The success of the first Myanmar Burma Road Classic, in 2014, made this second edition even more special. The idea...
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Chairman, Endurance Rally Association Fred Gallagher Fred Gallagher grew up in a part of Northern Ireland where those noted for...
1904 De Dion Bouton We carefully lift the coalscuttle hood off of the 1904 De Dion Bouton Henri Binder Tonneau 15 touring car and put a few drops of gasoline into each of the priming cups on the engine’s four cylinders. Chris Kidd, who owns Tired Iron restorations in Monrovia,...
Pierce-Arrow’s Refusal to Sacrifice Quality to Save the Company There is something about the archer on the hood of a...
Panel Beater, Collector Discovers Artistry in Aluminium Paul Pennell has been entrenched in the world of motors from a very...
The Lancia Fulvia Lancia was never short of talented engineers. Consider just Vincenzo himself, Vittorio Jano and, later in the 1950s and ’60s, Antonia Fessia. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only....
Event Director, Motorclassica Having just celebrated its sixth successful year, Australia’s Motorclassica has gone from strength to strength with preparations...
1949 MG Y Type MG equals sports cars! Sports cars equal MG! Horse and carriage! Cup and saucer! Top hat...
In the heady, but risky, days of British specialist sports car manufacture in the late 1950s, the intrepid characters involved could have been forgiven for not believing that there was a thriving company in Cape Town, South Africa, building a sleek two-seater called the GSM Dart. Not only was it...
Owner, Grand Prix Classics VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how, or when, you were first bitten...
1931 AJS 9hp Richmond Saloon Mention AJS and most will think of motorcycles, but there was more to AJS than...
Generation 7, Littler Birds:1977-1979 This next generation of Thunderbirds resulted from conditions outside the company’s control. Lee Iacocca was in charge at Ford, and he saw the Thunderbird as too big, expensive and inefficient. With the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) looming, the 1977 car had to be smaller, more...
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars...
1932 Jordan Playboy We spotted the Playboy at a “Cruisin’ For a Cure” meet at the Los Angeles Fairgrounds a...
Ford’s Personal Luxury Car Ford, over the last half century, has occasionally introduced cars that are just a little different than what was being offered by the competition. The Mustang, for example, created the genre of “pony cars.” Recently, Ford introduced the Flex—not really an SUV, not a station wagon,...
Lory Lockwood, David Snyder and Dan Reed During The Elegance at Hershey, this past June, VR Contributor J. Michael Hemsley...
The livescience.com website defines aerodynamics as “the study of how gases interact with moving bodies. Because the gas that we encounter most is air, aerodynamics is primarily concerned with the forces of drag and lift, which are caused by air passing over and around solid bodies.” Airplanes were the catalyst...
Although by 1972 Ferrari had been building race and road cars for 25 years and had turned out well over...
Brian Blain: President, Blain Farms Car Collector, Restorer VR: So when where you first bitten by the car bug? Become...
1912 Pope Hartford Model 27 The invention of the automobile probably had more to do with the invention of the bicycle than the invention of an electric motor, steam or internal combustion engine. The bicycle was the first speed-creating conveyance that was relatively easy to buy, use and maintain. On...
It is a sobering thought that Lamborghinis have only been in production for 50 years and yet, in that relatively...
President and COO of Black Horse Garage in Bridgeport, Connecticut Vintage Roadcar’s J. Michael Hemsley met John Buonanno at The...
Chino Hills, CA June 6, 2015 Allan Amico’s 1951 Studebaker Champion. A 2012 Porsche GT3 RSR stands next to Kerry Morse’s 1979 Lancia Beta Monte Carlo Turbo, in the racecar section. Winner of the “Le Mans Award” was this 1936 Singer. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To...
1966 Shelby GT350H When Ford introduced its new Mustang in 1964, it was an immediate sensation. By itself, it created...
5 Days, 60 Vintage Cars, 1,000 Miles and 3,000 Years of History – An Amazing Journey Through the Remarkable and...
Paul Chenard, Automotive Artist/Illustrator VR: How did you first get involved with cars? Presumably it was at a young age, but when did you first get bitten by the bug? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
1953 Glaspar G-2 Costa Mesa, California, was home to Glasspar, a company that built fiberglass boats in the late 1940s....
1922 Duesenberg More words have been written about Duesenberg per “car”-pita than any other marque in the history of the...
John Campion is a high energy guy and radiates that energy everywhere he goes. Perhaps it’s because he started his business career providing power for rock shows, but whatever it is, his sense of energy permeates his enthusiasm for his car collection, the centerpieces of which are four rare and...
