Laury, Lucy O’Reilly and Harry Schell were father, mother and son. They were all larger than life characters who made...
VR: Why don’t we take a step right back to the very beginning. How did you first get started with...
Mid America Motorworks will host its 15th annual Air-Cooled VW Magical Mystery Funfest, May 31-June 2, in Effingham, Illinois. An international-caliber event focusing on classic Volkswagen’s, Funfest regularly attracts more than 8,000 owners and enthusiasts from around the world. This year “art cars,” elaborately painted VWs harking back to the...
Volkswagen Camper—Six Decades of Success By Richard Copping Interest in—and sale prices of—early Volkswagen busses and campers hasskyrocketed in recent...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start...
Mystery GT40 Dear Editor, While perusing Roadcar, on Page 49 (May 2013) I saw a picture of a white GT40 GT 108. I was wondering what, if any, relationship there is between that car and the two attached scans. They were taken at the October, 1965 Times GP with Chris...
The genesis for Volkswagen’s near-ubiquitous Transporter, or Microbus, was a combination of post-war necessity and the clever instincts of a...
Every car guy, collector and car designer knows the two major categories that separate car designs—Pre-war and Post-war. Pre-war cars...
Mike Lawrence Australia has decided to demote FF1600 and install Formula 4 as its national starter series. Formula 4 gives each country the choice of approved chassis and engines, each one limited to 150 bhp, but everyone runs the same kit within the national series. One-spec formulae, I hate ’em....
For some in the automotive world, apparently cheating is a core value From the first day we start kindergarten, we...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 became an International...
1976 Cheetah Mk6 AF2 Fifteen years is a long time in the automotive world, and I suspect that within the evolution of the racing car it’s probably a number of generations. At one point in time, I had the pleasure of being behind the wheel of a 1961 open-wheeler that...
Kirk F. White took a circuitous route to his successful classic car business in Philadelphia, entering the workforce earlier than...
Northern California’s Classic Sports and Racing Group will be hosting a Formula Vee Gathering during its 2017 Thunderhill Spring race...
Beaulieu, home of Great Britain’s National Motor Museum and its collection of more than 250 vehicles, has announced its full schedule of events for 2018. Beaulieu Events Manager Judith Maddox said: “Our biggest event, the International Autojumble, which has won an award in this year’s Tourism South East’s Beautiful South...
China’s third YanQi Island Concours d’Elegance, held in the Huairou District near Beijing, presented 38 top-level historic vehicles and 14...
Barrett-Jackson’s 16th Annual Palm Beach Auction, set for April 12-15, at the South Florida Fairgrounds will offer one of the...
Mecum’s Los Angeles 2018 collector-car auction, held this past weekend at the L.A. County Fairplex in Pomona, California, achieved $9 million in overall sales, with the top 10 highest sellers heavily populated by modern supercars and a handful of classic beauties. A 2006 Ford GT in white with blue racing...
The Rise of the Preservation Class The ultra-rare and ultra-expensive Ferrari 250 GTO. Photo: Chuck Andersen Sitting on a beautifully...
This year’s Practical Classics Classic Car and Restoration Show, with Discovery, broke all records — record crowds, record number of...
1930 Bentley Speed Six A bloke couldn’t think of anything more dissimilar if he tried. From a Boeing 737, to a modern Korean buzzbox, to a 1930 Bentley Speed Six. While both the jet and the Hyundai with its automatic transmission and power this-and-that were purely means of transport, the...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959 it became an...
In the history of racing there have been formulae that quickly become popular and continue to grow, while others are...
This weekend the Netherlands will become the home of the VW T1, as Amersfoort – located just outside Amsterdam – is the venue for this year’s European “Barndoor Gathering”, a meet for early VW Bulli buses built from 1950 to 1955. Nowhere in the Netherlands is more appropriate for this...
Quintessential designs of the 20th century are all around us. These items are so familiar we often take their shape, color...
Amelia Concours tradition seems to require the inclusion of at least one special class each year that bucks conventional concours...
In Switzerland Ernst and Fritz Beutler made a good living from special bodies on both Volkswagen and Porsche chassis. Ultimately Porsche took a close interest in what the brothers were doing because it had 2+2 ambitions of its own. The Swiss brothers Beutler stepped on the stage of Porsche-car history...
This Sunday, March 10th, The People’s Car will make its debut at one of themost prestigious collector-car events in the...
The VW Beetle made its bow at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance and wowed the thousands of enthusiasts who attended...
The People’s Car made its bow at the 2019 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, held March 10th on the fairways of the Golf Club of Amelia Island in Florida. The 24th annual event highlighted an overlooked segment of Europe’s carrozzeria (or karosserie) culture with a class of custom coachwork Volkswagen vehicles....