it that a major automobile restoration facility was founded...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He raced automobiles and yachts, manufactured sports cars, established a significant auto museum and distributed Jaguars. His overriding goal was to win Le Mans with an all-American car driven by Americans....
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
The Super Dart 400 was built on a 1957 300C Chrysler chassis and proudly featured a 400-horsepower Chrysler Hemi engine...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie raced as slowly as he talked he’d never have won anything! Charlie did win, however, and he won big. He finished 3rd in his very first race in a jalopy...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 1,...
An elegant, pristinely conditioned 1933 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron CL earned “Best of Show” honors at the 64th annual Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance, held...
In an age of cell phones, disposable appliances, laptops thinner and smaller than LIFE magazine, it’s hard to remember that...
Walter P. Chrysler’s unique custom-built 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car will return to New York’s Suffolk County Vanderbilt...
A 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton Supercharged (above, photo courtesy of the Forest Grove Concours) owned by Norman and Judi Noakes of Lake Oswego, Oregon, was awarded Best In Show at the 2017 Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance, presented by the Rotary Club of Forest Grove, on July 16, 2017. The Cord...
1964 Imperial Crown Coupe It was clear that this would be the start of something big just by opening the...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Were you to go looking for Ed Pink tomorrow, you’d likely find him at his latest shop, Ed Pink’s Garage, just off U.S. 101 out in the West San Fernando Valley. There, aided by his old buddy Bob Brandt, he’s available to provide “technical expertise and services to automotive enthusiasts...
1958 DeSoto Adventurer The 1950s were a halcyon period for American car manufacturing. After the deprivation of the war years,...
The late news—very late—that U.S. open-wheel racing’s long uncivil war has finally staggered to its hemorrhagic conclusion, fell with less...
1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for...
Environment affects evolution. Case in point: racing sedans. European sedans, contending with high fuel costs and operating on winding and narrow roads, ended up looking different from their American counterparts, raised on cheap fuel in more open spaces. Racing venues also differed, with sedan racing in Europe dominated by road...
This Ghia-bodied Chrysler Dart was one of the largest cars in the Turin car show in 1956. It was an...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the...
Each year the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance features leading automotive collectors from around the world by selecting two as the event’s Pinnacle and Honored Collectors. This year those honorees are, respectively, Ken Gross and Robert (“Bob”) Jepson Jr. Their unparalleled collections will be featured both Saturday...