From the seller’s description: Very straight `56 Custom Royal D-500 (HEMI) sedan . Coral, charcoal, ivory tri-tone. Equipped with Powerflite auto. trans. (pushbutton), tinted windshield, radio, heate...
Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. They should have returned to Detroit with a hero’s welcome. Instead, Lincoln brass essentially buried their employees’ accomplishment – setting a 182 MPH record at Bon...
Remington typewriter. Photo by Matt. The internet isn’t always a friendly place. No matter where you navigate your browser these days, it often comes down to this: people love to argue, infused perha...
From the seller’s description: 1943 Volkswagen Schwimmwagen for sale. This vehicle was manufactured by the German Army during World War 2 where around 15,000 examples were made. Today most of them ha...
Photo courtesy AmericanAuctioneers.com. From photos, it’s hard to say which of the six Powell pickups coming up for auction is the cream of the crop: One’s missing its windshield, another appears giv...
Being a life-long Triumph nut, as proven by the TR2, TR3A, GT6 MKI, Spitfire MKIII, and Herald saloon parked in my garage, it should be no surprise that I’ve also amassed an extensive collection of T...
Fresh from a 1,000-hour sympathetic restoration, this 1976 Chevrolet Cosworth Vega is said to have amassed just 3,200 miles in 42 years. From the seller’s description: Cosworth #3283 is the lowest mi...
Mecum’s Spring 2018 Gone Farmin’ Auction. Photos courtesy Mecum Auctions. Mecum’s Gone Farmin’ auction in Davenport, Iowa, earlier this month hauled in $4.5 million from the sale of 460 lots which in...
Vintage ads courtesy of the Automotive History Preservation Society. I’ve always wanted to own a muscle-car-era convertible. I know that may sound like a midlife crisis in high gear, but this all act...
From the seller’s description: You are viewing a frame off restored 1968 Ford XL Convertible . 428 V8, 4-speed. This vehicle is rare, 1 of 59 with this engine & transmission combination made as per M...
Photographs courtesy The Museum of Off-Road Adventure. While most four-wheel-drive enthusiasts would argue that the proper place for any such vehicle is a trail, a beach, or a mud bog, a group in Mic...
Triumph TR4 at the 2015 Manx Classic Rally. Photo by Jack_IOM. For decades, hosting a motorsport event on public roads in mainland Great Britain required — quite literally — an act of Parliament. Cha...
1977 Omega V-6 Sports Pack Ad. From the author’s collection. If you didn’t need your mid-to-late-1970s ride to be particularly fast, but still found a sporty look and precise handling alluring, autom...
Photograph by Thomas A. DeMauro. No single factor ever sinks an automaker. The struggle between profits and losses typically has its roots in circumstances suffered from decisions made years, if not ...
Images courtesy Indiana Racing Memorial Association. Like many motorsports pioneers, Floyd “Pop” Dreyer pursued speed however and wherever he could. Motorcycle racing, Indy racing, midget car racing,...
Trio includes a Jaguar XK8 convertible, Mazda RX7, and Porsche 911, typical of Radwood cars of the 1980s and ’90s. Such vehicles aren’t considered particularly collectible today, but there’s no doubt...
From the seller’s description: This is a 1985 TVR 280i in excellent condion, garage kept with 35,000 miles. It is 1 of 239 produced in Blackpool, England in 1985. It has a German Ford 2.8 liter V-6 w...
Photo courtesy Bonhams. As the family of Piet den Hartogh indicated when they decided to close his museum dedicated to Ford vehicles a year and a half ago, they will sell the entire collection all at...
The record-setting ‘Herbie,’ a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle sunroof sedan. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. No one knows exactly how many Volkswagen Beetles Walt Disney Productions used in making the first...
Each spring for 40 years, the Hornets Nest Region of the AACA has held AutoFair at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it has grown into an event quite unlike any other in the U.S. The event is truly an...
Photos courtesy AACA Library. “Baby” is 63 years old, 5,000 pounds, and rated at three-quarter ton. But after a seven-year restoration of the 1955 Chevrolet bookmobile, Baby is also brand-spanking ne...
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...
Turbocharged, five-speed, front-wheel drive 1991 Eagle Talon TSi for sale. From the seller’s description: Very clean factory stock, front wheel drive, 5 speed, turbo, four cylinder car. It was my dai...
From the seller’s description: 1988 BMW M6, Selling a pristine orignal example of a very rare car. Only 246 M6 were sold in the US in 1988 which was the last year of production for the E24. Amog othe...