There may be a cold wind a-coming… There’s nothing worse than a pundit, bragging, “I told you so.” So, I...
Just how far are you prepared to go for exclusivity? In January, Bentley announced that its famed Mulliner coachbuilding team...
Could the passing of a new law breed an entirely new segment of “classics”? The terms “Kit Car” and “Replica” are perhaps two of the most controversial—and misunderstood—concepts in the collector car community. For many, many years, these were considered derogatory terms, an affront to any right-minded enthusiast, as how...
Can a fictional spy save the world…and a car company? I write this column on the eve of Halloween. While...
For some in the automotive world, apparently cheating is a core value From the first day we start kindergarten, we...
…I was jumping up and down on the hood, like a chimpanzee in heat I think, like a number of enthusiasts, I started restoring and working on classic cars because I loved the cars, but couldn’t afford a pristine example, so I had to buy an inexpensive beater and do...
Being ejected from the car…that’s half the appeal! As I’ve mentioned off and on, I’ve found that my automotive tastes...
Apparently, you can only dodge so many bullets… I’m cruising down the road, nestled in a big, comfortable leather seat....
Fighting a virus can be a lifetime affair… Viruses can be insidious things. They initially infect you, you’re sick with its disease for who knows how long and then, finally, you clear it from your system. Yet, some viruses can lay dormant in your system for days, months or even...
…or why America lacks an international show One of the things I really enjoy, each month, is poring over all...
Conundrums of nomenclature in the automotive world Each month, I end up reading every word—on both sides of the magazine—at...
Is the world really hankering for a return of the Borgward? I see a lot of automotive press releases, every single day. Eight times out of ten, they are about something fairly mundane or of no interest to those of us in the classic car world. However, every once in...
Has history caught up with the electric car? I mention in my column on the other side of the magazine...
Do these bellbottoms make my car look fat? Show of hands…how many of you sported a pair of bellbottoms in...
In the automotive world, surprisingly, quite a lot. Just prior to this November’s Los Angeles Auto Show, Mercedes-Benz made the announcement that they were bringing back—for the second time—the Maybach name. Some will remember that back in 1997, Mercedes debuted a new, ultra luxury concept at that year’s Tokyo Motorshow....
Let’s embrace the enthusiast passion… even if we don’t always understand it. I was recently having a conversation about a...
Casey Annis Editor/Publisher Jaguar is apparently a cat with more than six lives to live. Last month is this space,...
Alfa Romeo’s return to the American market is great for Alfisti and enthusiasts in general. At the time of this writing, the American automotive media was in the throws of rapture over the long awaited return to these shores of fabled Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo and its exciting new 4C...
If you’ve spent any kind of time in the collector car world, then you’ve certainly heard the word “provenance” bantered...
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...
