It appears that the collector car hobby has gone mad. I witnessed this with my very own eyes in Monterey...
The year is 1950 and life is wonderful. American businesses are growing at an unprecedented rate, the middle class is...
It began in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851 when Daniel W. Marmon and his partner, a fellow named Nordyke, began manufacturing millstones. They were so successful that Richmond wasn’t big enough for their company, so they moved what had become the Nordyke and Marmon Company to Indianapolis in 1876. During the...
The 1937 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Sedan Exemplifies Buick’s Grand Legacy Ford market researchers, in the mid-1950s, sampled new car buyers...
Although better known for its style than its achievements on the track, the Moretti 750 Gran Sport Berlinetta is commanding...
“Ferraris are meant to be driven.” It’s a rallying cry that has been echoing around the Ferrari community for decades, championed by Pebble Beach Chief Judge Emeritus and Ferrari fan, Ed Gilbertson. And why not? What better reason for buying, owning and caring for a great classic Ferrari than to...
Among the world’s most exotic and mysterious motor cars, the big Tatras of the 1930s attract rumor and controversy. Karl...
1922 Duesenberg More words have been written about Duesenberg per “car”-pita than any other marque in the history of the...
5 Days, 60 Vintage Cars, 1,000 Miles and 3,000 Years of History – An Amazing Journey Through the Remarkable and Diverse Culture, Climate and Terrain of Israel. If vintage car tours are your bag and you’re looking for the next great and different one, I’m afraid you just missed it,...
It is a sobering thought that Lamborghinis have only been in production for 50 years and yet, in that relatively...
Although by 1972 Ferrari had been building race and road cars for 25 years and had turned out well over...
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,...
Generation 7, Littler Birds:1977-1979 This next generation of Thunderbirds resulted from conditions outside the company’s control. Lee Iacocca was in...
In the heady, but risky, days of British specialist sports car manufacture in the late 1950s, the intrepid characters involved...
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....
Pierce-Arrow’s Refusal to Sacrifice Quality to Save the Company There is something about the archer on the hood of a...
The success of the first Myanmar Burma Road Classic, in 2014, made this second edition even more special. The idea...
The Standard Motor Company is one of the largest motor companies that so few have ever heard of. It grew from a tiny workshop in Coventry to become one of the biggest car manufacturing companies in the UK, employing some 11,000 people at its peak. Over its 60-year existence the...
Journey From Sydney to Melbourne to Tasmania in a Classic Jaguar Many years back I worked as a jackaroo, which...
I relate this story not to recite BMW history, but to talk about how this maker of fine performance sedans,...
1939 Balilla 1100 Fiat’s Step into the Future One of the problems with owning a car like none other is figuring out its history—where it came from, who built it and why they built it. There are plenty of Fiat Balillas around, but the one Jeff Lane, founder of the...
The Quest for Aerodynamics One day, after learning that I own four Alfa Romeos, a young man asked me, “Why...
The Renaissance of a British Carmaker Businessman Martyn Corfield is no stranger to challenges in the fields of motoring and...
1952 Allard J2X At a sports and exotic car show a while ago, I was feasting my eyes on sculpted classic Ferraris and Maseratis when the ground began to tremble under my feet. As the rumbling got more insistent, I instinctively looked for cover. It was then that I noticed...
In my 1958 children’s I-Spy Book of Motor-Cars, such mundane and common models(!) as Graber-bodied Alvis and Jaguar XK150s warranted...
Rodney Loredo’s recent book ‘A Darracq Called Genevieve – the story of veteran motoring’s most famous car’ traces his life...
Cambodia-Thailand-Myanmar Destination Rally just finished a fantastic run throughout Southeast Asia on December 1 and spices were the theme for this year’s event. As we drove along some of the most scenic areas of the three countries, participants could see, smell and, above all, taste the different spices. Some of...
1913 Cadillac Roadster By 1913, automotive advancements solidified the automobile’s place in the future. Gone were the barbershop debates about...
1935 MG Airline Coupé Every once in a while an incredible opportunity falls in your lap. A few months ago,...
For the enthusiast, it is a good thing to be able to say that your car is based on a racing car (or that it has been successfully raced), so right from the beginning the ’63 Sting Ray was off to a good start. It was also far and away...