Located adjacent to Charlotte Motor Speedway and Hendrick Motorsports, the Ten Tenths Motor Club is a new joint venture combining...
Before the ad offering it for sale was published in February 1982, ALP 598 was mine. “One of the prettiest...
Ten reasons you don’t want to miss the 2024 edition of the Velocity Invitational: Global Time Attack Eight cars will hit the track in a Global Time Attack class throughout the weekend as these high-horsepower machines compete to set new track and class records. In addition to entries in the...
If I were to ask you to name an innovative, Italian sports car manufacturer, chances are good you would instinctively...
The Studebaker Corporation built some significant and beautiful vehicles during its more than a century in business. Their horse drawn...
What is art? A shape, a form, an abstract collection of ideas, an image created by man to invoke thought, reflection, passion, pleasure or even shock? In automotive terms, art is defined by a car’s styling. Some have referred to a car’s advanced or elaborate engineering aspects as a mechanical...
In May 1968, my former wife and I traveled by train, ferry and again by train from Pirmasens, Germany, to...
Throughout history, French manufacturers have created some of the most unusual automotive designs ever made. Most will agree that many...
Joe Ballengee was driving his ’65 Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato through the Santa Fe Arts District, during the Santa Fe Concorso’s Mountain Tour, when a woman at the curb, shouted, “WHAT ON EARTH?” A more knowledgeable car person, upon seeing a photo of the Lancia, commented that it was “rare...
Background Following the October 1960 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix at Riverside, California, successful Texan racer Jim Hall had a...
Background By the late 1950s, sports racing cars were becoming increasingly sophisticated, transitioning from traditional front-engine production-based cars to a...
Motoring enthusiasts from around the world will congregate on California’s Monterey Peninsula next week for a glorious display of engineering and automotive elegance. The revelry will begin with the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion from Wednesday 14–Saturday 17 August, with the event marking the 50th anniversary of historic racing at WeatherTech...
We open the smallish front doors, typical of open cars of the 1920s, and climb in. Chris Kidd pulls down...
Soon after the Ferrari 330 GTC’s unveiling at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show, Ferrari introduced a companion Spider variant: the...
For those looking to be truly amazed by the evolution of the automobile, it’s time to plan a trip to Southern California. The Petersen Automotive Museum is launching four new exhibits this August, marking its largest simultaneous exhibit launch to date. Each exhibit showcases a range of automotive innovations, from...
1958 DeSoto Adventurer The 1950s were a halcyon period for American car manufacturing. After the deprivation of the war years,...
“Bella figura” is Italian for “beautiful figure.” Winston Goodfellow uses the phrase in the title of the section of his...
Sensational French shapes and racing pedigree are part of what make Talbot-Lago automobiles exotic, beautiful, rare and sought after. Few cars are more exotic or interesting than the Talbot-Lago Grand Sport.The roots of the Talbot-Lago company can be traced back to the 1890s, in Suresnes, France, where Alexandre Darracq began...
The Ford Bronco is the product of legendary talent, from the teams who won the Baja 1000 to the collectors...
While generally held in September (season finale), this year’s INDYCAR Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey was moved to June. With...
Background The recently held “Dare to Dream” auction in Toronto, Canada, represented a wide variety of automotive milestones, specifically for European Sportscars. Aptly described on Sotheby’s website, “They represent what could be—what will be in our eyes, the greatest.” Collector Miles Nadal It’s always inciteful to know a little about...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley After he had finished the restoration of his 1936 Stout Scarab, Ron Schneider took it to...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley When you have the only one ever built, you might have trouble convincing people that it...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in the early 1970s, would be brought about by the “economy car.” Perhaps even more interesting, and less well known, is the fact that the first car to officially enter this...
Mad Max meets Burning Man A little over two decades ago, a bunch of off-roading enthusiasts decided to create the...
The 275 GTB occupies a very rarified space in the pantheon of Ferrari road car history. It sits at an...
Continuing the legacy of the groundbreaking 550 Maranello, the 575M boasts an enhanced version of the original 550’s V12 engine which now produces 508 horsepower. Enjoy the beautiful sound of its V12 engine as it tears up the streets of Rotterdam in Netherlands at night! ...
Starting as a project aimed at developing a high-performance off-road vehicle for military use, the final model slated to go...
The introduction of the Sting Ray in 1963 sent shockwaves through the North American sports car market, causing a sensation...
Introduced in late 1954, the Porsche 356 A Speedster continued as a stripped-down, affordable, sports-oriented convertible within the 356 A generation. Featuring a removable cut-down windshield, a lightweight detachable top, and side curtains instead of roll-up windows found in the 356 A Cabriolet, the Speedster embodied simplicity. Initially powered by...
