We open the smallish front doors, typical of open cars of the 1920s, and climb in. Chris Kidd pulls down...
Vintage Roadcar Features
1958 DeSoto Adventurer The 1950s were a halcyon period for American car manufacturing. After the deprivation of the war years,...
“Bella figura” is Italian for “beautiful figure.” Winston Goodfellow uses the phrase in the title of the section of his book, “Ferrari – Road and Racing,” on the 250 GT/L, aka Berlinetta Lusso. Preston Lerner, in his book “Speed Read – Ferrari,” says about the 250 GT/L, “The reason it’s...
Sensational French shapes and racing pedigree are part of what make Talbot-Lago automobiles exotic, beautiful, rare and sought after. Few...
Photo: Steve Oom With just over 600 produced between 1954 and 1962 it can t be said that the Jensen...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley After he had finished the restoration of his 1936 Stout Scarab, Ron Schneider took it to a prestigious car show in Michigan. Two suited Chrysler executives looked over the car. As they turned to go, one said to the other, “So, who’s going to tell Lee...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley When you have the only one ever built, you might have trouble convincing people that it...
90 and counting On behalf of everyone at Sports Car Digest, Happy Birthday Karl! As most of you know, Karl...
Photo: Peter Collins Things were bad. There had been difficulties before for Lancia, but on both occasions the good guys had ridden over the hill to save the damsel in distress in the nick of time. Back in 1955 Gianni Lancia had had to say goodbye to his eponymous company....
Photo: Steve Oom The next time you see an Audi on the road look closely at its badge. Four intertwined...
Introduction The Jaguar C-type holds profound significance in automotive history, epitomizing the golden age of sports car racing in the...
It’s rather ironic that both the birth of the “Pony Car” movement in the mid-1960s, and its eventual death in the early 1970s, would be brought about by the “economy car.” Perhaps even more interesting, and less well known, is the fact that the first car to officially enter this...
The 275 GTB occupies a very rarified space in the pantheon of Ferrari road car history. It sits at an...
The Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Berlinetta is a milestone in the legacy of Enzo Ferrari’s quest for sports car GT...
National Motor Museum mechanics have discovered time capsule finds during the start of the restoration of Land Speed Record breaker Sunbeam 1000hp. The historic finds were made while the workshop team removed its two colossal V12 aero engines, workings and body panels for the Sunbeam 1000hp Restoration Campaign. The campaign...
The Pearl Collection The Concours of Elegance 2023 at Hampton Court, is set to extend a warm welcome to Fritz...
Il Commendatore Research the Ferrari automobile, and it will soon become apparent that it was built from one man’s passion...
Ferrari has announced the SF90 XX Stradale and its companion, the SF90 XX Spider, both unveiled as limited series editions derived from the SF90 Stradale. With production capped at 799 and 599 units respectively, these cutting-edge V8-powered PHEVs epitomize Ferrari’s pursuit of extraordinary performance in road cars to be used...
Coinciding its 60th anniversary with the 30th celebration of the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Automobili Lamborghini graced the United Kingdom...
2024 theme and details “The Art of Automotive Design” has been chosen as the theme for the next Arizona Concours...
Press release: For Rolls-Royce, 2023 marks the 110th anniversary of success at the Alpine Trails, an event spanning eight days and 2,600 kilometers. The marque’s dominance created the Silver Ghost’s reputation as “the best car in the world,” and set the stage for a legend to be built. Rolls-Royce looks...
From our friends at Broad Arrow Auctions comes one of the holy grails of post-war sports cars; the 1956 A6G/54...
When Jim Gehkre returned from his tour in Vietnam, in January of 1970, the first thing he needed was a...
Patrick Long For the best part of 20 years, Patrick Long was a Porsche factory driver. Having hung up his helmet at the end of 2021, today he remains a competition advisor for Porsche Motorsport, heading up North America’s young driver development program. But away from the circuit, for countless...
Designed for aircraft Rooted in aeronautics but more commonly known for its automotive applications, the NACA (not NASA) duct is...
A salute to the past The 2023 edition of the California Mille included 67 classic sports cars traversing scenic California...
A proving ground like no other Automotive factory proving grounds and test tracks are like Disneyland – the fun is varied and never-ending. Even the work feels like car play. Every carmaker has these facilities, and they are as varied as the planets in our solar system. Many of them...
What is it about a Stradale? Ask most Alfisti what Alfa they’d most like to have in their garage, and...
Synonymous with Zagato, but embraced throughout the automotive industry, double-bubble roofs are one of the most striking design cues ever...
In September 2022, I travelled to Townsend, Tennessee, in the Great Smokey Mountains for Okteenerfest. The annual gathering of Porsche 914s was a fun, albeit secondary, reason for going. The primary reason was to profile a rare 914 model, a Can-Am in a color combination that causes it to be...
