John GrantPhoto: Kary Jiggle John Grant is the current Chairman of the British Racing Drivers Club, and since taking on...
The Ghia 450 SS challenge arrived at Ghia studios as one of the first assignments offered to their newest employee,...
Walter P. Chrysler’s unique custom-built 1937 Chrysler Imperial C-15 LeBaron Town Car will return to New York’s Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum on September 13, where it will be the centerpiece of the annual Jaguar Concours d’Elegance and All Marque Concours Sanitaire, a show of classic automobiles presented at the Vanderbilt...
The 14th annual Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance, scheduled to run from October 23 to November 1,...
It’s a simple fact that the most popular form of motor racing in Australia today is sedan racing. Of course, this is much to the chagrin of the purist who would walk over hot coals to watch open-wheelers or sports racing cars. It was quite the opposite during the 1960s...
This Ghia-bodied Chrysler Dart was one of the largest cars in the Turin car show in 1956. It was an...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the...
With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the prospects of another Scottsdale auction week, it may have...
Tommy Ivo’s career in Hollywood spanned nearly two decades. The pocket-sized actor/singer/dancer appeared in more than 100 movies and 200 television shows. Often cast as a brainy teen, the studios had no idea of the thundering power hidden within this wee man’s frame. Over the span of his drag racing...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
To anyone interested in automotive history, the late 1940s and early ‘50s was a fascinating period of time, especially in...
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...
The main thing about the 1953 race at Watkins Glen was the question of whether there would be a race...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch...
Martin Swig is a former multi-franchise new-car dealer based in the San Francisco Bay area who is an avid vintage racer, car collector and founder of the California Mille which has evolved into one of the world’s premier road rallies attracting participants from around the globe.Photo: Dennis Gray VR: How...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
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,...
Frank Sinatra purchased his first hybrid car in 1957. So did pals, Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Eddie Fisher, as...
Georges Lemaître actually finished 2nd in the 1894 Paris-Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition in this Peugeot 3hp, but was awarded victory...
The original Trans-Am was part and parcel of one of the things that made the Golden Age golden. Many of the best U.S. drivers and teams participated, as well as most of the carmakers. One aspect of its huge success was that fans and aficionados drove and identified with the...
In 1953, the Rootes Group in England, which had acquired the Sunbeam Company in 1935, produced a handsome sports car, the...
Today almost exclusively remembered as the genius behind the competition cars named for a road-running bird in the southwest, Jim...
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 than seismic impact in the motor sports world at large. As someone emailed in to SpeedTV’s “Wind Tunnel,” the only reason for many fans to bother talking about IRL’s muffled...
Pete Lyons Did you hear about the diesel backhoe that did 350 mph at Bonneville? Yes, really…sort of. Become a...
If you follow the business section of the paper – or the general automotive press for that matter – then...
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