Simon Moore Although consisting of only two books, the body of work credited to Simon Moore is both enormous and...
Vintage Roadcar Features
The beautiful Stork of Lorraine on the radiator cap makes the Hispano-Suiza easily identifiable. It is one of the most...
Photo: Pete Austin Legendary, iconic, brute and monster are all words that can be used to describe the world’s ultimate performance muscle car—the AC Cobra. Born out of an AC Ace back in 1962, the AC Cobra, under the direction of Carroll Shelby, quite literally blew the motorsport world apart....
Dan Radowicz worked at the famed Griswold’s restoration shop before joining the organization team at the California Mille. VR: In...
Local Bahamian physician Pablo de Souza attacks the Fort Charlotte hillclimb in his 427 Cobra replica.Photo: Casey Annis bahamas speed...
Photo: Steve Oom I had heard about them for years, but had never seen one in the metal. Sure, actually seeing a front-wheel-drive Alvis was not at the forefront of my mind, but in that same mind the car had taken on a sort of legendary status. I had read...
Bruce Trenery founded his classic car dealership, Fantasy Junction, in 1976. VR: Why don’t we step all the way back...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Nash Automobile ads often go over the top when describing a new line of cars. Nash Motors certainly made their 1940 limited edition Nash Ambassador Eight Special Cabriolet sound pretty special in the ad announcing its availability: “Presenting a Brilliant New Sport Car – custom-built in...
Ken Gross is an automotive journalist whose work has appeared in Playboy, and a number of street rod and hot...
1899 Columbia Elec Brougham. Today the name Town Car is almost exclusively associated with Lincoln, but that was by no...
Photo: Dave Gooley Climbing aboard Craig Ekberg’s 1915 Stutz Bearcat reminds me of driving a tractor as a kid, because you have to climb up onto it, rather than down into it. The big cat’s bucket seat is much more comfortable than a tractor’s but not much bigger, and you...
Graham Gauld has written more than 16 books and been deeply invovled in the hobby for over 60 years. He...
The OSCA 1600 GT Zagato is perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood GT cars of the post- war...
VR: So, let’s go back to ground zero, if you will. How did you first get involved with cars? RC: It was pretty much an accident for the most part. My mother had known a fellow from Chicago by the name of Bill Victor for years, and it’s funny in...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was a...
Photo: Ian Welsh Heavy rain, corrugated iron roof and a cup of tea! You really can’t get more Australian than...
Oosthoek’s first car was this ’50s Fiat 1100, which was so rusty, he covered the holes with decals! VR: How did you first get started with cars? WO: I guess it was around 1959, when I was at the age of 12, I became aware that there was such a...
Later model 3500GTs, with the larger 4-liter engine and 5-speed ZF transmission, are the most desirable. About 30 miles north...
Photo: Ron Kellogg Collection After World War I, Alfieri Maserati (one of six Maserati brothers) took a position as a...
Photo: Peter Collins As one of only 22 OSCA cars bodied by Carrozzeria Fissore, this pretty little twin-cam-powered GT2 coupe comes from a classic period of Italian-designed sports cars. While Ferrari and Maserati were ruling the roost with their muscular road-going racers, this OSCA was aimed at the middle ground,...
VR: How does an accomplished neurosurgeon become such an accomplished car guy? FS: Both of those things relate to my...
Shunned, snubbed and overlooked, Ferrari’s 250 GT/E coupe has been a languishing classic waiting to happen for most of its...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Gabriel Voisin was an amazing man. Born in France in 1880, he built a four-wheeled automobile and a kite big enough to lift boys off the ground by the time he was 18. He studied architecture, but in 1900, after seeing the avion of Clément Ader,...
Michael Furman spoke with our J. Michael Hemsley about his life, his career and the cars that move him. Michael...
The Hudson Terraplane grille is among the most attractive of all time. In the June 2012 issue of Vintage Roadcar,...
Photo: David Gooley I know the engine is running only when I rev it. I pull the gearshift lever into first and give the huge 142-inch-wheelbase classic a nudge. Shifting is silent and silky smooth, with synchromesh in second and high gears. The magnificent old Packard pulls away effortlessly with...
What if Chevrolet offered a 2+2 Corvette? There was once a British 2+2, with a Corvette engine that might have...
“Look at this!” Tracy shouted across the house. My wife’s swim coach voice was too enthusiastic to tarry, so I...
Gary Dearn started work for British Rail and now is the Club Secretary for the Ferrari Owner’s Club of Great Britain. His journey has been pretty unique given he rose from being a volunteer incident marshal at Silverstone, to actually running the safety side of Silverstone Circuit. From there he...