Two Citroën Traction Avants at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, examples of fairly mild French styling of the Deco era....
Chopard Grand Prix de Monaco Historique Chronograph Produced in honor of the prestigious Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, this 42.4-mm...
Her Majesty had a number of vehicles entered in the Cartier “Style et Luxe” Royal Vehicle Concours d’Elegance at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Celebrity Judges awarded best car to the Aston Martin DB6 Volante convertible, owned by Prince Charles—his 21st birthday present from his mother, 43 years ago—and...
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Starting in 1954, Italian manufacturer Alfa Romeo launched a series of small, affordable sports cars based around its all-alloy, 1300-cc, inline, 4-cylinder engine. This new model came to be known as the Giulietta (750 Series) and for the next 10 years would prove to be a fabulously successful offering for...
The 2012 Hilton Head Island Motoring Festival & Concours d’Elegance will include major international names in automotive collecting and racing...
• The highly acclaimed Desert Classic Concours d’Elegance, which has been held the last week of February for the past...
The story of the production model 300 SL really picks up where our story about the W194 Le Mans racecar ends. After a highly successful 1952 racing season where the W194 “Gullwing” won the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Carrera Panamericana, the entire sports car program was closed,...
Like so many great automobiles of our time, the Mercedes-Benz SL series can trace its origins directly to the racetrack....
Nearly a decade after it had stunned the world with the original 300 SL, Mercedes-Benz faced the daunting task of replacing the world’s first supercar. Instead of constructing another pure sports car, with performance as the ultimate goal, Mercedes decided to turn the SL quest in a different direction, designing...
2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 Photo: Mercedes-Benz 2013 Mercedes-Benz SL550 While the 300 SL of the 1950s was unquestioningly a sports car...
May 11–12, 2012 Monte Carlo, Monaco Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
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Italy and the world lost one of the most accomplished stylists of all time in early July, when Sergio Pininfarina...
This past July, Britain’s Beaulieu could have been mistaken for one of its French counterparts, as around 200 French vehicles...
For the 12th year, Paris’s Parc des Expositions at Le Bourget, will play host on October 13–14, to Automédon, an expansive vintage and collectible automobile exposition. Much like the winter’s Retromobile, Automédon will this year honor a number of special segments of he hobby including vintage tricycles like the Morgan...
The Lotus Elan was launched in October 1962 at the British Motorshow, making next month the car’s 50th anniversary. The...
Bonhams has announced that it has been commissioned to sell a recently discovered 1928 Mercedes-Benz 26/120/180 ‘S’ Type Sports Tourer,...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog, when in fact the car is owned by the Petersen Automotive Museum, in Los Angeles. • RM Auctions further expands its 2012 calendar with the addition of The Charlie Thomas...
After World War II, Enzo Ferrari began the work of retooling his small company from manufacturing parts for Italy’s war...
As you’ll read in this month’s news, Bloomberg News recently confirmed that a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO has been sold...
llan and Richard Jensen started business manufacturing auto bodies under contract for Austin. The firm also made bodies for the Volvo P1800, Sunbeam Tiger and Austin-Healey in addition to the first Interceptor built from 1950 to 1957 with various engines under an attractive glass fiber body. The second iteration of...
Griot’s Glass Sealant There are many joys associated with driving a classic car that can’t be reproduced by any other...
May 25-27, 2012 Lake Como, Italy Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+ More)...
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It’s nearly 50 years since Bob Smith started his business RS Panels in Nuneaton, England. Over that time he has...
On May 23-24, on the banks of Lake Como, a select group of the world’s finest automobiles were displayed on...
The cars were very much the stars at the 2012 Mille Miglia Commemoration in May, the 30th such event to pay tribute to the original non-stop race on public roads from Brescia to Rome and back again from 1927-1957. For years the re-run was packed with the rich, famous, noble...
