Long, long ago (50 years) in a city far, far away (Butte, Montana), I bought a racecar from Evel Knievel’s...
The 13th Traversée de Paris (Summer Crossing of Paris) will take place on Sunday August 30, bringing together 600 vehicles (cars,...
The tricyclecar, or trike, is a strange device in three wheels, at the midway between the motorbike and the car, its history goes back to the beginning of the 20th century. The dawn of the trike can be traced back to London in 1909, when Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan a...
The Sacramento Autorama, one of the world’s longest running indoor car shows, hosted over 500 world-class custom vehicles and handed...
In 1896, in Suresnes a western suburb of Paris, Alexandre Darracq started his business, A Darracg & Cie. His business...
This 1949 Delahaye 175 S, with flamboyant Saoutchik roadster coachwork, was originally custom built for Sir John Gaul and featured Saoutchik’s “Narval” nose, inspired by the protruding tusk of the Narwahl whale. From Gaul the Delahaye was next owned by the British bombshell actress Diana Dors....
Sensational French shapes and racing pedigree are part of what make Talbot-Lago automobiles exotic, beautiful, rare and sought after. Few...
In 1953, Chrysler’s famed design chief, Virgil Exner entered into a partnership with the Italian styling house Ghia to produce...
Enzo Ferrari’s focus was on racing, not road cars, but he needed money to finance his racing addiction, so he sold road cars to feed the habit. In November 1948, the first show cars ever exhibited by Ferrari were on a stand at the Turin show—a 166MM racer and a...
In the early 1950s, Americans looked forward to attending auto shows for the unveiling of the manufacture’s latest offerings. Adding...
Independent automotive designer Bill Flajole worked on a number of important designs, including the Nash Metropolitan, before turning his attention...
When I moved to Tennessee a few years ago, one of the first things I did was look for a British car club. I have a split personality when it comes to cars – I prefer Italian and British automobiles. The club I found, Southern British Car Club (SBCC) is...
In 1948, Jaguar launched the wild and wooly XK120 at the London Motor Show. It was a testbed and show...
One of many styling experiments built for day-to-day use by GM styling Chief Bill Mitchell, the XP-700 was built on...
In 1959, Buick introduced the Invicta line of full-size sedans, as an evolution of the Buick Century married to a larger 401-cu.in. V8 engine. While the production 4-door model maintained much of the prototype’s design cues, one feature that was lost was the centrally-mounted “dorsal fin” on the rear deck...
1961 Corvette XP-796 2+2 If the proportions of this Corvette look a little off, your eyes are not deceiving you!...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud series was produced between 1955 and 1966 with a production run of 7,372 units. The first...
Mike Glore has an interesting collection of automobiles. While it is mostly British, with an emphasis on Lotus, he also has two Alfa Romeos. Both were online purchases, and both came with unexpected challenges. The story of his Alfa Romeo JrZ was detailed in Vintage Road & Racecar in December...
When you hear the two words Aston and Martin, you unconsciously start playing the James Bond theme music in your...
Isothermos was a manufacture of refrigeration units before WWII. The company was founded in Genoa, in 1939, but was moved...
Built to showcase Vauxhall’s design innovation and autonomy in the mid-’60s, the XVR project was managed by the legendary Wayne Cherry at Luton’s industry-leading Design & Engineering Centre, later to become Vauxhall’s Griffin House HQ. Inspired by parent company GM’s work with concepts in the U.S. – including the ‘65...
It was September of 1964, when Porsche brought out the Ferry “Butzi” Porsche designed 6-cylinder 911 as the successor to...
The prototype for the Lamborghini Countach, designated LP500, was first shown to the public at the 1971 Geneva Motor Show....
In 2015, the Citroën DS celebrated its 60th anniversary, in style, in Paris. Over 700 DS owners traveled from all over Europe, showing how the DS still enjoys a huge following. Unanimously acclaimed for its road handling qualities, the DS would also go on to become an agile competition car....
At the 1976 Geneva Motor Show, Alfa Romeo revealed the final iteration of its series of concept cars based on...
These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring...
There have been a number of British manufacturers who have taken their smaller, less powerful motors out of their sports cars and dropped a nasty, fire-breathing V8 in its place. We know what “Texas Carroll” did first to the AC and then the Sunbeam Alpine. Small car + big engine...
After careful consideration and following the Governor of Michigan’s guidelines, the Board of Directors of the Concours d’Elegance of America...
It was a wet start this morning from Cortina D’Ampezzo for the crews of the Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti 2020....
The 58th National Austin 7 Rally will be held on Sunday July 5th, at Beaulieu in Hampshire, UK. For those who own these iconic little cars; those who would like to own one; and those who just love looking at them, the national rally is the most anticipated annual event...