Every year the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance offers a spectacular showing of amazing cars. I am fortunate to get a...
My friend had done well that year. He was quite a bit older, but we’d bonded over cars, especially as...
This is my 50th article for Vintage Road & Racecar. I didn’t realize it until my editor sent me a thank you card and the keys to a 2019 Ferrari 488 (fair disclosure, it was just the keys). So it got me thinking about the value of 50 when it comes...
I recently gave a talk to a collector car gathering in the Bay Area. The Q&A after these talks is...
May 2018 The first major car show I attended was the 1971 L.A. Auto Expo. As a wide-eyed nine-year-old, everything...
Car Design is a wicked beast. The purpose of design is to create both alluring and engaging combinations of mechanical and sculptural elements as a means to attracts buyers willing to pay money to possess such an object. But once the car is released, a whole new series of considerations...
Every car guy, collector and car designer knows the two major categories that separate car designs—Pre-war and Post-war. Pre-war cars...
In an age of cell phones, disposable appliances, laptops thinner and smaller than LIFE magazine, it’s hard to remember that...
Studebaker was an innovative company. In the pre-war years, it built some of the finest and most elegant art deco cars of the period. Unlike many other independent brands, Studebaker emerged from the Second World War competing head to head with the big three in design and engineering. By the...
If you had to pick the most challenging era of sports cars development, it would have to be the late...
Driven by charismatic leadership and inspired by sporting elegance, Aston Martin has long been associated with top performance cars built...
We’re all creatures of water. Millions of years ago we emerged from a boiling primordial stew as multi-cell organisms, evolved...
We’ve seen visions of the future before. Cars that can fly, jet-powered cars, atomic-powered cars, robotics within cars, and a...
When people hear I am a car designer, questions come up: “What is your favorite car?” “What car do you drive? “What makes a car beautiful and how come cars are not as pretty as they used to be?” The first questions are easy to answer. The last one, a...
The first time I saw a photo of the Lamborghini Countach I knew it was something special. I was probably...
This month one of the most iconic Mustangs to ever hit the road is going up for auction, the 1968 Bullit...
It’s hard to imagine any scene from “Americana” that does not include a wood-bodied station wagon. Not only were wood cars a critical part of the growing suburban American lifestyle, the woody wagon would become collectible and highly sought after, long after the useful purpose for which they were originally...
The modern startup gets a lot of attention these days. Investors hoping to ensnare the illusive “unicorn” status that might...
My Top Ten list changes every year. I know what I like, but once in a while new cars creep...
When I was a college student, some friends told me about a woman who ran a hair salon in her West Los Angeles apartment. She ran a steady business cutting hair for most of us attending UCLA. Perfectly positioned near campus and offering haircuts at student rates, short, perky Karen...
The Ghia 450 SS challenge arrived at Ghia studios as one of the first assignments offered to their newest employee,...
The Shelby Daytona Coupe is the best American car ever built. Maybe even the best in the world. I can...
How one car changed the culture of Japan and the mindset of America, one sports car at a time With an unmistakable body design, superb performance and a dedicated enthusiast following, the Datsun 240Z has evolved into a sports car legend. After nearly 50 years since its launch, the “Z”...
More than half a century ago, Porsche shocked the world with a brand-new sports car design. The now iconic 911...
The year 1962 was a big one. Not only was Seattle sporting its beautiful piercing tribute to the futuramic skyline...
If you had to pick a singular, quintessential Ferrari to represent the pinnacle of their ascendance to the best in sports car design, it would have to be the Lusso. And while Ferrari has built many exceptional road cars, the last and best of the Ferrari 250 series, the 250...
Long before books were sold online, before you could shop for anything and have it delivered to your door, or...
Fair disclosure—I’ve wanted to write about this car for years. The Ford GT appeared, in 2005, as a production offering...
Both Ferrari and Pininfarina had quite a surprise in store when they debuted the 308 at the 1975 Paris Auto Show. Consider the times. The world was still reeling from the fuel crisis and car design was struggling with rapidly changing standards. The 308 launched into what has to be...