1930 Austin Seven “Chummy ” The Austin Motor Company was in trouble. The “War to End All Wars” had been...
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Among the world’s most exotic and mysterious motor cars, the big Tatras of the 1930s attract rumor and controversy. Karl...
Rabin’s customers include such hobby notables as Ralph Lauren and Jay Leno, pictured here with a 1919 Rolls-Royce that Rabin created the wheel covers for. VR: Mike, how did first come to be bitten by the car bug? MR: When I was a baby maybe two years old, three years...
1955 Talbot Lago T26 GSL Vincent Van Gogh once asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to...
“Ferraris are meant to be driven.” It’s a rallying cry that has been echoing around the Ferrari community for decades,...
Philip Young: Founder and GM of the Endurance Rally Association The second part of our interview with Philip Young, head of the Endurance Rally Association (ERA)—a motor club he founded just over 25 years ago which organizes some of today’s most inspiring classic rallies—was to be a celebration of his latest...
1949 Kurtis Sports Car [dropcap]F[/dropcap]rank Kurtis built racecars. He built many of the cars entered in the Indy 500 from...
Although better known for its style than its achievements on the track, the Moretti 750 Gran Sport Berlinetta is commanding...
Stephen Laing is curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon. Stephen Laing is the current Curator of the Heritage Motor Centre at Gaydon, Warwickshire, England; he has worked for the museum, which houses more than 300 cars owned by the British Motor Industry Heritage Trust, for over 20 years....
The 1937 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Sedan Exemplifies Buick’s Grand Legacy Ford market researchers, in the mid-1950s, sampled new car buyers...
Before delving into the Talbot London, it’s refreshing to look back at 1930s Great Britain to appreciate the world of...
Philip Young heads the Endurance Rally Association (ERA) a motor club he founded just over 25 years ago that organizes some of today’s most inspiring classic rallies. While some events are held in one country or continent, many, like the Peking to Paris, are truly trans-continental rallies over several thousand...
A few miles north of Paso Robles we come up over a rise on a rolling two-lane road through Central California’s...
It began in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851 when Daniel W. Marmon and his partner, a fellow named Nordyke, began manufacturing...
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...
The year is 1950 and life is wonderful. American businesses are growing at an unprecedented rate, the middle class is...
VR: When did you first become interested in cars? RM: My earliest memory is being in front of my house,...
No story of Tracta automobiles can be separated from the story of Jean-Albert Gregoire. Together with his partner and friend, Pierre Fenaille, they developed the first constant velocity joint under the name Tracta. This strong CV joint was easy to manufacture and made mass production of front-wheel-drive cars possible. The...
In anyone’s language the 1924 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost of Rex Vincent is an imposing motor car. Yes, at over 17-feet...
It appears that the collector car hobby has gone mad. I witnessed this with my very own eyes in Monterey...
VR: So how did you first come to cars? I assume it was probably at a fairly young age? KB: It was at a fairly young age. Slot cars were the beginning of this, but I grew up in Manhattan so I envied kids in more suburban or rural environs...
Gary Dearn started work for British Rail and now is the Club Secretary for the Ferrari Owner’s Club of Great...
“Look at this!” Tracy shouted across the house. My wife’s swim coach voice was too enthusiastic to tarry, so I...
What if Chevrolet offered a 2+2 Corvette? There was once a British 2+2, with a Corvette engine that might have joined Corvettes in Chevy showrooms. It caught the attention of Zora Arkus Duntov, “father” of the Corvette, and Ed Cole, President of General Motors. Cole was impressed enough that he...
Photo: David Gooley I know the engine is running only when I rev it. I pull the gearshift lever into...
The Hudson Terraplane grille is among the most attractive of all time. In the June 2012 issue of Vintage Roadcar,...
Michael Furman spoke with our J. Michael Hemsley about his life, his career and the cars that move him. Michael Furman often attends the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, and that’s where Vintage Roadcar caught up with him. Furman is one of the most prolific, well respected automotive studio photographers in...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Gabriel Voisin was an amazing man. Born in France in 1880, he built a four-wheeled automobile...
Shunned, snubbed and overlooked, Ferrari’s 250 GT/E coupe has been a languishing classic waiting to happen for most of its...
VR: How does an accomplished neurosurgeon become such an accomplished car guy? FS: Both of those things relate to my Dad, and my relationship with my Dad. He was a general practitioner who worked his way through medical school fixing cars. When I was a boy, we would go on...
