Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
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Prince Bira coming out of Holly Wood with the ex-Whitney Straight Maserati 8CM, during the Donington Grand Prix, on October...
The Gran Premio Nuvolari, a regularity rally only open to historic cars built between 1919 and 1972, will be held...
Some cars have gone down in history for legendary wins, for the innovations they introduced or for the drivers who piloted them to glory. Others, meanwhile, have become veritable icons for what they represented: a unique story, a turning point in history, a social phenomenon, an event that rippled beyond...
July 2018 Bobby Rahal Rene Panhard Donald Mitchell Healey Louis Chiron 1 – A.J. Foyt drives a Coyote-Foyt to victory...
Take a ride aboard a Maserati Birdcage during practice for the 2018 Le Mans Classic. ...
[Click here to read the first installment] Poland, Denmark and Norway had fallen to Nazi Germany and the blitzkrieg up through France, Holland and Belgium was just months away by the time the 1940 so-called Mille Miglia took place. Hardly a time to be thinking of pleasant pastimes like motor...
RM Sotheby’s has added another rare offering to its annual flagship Monterey sale – a spectacular 1956 Maserati A6G/2000 Zagato...
An extraordinary line-up of collectors’ sportscars will be offered in June at Bonhams’ annual auction held in conjunction with the...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are launched, but for whatever reason, lack popular appeal and just fade away. Usually after a lot of money has been wasted on them! Who remembers F100, Formula Talbot, or even...
“Bellissima! Bella Macchina!”will be exclaimed as Italian marques take the spotlight at this weekend’s first Caffeine & Carburetors Powered by...
April 2018 The Bertone Collection By Gautam Sen & Michael Robinson Many of the iconic vehicles of the second half of the 20th century, from simple, but beautiful Fiats, Citroëns and BMWs, to many astounding Alfa Romeos, Lancias, Maseratis and Lamborghinis, rolled out of the coachbuilding facilities of Carrozzeria Bertone,...
Two-liter sports racing cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World...
The Peter Auto season of historic car races kicks off April 6-8 on the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit in Montmélo, with more...
March 2018 Of Sliding Skirts and Avantis Dear Editor, When the design of the Studebaker Avanti was done by the Raymond Loewy office, the studio was located in Palm Springs, California. One of—if not the—designer on the job was Tom Kellogg, a classmate of mine at the Art Center School....
With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an...
When I was a college student, some friends told me about a woman who ran a hair salon in her West Los Angeles apartment. She ran a steady business cutting hair for most of us attending UCLA. Perfectly positioned near campus and offering haircuts at student rates, short, perky Karen...
While not the greatest racecar of all time, the Cooper 86B-Maserati was that for me, as it gave me a...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race before Richard Seaman, with a Mercedes-Benz, defeated the cream of Europe’s drivers to take the laurels in the German Grand Prix, on July 24, at the Nürburgring. Seaman, famous for...
The 2017 Milano AutoClassica was held 24-26 November at the Rho Exhibition Centre in Milano, Italy. The classic car show...
An Alfa Romeo car mechanic who rose to become one of the greatest endurance drivers of his generation, the man responsible for establishing Ferrari in the United States and patron of his own highly successful motor racing team. Almost too much to be rolled into one man, but that, in...
Three Maseratis from the 1970s headline Gooding & Co.’s upcoming Scottsdale sale scheduled for January 19-20, 2018 at the Fashion...
From the very beginning of the automobile, men with a passion for speed and technology built cars to compete. These...
Juan Manuel Fangio Biography Affectionately known as “bandy legs” by his many fans, Juan Manuel Fangio was born in Balcarce, Argentina the son of an Italian immigrant in 1911. After military service he opened his own garage and would race in local events. These “local” events were not the weekend...