De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French...
Hemi-powered Mopar machinery will highlight Mecum’s 2016 Kissimmee Auction, set for January 15-24 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida....
Owner and Chief Executive Officer, White Post Restorations VR: How is it that a major automobile restoration facility was founded in the little town of White Post, Virginia? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
Some 150 vehicles from the world-class Charlie Thomas Collection will be auctioned at No Reserve during two upcoming Barrett-Jackson sales. The first six offerings will cross the block at Barrett-Jackson’s 9th annual Las Vegas auction, set for October 13-15 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, while the remainder will...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 1,...
Walter P. Chrysler’s unique custom-built 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car will return to New York’s Suffolk County Vanderbilt...
French racing driver Henri Greder, who focused his career around the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the age of 83. Greder first attended the 24 Hours in 1952 and rejoined the festivities each year as a spectator until racing there for the first time in 1967, when...
Charlie Kemp was born in Mississippi, and his inimitable southern drawl once led Carroll Shelby to say that had Charlie...
With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the prospects of another Scottsdale auction week, it may have...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic Art Deco French. Those swoopy airfoil fenders reminiscent of custom coachbuilder Saoutchik’s Delahayes, as well as Ettore Bugatti’s creations of the era are the giveaway. Also, the almost cubist bright...
Briggs Cunningham was one of the most important figures in U.S. road racing during the era of the 1950s. He...
Watch and enjoy the beautiful sound of one of the most iconic GT race cars ever built: the Viper GTS-R,...
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...
A frenzy of uncorked Mini Coopers, followed by a gaggle of vintage MGs, Triumphs and other assorted vintage sports racers...
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...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
The 12th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean in the Southern California enclave of the same name last weekend, crowning winners in some 18 classes and selecting the French Curves Class-winning 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition Disappearing Top Convertible (above) owned by Ken...
In the 1940s, Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge division had a reputation for building solid, dependable, conservatively styled cars. That was fine,...
Mecum Auctions will host the Chicagoland area’s only annual collector-car auction on the weekend of October 5-7 when Mecum Chicago...
Right from the company’s beginnings in 1924, Chrysler built powerful and advanced automobiles. The B70 was a 70-mph car with an in-line six-cylinder engine, four-wheel hydraulic brakes and front and rear shock absorbers. In 1925, a Model 70 ran the 24-hour race at Le Mans, finishing 7th overall. In 1928,...
Tommy Ivo’s career in Hollywood spanned nearly two decades. The pocket-sized actor/singer/dancer appeared in more than 100 movies and 200...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
In January, Worldwide Auctioneers will be back in Arizona for its much-awaited annual boutique sale, The Scottsdale Auction. The auction is scheduled on January 26, Wednesday, at the start of the Arizona Car Week. There are a number of distinguished pre-war automobiles that will be on offer for this year’s...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
1936 De Soto Airflow The story of De Soto begins with a record for first year sales that stood for...
This Ghia-bodied Chrysler Dart was one of the largest cars in the Turin car show in 1956. It was an example of the Chrysler watchwords of “Forward Look” and “Flight Sweep” carried to a logical extreme. Significant features of the concept car include the development of the windscreen into a...