Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter Helbach The Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands...
Garage Profiles
Profiles of garages, museums and other collector car facilities. These are the truly awe-inspiring car collections, the types of car collections that make fans weak at the knees. Whether they are filled with the latest supercars, or exclusive vintage cars, or the most extremely rare models ever made, these are the garages and collections we are most jealous of. Here is to the greatest car collections in the world today and the people who own them.
By Csaba Kiss Located about 200 km from Paris, Le Mans has been one of the international centers of automobile...
Around 60 years ago, Fritz Schlumpf purchased a collection of thirty Bugatti models after tough negotiations. He simply adored Bugatti: Schlumpf had to own as many of the vehicles as possible because he wanted to use them as a basis for establishing the biggest Bugatti collection in existence. In fact,...
March 31, 2016 may be a day that won’t make it into any official “History of Porsche” timelines but it...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 that features ten race cars from the...
Everybody starts somewhere. For Maserati, that beginning was epicentered at Via Pepoli 1 in Bologna, Italy, in December of 1914. Via Pepoli is a cobblestoned street that winds its way through the oldest sections of Bologna. The buildings are a typical mix of storefronts, apartments, commercial and industrial uses, with...
Bob Clarke is a committed car guy to say the least. And his tastes are wonderfully varied, from hot rods...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th,...
The Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed exhibit is presently on display at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, North Carolina through January 20, 2014. The largest gathering of Porsche automobiles ever on display in a U.S. art museum features a stunning selection of 22 Porsches dating from the...
While Jay Kay is best known as lead singer of the band Jamiroquai, he is also fairly well-known in auto...
Interview by Dennis Gray Morris Kindig is Executive Director of the proposed Monterey Museum of Automotive Arts that aims to...
The Ralph Lauren Car Collection was featured at the 2014 Lime Rock Historic Festival, held August 29th to September 1st at Lime Rock Park. Among the Lauren automotive treasures on display at the picturesque road course in Connecticut were a 1929 Birkin Blower Bentley; 1964 Ferrari 250 LM; 1956 Jaguar...
The March 10th issue of AutoWeek has several must-see garage articles. Our favorite is a profile Ralph Lauren’s garage written...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 featuring ten race cars...
Interview by Greg Wing and photos by author and Dan Tooker Jim Glass owns a Corvette shop and showroom in Kingston, NY, just a couple miles from the beautiful Rhinebeck Bridge over the stunning Hudson River and about ten minutes to the famed 60’s Woodstock, NY. This is the land...
If you’ve ever visited a museum and left feeling like you didn’t get to fully appreciate every detail of a...
It’s part Dr. Frankenstein, part Andy Granatelli. A place where old Fiat 500s are reborn, given new life, and prepped...
By Art Evans | Photographs as credited My abridged dictionary defines “provenance” as “source, derivation.” Provenance is important insofar as collections of art are concerned. The value of a painting, for instance, is greatly enhanced if its history can be documented. Another important aspect is authenticity. My wife inherited a...
The first Classic Mazda Museum in Europe — and indeed the only one outside Japan — opened on 13th May...
The 2017 RM Sotheby’s New York City auction and exhibition was staged November 30 – December 6 at Sotheby’s York...
Interview and photos by Greg Wing Bob Ensign of Ensign Restoration Services of Latham, New York, has been in business for 16 years. His philosophy is, “Do what you love. Love what you do. It is going to work.” His short cropped hair, animated gestures, steel blue eyes and great...
By Leigh Dorrington The Mercedes-Benz Museum at the company’s headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany is a depository of the history of...
If you follow professional sports car and endurance racing, you know the name Brumos, and its now iconic red, white,...
The Allure of the Automobile exhibit is currently displayed at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia through June 20th, 2010. Guest curator Ken Gross assembled 18 feature automobiles from the finest collectors, including Chip Connor, Sam Mann, Bruce Meyer, Peter Mullin, Jon Shirley, Peterson Museum, Collier Collection, among...
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello opened its new exhibition — “Ferrari at 24 Heures du Mans” — to celebrate seventy...
By Rick Carey, Auction Editor | Photos by author and Rhonda Kiblinger Wind back the clock on your DeLorean to...
The Mullin Automotive Museum announced multiple additions to the famed collection in commemoration of the one-year anniversary of the museum’s founding. In the 12 months since its founding, the Mullin Automotive Museum hosted the 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic to international acclaim, exhibited four unique Bugatti prototypes direct from Bugatti...
Dragone Classic Motorcars recently opened a new showroom for automobiles and gallery of vintage automotive art and automobilia in Westport,...
Porsche Aftermarket Tuning: The State of Play There are few tuning companies in the world who are universally entrusted with...
The Petersen Automotive Museum opened its latest exhibition in the Bruce Meyer Family Gallery, “Seeing Red: 70 Years of Ferrari.” The exhibit is a celebration of seven decades of automobiles and the man, Enzo Ferrari, who brought them to the attention of the world. The exhibit opened to the public...
