After 117 years, I’m finally getting around to figuring out Opel… I enjoyed speaking with Rich Taylor last month about...
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Imagine running a car company with manufacturing technology limited by only 15-20 years of recovery from one of the most devastating wars ever fought on your soil. Now imagine you are about to risk not only on the design and development of your newest sports car offering, but you are...
One of the more interesting developments in the classic car hobby, over the past few years, has been the broader...
Driving in to the office the other morning, I was listening to a comedian on the radio. His name is...
Credit – BarnFinds.com I saw my first Bricklin in 1974. Lit up under the Southern California sun, a local specialty dealership was featuring this gleaming Safety Orange plasticized wedge of sharp cheddar cheese. I was immediately drawn to it. I’d already spent months daydreaming in math class about becoming a...
This month one of the most iconic Mustangs to ever hit the road is going up for auction, the 1968 Bullit...
May 2018 The first major car show I attended was the 1971 L.A. Auto Expo. As a wide-eyed nine-year-old, everything...
My friend had done well that year. He was quite a bit older, but we’d bonded over cars, especially as I was starting my second year at Art Center training to be a car designer. One evening he pulled up to my apartment in his brand-new Ferrari Testarossa, I was...
Over the past several years, I’ve waxed whimsical in this space about various historical, psychological and emotional aspects of the...
The BMW 507 is frequently cited as one of the most beautifully designed cars regardless of era, origin or classification. Designer...
It’s hard to believe it is already January 2013! With the coming of the New Year comes renewed attention and anticipation of arguably the single most important week in the collector car marketplace—the Scottsdale auctions. While last year’s Monterey/Pebble Beach sales eclipsed Scottsdale for total value of vehicles sold (a...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
On January 15, 2021, Jerry Wiegert passed away. If you struggle to recall that name or its significance in the...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some burgers, whip up a giant pot of Dad’s Secret Chili, and get ready for an onslaught of eye-roll worthy puns. Whatever your family traditions, if you have kids, siblings, or...
You really have to be cautious when you read the April issue of an automotive enthusiast’s magazine Did you enjoy...
This is technically the first issue of Vintage Roadcar as an online-only periodical. While many of us will miss the...
I graduated from Art Center College of Design in 1987. MTV was in full swing, Compact Disc players were the rage, a cartoon snippet called “The Simpsons” saw its debut, and Rap music was coming on strong. Staring at the screen of my bulky desktop computer, floppy disc at the...
I had dinner with Carroll Shelby in 1997. Among the dozens of things I remember him telling me, the most poignant...
Italians do some great things with cars. Well, to be fair, they pretty much do everything with a great deal...
In an age of cell phones, disposable appliances, laptops thinner and smaller than LIFE magazine, it’s hard to remember that we once drove large, slow, hand-crafted automobiles built with beauty in mind, excellence in every leather stitch and pride in final assembly. And while every one of the major manufacturers...
Toyota has been around a long time. They know what they are doing, and they make more cars than any...
Stunning looks, capable performance and, today, an undisputed fixture in the automotive lexicon of excellence, the Jaguar D-Type has become one of the most desirable sports cars of the modern era. Even if you separated the stunning good looks, amazing engineering and racing prowess from the fateful fire that would...
If you’ve been reading this space for any period of time (yes, I’m talking to both of you), then you’ll...
You may have read the news piece we posted a week ago about Jaguar’s announcement that their Classic division will...
The end of the century was a big deal. Now that more than two decades have passed, it’s quaint to look back on that pending doom where predictions of digital Armageddon would plague the world as computer clocks poised on the millennium. Of course, nothing catastrophic happened in the digital...
Last November, in this space, I addressed the hot button issue of where tomorrow’s enthusiasts and collectors will come from....
The remarkable Alfa Romeo Sprint Speciale must be counted as among the most beautiful sports car designs of the twentieth...
Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or before we were masters of trivia via Alexa, the other Amazon quietly went about changing the world from a then small Swedish company with a penchant for safety. Now owned...