Riverside International Automotive Museum announced the arrival of the Dick Smith 427 Cobra, which is billed as the most important...
Just in time for the holidays, Sports Car Digest and Senior Contributing Photographer Dennis Gray have produced a stunning vintage...
With development of its 2nd generation of ‘DB’ six-cylinder sports cars nearing its end, Aston Martin turned to the Italian Carrozzeria Touring of Milan, creator of the original DB4 of 1959, for the next model. Touring built a pair of two-seater prototypes, one right- and one left-hand drive (‘266/1/R’ and...
The Carroll Shelby Foundation is offering 66 signed copies of “Go Like Hell – Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for...
The Antique Auto Museum (AACA Museum) at Hershey will have a special exhibit featuring six spectacular and diverse vehicles from...
Story by Leigh Dorrington Houston trial attorney John O’Quinn, who has recently emerged as a towering figure in automotive and art purchases for a proposed museum, was killed in an automobile accident in Houston on Thursday, October 30. O’Quinn and his partner Darla Lexington, president of the O’Quinn Collection, have...
Everything is new at www.mercedes-benz.com/classic: presented in customer-friendly form, the Portal has detailed information and offers relating to the classic...
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is holding its first collectors fair for models, brochures, literature, pins and accessories on November 28th, 2009...
This 1965 Shelby 427 Competition Cobra (CSX3006) will be offered for sale at RM Auctions and Sotheby’s Automobiles of London auction to be held October 28th, 2009 at Battersea Evolution in London. Its pre-sale estimate is unavailable. According to the Shelby American World Registry, chassis CSX 3006 was billed to...
Sports Car Digest is currently experiencing growing pains and we have our readers to thank for it. We really do...
Book Review, Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans Go Like Hell...
In late 1967, the new and much lighter Escort was forecast to be the most suitable model in the Ford range to replace the aging Cortina, which in Mk1 and Mk2 Lotus-badged guise had become the company’s main competition car, the later model initially even employing the same Twin Cam...
The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure. The project, which...
Andy Granatelli fielded cars at the Indianapolis 500 from 1946 until 1991, as a driver but more notably as a...
The Boat Tent at Henley-on-Thames was packed with collectors for the Bonhams sale of the Ward Brothers’ Reserve Collection on Saturday, July 18th. With interest on a global level, total sales reached in excess of £2 million and successful buyers came from no less than fifteen different countries. The sale...
Book Review, Mark Donohue: Technical Excellence at Speed In the first full biography of Mark Donohue, author Michael Argetsinger tells...
Bonhams held their annual Collectors Motor Cars and Automobilia auction on Friday, July 3rd at the Goodwood Festival of Speed....
Barn Find Jag in Los Angeles By Wallace Wyss Photos by Bob Petricca and Francis de Pouqueville Bob Petricca, of West Hills, CA, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, has been in the exotic car business for 40 years and has heard every “barn story”...
Bonhams held its 2009 Rolls-Royce and Bentley Cars sale at the Rolls-Royce Enthusiasts Club Annual Rally at Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire...
As a young American abroad, Indianapolis native John Fitch attended the last race held at Brooklands before WWII. After serving...
Sports Car Digest recently toured the Mario Righini Collection, one of the more exceptional private car collections in Italy, if not the world. Located outside Modena in Castello di Panzano Castelfranco Emilia, the Righini Collection is remarkable for many reasons. To call the Righini Collection unique does not do it...
In 1937 the three surviving Maserati brothers sold out to the Orsi Group and after WW2 founded Officine Specializzate per...
Antiquorum’s successful summer auction in New York, which included watches and memorabilia from the late legendary actor Steve McQueen, totaled...
Works by motorsports artist Greg Davis of Westline, Pennsylvania, will be displayed at the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in Watkins Glen, New York this summer, kicking off with an opening and reception on Friday, June 12th from 6:00pm – 8:00pm at the Center. The opening of the show...
Bonhams held its 2009 Greenwich Concours d’Elegance Auction on Sunday, June 7th in Greenwich, Connecticut. Clark Gable’s Packard Darrin, the Rolls-Royce driven...
It has been well documented that RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, recently sold a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa...
One of the seminal scenes in the movie Ferris Bueller was when Ferris’ friend Cameron kicked his Dad’s Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder off the jack stand, thereby sending it crashing out the garage into the woods far below. If you haven’t seen the movie, we won’t go into the...
The latest look back at old classified advertisements features a 1958 Maserati 250F offered for sale in the October 1962...
RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, held its 2009 Ferrari Leggenda e Passione auction on May 17th at Ferrari S.p.A....
Bonhams held its 2009 Les Grandes Marques à Monaco on May 18th at the Principality’s Motor Museum in Monaco, resulting in a €4.7 million total. While the strength of the euro kept British buyers out of the running for the fabulous collection of 170 lots of automobilia and collectors’ motor...
