“Look at this!” Tracy shouted across the house. My wife’s swim coach voice was too enthusiastic to tarry, so I...
The Hudson Terraplane grille is among the most attractive of all time. In the June 2012 issue of Vintage Roadcar,...
Shunned, snubbed and overlooked, Ferrari’s 250 GT/E coupe has been a languishing classic waiting to happen for most of its 50-plus years. Only recently have the model’s PininFarina looks and Maranello engineering begun to gain traction with both classic car collectors and Ferrari fans. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access...
Photo: Ron Kellogg Collection After World War I, Alfieri Maserati (one of six Maserati brothers) took a position as a...
Later model 3500GTs, with the larger 4-liter engine and 5-speed ZF transmission, are the most desirable. About 30 miles north...
Photo: Gerard Brown Photo: Gerard Brown The original plan was to take my two-liter Low Chassis Lagonda. This was a “barn find” bought nine months previously. I subsequently found out that not only was it an original supercharged car, but had a rally history, including the 1931 London to Edinburgh...
The OSCA 1600 GT Zagato is perhaps one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood GT cars of the post- war...
1899 Columbia Elec Brougham. Today the name Town Car is almost exclusively associated with Lincoln, but that was by no...
The Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica (BAT) Alfa Romeos, by Scaglione, put Bertone on the map in the 1950s. Pictured here is BAT 7. Photo: The Blackhawk Collection For lovers of design over and above things automotive, Stile Bertone is housed in a building that just shouts 1950s Italian modernism. It’s a pleasure...
Local Bahamian physician Pablo de Souza attacks the Fort Charlotte hillclimb in his 427 Cobra replica.Photo: Casey Annis bahamas speed...
Propellers proved to be an important development in the history of transportation. On ships, once steam power was mastered, propellers...
This right-hand-drive 250 MM Pinin Farina Berlinetta was owned by British fashion model and socialite Nina Dyer when she married Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan in 1957. The car was completed in June, 1953, painted steel grey. Although the 250 MM Ferraris were built for racing, Nina Dyer’s car has no...
The only other Lemans convertible that still exists was returned to the factory in 1959 and restyled by Harley Earl...
Bill Miller in his magnificent Miller V12 Packard. Bill Miller was a genius. You hear this term used a lot,...
1953 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama Show Car. As we celebrate the 60th anniversary of Corvette, it is appropriate to reflect on some of the technologies that have been introduced through the “halo” Corvette. Of course, the introduction of a new technology to the mass market can be a sensitive issue and...
Of the major Western automobile manufacturing nations, England may have been the most staid when it came to streamlining and...
Circa-1920s outside the London home of Rolls-Royce at 15 Conduit Street.Photo: Courtesy of Rolls-Royce On March 27, 1863, Frederick Henry...
The 1929 Lincoln Aero Phaeton, by LeBaron, was one of the earliest American vehicles to employ a tailfin. Priced at a towering $7,400, it sold poorly and was not cataloged the following year. Today fins are remembered as the outward expression of our automotive engineering prowess during the height of...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
Toyota’s first car, the AA, was a close copy of the DeSoto Airflow with essentially a 1933 Chevrolet engine. Photo: Toyota Motor Sales, U.S. Archives The decade of the ’30s was a time of incredible creativity among automobile designers and coachbuilders, especially in Europe. But it was also a decade of...
Cisitalia 202 was a ground-breaking post-war design that placed Pininfarina at the forefront of automotive design. The late 19th century...
Photo: David Gooley One glance at a late 1937, ‘38 or ‘39 Darl’mat 402 Special Sport tells you it’s classic...
When Enzo Ferrari began building cars under his own name in 1947 he built racecars, satisfying a pent up desire he harbored through the war years to return to competition on his own terms as soon as possible following the hostilities. To those who knew him, this was not unexpected...
Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
The 1920s and 1930s were not only a pivotal time in world history, they proved to be the crucible from which the Italian Alfa Romeo brand would forge its future. Engineer Giuseppe Merosi launched A.L.F.A with the 4-cylinder 24 HP, in 1910. Founded by gifted engineer Giuseppe Merosi, on January...
“MAYA –Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable”– was the acronym industrial designer Raymond Loewy used to describe his design philosophy. To catch...
Ercole Spada started his design career with Carozzeria Zagato in 1960.Photo: David Gooley Artists and artisans have called Italy home...
During the late 1920s changes in automobile design began to be seen. After the stock market crash, even Henry Ford – whose disregard for art was very public – had to give up his Model T and allow a little style to creep into his designs in order to encourage...
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