Mid-January is auction week in Scottsdale, Arizona, and this year there were eight auction companies in the region hosting sales. One of the first to run is Indiana-based Worldwide Auctioneers, which...
Photos courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. Bertone was once one of the greatest Italian design and coachbuilding houses. Its credits include styling icons such as the Lancia Str...
Courtesy of the Studebaker National Museum The directors of the Studebaker National Museum announce the establishment of the Campisi Education Fund. The fund was created with the donation of a 1955 S...
Photo courtesy of Worldwide Auctioneers. Worldwide Auctioneers recently announced that the company would be adding a new division focusing solely on automotive and Motorsports memorabilia. The new di...
Photo by GmanViz. Though Craig Corbell said he got to within a year of putting prototypes for his Cord revival project on the road, he’s decided to drop the project altogether and put the rights for ...
1925 Bugatti Type 35A, chassis 4631. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. Introduced in 1924, the Bugatti Type 35 was the French automaker’s most successful competition model, amassing more than 1,...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. The concept of the assembled car—one built of off-the-shelf parts bought from a host of suppliers—died out in the 1920s. One of those suppliers, however, just c...
1967 Shelby G.T. 350; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicular lots. It’s goo...
1977 Chevrolet LUV pickup. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctions. In need of a compact pickup to fight sales of import trucks, Chevrolet turned to Japanese partner Isuzu for help and, in 1972, debuted t...
1957 Kurtis Kraft 500G Indy roadster. Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers unless otherwise noted. By the mid-1950s, Smokey Yunick’s skill as a mechanic and crew chief was well-established in NASCAR...
1974 Volkswagen Thing Acapulco Edition; image by the author. When covering auctions for our print publications, a simple rule of thumb–that we do our best to adhere to–is to review a few extra vehicu...
Photos courtesy Joe Bortz. No coincidence that the nose of Brooks Stevens’ Die Valkyrie concept car not only had the shape of a giant V but also a smaller V-8 emblem within the V: He wanted to make s...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. What if Carroll Shelby had the ear not of Henry Ford II but of his father, Edsel Ford? And what if sports cars became a phenomenon in the United States not afte...
Photos courtesy Worldwide Auctioneers. “Dulce Domum,” loosely translated, means “Sweetly at home.” It conveys a sense of comfort, of settlement, of wanting for little. Fittingly, somebody long ago ta...