Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori was an aftermarket company that produced parts to “hot rod” Fiats. The company was started...
Monterey, CA August 17, 2016 James Hetfield’s amazing Aquarius Jet planes and Ferraris Stunning Studebaker Woody Hot Rod Become...
La Jolla, California April 10, 2016 Michael and Patricia Adams’ 1925 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost Cabriolet John Gerardy’s 1964 Shelby Cobra Chris Collins’ 1925 Packard 645 Phaeton The 1936 Delahaye 135 Competition Disappearing Top Convertible owned by Ken and Ann Smith Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This...
1931 AJS 9hp Richmond Saloon Mention AJS and most will think of motorcycles, but there was more to AJS than...
Generation 7, Littler Birds:1977-1979 This next generation of Thunderbirds resulted from conditions outside the company’s control. Lee Iacocca was in...
Can a fictional spy save the world…and a car company? I write this column on the eve of Halloween. While my youngest daughter is busting at the seams for what is one of her favorite holidays, I have to say it no longer holds much allure for me. The holiday...
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars...
The 2015 Santa Fe Concorso gathered more than 100 rare and exotic cars on the grounds of The Club at...
Barrett-Jackson finished one of its strongest years in the company’s history following the 8th Annual Las Vegas Auction on Sept. 24-26, 2015. Barrett-Jackson’s Las Vegas auction enjoyed a 98 percent sell-through rate with sales totaling more than $26.9 million and $750,000 raised for charity. Top lot of the sale was a...
Throughout the 1950s, American automobile manufacturers developed some of the most extravagant concept cars. While many of these efforts were...
Any MG enthusiast would remember the sad day on October 23, 1980, when the last MGB left the famed Abingdon site. Workers paraded outside the factory as the following day marked the closure of the factory that had been the home of the MG sports car since 1929. Thankfully, the...
St. Michaels, MD September 25-26, 2015 Ken Swanstrom’s Fiat Abarth 750 Coupe, Robin & Alan Anspaugh’s Triumph Italia 200GT and...
Malvern, PA September 13, 2015 Richard Amuso showed his 1923 Detroit Electric 97B Brougham. The 80 mile range, 20 MPH...
Goodwood House, Chichester, UK September 11-13 (left to right) An Aston Martin DB2/4, MGA, Sunbeam Alpine and two Austin-Healey “Frog Eye” Sprites. R to L: Dino 308 GT4, Triumph TR4 and a Buick Roadmaster. A Frazer Nash Falcon alongside a Ford Model A. Fiat Abarth 1000 otr Bertone Prototype. ...
Blenheim Palace, Oxford, UK September 3-5, 2015 ...
Milwaukee, WI September 22-23 The 1959 Jensen 541R, owned by Emmanuel Louchios. This unusual 1958 Meadows Friskysport is powered by a 2-stroke, Villers 3T 2-cylinder engine and is owned by Mark Green. Phil Bachman’s 1953 Ferrari 166MM/53 Vignale Barchetta (0342M). The wild 1954 Woodill Wildfire Series II Roadster of Richard...
1932 Jordan Playboy We spotted the Playboy at a “Cruisin’ For a Cure” meet at the Los Angeles Fairgrounds a...
Ford’s Personal Luxury Car Ford, over the last half century, has occasionally introduced cars that are just a little different than what was being offered by the competition. The Mustang, for example, created the genre of “pony cars.” Recently, Ford introduced the Flex—not really an SUV, not a station wagon,...
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...
Artcurial will hold its inaugural Hong Kong auction in collaboration with Spink, on October 5-6, 2015. The sale, entitled From Paris to Hong Kong aims to tell the story of works of art and objects of beauty spanning three centuries, from decorative arts to major international works of art. The...
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...
