For the enthusiast, it is a good thing to be able to say that your car is based on a...
1935 MG Airline Coupé Every once in a while an incredible opportunity falls in your lap. A few months ago,...
1913 Cadillac Roadster By 1913, automotive advancements solidified the automobile’s place in the future. Gone were the barbershop debates about the automobile being a flash-in-the-pan and how the horse would eventually win the day. It would be hard to imagine that only a year earlier, electric lights and electric self-starters...
Cambodia-Thailand-Myanmar Destination Rally just finished a fantastic run throughout Southeast Asia on December 1 and spices were the theme for...
Rodney Loredo’s recent book ‘A Darracq Called Genevieve – the story of veteran motoring’s most famous car’ traces his life...
In my 1958 children’s I-Spy Book of Motor-Cars, such mundane and common models(!) as Graber-bodied Alvis and Jaguar XK150s warranted a haul for the spotter of 10 or 20 points apiece. Not bad when a Morris Oxford only earned you two. However, when you reached the center two pages of...
1952 Allard J2X At a sports and exotic car show a while ago, I was feasting my eyes on sculpted...
The Renaissance of a British Carmaker Businessman Martyn Corfield is no stranger to challenges in the fields of motoring and...
The Quest for Aerodynamics One day, after learning that I own four Alfa Romeos, a young man asked me, “Why Alfa Romeo? Why do you like Alfas so much?” Difficult to answer the question at first thought. However, I tried to explain the memory the cars evoke in me—to a...
1939 Balilla 1100 Fiat’s Step into the Future One of the problems with owning a car like none other is...
I relate this story not to recite BMW history, but to talk about how this maker of fine performance sedans,...
Journey From Sydney to Melbourne to Tasmania in a Classic Jaguar Many years back I worked as a jackaroo, which would require no explanation in Australia, but in case you don’t know, that’s a young bloke who is working on a sheep or cattle station (farm) to gain practical experience...
The Standard Motor Company is one of the largest motor companies that so few have ever heard of. It grew...
The success of the first Myanmar Burma Road Classic, in 2014, made this second edition even more special. The idea...
Pierce-Arrow’s Refusal to Sacrifice Quality to Save the Company There is something about the archer on the hood of a Pierce-Arrow that makes the car hard to pass by at a show. That archer means that the car it adorns represents the highest level of quality. Respected and renowned during...
The Lancia Fulvia Lancia was never short of talented engineers. Consider just Vincenzo himself, Vittorio Jano and, later in the...
In the heady, but risky, days of British specialist sports car manufacture in the late 1950s, the intrepid characters involved...
Generation 7, Littler Birds:1977-1979 This next generation of Thunderbirds resulted from conditions outside the company’s control. Lee Iacocca was in charge at Ford, and he saw the Thunderbird as too big, expensive and inefficient. With the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) looming, the 1977 car had to be smaller, more...
Ford’s Personal Luxury Car Ford, over the last half century, has occasionally introduced cars that are just a little different...
Although by 1972 Ferrari had been building race and road cars for 25 years and had turned out well over...
It is a sobering thought that Lamborghinis have only been in production for 50 years and yet, in that relatively short time, the name has become a household byword for the epitome of performance supercars. This stems without doubt from the fact that they have produced a large percentage of...
5 Days, 60 Vintage Cars, 1,000 Miles and 3,000 Years of History – An Amazing Journey Through the Remarkable and...
1922 Duesenberg More words have been written about Duesenberg per “car”-pita than any other marque in the history of the...
Among the world’s most exotic and mysterious motor cars, the big Tatras of the 1930s attract rumor and controversy. Karl Ludvigsen explains the background and his personal experiences of a Type 87. Journalist Gordon Wilkins said that “although it has an impressive performance, it produces in the driver the uneasy...
“Ferraris are meant to be driven.” It’s a rallying cry that has been echoing around the Ferrari community for decades,...
Although better known for its style than its achievements on the track, the Moretti 750 Gran Sport Berlinetta is commanding...
The 1937 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Sedan Exemplifies Buick’s Grand Legacy Ford market researchers, in the mid-1950s, sampled new car buyers in Peoria, Illinois, and San Bernardino, California, in an attempt to identify the image their cars and those of their competitors projected to those buyers. Beverly Rae Kimes reported on...
It began in Richmond, Indiana, in 1851 when Daniel W. Marmon and his partner, a fellow named Nordyke, began manufacturing...
The year is 1950 and life is wonderful. American businesses are growing at an unprecedented rate, the middle class is...
It appears that the collector car hobby has gone mad. I witnessed this with my very own eyes in Monterey this August, and the lunacy involves cars from nearly all parts of the globe. A Sunbeam Tiger Mk II sold for $231,000 and a Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster sold for $341,000....
