Sometimes, knowing someone results is a surprise. I’ve known Mike Marsh for a number of years. He created the EuroFest...
Vintage Roadcar Features
People were standing around this tiny roadster on display at the Hillsborough Concours, attracting a crowd, all day. It’s unusual...
At the Geneva Motor Show in March 1971, Automobili Lamborghini presented its “idea car”, the LP 500 Countach. Designed by Bertone’s Marcello Gandini, the car immediately became the star of the show, and the photographs of it, which went viral, were published in major magazines around the world. This new...
About 30 years ago, BMW shocked the automotive world by introducing a sexy and technically unique 2 place, drop-top sports...
Rolls-Royce’s brilliant, first post-war design is as enjoyable to drive now as it was then. The Silver Wraith was the...
With a shiver of trepidation, I slip behind the wheel of the museum’s grand 1936 Packard phaeton Standard Eight parade car. I’m nervous because its original owner would have had me shot— if I were lucky —for getting anywhere near it. You see, Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, more commonly known...
At the end of the 19th century the De Dion-Bouton Company of France was famous for its advanced internal combustion...
Although marriages of Italian styling with German machinery are seen as a rarity, the clever way that Bertone clothed a...
When the farm owned by Helena Neethling’s father in the Riviersonderend district, about 100 miles due east of Cape Town, South Africa, went bankrupt in 1927 the young woman had no intention of remaining in the area. Nor, when she decided to take up a teaching post in Greytown, Natal,...
Corvette’s contemporary ZO6 is enough to strike terror into the hearts of those who drive slower cars, such as Ferraris...
Born in England, raised in Hollywood. We are not speaking of a famous movie actor, but of a very special...
Have you ever seen a Commuter? I’m talking about a 1959 Mercury Commuter two-door station wagon. Not many of us have, because they only built 1,051 of them that year and time, and of course commuting, has taken its toll on them. In fact, there were only 148,946 of the...
The hunt for interesting automobiles to profile often leads to some very unusual vehicles. One-off vehicles do not lend themselves...
“You’ve got to see this car!” said Robert Escalante, internationally known restorer of classic Packard automobiles. And he wouldn’t have...
After celebrating its centenary in 2020, 2021 sees the 50th Anniversary of one of Mazda’s most interesting, adaptable and successful cars. Often overlooked when compared to the later RX-7 coupe or the earlier and far rarer Mazda Cosmo, the Mazda RX-3 was a landmark car in Mazda’s history – a...
The MGA should have happened several years before it did. The story of why it didn’t and how it came...
I was 19-years old and working nights at a Shell service station in San Jose, California, with my friend Jim...
I was out walking the other day, and tripped on a grate in the pavement and fell hard… down hill. As I was regaining consciousness, a neighbor stopped her car and asked me if I wanted a ride back to my house. I accepted gratefully. My doctor assessed my swollen...
Although the Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 of the late-1930s and immediate post-war years lingered on the market until 1953, its...
Dodge and Plymouth stylists hated them, Bill France hated them, but, the racers? Racers loved them, as long as they...
If you believe that when a man puts his name on the building the products emanating from the enterprise embody his soul and spirit, then it’s unlikely you will ever find better proof of the concept than Enzo Ferrari. His story is, of course, a familiar one. Having joined Alfa...
The Bugatti 57SC has long been coveted by automotive historians and enthusiasts as one of the ultimate expressions of pre-war...
On July 18, 1955, in sunny Southern California an icon was born when Walt Disney opened the gates to his...
I was down in New Zealand recently with my good friend, photographer Dave Gooley on a working vacation, searching out unique cars. We struck pay dirt at the annual Ellerslie Concours in Auckland, which is New Zealand’s equivalent to Pebble Beach, and features classic cars from all over the world....
Though only a few Dutch vehicle makers are in operation today, in the early years of the motorcar around the...
A 1951 Chevrolet Styleline Deluxe eight-passenger station wagon’s doors are big, so climbing in is easy. The bench seats are...
Members of Hagerty Classic Insurance’s Driver’s Club were recently asked what car was the most luxurious ever. The answers ranged from Studebakers to Rolls-Royces. No one suggested either Hispano-Suiza or Isotta Fraschini, the world’s truly most luxurious marques. Of those two, Isotta Fraschini is my pick. Gianni Rogliatti wrote an...
We had spent the previous evening at Justin Marshall and his wife Shirley’s spectacular hilltop home overlooking their winery in...
I bought both a Volkswagen Type 1 and a Morris Minor more than 20 years ago when we started...
Years ago, a friend and I were in an old Dodge plumber’s van on our way to the Pebble Beach Concours D’Elegance, doing about 65 mph on Interstate five, when a magnificent, classic, close coupled sedan blew past us. We were surprised, because though it appeared to be stock, and...
