Ten reasons you don’t want to miss the 2024 edition of the Velocity Invitational: Global Time Attack Eight cars will...
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 vehicles, from Conestogas to hearses, were known for their quality and durability. The automobiles built with the Studebaker name on them ranged from buggy-like electrics to some of the prettiest...
What is art? A shape, a form, an abstract collection of ideas, an image created by man to invoke thought,...
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 of them had brilliant engineering, however the French approach to styling, especially in the mid-century era, is interesting to say the least. Weird, beautiful, ugly, strange, fantastic, modern, and eclectic...
Joe Ballengee was driving his ’65 Lancia Flavia Sport Zagato through the Santa Fe Arts District, during the Santa Fe...
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 new generation of highly specialized purpose-built mid-engine machines. Faced with the challenging task of designing an all-new sports car on a shoestring budget, Alfieri courageously created the last of the...
Motoring enthusiasts from around the world will congregate on California’s Monterey Peninsula next week for a glorious display of engineering...
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 330 GTS. The GTC and GTS were built on the same tubular chassis, which was very similar to that of the contemporary 275 GTB. In fact, all three cars featured...
For those looking to be truly amazed by the evolution of the automobile, it’s time to plan a trip to...
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 book, “Ferrari – Road and Racing,” on the 250 GT/L, aka Berlinetta Lusso. Preston Lerner, in his book “Speed Read – Ferrari,” says about the 250 GT/L, “The reason it’s...
Sensational French shapes and racing pedigree are part of what make Talbot-Lago automobiles exotic, beautiful, rare and sought after. Few...
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 over a third of the country suffering from a heat wave, the cool coastal weather on the Monterey peninsula was a welcome setting for this year’s open-wheel showdown. The “surgeon”...
Background The recently held “Dare to Dream” auction in Toronto, Canada, represented a wide variety of automotive milestones, specifically for...
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 is real. It’s a particular problem when what it looks like really isn’t what it is. That’s what Brian and Samantha Styles face every time they take their 1967 GT...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
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 important nexus where Ferrari road cars were evolving, becoming more sophisticated, no longer just racecars turned out for the street. Old techniques were giving way to new adaptations of racing-proven...
Continuing the legacy of the groundbreaking 550 Maranello, the 575M boasts an enhanced version of the original 550’s V12 engine...
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 that far surpassed expectations. The overwhelming success of the model prompted the St Louis factory to implement a second shift, yet the demand for these cars remained insatiable. Manufactured under...
Introduced in late 1954, the Porsche 356 A Speedster continued as a stripped-down, affordable, sports-oriented convertible within the 356 A...
The 512 M was launched in October 1994 at the Paris Salon as the ultimate and final Testarossa. It was also...
In 2004, BMW unveiled the BMW H2R concept car equipped with a 6.0-liter V12 engine that employed the clean-burning process of liquid-hydrogen combustion. See it in action as it goes up the hillclimb course at Goodwood....
