During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.Photo: David Gooley Artists and artisans have called Italy home...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch the eye of the consumer, he believed a design had to be the “most advanced,” but too advanced could mean failure, since the design might not be widely accepted. There...
The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era. The French initiated the Art Deco movement in 1924 with the Paris exposition of the industrial and decorative arts, so it is no surprise that some of the automobiles subsequently...
When Enzo Ferrari began building cars under his own name in 1947 he built racecars, satisfying a pent up desire...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century was not a great time for the Farina family to be bringing up eleven children in rural Italy. The tenth was christened Battista, and with all these mouths to feed...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders and a separate bonnet, as opposed to the standard DB2’s forward-hinged front end. Photo: Kevin Kay Restorations After World War II, many of the world’s auto manufacturers returned to car production...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at...
Circa-1920s outside the London home of Rolls-Royce at 15 Conduit Street.Photo: Courtesy of Rolls-Royce On March 27, 1863, Frederick Henry...
Of the major Western automobile manufacturing nations, England may have been the most staid when it came to streamlining and the Art Deco style. Possibly it was their nature for British designers to be more conservative than the stylists on the Continent or even in the United States. The result...
1953 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama Show Car. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on...
Bill Miller in his magnificent Miller V12 Packard. Bill Miller was a genius. You hear this term used a lot,...
The only other Lemans convertible that still exists was returned to the factory in 1959 and restyled by Harley Earl to include more prominent fins and quad headlights, among other more subtle changes.Photo: GM Media Archive The 2003 Cadillac Sixteen was a tribute to the 16-cylinder Caddies of the ’30s....
This right-hand-drive 250 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta was owned by British fashion model and socialite Nina Dyer when she married...
Propellers proved to be an important development in the history of transportation. On ships, once steam power was mastered, propellers...
Local Bahamian physician Pablo de Souza attacks the Fort Charlotte hillclimb in his 427 Cobra replica.Photo: Casey Annis bahamas speed week REVIVAL 2013 Over the past 10-20 years, the collector car community has seen a number of “destination events” spring up. Whether a road race, a rally, a concours or...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is...
1899 Columbia Elec Brougham. Today the name Town Car is almost exclusively associated with Lincoln, but that was by no...
The OSCA 1600 GT Zagato is perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood GT cars of the post- war era. Signaling a close to the Maserati Brothers dynasty and remaining in the shadow of the legendary OSCA MT-4 (overall winner at Sebring in 1954), the 1600 GT emerged with...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was 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 consulting engineer with Diatto. In this position, Maserati began developing racing cars for Diatto, including a new 2-liter, supercharged, inline, 8-cylinder Grand Prix machine for the 1925 season. Unfortunately, Diatto...
Shunned, snubbed and overlooked, Ferrari’s 250 GT/E coupe has been a languishing classic waiting to happen for most of its...
The Hudson Terraplane grille is among the most attractive of all time. In the June 2012 issue of Vintage Roadcar,...
“Look at this!” Tracy shouted across the house. My wife’s swim coach voice was too enthusiastic to tarry, so I sprinted to the dining table to see her holding a battered, pulp classified tabloid. She held it up with an index finger firmly on a single ad at the top...