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...
In 1966, Lamborghini shook the automotive establishment when it mounted is powerful V12 engine transversally, in a rear-mid position, on...
1966 Pininfarina Ferrari 365P Berlinetta Speciale Designed by Pininfarina as a Ferrari concept car, the 365P Berlinetta Speciale utilized a...
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there was the one car that became an iconic ’80s machine, driven by a guy with a great mustache and a series of Hawian shirts. That was Tom Selleck as Thomas...
The Peninsula Hotels has announced its eight finalists for its preeminent honor, The Peninsula Classics 2021 Best of the Best...
It’s that time of year. When we celebrate that hallmark of Americana, Father’s Day. Get out the smoker, grill some...
The spectacular Mercedes-Benz 540K represented the zenith of pre-war accomplishments by the Stuttgart-based firm in the pre-war era. It is considered by many to be both a technical marvel and a styling masterpiece. An evolution of the brilliantly engineered 500K, whose independently suspended chassis it shared, the 540K was powered...
Bentley is celebrating 70 years since the start of production of the R-Type Continental – one of the most celebrated...
I graduated from Art Center College of Design in 1987. MTV was in full swing, Compact Disc players were the...
Joe Conzonire eases his 1903 Packard Model F Runabout out of his shop and pulls it into the sunlight. It is as dazzling and intricate as a tsarist Russian Fabergé egg. I behold a symphony of polished brass, lacquered wood, tufted leather and Jules Vern Victorian machinery. Its regal, opulent,...
A Carrozzeria Touring publicity photograph of the newly built BMW328 MM Coupe that would go on to finish 5th at...
Mazda Motor Corporation’s Museum, located in its Hiroshima headquarters, has undergone a full renovation. The museum showcases historic vehicles and...
Toyota has been around a long time. They know what they are doing, and they make more cars than any other manufacturer in the world. And while many of us in the car community still think of them as a relatively new company, their agility, market savvy, and attention to...