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 again raised the bar to new heights. Demonstrating $10 million in growth over last year’s auction, Mecum Kissimmee 2018 sold 2,208 vehicles between January 5-14 for overall sales totals of...
January 2018 Porsche 70 Years—There is No Substitute By Randy Leffingwell Porsche is one of the most important and iconic...
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 ultimate winner to be announced during a private dinner at The Peninsula Paris on Thursday, February 8, 2018, during the famed Retromobile event in the French capital. As the...
The inaugural Mecum Las Vegas Collector-Car Auction will feature 1,000 consignments on the weekend of November 16-18 at the Las...
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, chances are you will find things have changed. Radically changed. Modern sports cars are loaded with astonishing technology. Highly refined drive mechanisms, computer controlled power delivery, sophisticated engine management, precision...
Bidders at the recent Mecum Dallas 2017 classic- and collector-car auction held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center honed...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will be sold at auction by Bonhams on November 11 at the Bothwells’ Southern California ranch in Woodland Hills, just north of L.A. Lindley Bothwell and his wife Ann were charter...
Following another fast paced, high energy showing on Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown during Monterey, California’s famed collector car week, Russo and...
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 original cohorts in the Cobra project and, having owned the second Ferrari distributorship in the USA, provided business acumen that Shelby may have lacked. Plus, he actually funded the first...
A 1933 Delage D8S Coupe Roadster by DeVillars was named Best of Show at last weekend’s 14th annual Keeneland Concours...
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 in Japan (1947). 2 Briggs Cunningham, racer, constructor and America’s Cup winner, dies at age 96 (2003). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
RM Sotheby’s held its fifth annual Santa Monica sale on June 24, registering more than $9.3 million in total sales....
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 Barker Hangar on Saturday June 24. Included in the selection are a number stunning American Classics, including one of the most distinctive and respected cars from the Classic Era, a...
Engineer, Champion Rider, Champion Driver and Team Manager John Surtees, four-time motorcycle World Champion, aboard one of his title-taking MV Agusta...
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 One World Champion John Surtees has passed away at the age of 83. While we make mention of his passing in this issue, next month we will feature a unique...
Al Unser Photo: Mike Thomsen Mario Andretti Photo: BRDC 1 Willi Kauhsen drives a Porsche 917/10 to victory in the...
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 at RM Sotheby’s upcoming Villa Erba sale, held in conjunction with the Villa d’Este Concours that’s scheduled for May 27 on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como. The Mercedes, chassis...
The 13th annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will take place Sunday April 9 on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean...
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 of a classic Italian event. Some 70 vintage vehicles that could have been eligible for the original Mille Miglia, which ran from 1927 to 1957 as Italy’s most famous open-road...
