It’s confession time again. For my entire automotive collecting career, now entering its third decade, I’ve been both intrigued and...
This is the story of two men, born 45 years apart, each completely obsessed with the automobile, and both hopelessly...
Can you imagine two cars chained together, nose to nose, engines thundering on the infield of the 1930 Indianapolis 500? In one corner, wearing black coachwork with gray interior weighing in at 3,650 pounds, the 1929 Ruxton factory special known as the Muller Front Drive Special. And in the other...
I love Italian sports cars, and if they were built in the 1950s or 1960s, even better. At the top...
Sex, infidelity, theft, intrigue, a lightly raced car, a tragic airplane crash and a pack of lifelong friends…some famous, some...
Then. Etceterini.com is the place to be if you’re obsessed with small displacement Italian wizardry of the 1950s. If it’s swoopy, aluminum, high-revving, low torqueing and ends in an “i” this is a domicile you can call home. Let us not forget, however, that there are some non-i-ending cars here...
Then. I love Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) automobiles. These were cars built specifically for the Japanese market, and the best...
Then. I’ve been hiding something from you. I’m not proud of it, and it’s been going on for way too...
Then. Aristotle Socrates Onassis was a Greek shipping magnate with enormous wealth, an iconic style and a passion for objects of beauty. He is, however, most widely remembered for marrying Jacqueline Kennedy in 1968. Five years ago, Onassis would have been the only Greek shipping magnate I could have named...
Then Hundreds of small automobile manufacturers sprouted from the ruins of World War II. Energized by peace and engineering skills...
Then. Who wants to be Tony Curtis in the 1950s? That man had cars and women, fast and smokin’, in...
Then. Buying the proverbial project racecar in a box is always a tricky proposition. But is it easier or harder if the car was originally built from fiberglass bits without a conventional metal chassis? The Lotus Elite Type 14 made its world debut at the London Motor Car Show in...
Then I live in Texas. That means I’m supposed to be a barbeque snob. It also means that when invited...
Then Adults dream of regaining their youth. Children yearn to do grown-up things. This is the nature of our existence....
Then I have a friend living in the Sunshine State with a spectacular collection of historic racing cars from the 1950s. For years I’ve been needling him about letting me write an article about one of his wonderful machines, but he has been steadfast in his resistance. Last week he...
Then I’ve been aching to write a story about something totally mental. A Hidden Treasure beyond the realm of conventional...
There is an entire world of exotic vintage Japanese racing machinery that is rarely, if ever, written about or discussed...
Then Was Juan Manuel Fangio the greatest racecar driver of all time? He was World Champion five times (1951, 1954 to 1957) and his career winning percentage of 46.2-percent in Formula One is better than anyone else by a sizeable margin (Alberto Ascari, 39.4; Jim Clark, 34.3; Michael Schumacher, 29.6;...
Then. I must have called the guy dozens of times, year after year for more than a decade. It was...
Then After back-to-back wins at the Indianapolis 500 in 1953 and 1954, Bill Vukovich returned for the ’55 race with...
Then If you’re involved in any facet of the car hobby and have never heard of Brooks Stevens, you should probably take up golf. Stevens was an iconic American industrial designer whose career spanned 60 years. He studied architecture at Cornell University. In 1944, Stevens, Raymond Loewy and several other...
Then. Just when you’re certain you know a lot about post-war American racing cars, someone steps up to educate you...
Then. In a tiny village of 100 houses in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium, lives a man grinning from ear...
Then. In 1991, Harold Pace stormed out of his home-based shop and proclaimed to his adoring wife, Shelley, at the top of his lungs, that he would never ever restore another car. On that day he had just completed a seven-year restoration stint on a 1960 Bocar XP-5 and he...
Then. The year 1963 gave us the Lava Lamp, touch-tone phones, instant coffee and Johnny Depp. That same year Jim...
Then. Lyn Smith majored in education at Akron University but says he would have wound up in jail had he...
Then. Southern California is home to a seemingly endless supply of astounding cars hiding in garages, warehouses and barns. For those of us residing in the other 49 States, I suppose it’s too bad for us. For the past 27 years, an early-postwar Italian-blooded racing machine has been resting quietly...
Then. Nardi of Torino, Italy, did not manufacture only steering wheels. They also built wonderful automobiles for use on both...
Photo: Courtesy of the International Motor Racing Research Center at Watkins Glen In 1983 Matt Jones of Livingston, Texas, received...
Then. By his own admission, Geoff Hacker specializes in finding cars that no one is looking for. It’s actually an interesting collecting strategy that virtually guarantees no competition. One of Hacker’s recent acquisitions is a post-war Singer racer. Now how many amazing post-war racing cars from Singer Motors of England...
