Credit – BarnFinds.com I saw my first Bricklin in 1974. Lit up under the Southern California sun, a local specialty...
If you’ve never seen a Lancia Stratos in person, you owe it to yourself to seek one out. The Stratos...
It’s tough being British. The lackluster cuisine and stoic monarchy don’t help. Though they did give us the Beatles, Fish and Chips, and the James Bond franchise. For the most part, it’s rare to get a British moment of passionate engagement, especially for the average person. But there is one...
If you had to pick a singular, quintessential Ferrari to represent the pinnacle of their ascendance to the best in...
The Shelby Daytona Coupe is the best American car ever built. Maybe even the best in the world. I can...
History lauds volumes of praise to those who are first. Thinking back to 1964, many will recall a short wheelbase, two-seater with British origins delivered to the U.S. where a 289 high output engine was installed and it sold worldwide – the Shelby Cobra. But there was another car that...
Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or...
In the 1980s, the idea of a Japanese Luxury Sedan was a radical concept. Most North American perceptions around Japanese cars were still very much attached to frugality, economy, and base-model offerings. There were exceptions, of course, as higher trim Japanese cars began sporting comfort features, but most of those...
After suffering what must be called the worst five years of American car design 1974-1979, the 1980s ushered in the...
The modern startup gets a lot of attention these days. Investors hoping to ensnare the illusive “unicorn” status that might...
I’ve been revisiting a series of cars recently from the period of my youth. There’s something to be said about the cars we saw everyday while young. Even if they were part of our general visual landscape some of them captivated us in a strangely endearing way. The Saab 900...
We purchased a 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL in the early 1980s. The car came out of Dekalb, Georgia, so it...
In the mid 1990s, I had the pleasure of spending the day with Carroll Shelby. After walking through his LA...
The Steelers Wheel 1973 pop tune “Stuck in the Middle with You” could very well have been the theme song for the Porsche 914. Though the 914 was originally released in 1969, four years before the song would top the pop charts, by 1973 the 914 found just the right...
The end of the century was a big deal. Now that more than two decades have passed, it’s quaint to...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some...
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...
Toyota has been around a long time. They know what they are doing, and they make more cars than any...
More than half a century ago, Porsche shocked the world with a brand-new sports car design. The now iconic 911...
Ercole Spada was one of the most prolific sports car designers of the post-war era. Though his name is not nearly as recognized as Giugiaro, Gandini, or Scaglione, his body of work contains some of the most advanced and memorable designs of the 20th century. With his illustrious career beginning...
If you had to pick the ten most beautifully designed sports cars, chances are most of the list would contain...
If you had to pick just one icon of American sports car performance, it’s a safe bet that the Corvette...
If you went looking for the true father of the Sunbeam Tiger, you might surmise that American Carroll Shelby would be the one. And while Shelby did a great deal of the development on the car, the initial idea to put an American V8 engine into the British built Sunbeam...
Every year flocks of determined swallows return to mission San Juan Capistrano, California – a journey of 6,000 miles. It’s...
I don’t often reference values when discussing design, but a great deal of the success of a sports car resides...
When car companies build futuristic concepts for tomorrow, they are usually exotic cars with sporty, low-profile bodies, and technologically advanced interiors. Show cars are often built around improbable dreams of tomorrow, and are decidedly impractical. Even if they are dreamy notions of what the future might be, it’s still fun...
Italy and France each have beautiful and robust cultures with diverse offerings and unique perspectives. And while each is unique...
Automotive history is riddled with innovators and entrepreneurs seeking the very best, most powerful, and dynamic sports cars bearing their...
The genius of Colin Chapman is evident in every one of his cars. Each of his creations were uniquely endowed, not only with clever engineering, but a special blend of design and mechanical innovation that seemed to illude virtually all other manufacturers, or at least be years ahead of them....
