Trevor Wilkinson started his engineering business, in 1946, in Beverly Grove, Blackpool. It was named Trevcar Motors and the business...
The MGA’s looks harken back to MG designer Sid Enever’s one-off, envelope body that he created for an MG TD...
I have been making the trip up to Vermont to watch the Mt. Equinox Hillclimb for many years… and getting there is half the fun. So, when a friend at Jaguar offered me a brand new F Type R coupe in Tourmaline Brown, I grabbed the keys before they could...
Carroll Shelby had a thing for speed. First, it was airplanes. During the war, Shelby flew everything from a Beechcraft...
In 1962, Alfa Romeo came out with a new machine, the Giulia. It was actually a series of machines. There...
Just after midnight, in February 1973, there was a battle being waged on a Daytona Beach, Florida race track. All of the heavy-hitters from Lola, Mirage and Matra had fallen by the wayside. The two cars trading places were not factory entries, they were two very separate and independent teams:...
The Triumph Motor Company was a manufacturer started by two partners from Germany building bicycles under the trade name Triumph....
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there...
The Appia was introduced as Lancia’s new entry-level car in the 1950s. It started out as a passenger car in 1953, replacing the Ardea which had been in production since ’43. It was the last of the Lancias to incorporate sliding pillar front suspension—a feature that had been around since...
There are a number of cars that are better known by their nicknames, than their original designation, like the Alfa...
In October of 1964, the 275 GTB was revealed at the Grand Palais in Paris, showing styling cues influenced by...
Porsche put the word out to all its foreign concessionaires, in the summer of 1958, the now 4-year old rough and ready Speedster that had been created especially with the Western American market in mind was not fairing so well in other parts of the world. Become a Member &...
There are many distinguishing features of Jaguar’s big cat XKE. Disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering and independent front and rear suspension,...
In 1963, the Giulia Sprint GT was first shown to the press at Alfa’s recently opened plant in Arese, followed...
As Europe tried to recover from World War II, manufacturers began producing small cars to satisfy the need for personal transportation. There were cycle cars, micro cars, bubble cars. They were cheap to build and buy, and they were economical to drive. As manufacturing was re-established and “real” cars began...
Tom Tjaarda was born to design automobiles. His father John Tjaarda developed a concept car for the Ford Motor Company....
What’s in a name? Let’s examine the two simple words that make up our feature car. Super: Very good or...
Carlo Abarth was born Karl Alberto Abarth, in Vienna, Austria, on November 15, 1908 (He would go on to change his name to Carlo when he moved to Italy after the war). In his teens it was seen that young Karl had a talent for engineering. He became an apprentice...
The 330 GTC was unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Salon and was an amalgam of other Ferraris. It shared its...
In 1966, at the Turin Motor Show, the world got its first look at the Maserati Ghibli, as a two-seat...
The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 made its first appearance to an enthusiastic world at the Paris Auto Salon in 1968. It was unofficially know as the “Daytona,” a name given to it by the media purportedly to celebrate Ferrari’s 1-2-3 finish at the 1967 Daytona 24 Hours. Like the earlier “Tour...
In 1948, Jaguar launched the wild and wooly XK120 at the London Motor Show. It was a testbed and show...
Enzo Ferrari’s focus was on racing, not road cars, but he needed money to finance his racing addiction, so he...
In 1896, in Suresnes a western suburb of Paris, Alexandre Darracq started his business, A Darracg & Cie. His business was building road and racecars. Darracq would go on to become famous for the success of his racecars. But by 1912, Darracq had sold off what remained of his business....
Isothermos was a manufacture of refrigeration units before WWII. The company was founded in Genoa, in 1939, but was moved...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud series was produced between 1955 and 1966 with a production run of 7,372 units. The first...
In 2015, the Citroën DS celebrated its 60th anniversary, in style, in Paris. Over 700 DS owners traveled from all over Europe, showing how the DS still enjoys a huge following. Unanimously acclaimed for its road handling qualities, the DS would also go on to become an agile competition car....
The tricyclecar, or trike, is a strange device in three wheels, at the midway between the motorbike and the car,...
It was September of 1964, when Porsche brought out the Ferry “Butzi” Porsche designed 6-cylinder 911 as the successor to...
There have been a number of British manufacturers who have taken their smaller, less powerful motors out of their sports cars and dropped a nasty, fire-breathing V8 in its place. We know what “Texas Carroll” did first to the AC and then the Sunbeam Alpine. Small car + big engine...
