All of us drew in our notebooks at school, crafting and designing that perfect, wind-cheating, sleek, sexy, powerful sports car...
The first thought after looking around the garage has to be “why would a woman with four Ferraris have an...
Porsche, throughout its racing career, has created some of the most iconic machines of all time: the RSK, 904, 906, 908… and, of course, the 917. Also among these celebrated creations is the 911 RSR: a purpose-built racer created to compete in the GT category. In 1973, two “privateer” RSRs...
In 1950, Gerry Coker got a job at the Donald Healey Motor Company as Healey’s body engineer. A short time...
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Pur Sang doesn’t really imitate—it recreates. Merriam-Webster definition: recreate: to give new...
Enzo Ferrari, in his autobiography in Automobile Quarterly Volume III No. 1, said “I have, in fact, no interests in life outside racing cars….” Yet, it was that interest in racing cars that led him to build some of the most desirable road cars in the world—sales of the road...
Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori was an aftermarket company that produced parts to “hot rod” Fiats. The company was started...
Available in two- and four-door sedans, station wagons and even tradesman’s panel vans, the first generation Ford Escort, released in...
The Apollo GT was the brainchild of engineer Milt Brown and his partner Newt Davis. The youthful entrepreneurs envisioned a sports car with American reliability and Italian inspired design. The Apollo GT took shape as Frank Reisner, founder of “Intermeccanica,” became the coachbuilder. Brown enlisted designer Ron Plescia to sketch...
When West Coaster Johnny Von Neumann went to the mighty Max Hoffman and asked him for an inexpensive, bare-bones, open...
The DB2 was a grand success, but Aston Martin wanted to entice more people to its creations. In 1953, AM...
The Bavarian Motor Works was established in 1916. Originally building aircraft engines, at the end of World War I, they were forced by terms of the Versailles Armistice Treaty to end production, so they moved on to motorcycles. The first car from BMW was the Dixi based on the British...
Alfa Romeo has produced a great number of very special cars during its 105-plus years of existence. Most of them,...
In 1957, the folks in Coventry were making plans for the replacement of the XK150. A small 2/3-scale aluminum prototype...
On August 11, 1881, Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan was born to Florence and the Reverend Prebendary Henry George Morgan, in the Manor House of the village of Morton Jeffries, in Herefordshire, England. Interested in art and engineering at a young age, Morgan awas allowed by his parents to follow his muse....
When Carroll Shelby hung up his racing helmet, in 1959, for health reasons, he had to come up with a...
Jean Rédélé loved cars! His father was a dealer. In 1946, he took over from his father and became the...
Alfa Romeo has designed and built many desirable automobiles, in-house, during its century-plus existence, but some of its most interesting cars have been designed by independent coachbuilders—the 1931 6C 1750 by Zagato, Touring-bodied 8C 2900B of the late ’30s, several lovely Pininfarina Spider designs from the ’50s to the mid-’90s,...
1987 Porsche 928 S4 Porsche rolled the dice in Geneva in 1977, introducing the 928 as a replacement for its...
Any MG enthusiast would remember the sad day on October 23, 1980, when the last MGB left the famed Abingdon...
In the mid-1960s, Ferrari wanted to go racing in Formula Two. The rub was, they needed a two-liter engine, and they needed to produce it to the tune of 500 units in order to placate the FIA. The FIA required the engine to be production-based and to have no more...
Enzo Ferrari probably didn’t care much for his 365 GT 2+2. He didn’t care much for any of his road...
If it moved, Stanley Harold Arnolt II had something to do with it. He built bomb racks and fuel lines...
In 1966, when the stunning Lamborghini Miura debuted at the Geneva Auto Show, it shook the automotive industry. The car’s sleek, muscular lines and an engine positioned mid-mounted was influenced by the motorsports world but was something never seen before in road cars. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
William Lyons was born in 1901. His father owned a musical instrument store and his mother was the daughter of...
Legends are often born in obscurity. Alfa Romeo’s humble beginnings gave no hint as to the extraordinary heights the company...
Donald Healey and his small team at the Donald Healey Motor Company in Warwick, England, were on a roll. Late 1952 brought the combining of Austin and Healey into the new marque of Austin-Healey. Part of the agreement between the newly formed British Motor Corporation and the DHMC was that...
Archibald Frazer-Nash started his company in 1922, but found himself in receivership by 1927. From the ashes was born AFN...
The middle of April 1939, brought the end of the run of 3003 MG TAs. Following close on its heels...
In convoy with a Ferrari 365 GT 2+2, no one seemed to notice the intensely red Ferrari. Instead, fingers pointed and all heads followed the little blue Citroën 2CV, or “Duex Chevaux” as it is popularly known. This “Tout Petite Voiture,” TPV or “very small car,” came to be because...
