Photo: Ian Welsh Heavy rain, corrugated iron roof and a cup of tea! You really can’t get more Australian than...
Photo: Steve Oom With just over 600 produced between 1954 and 1962 it can t be said that the Jensen...
What is it about a Stradale? Ask most Alfisti what Alfa they’d most like to have in their garage, and a significant percentage will say a Tipo 33 Stradale. I’ll admit, I’m odd, since my choice would be a Giulia TI Super, but the Stradale is a close second even...
1983 Ferrari 512 BBi When word gets out that a particular car will be profiled, lots of comments, mostly unsolicited,...
The aristocracy of automobile marques in the days before the Great Depression was comprised almost exclusively of products from European...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began offering Grand Touring cars in the 1950s. For founders Enzo Ferrari and the Maserati brothers, racing was their focus and their passion. Yet, in a post-war world screaming for sports...
We had spent the previous evening at Justin Marshall and his wife Shirley’s spectacular hilltop home overlooking their winery in...
Today, the words failure and BMW are an anathema: the Munich company is a model of success. But, it wasn’t...
Photo: Casey Annis History is a curious thing, we tend to think of it as fixed and absolute, when in fact, like most things in life, it is dynamic, it can change. Or sometimes, like in grade school, we learn about a piece of history at a very superficial level,...
The Bugatti 57SC has long been coveted by automotive historians and enthusiasts as one of the ultimate expressions of pre-war...
In September 2022, I travelled to Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountains for Okteenerfest. The annual gathering of Porsche...
1964 Imperial Crown Coupe It was clear that this would be the start of something big just by opening the door on Wendy and Bob Walker’s 1964 Imperial Crown Coupe. And I mean big. The long, heavy door is just one part of a long, heavy car—longer and heavier than...
1949 MG Y Type MG equals sports cars! Sports cars equal MG! Horse and carriage! Cup and saucer! Top hat...
“100 miles per hour speed with 100 percent comfort and docility.” This proclamation was made in an advertisement that appeared...
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....
About 30 years ago, BMW shocked the automotive world by introducing a sexy and technically unique 2 place, drop-top sports...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great...
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V W136 roadster that was custom built in Germany for export to Britain. This last detail is evident because it is right-hand drive, and is equipped with British lighting and signal...
Like so many early automobile manufacturers, the Auburn Automobile Company started out as an evolution of carriage making. Charles Eckhart...
1990 Ferrari F40 It has been 30 years since the last car ordered by Enzo Ferrari reached its first owners....
Toyota 2000 GT In the world of collectable vintage sports cars, well-known names come to mind: Ferrari, Porsche, Jaguar, and many others originating from the European continent, plus a few American sports cars in the mix, like the Corvette and Cobra, but rarely any cars from the Island of Japan. The...
Photo: Mike Jiggle If I was able to use only two words to describe my experience of driving the elegant...
1928 3-liter Invicta LC197 Many will know the Invicta story, one of the many projects spearheaded by Noel Macklin. Born...
Charles Kettering, one time head of research at General Motors, once said: “People are very open-minded about new things – so long as they are exactly like the old ones.” Studebaker tried to prove him wrong but lacked the capacity to make an impression. Then came the Mustang. Ford’s Pony...
1958 DeSoto Adventurer The 1950s were a halcyon period for American car manufacturing. After the deprivation of the war years,...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley After he had finished the restoration of his 1936 Stout Scarab, Ron Schneider took it to...
With a shiver of trepidation, I slip behind the wheel of the museum’s grand 1936 Packard phaeton Standard Eight parade car. I’m nervous because its original owner would have had me shot— if I were lucky —for getting anywhere near it. You see, Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, more commonly known...
1930 Austin Seven “Chummy ” The Austin Motor Company was in trouble. The “War to End All Wars” had been...
1977 Triumph Stag When the new Triumph Stag was announced in the UK it was welcomed as a significant addition...
Photo: Steve Oom I had heard about them for years, but had never seen one in the metal. Sure, actually seeing a front-wheel-drive Alvis was not at the forefront of my mind, but in that same mind the car had taken on a sort of legendary status. I had read...
