In 1952, a young, 20-year-old technician in Italy watched in astonishment as Bugatti tragically ceased production in Molsheim, France. Three...
Following on from the success of last year’s edition, this year’s Cavallino Classic Middle East on November 18-20 was also...
Hyundai Motor Company has announced it will work with Italian design firm GFG Style, notably its father and son founders Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro, to rebuild the influential 1974 Pony Coupe Concept that young Giorgetto created for Hyundai’s debut at the 1974 Turin Motor Show. Hyundai Motor announced the plan...
Carroll Shelby had a thing for speed. First, it was airplanes. During the war, Shelby flew everything from a Beechcraft...
In 1945, the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB, began design work on a prototype road car with the intention that...
I’ve been revisiting a series of cars recently from the period of my youth. There’s something to be said about the cars we saw everyday while young. Even if they were part of our general visual landscape some of them captivated us in a strangely endearing way. The Saab 900...
A frenzy of uncorked Mini Coopers, followed by a gaggle of vintage MGs, Triumphs and other assorted vintage sports racers...
Choosing a name for a new Rolls-Royce motor car is a crucial, highly considered and painstaking process, in which the...
It’s 1972, and Aston Martin is undergoing one of its periodic seismic changes. Sir David Brown, the talented industrialist who steered the business through some of its most memorable 20th Century moments, has sold the firm to a new owner, Company Developments Ltd, and a fresh spirit of optimism takes...
We purchased a 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230 SL in the early 1980s. The car came out of Dekalb, Georgia, so it...
The 1,000th Mercedes-Benz 300 SL “Gullwing” rolls off the production line, in the Sindelfingen plant, in December 1955, a little...
Since the beginning of its history in 1963, Automobili Lamborghini has always stood out as a highly innovative and pioneering company. This is all thanks primarily to a talented series of engineers, production technicians, and innovators who utilized their expertise and visionary spirit to shape the brand of the Bull...
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars marks the centenary of the legendary 20 H.P., known to the world simply as the ‘Twenty’, launched...
“100 miles per hour speed with 100 percent comfort and docility.” This proclamation was made in an advertisement that appeared...
Auto Union’s Wanderer brand constructed three, Ferdinand Porsche designed, aluminum-bodied W25K roadsters for the 1938 Liege-Rome-Liege rally. Equipped with inline, 6-cylinder alloy engines producing just 70 bhp, the team managed to capture the team prize in the 1939 event, just before the outbreak of WWII. All three examples were lost...
In 1962, Alfa Romeo came out with a new machine, the Giulia. It was actually a series of machines. There...
In the mid 1990s, I had the pleasure of spending the day with Carroll Shelby. After walking through his LA...
Debuted at the 1968 New York Auto Show, the Astro II (eXperimental Project 880) was General Motors’ first, real foray into a mid-engined Corvette concept. Using a backbone frame housing a mid-mounted 427-cu.in. V8 engine, the Astro II came in nearly 300 pounds lighter than a standard Corvette and with...
Photo Gallery from the Aug. 20, 2022, Concorso Italiano, in Monterey, California....
Just after midnight, in February 1973, there was a battle being waged on a Daytona Beach, Florida race track. All...
A unique Duesenberg reprised its early role as Concours winner by taking the top prize at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. This year, 40 classic cars from 18 countries and 33 states pulled onto the competition field of the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, and the car named Best of Show...
Bonnie Menapace (nee Hemsley – yes, she’s my daughter) got her first Alfa for her 16th birthday. It was a...
The Steelers Wheel 1973 pop tune “Stuck in the Middle with You” could very well have been the theme song...
Aston Martin has chosen the 2022 Monterey Car Week to unveil the spectacular DBR22 for the first time: A V12-engined, two-seater coach-built design concept, celebrating the marque’s extraordinary bloodline of open-cockpit sports racers. The creation of the DBR22 design concept, unveiled in California, is the latest in a long line...
Singer-songwriter Carol Connors once bet Carroll Shelby that if she wrote him a hit song, he’d give her a Cobra....
One of three experimental aerodynamic prototypes built for the 1940 war-affected Mille Miglia, this unique 328 was designed by Wunibald...
On July 21, top automotive executives and VIPs gathered at The Icon, on the Detroit waterfront, to celebrate the induction into the Automotive Hall of Fame of a diverse group of automotive and mobility pioneers from around the globe, including the legendary Ferruccio Lamborghini. Ferruccio Lamborghini was not only instrumental...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph....
The names of the great marques roll off the tongue like poetry—Porsche, Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce and, of course, Ferrari....
The end of the century was a big deal. Now that more than two decades have passed, it’s quaint to look back on that pending doom where predictions of digital Armageddon would plague the world as computer clocks poised on the millennium. Of course, nothing catastrophic happened in the digital...
