Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like...
Being ejected from the car…that’s half the appeal! As I’ve mentioned off and on, I’ve found that my automotive tastes...
It seems strange to me that I’ve become an Alfa enthusiast, as I apparently have come to the party relatively late in my automotive life. As a kid, I was certainly crazy for Italian cars, Ferraris in particular, of course. They were fast and loud, low slung, sleek and sexy....
Can you hear that sound? It’s me, beginning to climb way out on a limb. Like most enthusiasts, I was...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (formerly known as the Monterey Historic Automobile Races) is 40 years old this year! Pheww,...
Where were you when the engine died? Sudden death of a close friend or a high profile celebrity is always a galvanizing event. Oftentimes the shock and disbelief burns the memory of the moment into one’s mind forever. For instance, people of a certain age can still remember every detail...
During the early days of the automobile (1890–1940), coachbuilding—the construction of bodywork for a vehicle—was as vital a part of...
There’s an infectious disease running through the concours community, and it’s not what you think? Whenever we interview people within...
Whether you read about it in Vintage Racecar—or almost any other automotive publication—over the past year, chances are good that you’ve already heard about our Associate Editor John Nikas and the remarkable Austin-Healey named Grace. Last year—as a fairly last-minute, “wild hair” idea—John decided that he would take a friend’s...
Can a fictional spy save the world…and a car company? I write this column on the eve of Halloween. While...
Last November, in this space, I addressed the hot button issue of where tomorrow’s enthusiasts and collectors will come from....
With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the prospects of another Scottsdale auction week, it may have slipped under your radar when it was announced that the Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, Michigan, had closed. I would have missed it as well, were it not...
Do these bellbottoms make my car look fat? Show of hands…how many of you sported a pair of bellbottoms in...
100 years ago, almost anyone could become a car manufacturer. The automobile—and the advance in technology to create it—was in...
It’s come to my recent attention that I have an alcohol problem. Truthfully, I had no idea, but apparently, I’ve had one for at least the past two years. It was insidiously gradual. At first, it was just occasional, but then as time progressed, it became pretty much every weekend....
Could the passing of a new law breed an entirely new segment of “classics”? The terms “Kit Car” and “Replica”...
In the automotive world, surprisingly, quite a lot. Just prior to this November’s Los Angeles Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz made the...
Conundrums of nomenclature in the automotive world Each month, I end up reading every word—on both sides of the magazine—at least four times or more. It’s enough to make even the most died-in-the-wool enthusiast feel a bit punchy. During one of these seemingly endless read-throughs this month, I found myself...
As classic car enthusiasts, we live with a foot in two completely different worlds. One foot is firmly placed in...
As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s...
Parachute pants, rollerblades and the archetype of the boutique Supercar Not sure what the water cooler talk around your office is like, but in ours it tends to revolve around the obscure minutiae of cars and racing. Things like what driver had, or has, the longest continuous professional career (arguably...
Just how far are you prepared to go for exclusivity? In January, Bentley announced that its famed Mulliner coachbuilding team...
What if you could change cars as frequently as your wardrobe? Since I’m currently single-handedly underwriting the University of Southern...
Today, I’m going to confess two of my most deeply held, darkest secrets: 1) For the past two decades, I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time at my local bagel shop; and 2) I’ve never been a fan of the Corvette. I know! I know! It’s not right. How could...
You really have to be cautious when you read the April issue of an automotive enthusiast’s magazine Did you enjoy...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Jaguar is apparently a cat with more than six lives to live. Last month is this space,...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold via private transaction for an all-time record $35 million. I’ll let that sink in for just a moment…$35 million. Considering record auction sale prices have been floating in the stratospheric...
For years, I’ve had readers of Vintage Racecar comment, “I love your magazine…I wish you did something like this on...
The automotive prophets predicted the coming end times…wish I bought the destroyer of the classic car world when I had...
Is the world really hankering for a return of the Borgward? I see a lot of automotive press releases, every single day. Eight times out of ten, they are about something fairly mundane or of no interest to those of us in the classic car world. However, every once in...