Some 9,500 miles separate Davenport, Iowa, and Victoria, Australia, but this great distance is no obstacle for a group of...
Vintage Roadcar Columns
In the automotive world, surprisingly, quite a lot. Just prior to this November’s Los Angeles Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz made the...
In 1954, the AC company, in Thames Ditton unveiled a new car, a beautiful coupe called the AC Aceca. Many at the time thought the Aceca name was a derivation of the popular AC Ace model name but in fact the Aceca name is a palindrome incorporating the letters ACE....
Let’s embrace the enthusiast passion… even if we don’t always understand it. I was recently having a conversation about a...
So often the cars I research come with stories permanently attached. Stories of celebrity ownership or the classic “Fangio drove...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Jaguar is apparently a cat with more than six lives to live. Last month is this space, I spoke about the significance of Alfa Romeo making a return to the United States and, in a broader sense, what that might mean for all automotive enthusiasts. Just after...
Not too long ago, a very good friend called me about his 1967 4.2 Jaguar XKE OTS. He had two...
Alfa Romeo’s return to the American market is great for Alfisti and enthusiasts in general. At the time of this...
If you’ve spent any kind of time in the collector car world, then you’ve certainly heard the word “provenance” bantered around. “This car has provenance,” “That car has great provenance,” “This car’s provenance is unknown.” At its most superficial level, some enthusiasts believe this to denote a car’s history. And...
Three-owner Kellison was extracted from a barn, in 1986, and restored by author, racer and rally organizer Rich Taylor. I...
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion (formerly known as the Monterey Historic Automobile Races) is 40 years old this year! Pheww,...
As classic car enthusiasts, we live with a foot in two completely different worlds. One foot is firmly placed in the past, with steel and iron and rubber molded into a moving object from a time when computers were science fiction and electricity’s predominant purpose was to light up your...
There’s an old adage about “the steady march of progress.” The truth, in fact, is that when it comes to...
Can you hear that sound? It’s me, beginning to climb way out on a limb. Like most enthusiasts, I was...
It’s hard to believe that the bane of every Lotus Elan owner has just turned 25. It was early February, 1989, at the Chicago Auto Show, when Japanese car manufacturer Mazda unveiled a new, compact two-seat convertible roadster dubbed the MX-5 Miata. Prior to the unveiling of the Miata, Mazda...
I pulled my Alfa over into a little layby, off the twisty road that climbs from the Pacific Ocean, up...
If you think about the classic car community, as a whole it is obsessed with categorizing things. It’s difficult to...
I stumbled across a story the other day that caught me off guard. It was a report that a three-man team, driving a 2004 Mercedes-Benz CL55 AMG had shattered the record for the fastest non-stop drive across the United States, what has affectionately come to be known as “The Cannonball...
Volkswagen recently sent out a press release announcing that production of the iconic T2 VW Bus would soon be coming...
You may recall that back in April I wrote on these pages about the unprecedented pace that the collector car...
Last November, in this space, I addressed the hot button issue of where tomorrow’s enthusiasts and collectors will come from. In it, I thought I did a reasonable job of allaying the fears that as we age and eventually pass on, a new generation of enthusiasts would, in fact, step...
I have to confess to being Corvette prejudiced. Growing up I was never a fan of the Corvette, in fact...
Thorough Events Ltd, organizer of last year’s inaugural UK Concours of Elegance at Windsor Castle, has announced an equally prestigious...
Not sure why, but I seem to be having a number of automotive epiphanies lately, as a result of driving my youngest daughter around in my Alfa. The first was last month as we stumbled across the rarity of a Country Squire station wagon—with simulated wood paneling—while on our way...
Living in Southern California, we’re admittedly pretty jaded when it comes to the classic cars we see on the road,...
100 years ago, almost anyone could become a car manufacturer. The automobile—and the advance in technology to create it—was in...
Gentlemen, please put the pens down. Now, place your checkbooks on the table and slowly back away from the podium…no sudden movements please. Whew! Is it me or is it getting hot in here? As I alluded to last month, I wanted to wait until after Amelia Island to take...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start...
With all the hustle and bustle of the holidays and the prospects of another Scottsdale auction week, it may have...
As brought home in living color on your television screen—or sadly perhaps your front room if you live on the Eastern seaboard—Hurricane Sandy unleashed an unprecedented amount of fury and damage when it made landfall on Oct. 29, in Southern New Jersey. Countless homes and even whole communities were either...
