1935 MG Airline Coupé Every once in a while an incredible opportunity falls in your lap. A few months ago,...
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1931 AJS 9hp Richmond Saloon Mention AJS and most will think of motorcycles, but there was more to AJS than...
The picturesque village of Cropredy, Oxfordshire, home to approximately 700 souls, is little known to most, even to those living within a 20-mile radius of the place. However, it is acknowledged by three groups of people on a world-wide basis. First, the village has strong links with the folk group...
Photo: David Newhardt Photo: David Newhardt The year 1909 was an eventful period; the Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened, the first...
Brian Blain: President, Blain Farms Car Collector, Restorer VR: So when where you first bitten by the car bug? Become...
Beverly Rae Kimes has been called the “First Lady of Automotive History” for good reason. She has written histories of many of the great cars of the 20th century. Her article titled “Auburn – From Runabout to Speedster,” published in Automobile Quarterly Volume V, Number 4, provides an interesting opinion about Auburn automobiles:...
Photo: Ian Welsh Heavy rain, corrugated iron roof and a cup of tea! You really can’t get more Australian than...
Photo: Steve Oom With just over 600 produced between 1954 and 1962 it can t be said that the Jensen...
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...
After Ettore Bugatti’s death his family decided to keep his car-making company alive. Their creation of the Type 101 was...
What is it about a Stradale? Ask most Alfisti what Alfa they’d most like to have in their garage, and...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack. With the rebuilding and recovery of Europe ongoing six years after the end of World War II, Mercedes competition boss Alfred Neubauer was told that the resources for a resumption...
1983 Ferrari 512 BBi When word gets out that a particular car will be profiled, lots of comments, mostly unsolicited,...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began offering Grand Touring cars in the 1950s. For founders Enzo Ferrari and the Maserati brothers, racing was their focus and their passion. Yet, in a post-war world screaming for sports...
Local Bahamian physician Pablo de Souza attacks the Fort Charlotte hillclimb in his 427 Cobra replica.Photo: Casey Annis bahamas speed...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is...
It is unlikely that readers of this publication would not be familiar with the Mille Miglia (aka 1000 Miglia), but some might like a refresher on the history of this famous race. Here is the link to the first of our 3-part history of this most historic race https://sportscardigest.com//life-and-times-of-the-mille-miglia/. On...
The Andes adventure started in Antofagasta, on the coast of Northern Chile with 15 cars and teams from Belgium, Finland,...
VR: It was recently announced that you have been chosen to be the chief judge for the Pebble Beach Concours...
Sports Car Market Co-Founder, Alfa Romeo Owners Club, President VR: Lets go back to the very beginning. When did you first realize you were bitten by the car bug? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited...
“Ferraris are meant to be driven.” It’s a rallying cry that has been echoing around the Ferrari community for decades,...
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...
VR: How did you start writing? CC: My wife had a job with the local police department working nights doing...
Born in England, raised in Hollywood. We are not speaking of a famous movie actor, but of a very special...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in fact, like most things in life, it is dynamic, it can change. Or sometimes, like in grade school, we learn about a piece of history at a very superficial level,...
I bought both a Volkswagen Type 1 and a Morris Minor more than 20 years ago when we started...
The Bugatti 57SC has long been coveted by automotive historians and enthusiasts as one of the ultimate expressions of pre-war...
In September 2022, I travelled to Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountains for Okteenerfest. The annual gathering of Porsche 914s was a fun, albeit secondary, reason for going. The primary reason was to profile a rare 914 model, a Can-Am in a color combination that causes it to be...