Joe Conzonire eases his 1903 Packard Model F Runabout out of his shop and pulls it into the sunlight. It...
The Concours of Elegance – famed for gathering together the rarest cars ever created – will showcase seven of the world’s...
With a shiver of trepidation, I slip behind the wheel of the museum’s grand 1936 Packard phaeton Standard Eight parade car. I’m nervous because its original owner would have had me shot— if I were lucky —for getting anywhere near it. You see, Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili, more commonly known...
“You’ve got to see this car!” said Robert Escalante, internationally known restorer of classic Packard automobiles. And he wouldn’t have...
We had spent the previous evening at Justin Marshall and his wife Shirley’s spectacular hilltop home overlooking their winery in...
More Cylinders: Jessie Vincent and the Packard Twin Six engine “The greatest piece of machinery that ever went upon the highways,” proclaimed Henry B. Joy, Packard president in 1915, extoling the virtues of the recent release of his company’s new engineering marvel, the Twin Six. Jessie Vincent, the brainchild of...
In the early 1950s, Americans looked forward to attending auto shows for the unveiling of the manufacture’s latest offerings. Adding...
The 25th Annual Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance has announced the Featured Marques for the event slated for Saturday and...
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...
Mecum Auctions has announced that more than 50 cars from the Academy of Art University museum will cross the Las...
The fall is usually a decent time for a concours, often pleasant and dry, but the times and weather are...
Each October, all roads lead to Hershey, where RM Auctions will again present a selection of American Veteran, Brass, Classic, and post-war automobiles during the Antique Automobile Club of America’s (AACA) Eastern Division Fall Meet. A mainstay on the global collector car calendar, drawing enthusiasts from across North America, Europe,...
Richard A. Stephens, former Academy of Art University president, always had a penchant for cars, a sentiment that has been...
In 1954, Southern California designer Bill Miller, designed a low slung, custom sports car for himself using Packard V12 running...
It was possibly the greatest automotive marketing slogan ever – “Ask the Man Who Owns One.” Packards were such high quality, reliable cars that asking someone who owned a Packard was sure to produce a very complimentary reply. Throughout much of the company’s history, its cars were considered among the...
The Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) conducts competitions all across the USA for its members and in 2017 more...
RM Auctions returned to Florida last weekend, April 6-7, for the company’s 16th annual Fort Lauderdale sale, where a total...
Leake Auction Company will host its annual three-day spring auction at Dallas Market Hall in Dallas, Texas, next weekend, April 12–14. Featuring 450 vehicles, this year’s auction will kick-off on Thursday evening with an exclusive customer appreciation event at 4:30 p.m. The auction portion of the event will begin with...
Leake Auction Company’s recent Oklahoma City auction marked $6.8 million in sales with 77 percent of the nearly 400 vehicles...
Leake Auction Company will kick off its 2018 auction season at Oklahoma City’s Bennett Event Center February 23–24 with a...
1948 Chrysler Town & Country Chris Kidd called a few days ago and said, “You guys have to see this! I found a 1948 Chrysler Town & Country convertible coupe just three blocks from the shop in unbelievable all-original condition, and it is beautiful. It has only 38,000 original miles...
A 1933 Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow from the from Thomas F. Derro Collection of American Classics topped all sellers at RM...
The second Atlanta Concours d’Elegance took place in Georgia last weekend, September 30-October 1, with nearly 180 quality vehicles crowding...
October 2017 Age of Aquarius Dear Editor I can’t figure out those folks at Rick Dore Kustoms. They have built some of the most beautiful custom cars around, centerpieces at any car show at which they appear, and yet someone (presumably an employee) has either a warped sense of humor...
Mecum Auctions will host the Chicagoland area’s only annual collector-car auction on the weekend of October 5-7 when Mecum Chicago...
Following its “Ferrari – Leggenda e Passione” single-marque sale in Maranello, Italy, RM Sotheby’s is turning focus to another segment...
Bidders at the recent Mecum Dallas 2017 classic- and collector-car auction held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center honed in on the 10 impressive private collections that crossed the auction block there. The interest in the collections made for intense bidding, which aided the auction’s overall sales total of...
Auctions America, an RM Sotheby’s company, continued a Labor Day tradition this past weekend, August 31–September 3, with its flagship...
The collection of one of America’s preeminent collectors and conservators of vintage automobiles, that of Lindley and Ann Bothwell, will...
This multiple award-winning 1956 Lincoln Premiere (above, photo courtesy of Auctions America) is one of more than 200 no-reserve lots guaranteed to find new homes this Labor Day weekend, August 31 to September 3, at Auctions America’s Auburn Fall sale in Indiana. One of 2,447 Premiere Convertibles built, this exceptional...
