Nestled in the Royal County of Berkshire, England, is the Saxon Village of Twyford. Once home to William Penn, founder...
Tim McGrane is the Executive Director of the Blackhawk Automotive Museum in Danville, California. VR: How did you get started...
By the early 1950s, several British automotive manufacturers had completely devoted themselves to satisfying the seemingly insatiable postwar appetite for affordable sports cars. One such manufacturer was Coventry’s Standard-Triumph. After a woefully misguided attempt to enter the market with the underpowered and frumpy-looking 1800 Roadster, in 1953 Standard unveiled a...
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife/Cigar Cutter More than simply a cigar cutter, the 3-inch Cigar Knife adds useful tools such as...
Essen, Germany April 10–14, 2013 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More) Access...
In its relatively short two-year history, The Elegance at Hershey has gained a growing reputation as one of the more unique vintage and antique car events in the country, bringing together some of the world’s finest collector cars to “The Sweetest Place on Earth,” all in the name of some...
From March 8 to Sept 30, the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, will host a special exhibit, the Ferrari Supercar....
The Vauxhall 30-98, arguably one of the more significant sports cars of the 20th Century and the first to top...
• The 7th annual Barrington Concours d’Elegance has announced a clutch of luminaries for this year’s event. Stars like racing legend Bobby Rahal, car czar Bob Lutz, Duesenberg expert Randy Ema, collector Peter Mullin and Chicago Deputy Mayor Steve Koch have put their support behind the Concours’ year-long celebration of...
Photo: Peter Collins Cruise through Como on Saturday; line up for the Parma Poggio hillclimb on Sunday. Alfa Romeo: great...
Six (possibly seven) DB2 chassis were sent to Graber, in Switzerland, for custom convertible bodies that featured fixed front fenders...
Gentlemen, please put the pens down. Now, place your checkbooks on the table and slowly back away from the podium…no sudden movements please. Whew! Is it me or is it getting hot in here? As I alluded to last month, I wanted to wait until after Amelia Island to take...
This year is the 50th anniversary of the 911. Its first public viewing was at the September 1963 Frankfurt Auto...
Pagoda Watch By 69Pitstop In honor of the 50th anniversary of Mercedes-Benz’s “Pagoda” SL roadster, watchmaker 69Pitstop has released an...
Over the last 27 years, the Italian Car Day at the Brooklands Museum (May 4, 2013) has grown to become not only the UK’s top event for owners and admirers of all things Italian, but also the largest gathering of Italian cars in the country. Anyone arriving in any Italian...
The late Gianni Agnelli’s favorite cars went on show at the Museum of the Automobile in Turin, Italy, on March...
Talk about a gift from the heavens…LeMay – America’s Car Museum announced the surprise arrival of a 1964 Lincoln Continental...
RM Auctions, the official auction house of the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance, continued its run of fantastic 2013 results, on March 9, with a highly successful Amelia Island, Florida, sale where records tumbled and more than $26.8 million was grossed with over 92 percent of all lots sold. 1933 Stutz...
One of the stars taking the green at this year’s Greenwich Concours, June 1-2, will be a very rare Ghia-bodied...
Roy Brown Jr.—designer of the much maligned, ’50s flop the Ford Edsel—passed away on Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor, Michigan,...
The 63rd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, to be held August 18, on the 18th fairway at Pebble Beach Golf Links, will feature a variety of special marques including: Lincoln — After Ford purchased Lincoln in 1922, Edsel Ford took a marque well known for mechanical excellence and defined it with...
• RM Auctions’ February 18–19, Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum sale generated more than $9.1 million with 100 percent of all...
One stop shop for road, rally or track performance In the UK, Northampton is one of those towns that is...
It is interesting to note that the two most iconic constructors of Italian road-going sports cars—Ferrari and Maserati—only grudgingly began offering Grand Touring cars in the 1950s. For founders Enzo Ferrari and the Maserati brothers, racing was their focus and their passion. Yet, in a post-war world screaming for sports...
High-powered Italian automotive exotica has always had an attraction for a select number of prominent people of means. Today it’s...
British expat, John Amette, is responsible for all Ferrari Classiche submissions for Ferrari of Newport Beach, Ferrari of San Diego...
As you’ll read in various sections of this month’s issue, the 2013 season got off to a surprisingly hot start with the annual orgy of collecting that is the Scottsdale auctions. While I want to come back around to what the overall market seems to be doing and where it...
Few cars in the history of the automobile can be viewed as more revolutionary than the Mini. Designed by Sir...
Volkswagen Camper—Six Decades of Success By Richard Copping Interest in—and sale prices of—early Volkswagen busses and campers hasskyrocketed in recent...
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