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Fitting that a classic car show is staged at a classic venue and with its move from London’s Millennium Excel...
The 2020 Geneva Motor Show has been cancelled due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. Swiss officials have decreed that there can be no gatherings larger than 1,000 people, until at least March 15, which effectively blocks the event from legally taking place. According to Geneva Motor Show organizers: The...
The Sacramento Autorama, one of the world’s longest running indoor car shows, hosted over 500 world-class custom vehicles and handed...
In 1959, Buick introduced the Invicta line of full-size sedans, as an evolution of the Buick Century married to a...
This year saw the seventh running of the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, an event that was open to cars produced prior to 1976. This event could be called a re-enactment of the original event held in 1907. That first event held not long after the dawn of motoring came...
The 58th National Austin 7 Rally will be held on Sunday July 5th, at Beaulieu in Hampshire, UK. For those...
Mike Glore has an interesting collection of automobiles. While it is mostly British, with an emphasis on Lotus, he also...
The 14th annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance presented by Mercedes-Benz and AutoNation selected the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO Coupe owned by Dr. Richard Workman as its Best of Show. Hosted for the 14th consecutive year at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, the event took place from February 7-9, 2020...
Photo Gallery from the Feb 9, 2020, Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance....
Erhard Schnell died last weekend in Trebur, Hesse. The father of the Opel GT was 92. He remained closely associated...
A few weeks ago, a standard Series 1 Datsun 240Z sold for $315,000 on a much-publicized public internet auction. The results of the sale were staggering enough, but so too were the comments (close to 2,000) and viewers (over 50,000). Further surprising, was the fact that several bidders were in...
Beaulieu’s flagship Simply event Simply Ford will return on Sunday May 3rd to celebrate all things Ford with a super-size...
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Photo Gallery from the opening of the 2020 Retromobile, in Paris, France....
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V...
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Paris’ Rétromobile Show, Feb. 5–9, will feature an exhibition dedicated to Bertone, in partnership with the Automotoclub Storico Italiano. This...
Two new events have been added to Beaulieu’s successful Simply range with Simply British Classics on September 20th and Simply BMW...
1961 Corvette XP-796 2+2 If the proportions of this Corvette look a little off, your eyes are not deceiving you! Chevrolet chief Ed Cole ordered a prototype 4-seat Corvette to be built upon a stretched version of the new C2 chassis. Larry Shinoda designed the XP-796 2+2 , of which...
The Mekong is a great and mighty river that feeds into China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia and is...
Buick’s unique and obscure Century X styling department custom will make its international concours debut in the Silver Anniversary Amelia...
These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring the use of turbo technology with their racecars in the late ’60s and by ’72 they were developing a turbocharged 911. Originally, they were doing this to comply with homologation...
A special class of Loziers will help celebrate the Silver Anniversary Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance in 2020. Today, more than...
The Morgan Motor Company is to celebrate 70 years of its most popular model, the Plus 4, with the creation...
The Petersen Automotive Museum will debut a new exhibit featuring 10 custom vehicles, donated from Metallica frontman James Hetfield’s personal collection. Opening February 1, 2020 in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Reclaimed Rust: The James Hetfield Collection” will celebrate Hetfield’s creativity as a world-renowned artist through his built-from-scratch custom car...
Simply Aston Martin will begin Beaulieu’s 2020 Simply season with a glamorous gathering of over 300 British sports cars on...
Mid-winter in England is probably not the ideal time to be out driving an 80-plus year old vehicle, but that’s...
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