It’s interesting how things evolve. While I have had no personal experience with the Invicta marque there has always been...
The assembled gladiators, left to right: Alain Mahé, Jean-Francois Piot, Jacques Jauber, Jean Ragnotti, Jean-Louis Marnat, Michele “Biche” Petit, Jean...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century...
Motor Racing at Thruxton – in the 1980s By Bruce Grant-Braham The latest volume in publisher Veloce’s “Those were the...
King George V thought it was very funny. “You’re late, my boy,” he guffawed. The world’s fastest human being had tried to get to Buckingham Palace on time for his own investiture, but he turned up half an hour late. He had been delayed by a slow goods train huffing...
Markku Alén is the person-ification of his favorite rallying expression: maximum attack. Words he lived by throughout his illustrious career,...
It happened again! Just like Phil (Bill Murray) in Groundhog Day, I go to sleep every night hoping that things will somehow be different come daylight. But they never are. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is...
The classic car community lost one of its great champions on July 3, when Martin Swig passed away as a...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt, just my feet burrowing into the floorboards. The scent of tires melting away under the strain of a 70 mph four-wheel drift was intoxicating, and the fact that the combined...
The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from...
When the world got back to normal life, after World War II, there was so much pent up demand for...
The grounds of a stately home provide the ideal setting for a gleaming display of Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis, Alfas, Fiats, Abarths, Lancias and other Italian delicacies – which is why the annual Auto Italia Concours at Stanford Hall in Leicestershire has grown to be such a ‘must-do’ event for Italophiles....
Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.Photo: David Gooley Artists and artisans have called Italy home...
Felice Nazzaro had brains as well as a heavy right foot and he used them well to work his way...
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of Bertone Design, Concorso Italiano will feature several prominent concept cars from the Bertone Collection. Bertone has also confirmed that they will debut several prominent concept cars from its collection for the first time in North America including the continental debut of the Nuccio...
Scottsdale, Arizona January 18-22, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
Half a century ago, if your perfectly good sports car were damaged in an accident, you had options. One such option, available starting in the late 1950s, was rather than repairing the body, you could replace it with a completely different body that was made out of a relatively new...
“Wow, I could have had an 8V!” Can you imagine if Fiat had hired actor Ronald Reagan in 1952 to...
After closure for four years and speculation as to when, or even if, it was to reopen, the Museo Nazionale...
The Formula Junior category was introduced in Italy in 1958 by Count Giovanni Lurani, and in 1959, it became an International Formula. Shortly thereafter, in 1960, the British began to take a serious interest in the category, beginning the rivalry between British and Italian cars. The original FIA Formula Junior...
A Personal Recollection of Der Nürburgring by a young English Lad Who Grew Up to Become a Motorsports Photojournalist Later...
Two heroes and a heroine. What unites them? The Audi Quattro, rallying’s first four-wheel-drive, turbocharged car. Hannu and Stig each...
A huge cortege of 3,000 Alfa Romeos from 54 different countries came home to Milan at the end of June. We say home because they were all made in either the city’s Portello or Arese factories—except for the Alfasuds built at Pomigliano d’Arco, Naples—and were there to help the manufacturer...
Former Formula One driver of the 1970s, Loris Kessel, has succumbed to his long-term battle with leukemia. Kessel’s early dream...
Alfa Romeo will be 100 years old on June 24 and its motor sport pedigree almost 99—one of only a handful of companies that can trace their motor racing heritage back to the start of the 20th century. But Alfa’s is a kind of pear-shaped pedigree, in which the Italian...
