1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race...
Mecum Auctions’ annual collector-car auction in Kissimmee, Florida, has long held the title of “world’s largest,” and this year’s auction...
January 2018 Porsche 70 Years—There is No Substitute By Randy Leffingwell Porsche is one of the most important and iconic automotive manufacturers in history. From its first 356 to today’s technical tour de force, the 918, Porsche has advanced from strength to strength for now seven decades. Become a Member...
The year 2015 marked the 60th anniversary of Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson’s victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia, racing...
Eight distinguished automobiles have been selected as finalists for the 3rd annual Peninsula Classics Best of the Best Award, with...
The inaugural Mecum Las Vegas Collector-Car Auction will feature 1,000 consignments on the weekend of November 16-18 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The docket will include American muscle cars, classics, Corvettes, Hot Rods, Resto Mods and more. Among the “Main Attractions” consigned to date is a well-documented 1965 Shelby...
The second Atlanta Concours d’Elegance took place in Georgia last weekend, September 30-October 1, with nearly 180 quality vehicles crowding...
The Dawn of the Modern Super Car If you haven’t been behind the wheel of a brand new supercar recently,...
Bidders at the recent Mecum Dallas 2017 classic- and collector-car auction held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center honed in on the 10 impressive private collections that crossed the auction block there. The interest in the collections made for intense bidding, which aided the auction’s overall sales total of...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
Following another fast paced, high energy showing on Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown during Monterey, California’s famed collector car week, Russo and Steele Collector Automobile Auctions has announced sales results totaling $8.6 Million with a 57 percent sell-through rate. Among the lots hammered sold was one that brought in more than $1...
Last Sunday, August 20, 204 of the most prized collector cars in the world rolled onto what is often called...
August 2017 Cobra Pilote – The Ed Hugus Story By Robert D. Walker Ed Hugus was one of Carroll Shelby’s...
A 1933 Delage D8S Coupe Roadster by DeVillars was named Best of Show at last weekend’s 14th annual Keeneland Concours d’Elegance at the historic Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Kentucky. The show field featured two classes of this year’s featured marques, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, and classes of horse-drawn carriages and cars of...
Each year the Goodwood Festival of Speed features a massive Gerry Judah “sculpture” on center stage (above, Roger Dixon photo),...
Luigi Chinetti Briggs Cunningham Photo: courtesy Art Evans 1 Kazuyoshi Hoshino, who participated in two F1 races in the 1970s, born...
RM Sotheby’s held its fifth annual Santa Monica sale on June 24, registering more than $9.3 million in total sales. The single-day auction, at the historic Barker Hangar, featured some 175 vehicles and an array of automobilia, while still catering to the diversity of Southern California tastes. The auction drew...
The San Marino Motor Classic, featuring some 320 rare collector cars, will take place at Lacy Park in San Marino,...
RM Sotheby’s is set to bring 170 motorcars to its single-day Santa Monica auction in the California seaside city’s historic...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta bikes in 2010.Photo: Roger Dixon Mark Donohue talked of “the unfair advantage,” the way in which a driver with an engineering background was always one step ahead of his competitors....
I have certain fond memories of the first single-seater racing car I drove, which was a Vanwall. Tony Vandervell gave...
As you’ll read in this month’s news—and likely learned from our web site back on March 10—multi-time motorcycle and Formula...
Al Unser Photo: Mike Thomsen Mario Andretti Photo: BRDC 1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the Interserie race at Imola, Italy (1973). 5 Jacky Ickx and Dr. Dick Thompson drive a Mirage M1-Ford to victory in the 1000-kilometer sports car race at Spa, Belgium (1967). Become...
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance took place Sunday April 9 under sunny skies on the Concours lawn at...
A 1928 Mercedes-Benz 680 S Torpedo-Sport Avant-Garde — one of only three ever built — tops the list of offerings...
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will take place Sunday April 9 on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean (above, photo courtesy of La Jolla Concours) in the Southern California enclave of the same name. Trophies will be presented in a dozen judged classes and a similar number of...
This weekend is the 22nd renewal of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on the grounds of the Ritz Carlton in...
The California Mille will once again take participants on a tour of Northern California this April 24-27, all in celebration...
Casey Annis (Editor) Photo: Dan R Boyd At the end of January, I was asked if I’d speak at the new L.A. Classic Auto Show, that was being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center. At first they wanted to interview me on stage, which after a moment of consideration...
