“100 miles per hour speed with 100 percent comfort and docility.” This proclamation was made in an advertisement that appeared...
The Heritage Hub, a 15,000 m2 museum space housing the historic collections of Stellantis Group brands Abarth, Fiat and Lancia, is about...
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...
Returning again to King Henry Vlll’s favored riverside palace of Hampton Court, the 2022 Concours of Elegance (Sept. 2–4) marked its 10th anniversary of always beeing staged at a Royal palace. Hampton Court has for the past five years been the concours’ favored palace with the Fountain Gardens proving a...
A 1956 Ferrari 250 GT TdF Berlinetta by Zagato has been awarded Best of Show at this year’s Salon Privé...
Debuted at the 1968 New York Auto Show, the Astro II (eXperimental Project 880) was General Motors’ first, real foray...
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...
Bonnie Menapace (nee Hemsley – yes, she’s my daughter) got her first Alfa for her 16th birthday. It was a used, yellow 1979 Alfa Spider Veloce, which she still has. Andy Menapace got to share that Alfa Spider when he married Bonnie, and he got to learn how to change...
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,...
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...
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...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph. There first automobile was manufactured in 1923, it was the Triumph 10/20. In 1928, the Triumph Super 7 was introduced, it would be their first mass produced car. They continued...
The names of the great marques roll off the tongue like poetry—Porsche, Jaguar, Maserati, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce and, of course, Ferrari....
At the heart of the City of London, over 80 rare and precious cars from around the world gathered in...
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...
In 2022, Lamborghini is celebrating the V-12: the legendary 12-cylinder engine that has powered its most iconic cars for almost...
1966 Pininfarina Ferrari 365P Berlinetta Speciale Designed by Pininfarina as a Ferrari concept car, the 365P Berlinetta Speciale utilized a revised chassis from one of Ferrari’s 365/P2 racing cars, including its Colombo-designed 4.4-liter, SOHC V-12 engine. Interestingly, in addition to carrying design cues from the 1965 Dino GT prototype, the...
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there...
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 burgers, whip up a giant pot of Dad’s Secret Chili, and get ready for an onslaught of eye-roll worthy puns. Whatever your family traditions, if you have kids, siblings, or...
The spectacular Mercedes-Benz 540K represented the zenith of pre-war accomplishments by the Stuttgart-based firm in the pre-war era. It is...
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 rage, a cartoon snippet called “The Simpsons” saw its debut, and Rap music was coming on strong. Staring at the screen of my bulky desktop computer, floppy disc at the...
