1955 Citroën Traction Avant Light 15 The UK’s sales brochure from the Slough manufacturers of then Citroën Traction Avant cars...
1964 Imperial Crown Coupe It was clear that this would be the start of something big just by opening the...
1958 DKW Monza There are many unusual and interesting cars in the Lane Motor Museum. Seldom is there a visitor who knows the names of all the cars or has even heard of all of them. One company that is familiar to some is DKW, but the 1958 Monza is...
There were many interesting and familiar cars parked at the 2018 Hillsborough Concours d’Elegance. Ferraris, Packards, Jaguars and some vintage...
A frenzy of uncorked Mini Coopers, followed by a gaggle of vintage MGs, Triumphs and other assorted vintage sports racers...
1949 Kurtis Sports Car [dropcap]F[/dropcap]rank Kurtis built racecars. He built many of the cars entered in the Indy 500 from the 1940s into the 1960s. Kurtis either built or influenced the design of every Indy 500 winner from 1950 to 1964. He was an incredible racecar builder, but he also...
I was out walking the other day, and tripped on a grate in the pavement and fell hard… down hill....
David Owen, in a 1975 article for Automobile Quarterly, Volume XIII Number 2, commented that, “If God had meant us...
The MGA should have happened several years before it did. The story of why it didn’t and how it came to be is one of the goals of this profile. Another goal is to introduce you to two very nice examples of the MGA line. It’s your choice which you...
Like so many early automobile manufacturers, the Auburn Automobile Company started out as an evolution of carriage making. Charles Eckhart...
Sensational French shapes and racing pedigree are part of what make Talbot-Lago automobiles exotic, beautiful, rare and sought after. Few...
Chatting with Barry Alan Twitchell about his Porsche 993, he remembered that during a dinner in Switzerland, the owner of a Porsche dealership in Zurich had said to him, “Never sell the 993.” Twitchell turned to his teenage daughter, Sydney, and said: “When I can’t drive this car anymore, it...
No story of Tracta automobiles can be separated from the story of Jean-Albert Gregoire. Together with his partner and friend,...
Talbot-Lago, the name rolls off your tongue like a dew drop rolls off a leaf, deliberate but elegant. The cars...
“You’ve got to see this car!” said Robert Escalante, internationally known restorer of classic Packard automobiles. And he wouldn’t have called me unless he had found something truly extraordinary, because both of us have seen any number of spectacular classic Packards and have restored show-winning examples ourselves. But this metallic...
Billed as “The Aristocrat of the Automobiles,” the vehicles produced by the Fabbrica Automobili Isotta Fraschini were owned by some...
1952 Lancia Aurelia B50Photo: Peter Collins On a rare sunny day in late spring, on empty roads in Wiltshire, this...
When Jim Gehkre returned from his tour in Vietnam, in January of 1970, the first thing he needed was a set of wheels. He sold his ’57 Chrysler New Yorker just before he left to serve his country. Being a Mopar man, he went to the local Dodge dealer and...
Photographer Dave Gooley and I drove over to Gus’ Barbeque in Paramount, California, – a diner devoted exclusively to meat...
1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria I had seen, and worked on, a lot of mid-1950s Fords over the years, so I...
Tony Valadez’ elegant 1939 Pontiac convertible is everything later Pontiac muscle cars are not. The later cars were brash, flashy and fast. Tony’s vintage Pontiac is none of these things. Instead it is handsome and understated. It is also roomy, comfortable, smooth, quiet, durable and dependable. And when I say...
Photo: Casey Annis It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its...
Photo: Steve Oom I had heard about them for years, but had never seen one in the metal. Sure, actually...
When I moved to Tennessee a few years ago, one of the first things I did was look for a British car club. I have a split personality when it comes to cars – I prefer Italian and British automobiles. The club I found, Southern British Car Club (SBCC) is...
In order to understand the Pegaso story, it’s first necessary to understand the man behind the car and the tumultuous...
Years ago, a friend and I were in an old Dodge plumber’s van on our way to the Pebble Beach...
Photo: Peter Collins Things were bad. There had been difficulties before for Lancia, but on both occasions the good guys had ridden over the hill to save the damsel in distress in the nick of time. Back in 1955 Gianni Lancia had had to say goodbye to his eponymous company....
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war...
In the 1940s, Chrysler Corporation’s Dodge division had a reputation for building solid, dependable, conservatively styled cars. That was fine,...
An amazing thing happened in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the fall of 2019. A couple of automobile enthusiasts proposed the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival and convinced the city to allow it to happen. There was a time trial, rally, and concours. It was to be an annual event, but Covid-19 interfered and...
