The internal combustion engine (ICE) was not the only, nor the default, means of propulsion for early motor cars at...
The original Viper was dreamed up as a modern-day Shelby Cobra, a perfect rebound from the malaise era and Lee...
The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss made its debut at the 2009 North American International Auto Show, representing a lightweight...
Born in England, raised in Hollywood. We are not speaking of a famous movie actor, but of a very special...
The Alfa Romeo museum will reopen to the public on June 24 , the day on which the brand will celebrate its 110th anniversary. The festivities for the Biscione’s anniversary will take place in the museum at Arese and will continue across the weekend. The museum has a very special...
Ford Motor Company developed the Ford GT to commemorate their 100th anniversary. The GT40 Concept they unveiled at the 2002 North American International Auto...
Robert Opron passed away last month, tragically from complications due to Covid 19. His body of work would certainly warrant...
Colin Chapman began building and racing his own cars in the late 1940s. Over the next 10 years, his Lotus racing cars enjoyed tremendous on-track success, which precipitated increased orders and significant scaling up of his then small cottage business. By the late 1950s, Chapman’s business had grown to the...
What is art? A shape, a form, an abstract collection of ideas, an image created by man to invoke thought,...
The Austin Seven motor car celebrates its 90th birthday this year and the occasion is being marked by a major event organized by the 750 Motor Club at Beaulieu, in the UK. Austin Sevens were built between 1922 and 1939. Today over 8,000 are thought to still exist and hundreds...
With concours events becoming increasingly popular and frequent, organizers of high profile events are finding it more difficult to source...
NEC Birmingham, UK November 13-15 Healey Westland. Marcos 1800GT. Morgan Super Aero. Futuristic Vauxhall SRV. Become a Member &...
Alastair Caldwell, team manager at McLaren during the James Hunt era, won the inaugural Marrakech Express Rally in April, along with co-driver Hayden Burvill in one of 16 Citroen 2CVs. All cars were identically prepared and selected at random, to ensure that the event reflected the skill of the driver...
Billed as the United Kingdom’s answer to Pebble Beach, a display of historic motor cars from around the world will...
For some in the automotive world, apparently cheating is a core value From the first day we start kindergarten, we...
Rotary-powered Mazdas have been around since the 1960s, but not all of them ended up etched in the collective unconscious like the FD generation Mazda RX-7. In production from 1992 to 2002, this RX-7 was by far the most advanced roadgoing sports car Mazda created and arguably the most beautiful...
In hindsight, I’m sure Alfa Romeo is very happy that Expo ’67 was based in Montreal. If the exposition was...
This is my 50th article for Vintage Road & Racecar. I didn’t realize it until my editor sent me a thank...
At the end of September, I spent a week in a RSR Project 911 driving from Colorado to California and ending up at Rennsport Reunion VI.You would think I would have had enough of Porsches for a while.Wrong!Especially, when I got a chance to spend some quality time with a...
Noted car and airplane collector General William Lyon passed away on May 22, at the age of 97. General Lyon,...
Singer-songwriter Carol Connors once bet Carroll Shelby that if she wrote him a hit song, he’d give her a Cobra. Historian Bob Walker untangles the complicated tale of the 289 Cobra that Shelby gave her to honor that bet. The original engine installed in CSX 2067 was reported by the...
A unique Duesenberg reprised its early role as Concours winner by taking the top prize at the Pebble Beach Concours...
Unveiled at the 2011 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este in Italy, the V12 Zagato was a special edition model created to...
These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring the use of turbo technology with their racecars in the late ’60s and by ’72 they were developing a turbocharged 911. Originally, they were doing this to comply with homologation...
GTO Accessories If you’re not happy just driving your Ferrari, or if you don’t own a Ferrari, have you ever...
Autodromo Stelvio Sunglasses Taking its name from one of the most storied driving roads in Europe, Autodromo’s new Stelvio sunglasses...
• The Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance honored Carroll Shelby for his racing contributions and Edsel Ford for his involvement in the family business with Lifetime Achievement Awards at a gala dinner held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club on February 25, 2012. (FL) • Proof that real auction action...
