Carlo Pintacuda was one of the Florentine greats, a motor racing elite from the Tuscan city that also included Gastone...
1924 Bugatti Type 13 While many racing cars of the Edwardian period and the early 1920s and 1930s were huge—behemoths...
• The Branson Auto Museum has pledged to rebuild and reopen at the same location after a tornado with 130-mph winds touched down on the last day of February. Although the roof was destroyed in the twister and flying debris damaged some cars, the majority of the collection survived unscathed....
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
Billed as “The Aristocrat of the Automobiles,” the vehicles produced by the Fabbrica Automobili Isotta Fraschini were owned by some...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance starting with next year’s event. I would imagine that—in classic car world terms—this has to be somewhat similar to being selected from the dean of cardinals to be made...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great...
Tazio Nuvolari chats with Eugenio Siena (left) and Baconin Borzacchini (right) during practice for the 1934 Grand Prix of Italy. Carlo Massola’s Diatto 20 made only one lap of the 1922 Targa Florio. The Maserati name meant nothing as the First World War began to wipe out the youth of...
An Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A Cabriolet emerged victorious at the 65th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, scooping Best in...
More than 380 pioneering veteran cars dating back to very the dawn of motoring enjoyed unseasonably mild conditions last weekend...
Dozens of books and thousands of articles have been written about Enzo Ferrari and the Scuderia he founded in 1929, which eventually led to his bright red cars winning 31 combined Formula One World Championships and 13 World Sports Car titles, plus a string of the world’s most famous races,...
A 1928 Isotta Fraschini 8ASS owned by Peter Boyle of Oil City, Pennsylvania, captured Best in Show honors at the...
The 1937 Talbot-Lago T150-C “Goutte d’Eau” owned by Peter and Merle Mullin (above) has won the inaugural Peninsula Classics Best...
Karl Kling David Brown 1 Ferdinando Minoia drives an Isotta-Fraschini to victory in the Coppa Florio race in Italy (1907). 2 Sports car and F1 racer Willy Mairesse commits suicide in his hotel room in Ostend, Belgium (1969). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
The 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will take place Sunday, August 20, 2017, and the grounds of the Lodge at...
A special class for one-off American Dream Cars of the 1960s will be among the highlights of next month’s Pebble...
A wide range of opulent Isotta Fraschini automobiles, including the very first and very last cars to wear that badge, will be showcased at next month’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, set for August 20. The luxurious Italian cars will be accommodated with three separate concours classes. One of the featured...
Each year the Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance features leading automotive collectors from around the world by...
A 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow from the from Thomas F. Derro Collection of American Classics topped all sellers at RM...
Only three of the world’s oldest motor races still take place. The most senior of them is the 500 Miles of Indianapolis, which was first run in 1911 and is still going strong. Next comes the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the first of which was in 1923. And the...
The Elegance at Hershey hosted another successful year of classic car activities including a hill climb, Cars and Coffee, and...
After nearly two years of planning, the inaugural Audrain’s Concours d’Elegance came to an close with Joseph & Margie Cassini’s...
Members of Hagerty Classic Insurance’s Driver’s Club were recently asked what car was the most luxurious ever. The answers ranged from Studebakers to Rolls-Royces. No one suggested either Hispano-Suiza or Isotta Fraschini, the world’s truly most luxurious marques. Of those two, Isotta Fraschini is my pick. Gianni Rogliatti wrote an...
