Known as the African Alloy, a world-famous 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Gullwing with a lightweight alloy body will take a...
The Peninsula Hotels has announced its eight finalists for its preeminent honor, The Peninsula Classics 2021 Best of the Best...
This year’s Terre di Canossa Rally, April 21–24, will for the first time, be run as a regularity rally opening the doors so that young co-drivers starting from the age of 14 can also enjoy this wonderful experience. Another new addition will be the rally’s focus on the lush Garfagnana area...
The third annual Chattanooga Motorcar Festival Sponsored by Millennium Bank excelled in The Scenic City this past weekend as it...
Lincoln buyers were often wealthy enough to have special coachwork built for their cars. In 1927, Brunn did a beautiful...
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...
One of three experimental aerodynamic prototypes built for the 1940 war-affected Mille Miglia, this unique 328 was designed by Wunibald...
In 1945, the Swedish aircraft manufacturer Saab AB, began design work on a prototype road car with the intention that...
The Ghia-designed Dodge Firearrow III is flamboyantly showcased on its stand during the 1954 Detroit Auto Show....
There are a number of cars that are better known by their nicknames, than their original designation, like the Alfa...
The Appia was introduced as Lancia’s new entry-level car in the 1950s. It started out as a passenger car in...
In 1962, Alfa Romeo came out with a new machine, the Giulia. It was actually a series of machines. There was the Alfa Giulia Super (sedan), as well as the Sprint, Sprint Speciale and Spider. They were uprated versions of the earlier Giulietta, with an enlarged engine and slightly longer...
Carroll Shelby had a thing for speed. First, it was airplanes. During the war, Shelby flew everything from a Beechcraft...
1966 Pininfarina Ferrari 365P Berlinetta Speciale Designed by Pininfarina as a Ferrari concept car, the 365P Berlinetta Speciale utilized a...
Debuted at the 1968 New York Auto Show, the Astro II (eXperimental Project 880) was General Motors’ first, real foray into a mid-engined Corvette concept. Using a backbone frame housing a mid-mounted 427-cu.in. V8 engine, the Astro II came in nearly 300 pounds lighter than a standard Corvette and with...
Just after midnight, in February 1973, there was a battle being waged on a Daytona Beach, Florida race track. All...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph....
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there was the one car that became an iconic ’80s machine, driven by a guy with a great mustache and a series of Hawian shirts. That was Tom Selleck as Thomas...
For decades Porsche has created some of the most intriguing and desirable road cars on the planet. But even with...
Molsheim in the Alsace region of France is forever associated with Bugatti. It was this small town where Ettore Bugatti...
Next year marks the 100th anniversary of Joseph Figoni’s coachbuilding firm, and as such the Pebble Beach Concours has announced that Figoni and his work will be celebrated at the 72nd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held on Sunday, August 20, 2023. Additional 2023 features include Pegaso; Invicta; Mercedes-Benz...
The search is already underway for the cars that will turn heads and capture hearts at the 72nd Pebble Beach...
At the Brits At The Beach car show in New Zealand recently, among the classic Jaguars, MGs, Triumphs and Morris...
I’ve been revisiting a series of cars recently from the period of my youth. There’s something to be said about the cars we saw everyday while young. Even if they were part of our general visual landscape some of them captivated us in a strangely endearing way. The Saab 900...
The Arizona Concours d’Elegance is seeking spectacular automobiles for the much-admired show and competition, which returns on January 22, 2023,...
It’s 1972, and Aston Martin is undergoing one of its periodic seismic changes. Sir David Brown, the talented industrialist who...
Aston Martin has chosen the 2022 Monterey Car Week to unveil the spectacular DBR22 for the first time: A V12-engined, two-seater coach-built design concept, celebrating the marque’s extraordinary bloodline of open-cockpit sports racers. The creation of the DBR22 design concept, unveiled in California, is the latest in a long line...
An amazing thing happened in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the fall of 2019. A couple of automobile enthusiasts proposed the Chattanooga...
Bentley Motors has confirmed that it will be an Official Automotive Partner for the 79thGoodwood Members Meeting, April 9th-10th 2022....
Chatting with Barry Alan Twitchell about his Porsche 993, he remembered that during a dinner in Switzerland, the owner of a Porsche dealership in Zurich had said to him, “Never sell the 993.” Twitchell turned to his teenage daughter, Sydney, and said: “When I can’t drive this car anymore, it...