The Pearl Collection The Concours of Elegance 2023 at Hampton Court, is set to extend a warm welcome to Fritz...
Vintage Roadcar Features
Like so many early automobile manufacturers, the Auburn Automobile Company started out as an evolution of carriage making. Charles Eckhart...
Photo: Steve Oom Photo: Steve Oom It would be interesting to ask any historic car enthusiast what picture enters their minds when the Bugatti marque is mentioned. Perhaps some would think of the Bugatti T41 or to use its more widely known name, the Royale, a Bugatti of some notoriety...
VR: How does an accomplished neurosurgeon become such an accomplished car guy? FS: Both of those things relate to my...
I recently had the pleasure of chatting with professional race car driver, Max Hanratty. As part of the Fast MD...
1953 Glaspar G-2 Costa Mesa, California, was home to Glasspar, a company that built fiberglass boats in the late 1940s. With the launch of the Glasspar G-2, the company became the first and, for several years, the largest manufacturer of fiberglass automobiles—before the Kaiser Darrin or the Chevrolet Corvette were...
Charles Kettering, one time head of research at General Motors, once said: “People are very open-minded about new things –...
Beverly Rae Kimes has been called the “First Lady of Automotive History” for good reason. She has written histories of...
Although by 1972 Ferrari had been building race and road cars for 25 years and had turned out well over 3,000 vehicles, only three were bodied by Bertone, a cabriolet and a pair of berlinettas, but what sensational cars they were, particularly the two special berlinettas built on 250 GT...
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war...
Photo: Ian Welsh Heavy rain, corrugated iron roof and a cup of tea! You really can’t get more Australian than...
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars and when you were first bitten by the bug? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
David Owen, in a 1975 article for Automobile Quarterly, Volume XIII Number 2, commented that, “If God had meant us...
The spectacular Mercedes-Benz 540K represented the zenith of pre-war accomplishments by the Stuttgart-based firm in the pre-war era. It is...
While Vintage Roadcar was tracking down some interesting cars in New Mexico and Colorado, we had the opportunity to chat with Barry Petersen. Petersen has been a Senior Correspondent for CBS News for almost 40 years. We were lucky to catch up with him, since the network had him chasing...
This right-hand-drive 250 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta was owned by British fashion model and socialite Nina Dyer when she married...
The livescience.com website defines aerodynamics as “the study of how gases interact with moving bodies. Because the gas that we...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing dispatch and secretarial work. So it worked out really well, I would get home from my job as a copywriter in advertising, feed the kids and put them to bed...
President and COO of Black Horse Garage in Bridgeport, Connecticut Vintage Roadcar’s J. Michael Hemsley met John Buonanno at The...
Photographer Dave Gooley and I drove over to Gus’ Barbeque in Paramount, California, – a diner devoted exclusively to meat...
1949 MG Y Type MG equals sports cars! Sports cars equal MG! Horse and carriage! Cup and saucer! Top hat and tails! They all go together and if you own a MG, surely you own a sports car. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Years ago, a friend and I were in an old Dodge plumber’s van on our way to the Pebble Beach...
Owner, Grand Prix Classics VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how, or when, you were first bitten...
The term Metropolitan is an adjective meaning, “Of, relating to, or characteristic of a metropolis.” It was also a term used to label those who had the sophistication, fashionable tastes and manners associated with a metropolis. That is until Nash Motors, in 1953, came out with a stylish, diminutive, grocery-getter...
In September 2022, I travelled to Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountains for Okteenerfest. The annual gathering of Porsche...
We had spent the previous evening at Justin Marshall and his wife Shirley’s spectacular hilltop home overlooking their winery in...
Today, the words failure and BMW are an anathema: the Munich company is a model of success. But, it wasn’t always this way and, unusual as it may seem, this is the story of a beautiful German sports car that was by any standards a corporate catastrophe. Following the horrors...
Tony Valadez’ elegant 1939 Pontiac convertible is everything later Pontiac muscle cars are not. The later cars were brash, flashy...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was a...
At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, much of the world quietly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended “The War to End All Wars.” Total casualties, killed and wounded, numbered about 37 million. Of that number, approximately 17 million were killed – 7...
