The 2012 Santa Fe Concorso, a gathering of more than 100 rare and exotic cars and motorcycles, will take place...
• The highly acclaimed Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance, which has been held the last week of February for the past...
The story of the production model 300 SL really picks up where our story about the W194 Le Mans racecar ends. After a highly successful 1952 racing season where the W194 “Gullwing” won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Carrera Panamericana, the entire sports car program was closed,...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
As you’ll see, throughout both sides of the magazine, this month we recognize and celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s SL line of sports cars. Born in 1952, as a way of returning Mercedes-Benz back to international motorsport, the SL line of cars has continually evolved, every year since. While...
Nearly a decade after it had stunned the world with the original 300 SL, Mercedes-Benz faced the daunting task of...
2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Photo: Mercedes-Benz 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 While the 300 SL of the 1950s was unquestioningly a sports car...
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In the world of classic cars, we’ve grown accustomed to the fact that if you want to restore a historic...
Italy and the world lost one of the most accomplished stylists of all time in early July, when Sergio Pininfarina...
Classic Motorcar Auctions LLC will hold their 3rd annual Grande Salon Auction Sept. 15-16, 2012 during the Glenmoor Gathering event at the historic Glenmoor Country Club in Canton, Ohio. The Grande Salon Auction will feature more than 150 antique, classic and sports cars as well as various automotive memorabilia up...
In celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the coming London Olympics, Rodeo Drive became decidedly British on June 17,...
Leading the exceptional roster of “Rennsport” Porsches recently consigned to RM’s August 17–18, Monterey sale is an extraordinary, well-documented 1971...
Gooding & Company has announced that it will present the impressive Ferrari collection of Sherman M. Wolf at its Pebble Beach Auctions on August 18 & 19. The renowned Sherman M. Wolf Collection is comprised of a rare, alloy-bodied 1960 Ferrari 250 GT LWB California Spider Competizione, a 1953 Ferrari...
This past July, Britain’s Beaulieu could have been mistaken for one of its French counterparts, as around 200 French vehicles...
For the 12th year, Paris’s Parc des Expositions at Le Bourget, will play host on October 13–14, to Automédon, an...
The classic car community lost one of its great champions on July 3, when Martin Swig passed away as a result of a stroke. He was 78. A lifetime native of the San Francisco Bay area, Swig went to work for European Motors—selling Alfa Romeos and Fiats—after graduating from Stanford...
Celebrating its 20th year, the Palos Verdes Concours d’Elegance, to be held September 16, will feature classic French coachwork with...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The...
Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer, which has been in the same family ownership from new. It is expected to sell for more than £1.5m at Bonhams’ Goowood Revival sale on September 15. The legendary “Kompressor”...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog,...
Like so many early automobile manufacturers, the Auburn Automobile Company started out as an evolution of carriage making. Charles Eckhart...
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war effort, to the manufacture of racing cars. Prior to the war, Ferrari had served as racing director for Alfa Romeo’s racing efforts, and as such, had been involved in the...
