Today, the ethnic cleansing of the petrol-fueled engine continues at a rapid pace and recently took another step toward ultimate...
The Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione auction staged by RM Sotheby’s in the marque’s hometown of Maranello on September 9...
• The 27th edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2000 will be held from April 23 to 28, 2018. Every year organizer Peter Auto makes it a point of honor to highlight a manufacturer or a type of car that has been involved in the history of the Tour de...
It is always interesting to learn why people enjoy certain types of cars. I’m half English and half Italian, and...
How one car changed the culture of Japan and the mindset of America, one sports car at a time With...
Lime Rock Park Historic Festival 35 Presented by the Prestige Family of Fine Cars remains a pilgrimage for motoring enthusiasts...
The 67th Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will take place Sunday, August 20, 2017, and the grounds of the Lodge at Pebble Beach, and the organizers have announced the several special marques and categories that will be celebrated for their contributions to the automotive world. Those honored groupings include Isotta Fraschini,...
Late in November in Paris, more than 100 historic automobiles gathered in the early morning chill at Polo de Paris,...
St. Petersburg, Florida • April 2, 2017 The 1969 Porsche 911S of Michael Owen (father and son-owned for 44 years!...
St. Michaels Concours d’Elegance Chairman Luke L. Phipps has announced that the Concours, presented by August Classics, will once again be held on the grounds of the Inn at Perry Cabin in St. Michaels, Maryland, on September 22-24, 2017. The announcement marks a return by the event to the original...
Leake Auction Company kicked off its 45th year of auctions in Oklahoma City, February 24, 25 and 26 with a...
Ant Anstead: Host–Wheeler Dealer, Restorer Ant Anstead has had a passion for cars for most of his life. However, his first job was “on the beat” as a police officer. During his mid-20s he changed direction and made his hobby his job—a man in a sweet shop you may say....
The automotive prophets predicted the coming end times…wish I bought the destroyer of the classic car world when I had...
Peter Bourassa is the Publisher of the weekly MMR Community Newsletter and the online Motorsports Marketing Resources Directory (www.MMRsite.com) a resource for sports cars enthusiasts that lists more than 3,000 vetted suppliers of 350 different goods and services. He is also a car guy. Peter Bourassa VR: Let’s start from...
Henry Ford was truly one of a kind: egotistical yet compassionate; rich yet thrifty; genius yet ignorant. No man— industrialist,...
Whether you love Anglias and Cortinas, lust after Capris and Pumas, or just have a thing for Focuses and Mondeos, a showing of more than 1,500 Ford-badged vehicles is expected for Beaulieu’s “Simply Ford” outing on Sunday April 30. Simply Ford is one of eight “Simply” rallies dedicated to a...
Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne October 21-23, 2016 Ninety Years of Touring Superleggera brought together some stunning Alfa Romeos Tour Classica...
Mecum Auctions’ inaugural Los Angeles classic and collector-car auction realized more than $9.3 million in sales in late February. Despite...
David Owen, in a 1975 article for Automobile Quarterly, Volume XIII Number 2, commented that, “If God had meant us...
The Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance celebrated 66 years of charitable giving by distributing more than $1.7 million in donations from the 2016 Concours to local charitable organizations at its charity luncheon in early December. Since 2006 alone, annual donations from the concours have averaged $1.4 million annually, and nearing the...
Sothern Californian has long been a hotbed of the classic car community, and now one of the UK’s most successful...
A Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost, purchased new by famed billionaire Howard Hughes during The Roaring Twenties, captured Best of Show honors at the fifth anniversary Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance at Pinehurst Resort last Saturday (above, photo courtesy of Pinehurst Concours). The Pinehurst Concours was just the second time the tan-bodied 1925...