Photo: Peter Collins As one of only 22 OSCA cars bodied by Carrozzeria Fissore, this pretty little twin-cam-powered GT2 coupe...
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Photo: Ron Kellogg Collection After World War I, Alfieri Maserati (one of six Maserati brothers) took a position as a...
Later model 3500GTs, with the larger 4-liter engine and 5-speed ZF transmission, are the most desirable. About 30 miles north of London, on the edge of the village of Kimpton in Hertfordshire, is a haven for Maseratis and their owners, McGrath Maserati. The business has grown from minuscule seeds and...
Oosthoek’s first car was this ’50s Fiat 1100, which was so rusty, he covered the holes with decals! VR: How...
Photo: Ian Welsh Heavy rain, corrugated iron roof and a cup of tea! You really can’t get more Australian than...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was a “barn find” bought nine months previously. I subsequently found out that not only was it an original supercharged car, but had a rally history, including the 1931 London to Edinburgh...
VR: So, let’s go back to ground zero, if you will. How did you first get involved with cars? RC:...
The OSCA 1600 GT Zagato is perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood GT cars of the post- war...
Graham Gauld has written more than 16 books and been deeply invovled in the hobby for over 60 years. He speaks and writes with a lilting Scottish accent that defies and ignores commas and periods. He claims he is not a motor racing historian but a storyteller, yet has a...
Photo: Dave Gooley Climbing aboard Craig Ekberg’s 1915 Stutz Bearcat reminds me of driving a tractor as a kid, because...
1899 Columbia Elec Brougham. Today the name Town Car is almost exclusively associated with Lincoln, but that was by no...
Ken Gross is an automotive journalist whose work has appeared in Playboy, and a number of street rod and hot rod magazines; he has curated automotive exhibits in North Carolina, Georgia, Utah, Tennessee and Oregon; has written numerous books; has been a judge at Pebble Beach for 25 years; and...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Nash Automobile ads often go over the top when describing a new line of cars. Nash...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is...
Bruce Trenery founded his classic car dealership, Fantasy Junction, in 1976. VR: Why don’t we step all the way back to the early days, can you tell me a little bit about when you first became afflicted with the disease? BT: Well, basically, I grew up in Berkeley, California and...
Photo: Steve Oom I had heard about them for years, but had never seen one in the metal. Sure, actually...
Local Bahamian physician Pablo de Souza attacks the Fort Charlotte hillclimb in his 427 Cobra replica.Photo: Casey Annis bahamas speed...
Dan Radowicz worked at the famed Griswold’s restoration shop before joining the organization team at the California Mille. VR: In the immortal words of Sigmund Freud, tell me about your childhood. How did you first get started with cars? DR: Well, I was—what’s the term I’m looking for—I was cursed...
Photo: Pete Austin Legendary, iconic, brute and monster are all words that can be used to describe the world’s ultimate...
The beautiful Stork of Lorraine on the radiator cap makes the Hispano-Suiza easily identifiable. It is one of the most...
Simon Moore Although consisting of only two books, the body of work credited to Simon Moore is both enormous and highly significant. Moore is the author of The Immortal 2.9, the definitive book about the 1935-’39 Alfa Romeo 8C2900, and the three volume set, The Legendary 2.3, which covers the...
Propellers proved to be an important development in the history of transportation. On ships, once steam power was mastered, propellers...
Jeff Lane enjoys driving his cars as often as possible, including this Fiat Balilla. In June, Vintage Roadcar had an...
This right-hand-drive 250 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta was owned by British fashion model and socialite Nina Dyer when she married Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan in 1957. The car was completed in June, 1953, painted steel grey. Although the 250 MM Ferraris were built for racing, Nina Dyer’s car has no...
Charles Betz Fred Peters VR: How did you first come to cars? I know you both go way back with...
The only other Lemans convertible that still exists was returned to the factory in 1959 and restyled by Harley Earl...
Michael Rich & Joanie Rich, Mark Lizewski VR: How did The Grand Ascent and The Elegance come about? MR: About four years ago, I approached my father (Jack Rich, a long time collector who passed away in December 2011) about putting on an event to benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research...
Photo: Mike Jiggle If I was able to use only two words to describe my experience of driving the elegant...
Bill Miller in his magnificent Miller V12 Packard. Bill Miller was a genius. You hear this term used a lot,...
Damien Kimberley is one of a team of Curators at the Coventry Transport Museum.Photo: Kary Jiggle VR: What was your first interest in motor vehicles? Was this when you were a lad, or later life? DK: As a boy, I was always fascinated with cars. I built up my own...
