1954 Chrysler Ghia GS1 When Bob Frumpkin drove up in his 1954 Chrysler Ghia GS1 Special, at the Marina in...
In remembering and memorializing John Fitch upon the occasion of his death, Vintage Racecar has produced this brief photographic summary...
Celebrating its 15th year the weekend of Friday April 12th, Saturday April 13th, and Sunday April 14th, the La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will be returning to the stunning shores of La Jolla, California. Earning the reputation as one of the top, internationally renowned classic automobile showcases in the United States,...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in...
Leake Auction Company will kick off its 2018 auction season at Oklahoma City’s Bennett Event Center February 23–24 with a...
Leake Auction Company will offer a dozen classic Cadillacs without reserve during their fall auction in Dallas Market Hall, November 17-19. The collection features a variety of Cadillac models, including Eldorados and Series 62s. Founded in 1902, Cadillac became an icon of the American automotive industry, and for years represented...
Cadillac’s Fabulous 1930 V16 Dual Cowl Sports Phaeton In the wild and wooly 1920s, custom-bodied cars were all the rage...
The second edition of the Valletta Concours d’Elegance — a classic vehicle concours scheduled for Sunday May 20 in the...
The Mecum Chicago 2017 collector-car auction held this past weekend, October 5-7, at the Schaumburg Convention Center in suburban Chicago achieved $12.6 million in overall sales with 72 percent of the 795 vehicles offered hammering sold. Top sales at the Chicago 2017 auction included several Corvettes from the Mercurio Collection,...
Another little piece of our motoring heritage is about to be banished to the rubbish bin of automotive history. Like...
Motor sport anniversaries and centenaries seem to have filled the calendar in the last few years, and as our sport...
Phil Remington From hot rods on California’s dry lakes, to the Scarabs (both sports cars and Formula One), to the Cobras and Ford GT40s (Marks I, II and IV) all over the world, Phil Remington stood on the leading edge of racing technology for some seven decades until his peaceful...
A 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow from the from Thomas F. Derro Collection of American Classics topped all sellers at RM...
It’s been a very long time since Bill Pollack raced his Cadillac-powered Allard to victory through the forested road course...
A rare Cadillac, once owned by 1940s Silver Screen starlet Rita Hayworth, will be one of several iconic automobiles of note displayed at the 2015 Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance on Saturday, May 2 at Pinehurst Resort. The 1953 Cadillac coupe Series 62 with bodywork by Ghia is one of only two...
Following its “Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione” single-marque sale in Maranello, Italy, RM Sotheby’s is turning focus to another segment...
RM Sotheby’s held its fifth annual Santa Monica sale on June 24, registering more than $9.3 million in total sales....
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, from complications of pneumonia and Parkinson’s Disease. He was 96. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, after World War I, Brown first went to work at GM’s Cadillac Studio before moving...
In the history of motoring, Royal families all over the world has always been associated with the finest motor cars....
The 2012 Santa Fe Concorso, a gathering of more than 100 rare and exotic cars and motorcycles, will take place...
Few auctions in the world can match Dana Mecum’s Original Spring Classic for variety, and fewer still are able to compete with the sheer number of vehicles offered for sale. Billed as the “World’s Largest Collector Car Auction,” this annual rite of spring stretches across six days at the Indiana...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California,...
In addition to being a successful real estate developer, Ted Gildred was appointed Ambassador to Argentina during the Reagan administration. VR: You were born in Mexico, as I understand. TG: Yes, I was born in Mexico City in 1935. My dad was a civil engineer and had worked, when he...
It’s a common consensus that America is the land of motor cars and a cradle of modern automobiles. When it...
Back in 1982, I bought a 1940 Packard coupe and spent the next couple of years restoring it. Once I...
As a racecar driver, Jack McAfee needs no introduction. He was one of the greats of early sports car racing in America, with a career spanning from the late 1940s well into the 1960s, but Jack the man was a relatively shy and soft-spoken person. Known fondly as “Jack the...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Some 150 vehicles from the world-class Charlie Thomas Collection will be auctioned at No Reserve during two upcoming Barrett-Jackson sales....
My father, Tom Bamford, first got involved in motor sport in his late teens when he bought an Ariel motorcycle in the late ’30s that he had to keep down the street at a gas station because my grandparents didn’t want him to own it. One day he was following...
