May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale,...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
• Coys rounded off a successful year with their final auction of 2012, “True Greats”, on December 4th, at Westminster, London, with sale results now nearing £4 million, and many new record auction prices achieved for the year in the UK. Among the many cars sold was a BMW 328...
• The second Bund Classic Concours d’Elegance will be held at the iconic Villa at No. 1 Waitanyuan from October...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog,...
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering 600hp Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb....
When the Chapman family finally stepped down from control of Team Lotus at the end of 1990 they carried with...
By Will Silk Artists Nicolas Cancelier of Belgium, Paul Chenard of Canada, Anna-Louise Felstead of the United Kingdom and Rick Rucker...
By Will Silk Speculative interest in using vintage cars as a means of investment have been in use for decades, but recently a new, more organized approach, has been unveiled by IGA Automobile. Headed by Ray Bellm, the former president of Grand Prix Racewear and himself a racer having won...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are...
The Mercedes-Benz Museum is holding its first collectors fair for models, brochures, literature, pins and accessories on November 28th, 2009...
The Revs Institute for Automotive Research, Inc. in Naples, Florida is now open its automobile collection to the public on a limited schedule, by reservation only. The Collier Collection consists of over one hundred significant automobiles built between 1896 and 1995. “The automobiles on display at Revs are some of...
Miles Collier and Jeff Lane have been respectively selected as the Pinnacle and Honored Collectors for this year’s Hilton Head...
The Octane Party, a show for automobiles and motorcycles of all types including a display of the Larry H. Miller...
In the February 2010 edition of Vintage Racecar, editor Casey Annis reported that a concours d’provenance had been held in Palos Verdes, a suburb of Los Angeles. When I read it, I thought many of you might wonder what in the world is a concours d’provenance. We all know what...
Recently, well known collector and conservation stalwart Fred Simeone commented, “Certain cars nowadays have become so historically important that their...
JD Classics welcomed more than 500 guests to another of its breakfast mornings on 23rd October, headlined by an insightful...
Craig Breedlove – the first person to exceed 400, 500, and 600 miles per hour on land – will receive the fourth annual Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum “Spirit of Competition” Award at a dinner at the Museum on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011. Breedlove joins drivers Mario Andretti, Janet Guthrie and...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is teaming up with Spotfund – an all-new and innovative fundraising platform that supports only...
Damon Hill O.B.E. announced to the Board of the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) that he plans to step down...
The new-and-improved Petersen Automotive Museum continues to impress with its selection of interesting exhibitions, including the latest titled “The Eagles Have Landed: Dan Gurney’s All American Racers.” The display, which opened Saturday, January 28th, 2017, celebrates the life and career of one of America’s greatest racing drivers, Dan Gurney. It’s...
The Petersen Automotive Museum awarded motorsports icon Dan Gurney with the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award at its 22nd...
All sports have heroes. But there are some individuals who transcend their sport: Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky, Michael...
For you automotive history buffs, the name Sir David Brown should ring a bell. He owned Aston Martin from 1947 to 1972 and created many legends like the DB2, DB2/4, DB2/4 MkII, DB MarkIII, DB4, DB5, DB6 and DBS. And yes those are his initials. But the most famous of...
CEO, LeMay—America’s Car Museum VR: So, why don’t we start off at the very beginning. When and how were you...
It was early 1977 and I was having a beer in the Riverside International Raceway’s media hovel with Robert E....
The Lamborghini Reventon, revealed at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show, was the most expensive Lamborghini road car ever created and only 20 coupes were made. The vehicle shares its mechanical components with the LP640 Murciélago but its exterior and interior were completely redesigned to mimic that of an F15 Fighter...
While the “Flux Capacitor” in the time-machine Delorean (Back to the Future) might be a bit of Hollywood trickery, the...
This 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible was the first Corvette produced with the RPO L88 option package. The only Tuxedo Black...
Endurance racing legend Derek Bell has been named Grand Marshal for the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. A five-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Bell also won the two World Sports Car Championships. He ranks third on Sebring’s all-time podium finishes list...
