After rising from the ashes of postwar Europe, Mercedes-Benz returned to racing in 1952, winning the World Sports Car Championship...
The all-German marque Concours d’Elegance that has become a staple on the annual Monterey Car Week schedule will host a...
It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154 Grand Prix machine fielded by Mercedes-Benz combined gorgeous looks with ample power that brought great victories. In 1938, the first year of a completely new Grand Prix formula, Mercedes-Benz won...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of...
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V...
Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries in their 1939 races to eliminate their opposition. They reckoned without the astonishing skills of the Daimler-Benz Racing Department. The most glamorous Grand Prix race of the 1930s was not...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance has broken new ground – with fresh beginnings on the historic grounds of the Fort McPherson...
Max Hoffman was a racecar driver in Europe before immigrating to the United States to avoid the Nazis. Hoffman became...
The New York City Concours (TNYCC) has crowned its first champion – Nat Lanza’s 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing won the People’s Choice Best in Show Award at the inaugural event held this past Saturday, October 5, 2019. Mr. Lazna of Ronkonkoma, NY was awarded the prized trophy by Maria Jannace, CEO...
This unique 1938 Mercedes-Benz Gelandesport 170VS is the only remaining example of 10 specially built by the factory to compete...
The 10-time Grand Prix winning car of Lewis Hamilton will be run by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport at The Sonoma Speed...
A special class of Mercedes-Benz 500K – 540K will take center stage at the 24th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 10, 2019. The 500K and 540K descend from the mighty Mercedes-Benz SSK, winner of the brutal 1931 Mille Miglia. Introduced at the 1934 Berlin Auto Show the Mercedes-Benz...
Worldwide got the year off to a flying start in Arizona last week, with a striking selection of rare, pre-war...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do we finish up with so many ugly cars? Probably a variety of reasons, starting with the fact that not all stylists have the requisite eye for line, that the regulations...
Ralph de Palma at the wheel of his 1928 Mercedes-Benz Type S 26/120/180 . This was the car that de...
Richard A. Stephens, former Academy of Art University president, always had a penchant for cars, a sentiment that has been...
The history of the racing engine—and perhaps to a lesser extent the road going engine as well—has been driven by advancements in induction and valve train technology. Once the 4-stroke Otto cycle form of internal combustion engine became the standard, some of the greatest leaps in performance and efficiency came...
Don Capps, one of the foremost experts on the topic, will present “The Silver Arrows: The 1934 Eifelrennen and Neubaurer’s...
Prof. h.c. Bodo Buschmann, founder and CEO of BRABUS, the world’s largest independent automotive refinement specialist and renowned manufacturer of high-performance...
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...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives...
May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale,...
The 2018 La Jolla Concours d’Elegance concluded its 14th year on a high note last Sunday, April 8, with more than 10,000 attendees taking in a selection of classic automobiles set along the picturesque cliffs of the Pacific Ocean in the California seaside city (above, Stacey Keck photo courtesy of...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as...
Leake Auction Company’s recent Oklahoma City auction marked $6.8 million in sales with 77 percent of the nearly 400 vehicles...
With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile 2018 by Artcurial Motorcars. This year’s sale took place over two days, on Friday February 9 and Saturday February 10, before a crowd of more than 3,000 people, realizing €31,815,566...
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...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was...
