The all-German marque Concours d’Elegance that has become a staple on the annual Monterey Car Week schedule will host a...
It may be irrelevant to ascribe beauty to a racing car designed expressly for its function. But the 1938 W154...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of Eastern France. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970 E-mail: info@klemcoll.com • Web site: www.klemcoll.com...
We met up with Gary Humecke in Thousand Oaks, California to see and drive his remarkably preserved 1937 Mercedes 170V...
Fed up with seeing their major races won by the Germans in the 1930s, the Italians allowed only 1½-liter entries...
The Atlanta Concours d’Elegance has broken new ground – with fresh beginnings on the historic grounds of the Fort McPherson army base at Tyler Perry Studios and for the October 19-20th weekend festivities boasted a field of cars and categories as diverse as the several thousand attendees that enjoyed the two-day...
Max Hoffman was a racecar driver in Europe before immigrating to the United States to avoid the Nazis. Hoffman became...
The New York City Concours (TNYCC) has crowned its first champion – Nat Lanza’s 1957 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Gullwing won the...
This unique 1938 Mercedes-Benz Gelandesport 170VS is the only remaining example of 10 specially built by the factory to compete in the 1938 Duetsche Alpenfahrt, an arduous three-day race spanning 38 mountain passes through the Alps and 1,600 kilometers beginning in Munich, Germany, and finishing in Vienna, Austria. The 1920s had...
The 10-time Grand Prix winning car of Lewis Hamilton will be run by Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport at The Sonoma Speed...
A special class of Mercedes-Benz 500K – 540K will take center stage at the 24th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance...
Worldwide got the year off to a flying start in Arizona last week, with a striking selection of rare, pre-war automobiles, distinctive classics and exceptional sports cars changing hands in a packed salesroom at its annual Scottsdale Auction. High sales went to an unrestored and remarkably original, HVA Preservation Award...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
Ralph de Palma at the wheel of his 1928 Mercedes-Benz Type S 26/120/180 . This was the car that de Palma drove to two race wins at Atlantic City, New Jersey, on May 30, 1928....
Richard A. Stephens, former Academy of Art University president, always had a penchant for cars, a sentiment that has been...
The history of the racing engine—and perhaps to a lesser extent the road going engine as well—has been driven by...
Don Capps, one of the foremost experts on the topic, will present “The Silver Arrows: The 1934 Eifelrennen and Neubaurer’s Dilemma?” at the International Motor Racing Research Center on Saturday, June 9. The discussion will focus on the creation tale of the Mercedes-Benz racing cars, the “Silver Arrows” at the...
Prof. h.c. Bodo Buschmann, founder and CEO of BRABUS, the world’s largest independent automotive refinement specialist and renowned manufacturer of high-performance...
Only three of the world’s oldest motor races still take place. The most senior of them is the 500 Miles...
All American Racers’ DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs Raceway (1977). 1 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille drives a Matra MS5 to victory in the F3 race at Magny-Cours, France (1968). 2 – The All American Racers DGF Formula Ford has its first track test at Willow Springs...
May 2018 • RM Sotheby’s, in collaboration with the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta, has announced The Porsche 70th Anniversary Sale,...
The 2018 La Jolla Concours d’Elegance concluded its 14th year on a high note last Sunday, April 8, with more...
A little bit of almost everything could be found at last weekend’s 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, March 17-18, as vintage racecars and their drivers braved grey and sometimes snowy conditions to open their 2018 historic racing season. In addition to the 11 featured “Cup” races, fans were also treated...
Leake Auction Company’s recent Oklahoma City auction marked $6.8 million in sales with 77 percent of the nearly 400 vehicles...
With snow falling on the streets of Paris, collectors and enthusiasts arrived for the annual Retromobile Salon’s official auction, Retromobile...
RM Sotheby’s recorded a sale total of €23,745,225 ($29,562,805) at its fifth annual Paris sale on February 7, with an 83 percent sell-through rate for the 84 lots successfully sold. Demonstrating continued interest in low-production modern-era hypercars, the 2017 Bugatti Chiron (above, Remi Dargegen photo courtesy of RM Sotheby’s) with...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was...
1938 German Grand Prix It had been 15 years since a British driver had won a full-scale Grand Prix race before Richard Seaman, with a Mercedes-Benz, defeated the cream of Europe’s drivers to take the laurels in the German Grand Prix, on July 24, at the Nürburgring. Seaman, famous for...
