Miguel Llorente is the former curator of the Al Ain Classic Car Museum in the UAE, but he’s also the explorer that “discovered” the Cuban Gullwing. His dream is to open a new museum, the “Petersen of...
Photos courtesy Terry Ernest. Long time Wills Sainte Claire Museum member Bill Mason’s son, Rick, emailed me earlier this year and asked if I could attend and represent the Wills Museum at his father...
The Simeone Collection’s “Hippie Car,” a 1970 Porsche 917LH. Photos by Andrew Taylor, courtesy Simeone Museum. In the early days of racing, a powerful engine was the primary component in achieving vi...
More than 300 invited guests and members view 33 genuine Indy cars from 9 different decades – a full field under one roof – celebrating the 100th running of the 500. Photos by Don Homuth. Editor’s No...
As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a Packard touring car body. That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor ...
Offloading the Corvette SS at the National Corvette Museum. Photo courtesy the National Corvette Museum. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is roughly 230 miles from the National Corvette Museum in Bowl...
The McLaren M8D at speed. Photo courtesy McLaren Automotive Limited. McLaren might be a small company as compared to the giants of the auto industry, but when it comes to success on the track, few ca...
The Riverside Museum. Photos by Karissa Hosek, courtesy RM Sothebys. Want to run in the Indianapolis 500? Assuming one has a suitable Dallara DW12 chassis, appropriate aero kit, driver, crew and spec...
Photo courtesy National Automobile Museum. Until he saw it stripped to the chassis with his own eyes, George Schuster simply wouldn’t take anybody’s word that this old touring car was the one and the...
Photo courtesy Academy of Art University. To teach old car appreciation to the next generation, basically. We’ve previously mentioned the fact that the San Francisco-based Academy of Art University r...
A pair of early Jeeps from Omix-ADA’s collection. Photo courtesy Omix-ADA. In 1992 Al Azadi founded Omix-ADA as a Jeep specialty parts vendor in a small rented warehouse. Today, the Suwanee, Georgia ...
1931 Ford Model AA tanker. Photography by author. Ford’s handsome little Model A was one of the most successful and popular automobiles of all time. It had the right look, was the perfect size, and p...
Parnelli Jones driving the Marmon Wasp in 2011. Photo by Jim Donnelly. When one of the Marmon Wasp’s tires blew on the brick surface of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 90 miles per hour, Ray Harro...
America on Wheels museum. Images courtesy America on Wheels. Museums rely on both benefactors and visitors for funding, and when the needed traffic failed to materialize at Allentown, Pennsyslvania’s...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...
Mario Andretti’s 1965 Brawner Hawk, recently restored by Ray Evernham, will be in the field. Photos courtesy IMS. Sure, the big news is the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500, so much so that some...
1976 Lamborghini Urraco P300. Photos by Wes Duenkel, courtesy Lane Motor Museum, unless otherwise noted. Italy has long had a love affair with motoring (on four wheels or two), as demonstrated by bra...
SS 100. Photos courtesy of Simeone Automotive Museum. In addition to its automobiles, the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia has an extensive collection of automotive literature, da...
Electric cars at Snug Rock, Yonkers, New York circa 1900. Photo from the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, courtesy of Automobile Driving Museum. Electric cars, it seems, are all the rage th...
Most folks probably know David Greenless as the man behind The Old Motor, but he’s also an accomplished restorer and caretaker of pre-World War I thoroughbreds, including the 1915 Duesenberg race car...
The Walter P. Chrysler Museum. Image courtesy FCA. In December 2012, the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, closed its doors to the public after losing nearly $1.5 million in the pr...
A few of the American cars on display at the soon-to-be-opened Route 66 Car Museum. Photos courtesy of Springfield Convention and Visitor’s Bureau, unless otherwise noted. Like many collectors, Guy M...
The Transaxle Era exhibit. Photos courtesy of Porsche AG. From Porsche’s earliest days, its road-going models used air-cooled engines mounted behind or just in front of the rear wheels. In 1976, the ...
Engesa EE-9 Cascavel Mark V. Photo courtesy the Bovington Tank Museum. Collecting tanks and other military vehicles in Europe may soon become a pastime of the past, thanks to a proposed set of Europe...
Duesenberg design by Darwin Hawthorne. Anybody with two crayons to rub together can draw a sleek long car and call it a modern-day Duesenberg, but ask a retired car designer – somebody who spent deca...