I don’t usually spend too much time on preamble prior to getting into the nitty-gritty of the subject car. However,...
Orange hot shoes Three drivers from the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES along with McLaren Racing...
Maverick, land-speed record-holder Art Arfons passed away on December 3, 2007. He was 81 years old. An accomplished drag racer...
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Report and photos by Martin Swig The Art Center Car Classic was held October 23, 2011 at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design. Each year, Art Center has a very special car show on their hillside campus overlooking Pasadena. The focus is on significant design, with special emphasis in...
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Cars of Character and Art Center Car Classic 2014 – It’s All In The Presentation Report and photos by Lizett...
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Subscriber Photo Gallery from the October 28, 2018, Art Center Classic, in Pasadena, California. Photo: David Gooley Photo: Craig Edwards Photo: David Gooley Photo: Craig Edwards Photo: David Gooley Photo: Craig Edwards Photo: Craig Edwards Photo: Craig Edwards Photo: David Gooley Photo: David Gooley Photo: David Gooley Photo: David Gooley...
By Martin Swig Art Center College of Design and the California Mille are collaborating on a tour from Pasadena to...
Of the major Western automobile manufacturing nations, England may have been the most staid when it came to streamlining and...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch the eye of the consumer, he believed a design had to be the “most advanced,” but too advanced could mean failure, since the design might not be widely accepted. There...
The Hudson Terraplane grille is among the most attractive of all time. In the June 2012 issue of Vintage Roadcar,...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era. The French initiated the Art Deco movement in 1924 with the Paris exposition of the industrial and decorative arts, so it is no surprise that some of the automobiles subsequently...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota...
The beautiful Stork of Lorraine on the radiator cap makes the Hispano-Suiza easily identifiable. It is one of the most...
An exhibition of Art Deco automobiles will be displayed at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, from June 14 through September 15, 2013. The exhibition, entitled Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, will be on view in the Center’s Ingram Gallery. Inspired by the Frist Center’s historic...
Kicking off a month of motoring celebrations, RM Auctions continue its summer calendar of events with the 15th annual Vintage...
There are a few coachbuilders whose art and workmanship is immediately identifiable, but none as obvious and flamboyant as that...
Volvo Cars is revisiting the Art Deco era at this year’s Techno Classica Essen in Germany, the world’s largest historic car show, with a 1935 Volvo PV36 once owned by one of the company’s founders. Gustaf Larson, one of Volvo Cars’ two founding fathers back in 1927, drove the American-styled...
In the youth of our racing enthusiasm, we tend to think obituaries are for drivers. We don’t foresee, or at...
Former SCCA hot shoe Art Huttinger has died from heart failure in a Florida Veteran’s Hospital at the age of...
The Art of Bugatti exhibit at the Mullin Automotive Museum will debut as the largest assembled collection of Bugatti artifacts and automobiles while paying tribute to the Bugatti family’s enduring genius, creativity, undeniable contribution and significant work. The new display is scheduled to open Spring 2014 at the museum in...
The Petersen Automotive Museum’s “The Art of Bugatti” opened October 23rd and features one of the rarest gatherings of Bugatti...
Akin to splurging on a first-class airline ticket or tasting an exceptional glass of wine, it’s never easy “going back”...
Report by Cliff Reuter | Photos by author and Brian Spano The Kansas City Art of the Car Concours was held June 21-23, 2013 at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri. The seventh annual Art of the Car Concours welcomed racing great Sir Stirling Moss as well as famed...
