The year 1963 was a big one for General Motors, the C2 was introduced that year. The lineage of the...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud series was produced between 1955 and 1966 with a production run of 7,372 units. The first...
There are many distinguishing features of Jaguar’s big cat XKE. Disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering and independent front and rear suspension, just to name a few. It was a big jump from the XK150, but all you had to do was to look at the three times in a row Le...
Porsche, throughout its racing career, has created some of the most iconic machines of all time: the RSK, 904, 906,...
The middle of April 1939, brought the end of the run of 3003 MG TAs. Following close on its heels...
There are many cars you would not expect to find at a British restoration shop, and certainly a Safety Orange 1975 Bricklin SV-1 is one of them. Peter Brauen, owner of that restoration shop, saw his first Bricklin as a teenager. It was behind his dentist’s office in Metairie, Louisiana,...
Gabriel Voisin was born in 1880, in Belleville-sur-Saone. As a young man he studied industrial design in Lyons. In 1908,...
In the late ’70s, Lancia wanted something to grab some of the market share from the popular VW Golf. A...
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...
There are only a few cars that can be considered “Holy Grail” machines. The Ferrari 250 Short Wheel Base, the...
The Super 90 was Porsche’s way of giving driving enthusiasts more power, in a pushrod 356, without resorting to the...
Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori was an aftermarket company that produced parts to “hot rod” Fiats. The company was started...
In the mid-1960s, Ferrari wanted to go racing in Formula Two. The rub was, they needed a two-liter engine, and...
Before WWII, the term “sports car” was an alien phrase in the USA. There was no such thing. Returning G.I.s changed that when they came home with MG TCs. This gave America its first taste of small, nimble, four-cylinder sports cars. Enthusiasts on this side of the pond said, “Please...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the...
There have been a number of British manufacturers who have taken their smaller, less powerful motors out of their sports...
When Carroll Shelby hung up his racing helmet, in 1959, for health reasons, he had to come up with a way to keep himself occupied, so he started a high-performance driving school. He also wanted to build his own sports car. He zeroed in on the AC Bristol as a...
1987 Porsche 928 S4 Porsche rolled the dice in Geneva in 1977, introducing the 928 as a replacement for its...
lfredo Ferrari (Dino) was Enzo Ferrari’s first son, born January 19, 1932. At the time, Enzo was still racing for...
The Apollo GT was the brainchild of engineer Milt Brown and his partner Newt Davis. The youthful entrepreneurs envisioned a sports car with American reliability and Italian inspired design. The Apollo GT took shape as Frank Reisner, founder of “Intermeccanica,” became the coachbuilder. Brown enlisted designer Ron Plescia to sketch...
In 1903, Henry M. Leland began selling a $750, single-cylinder, automobile under the name Cadillac. Later touted as the “Standard...
In the early ’50s Grand Prix regulations changed. Aurelio Lampredi was able to create for Ferrari a new, larger displacement,...
Any MG enthusiast would remember the sad day on October 23, 1980, when the last MGB left the famed Abingdon site. Workers paraded outside the factory as the following day marked the closure of the factory that had been the home of the MG sports car since 1929. Thankfully, the...
In the early ’70s, Gary Emory was working at Chick Iverson’s VW/Porsche dealership. But as time went on he was...
The DB2 was a grand success, but Aston Martin wanted to entice more people to its creations. In 1953, AM...
Jean Rédélé loved cars! His father was a dealer. In 1946, he took over from his father and became the youngest Renault dealer in France. But Rédélé was also a racer. Winning his class in the Mille Miglia and the Coupe des Alpes in a 4CV, he knew what to...
Four-seater, mid-engined, sequential gearbox, what’s not to like? Short descriptions can be deceiving, but if you’re interested in an unusual...
Porsche put the word out to all its foreign concessionaires, in the summer of 1958, the now 4-year old rough...
William Lyons was born in 1901. His father owned a musical instrument store and his mother was the daughter of a mill owner, but what grabbed William’s fancy were automobiles. Following his studies at The Arnold School, Lyons won an engineering apprenticeship with Crossley Motors, at the same time continuing...
