With the holidays just around the corner, we’ve curated an exclusive collection of unique gifts for the discerning automotive enthusiasts...
Famed Hollywood customizer George Barris has passed away at the age of 89. Before World War II, George and his brother Sam began building their own custom cars and formed the Kustoms Car Club, in Southern California. After the war, the duo resumed building customs and Hot Rods, which resulted...
Last weekend’s 14th Annual Hilton Head Island Concours d’Elegance selected the 1933 Chrysler Custom Imperial Phaeton owned by Joseph and...
Art Chrisman, a drag racer who could do it all — design, build, prepare and drive record-breaking racecars — has...
1932 Jordan Playboy We spotted the Playboy at a “Cruisin’ For a Cure” meet at the Los Angeles Fairgrounds a few weeks before our test drive. We had spent that morning listening to the rumbling parade of chromed and polished Chevy Small-block-powered Tupperware deuce coupes rolling by when we went...
Ford’s Personal Luxury Car Ford, over the last half century, has occasionally introduced cars that are just a little different...
For some in the automotive world, apparently cheating is a core value From the first day we start kindergarten, we...
Lory Lockwood, David Snyder and Dan Reed During The Elegance at Hershey, this past June, VR Contributor J. Michael Hemsley moderated a seminar on collecting automotive art, where three artists shared insights into the origins of their automotive art and the process of how it is created. Become a Member...
Artcurial will hold its inaugural Hong Kong auction in collaboration with Spink, on October 5-6, 2015. The sale, entitled From...
It’s hard to imagine any scene from “Americana” that does not include a wood-bodied station wagon. Not only were wood...
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...
Monterey Peninsula, CA August 13, 2015 1913 Pope-Hartford 29 Roadster. 1936 Duesenberg J. Rollston Convertible Berline. 1955 Ferrari 857S Scaglietti Spyder (#0588M), which was once raced by Carroll Shelby and once owned by Andy Warhol. A rare Shelby GT350H. Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Monterey, CA August 12, 2015 Ferrari 166MM fresh off The Quail Rally. Unique Jet-Hot Roadster sits alongside a Ford GT,...
Barneveld, Wisconsin August 9, 2015 1937 Humpmobile Aerodynamic CoupeOwner: Tom Griffith – Verona, WI 1970 BMW 2800CS (complete with faded, flaking paint – very cool). Owner: Craig Walker, Janesville, WI 1934 Ford Woody WagonOwner: Bill & Joyce Mihlbauer – DeForest, WI 1963 Austin Healey 3000. Owner: Dan & Linda O’Connor – Bureau...
The 12th Annual La Jolla Concours d’Elegance will take place on the weekend of April 8-10, 2016, at Ellen Browning...
One of the main attractions for this weekend’s Mecum Chicago Auction at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center is a 1966...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced its grand reopening celebration will take place Saturday, December 5, 2015, at the museum on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax in Los Angeles. As it completes the transformation that places it among the finest automotive museums in the world, The New Petersen seeks...
The 10th annual Boca Raton Concours d’Elegance presented by AutoNation and Mercedes-Benz, will take place February 19-21, 2016, at the...
Bruce Wennerstrom, the co-founder and chairman of Greenwich Concours d’Elegance, passed away Wednesday morning, September 30, 2015. Genia, his wife of 55 years...
The livescience.com website defines aerodynamics as “the study of how gases interact with moving bodies. Because the gas that we encounter most is air, aerodynamics is primarily concerned with the forces of drag and lift, which are caused by air passing over and around solid bodies.” Airplanes were the catalyst...
Although by 1972 Ferrari had been building race and road cars for 25 years and had turned out well over...
…I was jumping up and down on the hood, like a chimpanzee in heat I think, like a number of...
Brian Blain: President, Blain Farms Car Collector, Restorer VR: So when where you first bitten by the car bug? Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access to the full article is limited to paid subscribers only. Our membership removes most ads, lets you...
Among car collectors, enthusiasts, even kids who’ve yet to master driving, the Chevrolet Corvette needs no introduction. Introduced in 1953,...
Enzo Ferrari probably didn’t care much for his 365 GT 2+2. He didn’t care much for any of his road...
Chantilly, VA June 21, 2015 The Kerr family brought their 1935 Packard Twelve Coupe/Roadster that has been in the family since 1942. One of only 53 built, it still gets driven at least 1,000 miles a year. The only known surviving Norwalk automobile, the 1914 Underslung Six. Powered by a...
