1912 Pope Hartford Model 27 The invention of the automobile probably had more to do with the invention of the...
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Brian Blain: President, Blain Farms Car Collector, Restorer VR: So when where you first bitten by the car bug? Become...
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...
The livescience.com website defines aerodynamics as “the study of how gases interact with moving bodies. Because the gas that we...
Lory Lockwood, David Snyder and Dan Reed During The Elegance at Hershey, this past June, VR Contributor J. Michael Hemsley moderated a seminar on collecting automotive art, where three artists shared insights into the origins of their automotive art and the process of how it is created. Become a Member...
Ford’s Personal Luxury Car Ford, over the last half century, has occasionally introduced cars that are just a little different...
1932 Jordan Playboy We spotted the Playboy at a “Cruisin’ For a Cure” meet at the Los Angeles Fairgrounds a...
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...
Generation 7, Littler Birds:1977-1979 This next generation of Thunderbirds resulted from conditions outside the company’s control. Lee Iacocca was in...
1931 AJS 9hp Richmond Saloon Mention AJS and most will think of motorcycles, but there was more to AJS than...
Owner, Grand Prix Classics VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how, or when, you were first bitten by the car bug? I presume it was when you were pretty young? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the...
In the heady, but risky, days of British specialist sports car manufacture in the late 1950s, the intrepid characters involved...
1949 MG Y Type MG equals sports cars! Sports cars equal MG! Horse and carriage! Cup and saucer! Top hat...
Event Director, Motorclassica Having just celebrated its sixth successful year, Australia’s Motorclassica has gone from strength to strength with preparations very much under way for its seventh staging in October 2016, once again in Melbourne’s iconic, heritage-listed Royal Exhibition Building. It is the only such event held in Australia. Become...
The Lancia Fulvia Lancia was never short of talented engineers. Consider just Vincenzo himself, Vittorio Jano and, later in the...
Panel Beater, Collector Discovers Artistry in Aluminium Paul Pennell has been entrenched in the world of motors from a very...
Pierce-Arrow’s Refusal to Sacrifice Quality to Save the Company There is something about the archer on the hood of a Pierce-Arrow that makes the car hard to pass by at a show. That archer means that the car it adorns represents the highest level of quality. Respected and renowned during...
1904 De Dion Bouton We carefully lift the coalscuttle hood off of the 1904 De Dion Bouton Henri Binder Tonneau...
Chairman, Endurance Rally Association Fred Gallagher Fred Gallagher grew up in a part of Northern Ireland where those noted for...
The success of the first Myanmar Burma Road Classic, in 2014, made this second edition even more special. The idea was to offer the same highlights as the first event, but while taking in new and even more remote roads within the country. More than 70 percent of the roads...
1960 Alfa Romeo 2000 Vignale Coupé Ask any Alfista what ALFA stands for, and he or she will tell you,...
Talbot-Lago, the name rolls off your tongue like a dew drop rolls off a leaf, deliberate but elegant. The cars made in Paris during the 1930s were truly luxurious in styling and uniqueness, as well as prestige, and at the time one of the most expensive French cars made. These...
Timing is everything, and Graham’s great automobiles are a proof—unfortunately. That’s because, despite the fact that their company made great...
La Jolla, California April 10, 2016 Michael and Patricia Adams’ 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Cabriolet John Gerardy’s 1964 Shelby Cobra...
In 1957, the folks in Coventry were making plans for the replacement of the XK150. A small 2/3-scale aluminum prototype was tested. This was E1A. Norman Dewis was the test driver, putting this early design through its paces. The eventual look of the E-Type was already evident in this early...
Sports Car Market Co-Founder, Alfa Romeo Owners Club, President VR: Lets go back to the very beginning. When did you...
The Standard Motor Company is one of the largest motor companies that so few have ever heard of. It grew...
The People The two people critical to the development of Tatra’s most significant automobiles, including the subject of this profile, were Hans Ledwinka and Paul Jaray. Ludwinka, born in Austria near Vienna, started his career as a mechanic, studied in Vienna, and was hired by Nesselsdorfer Waganbau-Fabriks-Gesellschaft to work on...